August, 2012

• 22 August

  What is a Streaming Media Protocol

  Choosing a streaming technology involves multiple considerations, including an understanding of the pluses and minuses of the streaming protocol used by the technology. This article defines a streaming protocol and then discusses the relative merits

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• 8 August

  Livestream Broadcaster Review Revisited: Testing 4G Performance

  I reviewed Livestream Broadcaster in early July. Because I don't have 4G service near my rural home, and don't have a 4G modem, I didn't test the unit for broadcasting over 4G. One online reader didn't see these realities of my small town l

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July, 2012

• 25 July

  Transferring a Compressor Setting from Mac to Mac

  If you work with Compressor long enough, you’ll have to learn to transfer a compression setting from one computer to another. In this short post, I’ll describe how. This is the second iteration of this blog post; the first time I showed the hard way, this time, the easy way. The first way showed more details about what a settings …

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• 19 July

  Encoding for YouTube: How to Get the Best Results

  [Editor's Note, 7/20/12: After we published Jan's article, he received a note from Colleen Henry, Video Hacker, Google Video Infrastructure, with further recommendations for encoding for YouTube. We've added that information as an addendum at the end

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• 12 July

  Telestream Episode Engine Review: Room for Improvement

  This is our second in a series of enterprise encoder reviews; in this review, we test Telestream Episode Engine. By way of background, Episode Engine is the highest performing option in the Episode family, with unlimited parallel batch encoding, Spli

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• 9 July

  BP Showcases Olympic Athletes with HTML5 Video Site

  So there I was drinking my morning coffee, perusing ESPN.com, and I saw a link to training videos of our American Olympic hopefuls. I'm as patriotic as the next guy, so I clicked the link, and the video opened to full browser window playback. I smirk

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• 6 July

  Livestream Broadcaster Review up on StreamingMedia.com

  Here’s how it begins. Livestream Broadcaster is an exceptionally easy to configure and use live encoder that produced very good quality over a range of relevant bandwidths. The only significant negatives are that the unit doesn’t work with the older Livestream system, and doesn’t currently offer adaptive streaming, though Livestream promises to address the latter concern in the near future. …

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• 2 July

  Short Video Shot with Livestream Broadcaster

  Livestream was kind enough to supply a review copy of their Livestream Broadcaster box, which I worked with today. The review will appear in Streaming Media Magazine; this short snippet will give you an idea of the quality that the unit produces and some of my initial impressions.

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June, 2012

• 9 June

  Brightcove Announces Live Cloud Transcoding and Instant Play

  In separate announcements at IBC, Brightcove announced two new products from its recent acquisition of Zencoder -- Instant Play and LIve Cloud Transcoding -- and the availability of Widevine DRM encryption and packaging within its Video Cloud platfor

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• 7 June

  How to Choose an Enterprise Video Encoder

  I’ve been spending a lot of time with enterprise encoders lately, these expensive, mythical beasts that input and transcode multiple files complete (in some cases) with quality checks, distribution-ready metadata, and closed captioning. This in

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