Topic - Online Video & CDN
BitGravity – A Cool, Quick Embeddable Player + Major Content Delivery Network
Need to embed a video in a site super-duper fast? Why not try the 3 form version of Bitgravity Player 6. Give it a video URL, width and height and you’re all set. But is it truly that easy?
stream5 Rakes in New Capital to Push Forward
Online video is proving itself a strong place to invest it seems. European online video tech company stream5 recently secured a new round of investment capital. Two new investors have joined on and have brought with them a ’seven-figure sum’ we’re told to keep the company creating new technologies.
On Video Cloud 9 – Video & Cloud-based Computing
Video can sometimes require a large amount of resources. So it’s no wonder that with the ever-increasing popularity of cloud-based computing that someone realized it might be a good way to go with online video. This past week, FierceOnlineVideo published a good post that looks at how “cloud computing,” can be applied to support online video destination sites.
If you’re not familiar with cloud computing then read on and find out how it’s helping some online video businesses keep things flowing freely in streaming media.
Sorenson Announces New Video Platform Geared to SMBs
Sorenson360 is officially available to the masses today. This new Internet video delivery network is set to make publishing of high-quality video a snap and affordable to boot (so they say). They’re aiming the service at small to medium-sized businesses and are working to differentiate it from the rest of the pack.
Key features in the service that will help it to do that include acceptance of the highest quality video (only Sorenson 360 offers the power, control and quality of client-side encoding) so your videos look good every time. The service is said to be extremely ergonomic and even novices should be able to publish videos quickly and easily, in that vein their pricing is said to be straight forward. Sorenson offers their 14 years of experience as a reason why Sorenson 360 will be a superior service and with their pre-existing loyal fan base they should have a quick build up of users.
Bits on the Run Updates Video CMS Services and Site
Bits on the Run has been doing some work to update their service. After about a year it seems like they’ve got over 10,000 users now and a goodly amount of video to serve up. In order to serve that video up around the planet without problems they’ve teamed up with BitGravity CDN (content delivery network). Their presence at dozens of datacenters around the world ensures Bits on the Run users that their video will always be delivered instantly and swiftly, no matter where the audience is located.
MediaMelon Launches New Video Overlay Network (VON)
Even thought HD video is still a ways off in terms of being available to the masses online, strong progress has been made recently by some companies with a goal of efficiently delivering HD video via IP networks to millions of consumers. MediaMelon is one of these networks who’s goal is to improve the efficiency and visual quality of high-definition HD video delivery, at full screen, that can be played and accessed from a web-browser without the need for a desktop application.
MediaMelon today announced the availability of the MediaMelon Video Overlay Network™ (VON), an application-layer software-enabled network to significantly improve the profitability of online videos for content distributors and their service providers while also enhancing the consumer viewing experience.
BitGravity Launches an API for High-Definition Web video
BitGravity, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) for interactive broadcasting, today announced the new release of its patent-pending Advanced Progressive(TM) application programming interface (API), which provides extensive control over progressive downloads within Flash. This new API enables developers to inject advertising, automatically adjust bitrates, add virtual clips and other additional advanced features into their H.264- and FLV-encoded video, unlocking the ability to create affordable and scalable interactive HD video applications for the first time.
Delve Networks Selects EdgeCast Network’s CDN
Delve Networks, formerly Pluggd Inc., announced today that it has selected EdgeCast Network to provide its Content Delivery Network (CDN) services to support Delve’s online video publishing platform.
Magnify Launches Self-Service CDN for SMBs
According to the Magnify.net blog this morning, Magnify has launched a new self-service CDN focused primarily towards small and medium sized businesses.
This new offering, dubbed, Magnify Pro, provides customers with access to Magnify.net’s VP6 encoding infrastructure and serves video files from their secure Amazon S3 account.
Progressive Download vs. Streaming Video – Which is Best?
Panther Express, a leading global provider of high-performance content delivery services, today announced their guide to efficiently delivering online video. Many companies and technical staff struggle with choosing between the advantages and features associated with the two main flavors of video delivery – progressive download and streaming. Now that many of the features first associated with streaming are available through Panther with progressive download, the choice is now simple.
List Of Video Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
Dan Rayburn, from Streaming Media, posted a great, comprehensive list of the CDN providers for video delivery. This list has been growing fairly quickly as new companies enter this space and Dan will be updating this list from time to time at cdnlist.com.
World’s First Free Content Delivery Network
New Velocix Accelerator service includes 500GB free monthly delivery allowance worth $8,000 per yearVelocix™, provider of the world’s leading Digital Asset Delivery Network, today announced the availability of its revolutionary new FREE Velocix Accelerator digital delivery service.
