EEG’s Cloud-hosted Falcon Caption Encoder Now Supports all Major Streaming Video Platforms
Virtual captioning solution for live streaming extends compatibility to include all streaming video platforms with new RTMP workflow.
Farmingdale, NY(16 Aug 2017)
EEG (www.eegent.com), the innovators in closed captioning, have announced a major upgrade to their Live-Streaming Caption Encoder, Falcon. A cloud-hosted, hardware-free closed captioning solution, Falcon is the only commercial product to offer broadcast-style caption embedding directly into live streaming video across all commercial video streaming platforms.
With this upgrade, Falcon can now be used in conjunction with all streaming encoders and ingest platforms that support RTMP communications – provided the live video platform preserves and displays closed captions. Thus, Falcon users are assured a seamless captioning experience with almost all available commercial streaming services including Wowza Streaming Engine, Facebook Live, YouTube Live Events, UStream, Twitch, Adobe Media Server, and more.
Accessed through a secure login at eegcloud.tv, content providers simply uplink their stream to the Falcon servers where closed captions from a live captioner or EEG’s Lexi Automatic Captioning service are injected directly into the RTMP stream as embedded 608/708 data. The captioned video stream is then passed directly into the ingest URL for the customer’s video platform of choice. RTMP cue point caption injection is also available for legacy Flash-based players.
“This new advancement opens up the benefits of affordable, high-quality captioning to even more live streaming content producers in a broad range of fields,” said Bill McLaughlin, Vice President of Product Development for EEG. “Falcon makes it simple to handle live captioning compliance with minimal or no changes to existing encoding, ingest, recording, and player infrastructure.”
For developers building a customized captioning integration, Falcon continues to offer delivery of XML-based caption data to a designated HTTP endpoint. A free plugin is also provided that enables a complete HTTP-based solution with Wowza Streaming Engine.
Since its launch in 2015, Falcon has been the leading live streaming captioning solution for news, sporting events, e-learning classrooms, corporate webinars, government facilities, and many more applications. Completely cloud-hosted, Falcon allows live content producers to connect to transcriptionists through iCap and route captions straight to the Web-video server, eliminating the need for a hardware closed caption encoder entirely. Through EEG’s iCap network, Falcon users may choose from a network of thousands of national, regional, and independent professional live captioners to meet their specific event requirements and budget.
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About EEG:
EEG is the industry leader in closed captioning technology. For 25+ years, the company’s cutting-edge solutions have been advancing captioning, subtitling, and metadata workflows for customers in live broadcasting, post production, and streaming media.
EEG was recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a 2014 Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award for “Development of Low Latency Video Streaming Live Captioning Solutions”.
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