Well, it seems some companies, including Netflix and Microsoft, have got together behind a single format for media streaming. The format, MPEG DASH, now has its own Promoters Group . DASH, or dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP, was just finalized in November and allows for, obviously, the ability of the stream to change bitrate based on network health.
Some time ago I wrote about Vid.ly - one upload, universal URL, fire and forget sort of encoding service where you could upload video, grab one single URL and it would work just about anywhere. Today, they're announcing that everything Vid.ly offers will be directly integrated into Encoding.com for a simple workflow from uploading to delivery.
With more and more people viewing videos on their mobile devices, it's becoming more and more important for video producers to ensure that their content is optimized for mobile viewing. Not just in how the videos are formatted, the bitrate it uses, or the video dimensions, but in how we shoot and edit our video so it's a positive experience on tiny Android, iPhone, iPod, and iPad screens and displays
A while back, I wrote about Raystream 's new technology that is set to revolutionize the online video industry, or is it? I sent them a 271MB video file and asked them to do that voodoo that they do to it and send it back. Might the stuff they sent back surprise everyone that reads this, and shake the foundations of online video?
Encoding.com announced that they have worked with Roku to make several profiles for video encoding specifically for the Roku service.
This just sounds bad. On the surface you might think that Qwilt , a startup that was recently funded by
Rovi nabbed up the DivX line earlier in the year and now, they’ve laid down their cards to show us all why. They want a chunk of the adaptive bitrate streaming market
When I hop on a conference call and say “Go Team [INSERT BRAND] Woo!” you can be pretty sure that I dig your product. So Jeff Malkin and the team over at Vid.ly should be well aware of that fact now since I both opened and closed the conference call with that
I like making money as much as the next guy, but the last three or four consulting clients all shared a problem so basic that I was almost embarrassed to take their money. Specifically, they came to me concerned about poor video quality, and the simple fact was that the data rate of their video was just too low
