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Ludovic Bostral
November 5, 2011 2:00 PM
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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.
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Nicolas Weil
November 5, 2011 4:34 AM
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Video editing startup WeVideo is launching a new product that will enable organizations to use its collaborative editing products in the cloud. The WeVideo Commercial product is aimed at bloggers, journalists, marketers and other video creators who wish to easily edit, manage and publish videos from a single online platform.
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Nicolas Weil
November 4, 2011 5:28 PM
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DAW88 - 8, 4 and 2 channel watermarking encoder based on Civolution encryption technology.
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Nicolas Weil
November 3, 2011 8:57 PM
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Pro users will gain GPU-accelerated encoding with the Intel HD Graphics GPU included in Sandy Bridge processors. NVIDIA CUDA support has also been improved. The program now offers 1- and 2-pass variable bit rate encoding for H.264-based Smooth Streaming (in the Pro version), support for more bitrate and sample rate options when using the AAC codec, and support for SRS audio encoding.
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Nicolas Weil
November 3, 2011 1:55 PM
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New 64-bit Media Composer, Symphony and NewsCutter offer unparalleled workflow speed, flexibility and time savings; available for Mac OS and Windows Media Composer version 6, Symphony version 6 and NewsCutter version 10 are rebuilt from the core on an entirely new open, 64-bit architecture that raises the bar for performance, flexibility and productivity. With this version, Avid is also introducing a sleek, new User Interface – designed to speed workflows while simultaneously preserving the same functionality that so many professionals have built their careers on. In addition, these systems include support for third-party hardware, AVCHD and RED Epic support with Avid Media Access (AMA), an Avid DNxHD® 444 codec, and support for Avid Artist Color. Nitris DX is available with one or two Avid DNxHD or AVC-Intra chips and supports full resolution and full frame stereoscopic workflows.
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Nicolas Weil
November 3, 2011 7:14 AM
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Audio watermarking is the only approach to content identification that gives broadcasters independence from service providers and full control over what happens to their content when it comes to second screen synchronisation. That is the view of Alex Terpstra, CEO at Civolution, whose ‘VideoSync - 2nd Screen’ solution uses audio watermarks in the programme feed that tablets or smartphones can ‘hear’ across a room in order to trigger events or functions within an application they are running. The watermarks can provide channel ID, programme ID and frame-accurate time codes to enable the synchronisation. Synchronisation between what is playing on TV and what consumers do on their tablets is likely to create major new opportunities for broadcasters in terms of viewer engagement and advertising. The second screen represents green-field inventory for interactive TV and interactive advertising and we can expect a fight for control of that real-estate over the next couple of years. There are plenty of third-party app providers who want to build communities around social TV functions or special interest publishing content and ‘piggy-back’ those services onto broadcaster shows. Broadcasters will need to ensure they have their own programme-specific or channel-related second screen apps if they want to ‘own’ the viewer on both screens simultaneously.
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Nicolas Weil
November 2, 2011 5:51 PM
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Squeeze 8 includes full support for the x.264 codec, featuring an intuitive user interface and in-product instructions that let video professionals adjust and optimize up to 48 major encoding parameters. These include key frame rates, encoding modes, and performance to adapt the H.264 format to user needs and workflows. GPU acceleration via Nvidia CUDA is optimized for Squeeze 8, making it the best option for creating .mp4 proxy files in terms of both speed and quality, Sorenson says. More details here : http://digitalmediaupdate.blogspot.com/2011/10/sorenson-squeezes-out-new-version-8.html
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Nicolas Weil
November 2, 2011 5:40 PM
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Nicolas Weil
October 31, 2011 3:28 AM
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For perhaps two decades, much of the broadcast industry has made a fuss over “workflow,” treating the term as if it were something lofty and complicated - which of course, it isn’t. Workflow simply refers to the steps that users take to complete a task, start to finish. Thinking about workflow typically has been easy for the people and companies who actually perform the work. It’s been a little harder for vendors. Over the past 20 years, vendors have had to transition from just knowing the “workflow” inside the boxes they sell to understanding larger workflows that encompass all of the boxes (and people) performing the work. The good news is that a transition across the industry is bringing the era of messy workflows to an end. This transition is being enabled by the “file-based workflows” now coming to prominence.
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Nicolas Weil
October 31, 2011 3:03 AM
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Suddenly it clicks. What Steve Jobs had in mind for improving TV (as reported by the New York Times) and why he felt he could do something special with it. And as so often before, he was ahead of the curve.
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Nicolas Weil
October 30, 2011 6:51 AM
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NetApp today announced a new solution for bandwidth-intensive environments that offers leaders in the media and entertainment industries high performance and always-available data access to maximize their collaborative efforts and improve workflow processes. The NetApp Media Content Management (MCM) solution provides the infrastructure needed for video professionals and content developers to ingest, produce, process, archive, and deliver data with the flexibility to scale performance and capacity. In recent testing by ATTO Technology using the company's Celerity Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) with Multipath Director technology, the NetApp MCM solution outperformed all previously tested storage subsystems. New benchmarks were set across several media industry test regimens, including the number of uncompressed HD video streams simultaneously supported for Final Cut Pro editors. With four Macintosh clients running Final Cut Pro 7, the NetApp MCM solution played back 22 uncompressed HD (1920 x 1080, 10-bit YUV) video streams overnight without dropping any frames.
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Nicolas Weil
October 29, 2011 1:57 AM
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Some product highlights: Video Codec Support :
TotalCode Enterprise supports a wide range of video codecs, including H.264/AVC (up to 10-bit Intra Class), CUDA H.264/AVC, MPEG-1/2, MPEG-4 Part 2, VC-1, JPEG2000, DivX and DivX Plus. Audio Codec Support :
TotalCode Enterprise supports popular audio codecs, such as Dolby® Digital, AAC, PCM and Windows Media Audio. Integration and Customization Capabilities :
TotalCode Enterprise is based on the flexible SOAP platform enabling easy integration with common development environments, including Java, .NET and C++. Cloud Server and Storage Support :
Quickly and easily scale your TotalCode Enterprise system by utilizing private and public cloud servers and storage for encoding tasks, and as input and output locations.
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Nicolas Weil
October 28, 2011 12:16 AM
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What do we mean when we talk about Second Screen TV and Companion Apps? This terminology is new and evolving fast but it's certain that very large numbers of people now hold a smartphone in their hand or have a tablet on their lap while watching shows on their big screen TV.
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Nicolas Weil
November 5, 2011 5:38 AM
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Nicolas Weil
November 5, 2011 4:14 AM
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IntoNow from Yahoo! introduces a true TV companion experience with synchronized news headlines, in-depth sports stats, and tweets from your favorite actors.
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Nicolas Weil
November 3, 2011 9:02 PM
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The latest version of Flash Player (v.11.0) includes some exciting new features, including performance upgrades such as native 64-bit support, and asynchronous bitmap decoding. Perhaps most newsworthy though, is Flash Player’s new capability to encode live video streams to the H.264/AVC standard. This new feature will allow developers to create real-time, high-quality, live video streaming applications for chat, conferencing, and live event broadcasting. The following article demonstrates how to take advantage of Flash Player 11.0′s new H.264 encoding capabilities within a video streaming application built using Flash Builder 4.5.
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Nicolas Weil
November 3, 2011 8:07 PM
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Many people in the DTV industry have only a basic understanding of DSM-CC, and sometimes not even that. For MHP and OCAP developers, it's a technology that you need to know something about. It's not necessary to know all of the details, but a general idea of what goes on and why is essential to building applications that work well and load quickly. The detailed parts of this tutorial are contained in separate sections, and are really only for people who are implementing MHP or OCAP receivers, or head-end systems that need to build object carousels for those receivers: other readers should not need to stray from the main page of this tutorial into the more technical discussions of specific parts of DSM-CC.
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Nicolas Weil
November 3, 2011 7:16 AM
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Anthony Rose, Co-Founder and CTO at zeebox, the second screen app provider whose app is now available for the Apple iPad, believes companion screen viewing is the most exciting development in television since VOD. He is using the term ‘augmentainment’ to describe the way tablet or smartphone apps can provide rich information about programming or support social interaction. He is predicting that second screen apps will change the TV industry faster than most people think and that the growing influence of social TV, including chat and content recommendation, will change the way we discover content and also change the rules about who owns the consumer.
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Nicolas Weil
November 3, 2011 6:21 AM
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"To 3D or not to 3D? For streaming media content producers, providers, and distributors, that is indeed the question. There’s no doubt that 3D streaming video offers a wow factor — something that should compel people to watch. But is the extra bandwidth, equipment, and cost really worth the expense — especially for streaming content to computer desktops and laptops? As William Shakespeare himself might say, there’s the rub: When it comes to cost-benefit analyses, the payoff from 3D streaming video is hard to quantify."
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Nicolas Weil
November 2, 2011 5:47 PM
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Nicolas Weil
November 2, 2011 5:33 PM
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Magnetic 3D, a provider of autostereoscopic “glasses-free” 3D displays and digital signage solutions, today announced the release of two new software packages as well as additional tools and plug-ins for the creation and playback of Enabl3Dcontent on Magnetic 3D displays. Mixture, the company’s 3D content creation and compositing software, is a professional tool that puts the ease of glasses-free 3D content development at the fingertips of any designer. The software includes real-time multi-stream video editing and compositing capabilities, native support for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating platforms, expanded input and output formats including H.264, improved key frame handling, streamlined workflow and layout, and support for external post-production programs such as NUKE and After Effects.
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Nicolas Weil
October 31, 2011 3:14 AM
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'Leaf Grip Remote Controller' Relies on Plate Containing Piezoelectric Film. Japanese electronics manufacturer Murata has developed a bendable remote control that can change TV channels, adjust the volume and perform other functions by twisting, bending or shaking the device.
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Nicolas Weil
October 30, 2011 3:41 PM
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The ultra-high performance JPEG2000-4K encoder IP from Evatronix secures 24p image processing for DCI 4K resolution or 2 channels of simultaneous, independent stereoscopic Full HD video.
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Nicolas Weil
October 29, 2011 3:09 PM
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3D Impact Media launches the RealityCreator and the RealityMapper at the animago Award & Conference in Berlin. The tools make it simple for visual effect artists to create, convert and postproduce 3D content. In addition, the tools bring 3D to the next level and make it possible to create glasses-free 3D content. The RealityCreator enables the artist to upgrade 2D images or videos to 3D-ready content. This can be done fully automated or semi-automatically. The RealityMapper transforms your stereoscopic content (with 3D glasses) into autostereoscopic (glasses-free) 3D content. It also allows the correction of stereoscopic 3D material.
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Nicolas Weil
October 29, 2011 1:41 AM
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This is reprinted from The Twitter Developer's Website - Twitter TV. It's a wonderful document that will surely help Social Media practitioners in the TV arena. Unless you are French - where mentioning Twitter or Facebook has been banned by the French TV regulatory agency, Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (CSA), similar to Ofcom in the UK and FCC in the US. Twitter has released of a compendium of best practices for engaging and growing your audience on Twitter using the power of the TV screen - along with some compelling data in the form of graphs and a video. This is a living document that will grow and change over time at Twitter - as shows and networks continue to break new ground with Twitter on air.
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