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At the 2012 NAB Show, Front Porch Digital will feature LYNX, an integrated, cloud-based environment for managing assets on a global scale from any device and any location.
Leveraging the latest cloud and Web services technologies, LYNX will underpin a range of networked and distributed solutions, included a hosted disaster recovery service for existing DIVA customers, a private/hybrid cloud service allowing global media enterprises to centralize critical assets and consolidate operations, and a public cloud service with DIVArchive functionality offered on a SaaS basis.
The online video world got its first look at SnappyTV during the 2011 State of the Union Address. One year later, SnappyTV is using the 2012 Address to test and promote its new Pro Editor, which works with a cloud-based DVR.
The existing SnappyTV, which debuted last year, is a second-screen system where viewers can watch an event on TV and then instantly grab a video clip of it online to share through blogs or social networks. The PGA and Turner Sports partnered with SnappyTV in August to promote the PGA Championship.
The Pro Editor version, which will debut in beta during the State of the Union (Tuesday, January 24 at 9PM ET) is a much more flexible system. It works with a cloud-based DVR, allowing people to view the Address right on their computer, and to view and clip moments from any place within the speech. Videos can then be shared on blogs or social networks.
Imagine Communications, a leading innovator in advanced digital video solutions, today announced plans to demonstrate for the first time live, real-time cloud and CDN transcoding in booth #1532 at SCTE. The ICE(R) Cloud Software System is Imagine's new low-delay, Linux-based distributed architecture solution that leverages advanced compression and pixel processing techniques and unprecedented scalability to provide the best picture quality for cloud and CDN transcoding. The ICE Cloud Software System leverages unique and advanced video processing features such as Adaptive Temporal Compression and Closed Loop Detail Correction to provide a multiscreen, multi-bit rate output with leading video quality and compression efficiency. As a pure software Linux instance, the ICE Cloud Software System can be deployed on a wide array of new or existing servers.
BuyDRM announced today that the company will be conducting previews of the KeyOS: Cloud Edition service running on Amazon Web Services at Streaming Media West 2011. This preview will provide potential customers with a chance to see the technology in action and make product feature recommendations and pricing requests before the service goes live. BuyDRM has developed a dynamic prototype of the KeyOS: Cloud Edition encryption service running in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) which uses the Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to trigger an encryption session of content stored in the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). By deploying this service in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, BuyDRM can support large scale media and entertainment deployments which use the full spectrum of the AWS offering including the Amazon CloudFront streaming and download features.
WeVideo, a newly launched cloud-based collaborative video editing platform, is today announcing integration with YouTube. Starting this afternoon, YouTube users will be able to access a basic version of WeVideo’s online service in order to edit their video clips by adding titles, effects, animation, music, narration and more. To be clear, WeVideo is not the only editing tool that Google’s online service provides, but it hopes to soon to be the most robust. YouTube’s own editor is fairly basic, and other tools like Magisto are more limited in scope. With WeVideo, the goal is to bring a more full-featured, professional-grade video-editing solution to the cloud that’s also easy enough for anyone to use.
“Client-aware cloud” is one of the buzzwords that Intel was pushing at IDF 2011, and despite the chipmaker’s ulterior motive for wanting to see synergy (read: “vendor lock-in”) between (x86-powered) cloud clients and (x86-powered) cloud servers, there’s definitely something to larger idea that the cloud should know something about and tailor data for the clients that are connected to it. HTTP proxies like Amazon’s Silk and Opera Mini before it (not that these are the same thing) are part of this client-aware cloud trend, as is Skyfire‘s new Rocket Optimizer 2.0 service. Skyfire is probably best known as a maker of mobile browsers, and specifically as the company that snuck porn Flash onto the iPad via some clever transcoding and a proprietary browser. But in an echo of Google’s 411 strategy, in which the search giant launched a free directory service in order to gather the voice samples that would later power Android’s voice recognition features, Skyfire has been using the data that it gathers from its 10 million iOS and Android users for a larger R&D project. That project is Rocket Optimizer, the 2.0 version of which launched on Tuesday. Optimizer is aimed not at consumers but at wireless carriers, where it takes tower- and mobile device-specific data and uses it to transcode and optimize video data on-the-fly to fit users’ screens and network conditions. As with Silk, all of Rocket’s real-time video transcoding and resizing is done in the cloud.
As computer systems evolve, the volume of data to be processed increases significantly, either as a consequence of the expanding amount of available information, or due to the possibility of performing highly complex operations that were not feasible in the past.
Nevertheless, tasks that depend on the manipulation of large amounts of information are still performed at large computational cost, i.e., either the processing time will be large, or they will require intensive use of computer resources. In this scenario, the efficient use of available computational resources is paramount, and creates a demand for systems that can optimize the use of resources in relation to the amount of data to be processed. This problem becomes increasingly critical when the volume of information to be processed is variable, i.e., there is a seasonal variation of demand. Such demand variations are caused by a variety of factors, such as an unanticipated burst of client requests, a time-critical simulation, or high volumes of simultaneous video uploads, e.g. as a consequence of a public contest.
In these cases, there are moments when the demand is very low (resources are almost idle) while, conversely, at other moments, the processing demand exceeds the resources capacity. Moreover, from an economical perspective, seasonal demands do not justify a massive investment in infrastructure, just to provide enough computing power for peak situations. In this light, the ability to build adaptive systems, capable of using on demand resources provided by Cloud Computing infrastructures is very attractive.
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"TelVue Corporation, a leader in IP Television Broadcasting and Internet Video Streaming, announced today that it has launched a new platform to slash cable/telco local origination and leased access (LO/LA) servicing costs and dramatically improve workflow. Believed to be a first in professional broadcasting, TelVue Connect migrates what has always been an on-premise equipment and software service entirely to the cloud. TelVue now uses the cloud to handle large media file uploads, content management, transcoding for different destination networks or devices, and scheduling requiring only a broadband connection and browser. TelVue Connect continues a trend of cloud-based processing that eliminates high customer capital costs, maintenance management, feature upgrade logistics, equipment networking and compatibility issues."
Live video encoding/transcoding software-as-a-service. Transcode your live stream in realtime into web and mobile formats in the cloud.
LiveTranscoding.com offers instant online setup and eliminates the need for costly hardware, software, maintenance, constant upgrades and extensive upload bandwidth. New formats and devices are integrated automatically and the service includes optimized settings for every combination.
Keep your encoding on your own computers, but have the option of using cloud encoding when you need it. That's the promise of the just-launched Sorenson Squeeze Server on Premise.
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The trend toward multiscreen content delivery is having a profound influence on the way people access, view and use media — fueled by the explosion of smartphones, tablet computers, Internet-connected TVs and streaming services for on-demand programming. Broadcasters realize that the era of linear distribution and traditional playout has passed. Now, they're eager to take advantage of emerging technologies that enable live OTT streaming of events such as sports, concerts and live pre-event, post-event and fan-oriented programming to the platforms that viewers demand.
Live event streaming to multiple platforms can present significant challenges. In many cases, on-location uplink bandwidth is severely limited, and preparing the multiple renditions needed for adaptive bit-rate streaming to each different type of mobile device requires additional investments additional investment in on-site encoding hardware, bandwidth and infrastructure. Haivision Network Video has addressed these challenges with its HyperStream Live cloud-based live video transcoding service, designed to reduce the cost and complexity of OTT multiplatform content delivery. The system automatically transcodes live video source streams into the many formats and data rates required to distribute live video via the Internet and deliver the streams to any screen regardless of device, player, screen size or bandwidth.
Prime Focus Technologies announced during IBC the availability of the world’s first Domain Centric Cloud (DCC) which is already having wide-reaching benefits for the global Broadcast Industry. This DCC connects broadcasters, content suppliers & playout origination centres and has already revolutionised the fast-paced Indian broadcast industry where last minute presentation schedule and content delivery is common.
With the DCC operational in India, broadcasters are now able to connect directly with pre-built business processes and technology infrastructures and instantly reap the benefits of being part of a Digital Media Supply Chain without having to suffer the pit falls of costly, capital expenditure heavy, design and implementation projects associated with other platforms. PFT specialises in handling the ‘heavy-lifting’ service activities for broadcasters such as QC, transcoding and mastering that are often time-consuming and expensive processes for broadcasters to undertake. PFT’s services enable the broadcaster to concentrate on the creative process and dedicate their time and resource to producing high quality content.
Zencoder today announced that they have added support for Aspera's fasp high-speed transport technology to enable content providers to quickly and securely transfer large files to the cloud for transcoding. While the scalability of the cloud is perfectly suited for processing-intensive jobs such as video transcoding, bandwidth constraints can make it a challenge to get video into and out of the cloud. With Aspera integrated into the Zencoder platform, video providers can now send video content to the cloud for transcoding at up to 700 Mbps. Once a file is in the Zencoder platform, it can be transcoded faster-than-real-time into several outputs formats simultaneously, creating massive efficiencies when compared to traditional transcoding methods.
If you’ve ever wanted to create a streaming video site or add a video to server side, then you must have heard of FFMpeg and MEncoder. They are both famous open source projects and easy to get. Anyone can get these scripts at zero cost. However, some webmasters don’t want to be tied to a GPL or LGPL. So they try to find other server-side encoding solutions. These solutions are called as FFMpeg MEncoder alternatives or adobe flash media server alternatives, and most of these alternatives are commercial projects. I used to join in a video site creation work and have made lots of preparation work. Except for the known FFMpeg and MEncoder, I also searched some commercial projects and YouTube clones. For me, my budget is limited, so I choose affordable top one rank product in Google (the search term is “server-side video converter”). This commercial project is Sothink video encoder engine from SourceTec software. For the request of some friends, I process the experience into an article and make some comparisons of these three projects, which helps those people who want to create streaming video sites or add videos to server side choose the appropriate projects.
An interesting comparison engine that allows comparison betwwen 3 engines among : Panda, Sorenson Squeez Hybrid, HeyWatch, HD Cloud, Encoding.com, Zencoder, Ankoder, Transloadit and EncodingAll
"Direct-to-S3": High Performance Data Transport for AWS "Aspera’s patented fasp™ technology is a next-generation transport protocol that eliminates the latency and packet loss bottlenecks of traditional file transfer paradigms such as FTP, HTTP, NFS and CIFS. By enabling high performance fasp data transport to, from and between remote cloud infrastructures, Aspera On-Demand allows AWS users to fully realize the scalability, efficiency gains and cost savings offered by the EC2 and S3 platforms. With Aspera On-Demand for AWS, users have the freedom to transfer files at their full bandwidth capacity – hundreds of times faster than conventional technologies – with the assurance that highly valuable content will be moved and stored reliably, in total security."
Digital Rapids is treating attendees of the IBC 2011 exhibition to a look at the next generation of the company's automated, high-volume media processing solution, as the upcoming 2.0 version of the Digital Rapids Transcode Manager software makes its IBC debut. Powered by the groundbreaking new Kayak application platform, Transcode Manager 2.0builds on the proven quality, format flexibility and performance that have made Transcode Manager the preferred choice of leading media organizations for applications from post production and archive to broadcast and multi-screen distribution. New features in version 2.0 include intelligent, logic-driven workflow automation; dynamic licensing; and elastic scalability with support for both on-premises and external clouds. Transcode Manager 2.0 features sophisticated, decision-based process automation capabilities that seamlessly blend advanced analysis, logic branching, metadata handling and media transformation to enable intelligent, adaptive workflows. Using the included Kayak Designer, users can visually define powerful workflows combining video and audio manipulations, compression, visual monitoring, publishing and more. Different tasks or parameters can be applied based on the characteristics of the input source and previous processing results, with frame-by-frame analysis enabling workflows to adapt to anomalies or changing attributes even within a single source file.
Impressive whitepaper on using edge technologies to provide a quality feedback channel from TV second screen apps : audio watermarking, Node.js, Hadoop, Redis, Flume, Grails, Sqoop... all this in the Amazon EC2 cloud for scalability. Respect !
BuyDRM announced today that the company has been selected to demonstrate the next generation of content security in the cloud at NAB 2011. This will be the first time that Microsoft PlayReady Content Security technology has been deployed on the Windows Azure platform.
In June, the company will launch Microsoft PlayReady support for AndroidOS and iOS using newly developed mobile DRM technology available via KeyOS. This device licensing platform, deployed on the Windows Azure platform, will support hundreds of millions of end-user devices and provide seamless support for the most popular user platforms on the Internet.
After encoding.com for on-demand content, maybe a new cloud offer than can disrupt the live streaming market by taking out the multi-screen production constaints...
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