Verizon Working On Video Content Delivery System
And you all thought that Verizon was just aiming to cover its own customers and network with content? Well, apparently we were all wrong. It seems that they've dropped a pretty large penny, $370M worth of them in fact, in working out a streaming video content delivery system and video ad platform that will reach ...
Putting Raystream To The Test, Does it Stand Up to Its Claims?
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, ...
Introducing Dailymotion Cloud Video Delivery Business
Dailymotion is expanding outside of the curated content business and into the cloud-based online video serving business and why not? After all, everyone else is doing it too no? Alright, not everyone.
Zencoder Offering HTTP Live Streaming Encoding for iOS Devices
Zencoder continues its rapid expansion of transcoding offerings and achievements with today's announcement that they are now ready to offer optimized HTTP Live Streaming encoding (HLS) for iPhone and iPad applications . They say it can create smaller files with no loss of quality.
Raystream Says They Can Reduce HD Video Streaming Bandwidth up to 70%
Raystream tells me they've got a new proprietary video compression that can chop down the size of streaming HD video an average of 70%, without a loss of quality. You know me, I'm skeptical about numbers that large so I did some further investigation.
Plex Available on Google TV, Brings Your Media With it
The Plex Media server and client are available for all manner of devices including Mac, iOS, Windows, Android and now, Google TV. That means you can pretty much set up one media server and then access it on just about any device you might have and want to get that content on.
A Tale of Two Freemium Online Video Platforms: Longtail and Playwire
Here we go folks! All those high-priced OVPs are going to have to fight to stay alive as Longtail's Bits on the Run has announced they're going freemium (YA!) with a Free video hosting and streaming service option. While they're not the first OVP to do free (as I already use PlayWire's freemium service which ...
Find Your Center with Zencoder Cloud-based Batch Video Encoding
Zencoder has expanded their services to continue as a leader in the field. The new services include a cloud-based batch processing of video encoding and transcoding. Now you can push your whole library through the system and get out multiple formats and sizes to reach the largest audience available.
YouTube WebM Transcoding Complete for 30% of Videos Which Make up 99% of Views
Some sites are reporting that WebM is the most used format at YouTube, but that's not exactly what the blog post says. It says that they have finished transcoding the most viewed videos to WebM and all new uploads are automatically transcoded to it. It's all in the wording... and the reading comprehension.
Online Video Weekly News Reel 17 April 2011
We're here to reel in the hits in the online video industry once again my friends. It's Sunday morning, you're sitting on your patio looking at the ocean, or lounging about in a big fluffy bathrobe with equally fluffy slippers, sipping your morning cup o' java and ready to consume quick tidbits of what's hot ...
Vid.ly Universal Video URL Service Goes Public Beta
A while back I wrote about the new vid.ly service from Encoding.com. Well they have been working on it for some time now and today it's ready to throw open its doors and welcome in the public for the rest of the beta period. Vid.ly, a new automatic transcoding, universal URL service from Encoding.com is ...
Ways to Stream Your Home Video Content to your iOS Devices
JetStreamHD believe that they have the solution to you watching all that content you have amassed on your PC and want on your iPad2 via their new product, creatively named, JetStreamHD. It's really just a media server but they claim it to be "the world's first consumer electronics product to stream all of your digital ...
What Video Production Pros Need To Know About Marketing
In my previous article, I covered why video production pros today are becoming online marketers. This time I cover the key elements of online video marketing that all video production pros should know about, and how they can use that to their advantage to stay competitive in the client and job market.
Intel Quick Sync Video Means Super Fast Video Encoding
Mark and I were out at CES in Las Vegas. Then I traveled for something like 30 hours back to Prague and promptly fell into a three day deathlike state of illness. Now I'm only slightly dead and able to think clearly. So forgive the lateness on this. While at CES Intel gave us several ...
Intel Endangers Netflix, Google TV and DVD Sales in One Fell Swoop
I always liked the phrase one fell swoop so the chance to use it in an article title is just a bonus for me. By now you've heard about this thing Intel calls Sandy Bridge. But what you might not understand is just exactly what it means for the digital video industry and more importantly, ...
