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IBC 2009 Starts with a Bang
Adobe announces bit-level encryption, Envivio provides live iPhone encoding tools, and much more (9/10/2009)
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HSN Brings Video Shopping to iPhone
On-demand and live streams are the highlight of the former Home Shopping Network's iPhone app. (8/18/2009)
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iPhones Serving Live TV to Go
Live streams to the iPhone are taking off, thanks to Livestation, Akamai, and Inlet. (8/18/2009)
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Extreme Media Player Makeover: OS Update Edition
With Apple and Microsoft launching new operating systems soon, media players will get long-awaited updates (8/7/2009)
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Streaming Gets Smarter: Evaluating the Adaptive Streaming Technologies
With adaptive bitrate streaming, companies can post a video and let the technology sort out the rest. So which product is best for you? (7/31/2009)
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Apple's New Final Cut Studio Offers Workflow, Output Improvements
The new Share command in Apple Final Cut Pro lets you bypass Compressor, while Compressor itself now features Job Actions for output directly to YouTube, MobileMe, and Blu-ray (7/23/2009)
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HTML5 Video Tags: Inevitable or Pipe Dream?
Activism, Working Groups and the dream of a single online video codec
(7/7/2009)
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QuickTime X: Rebuilding the Player and the Backend
Apple announced today that the next version of QuickTime will include HTTP streaming and hardware acceleration, as well as editing tools in the new player interface. (6/8/2009)
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Hitchhiker’s Guide to Streaming Media : Container Formats
Container formats are one of the most misunderstood aspects of streaming video and audio technology. Here's a basic explanation. (2/15/2009)
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2009 Encoder Shootout
Report cards on the seven leading software encoding tools (2/12/2009)
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The Future's So Bright: H.264 Year in Review
H.264 was definitely the 'it' codec of 2008, and despite its complex and potentially expensive licensing, it will likely only become more pervasive in years to come. (2/12/2009)
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Nonlinear Video Editors for Streaming Postproduction
The last year saw developments—some big, some small—to all of the major nonlinear video editing platforms. Here's a look at the latest word from Adobe, Apple, Avid, and Sony. (2/11/2009)
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Back to Basics: Of Players and Plug-Ins
The move to browser plug-ins for watching online video, added on top of the earlier availability of multiple standalone players is, at the very least, confusing to those who seldom think about the technology that we use every day, except when they really want to watch a key event. (1/27/2009)
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The HD Showdown: Codec Vendors Battle It Out for Supreme Quality
Microsoft, On2, and Jan Ozer square off to determine which codec produces the highest quality video: VC-1, VP6, or H.264. (12/11/2008)
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Streaming Media Podcast #20: All-Stars and Format Wars
The first in a series of podcasts with Streaming Media All Stars, this spirited discussion with Nico McLane includes Jan Ozer and several opinions on Windows Media, Flash, H.264 and the needs of enterprise users. (7/11/2008)
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It's All in the Delivery: A Look at the Top Video Players of Today and Tomorrow
Today's media players are advancing broadcast media by leveraging the internet as a delivery medium. As such, these technologies are now becoming disruptive far beyond the confines of the web.
(7/3/2008)
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Cracking the H.264 Codec
H.264 is undoubtedly the hottest codec around, but there are inherent market forces that complicate producing files that meet the needs of your target playback device or player. These include the fact that there are multiple H.264 codecs available, each with different configurable parameters, and that each H.264 encoding tool reveals a custom set of compression options. (6/23/2008)
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Under the Hood: File Analysis Tools for Streaming Video
For the most part, streaming files provide a pitiful amount of useable data,
which makes programs that provide insight to the content of these files invaluable to compressionists. Depending upon your needs and operating system, there are a number of programs—most free, some at a price—that may fit the bill quite nicely. In this article, we look at a several such programs, including Apple’s QuickTime Pro, Steve Greenberg’s GSpot Codec Information Appliance, Inlet Technologies’ Semaphore, Jerome Martinez’s MediaInfo, and Sliq Media’s WMSnoop.
Tues., June 17, by Jan Ozer (6/16/2008)
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Review: Rhozet Carbon Coder 3
"Impressive" turns out to be a good adjective for the version 3.0 update in general, which significantly improves an already highly competent product. Rhozet has made several useful streaming-codec-related improvements, enhanced watch-folder functionality, and improved the program's interface. Encoding trials immediately revealed that Carbon Coder remains highly tuned for fast, multiprocessor efficiency. (6/15/2008)
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Apple's 3G iPhone Adds Increased Speed and Video Capabilities
At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2008, Steve Jobs promised the new iPhone is twice as fast at about half the price. Other announcements included a revamp of QuickTime, while Sling showed off its new SlingMobile across the street. (6/10/2008)
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So You Got a New Computer for Christmas. Now What?
Here’s a brief overview of the basic tools everyone needs to stream content from Flash, Windows Media, QuickTime, and Real sources (1/4/2008)
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IBC 2009 Starts with a Bang
Adobe announces bit-level encryption, Envivio provides live iPhone encoding tools, and much more (9/10/2009)
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iPhones Serving Live TV to Go
Live streams to the iPhone are taking off, thanks to Livestation, Akamai, and Inlet. (8/18/2009)
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Extreme Media Player Makeover: OS Update Edition
With Apple and Microsoft launching new operating systems soon, media players will get long-awaited updates (8/7/2009)
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Streaming Gets Smarter: Evaluating the Adaptive Streaming Technologies
With adaptive bitrate streaming, companies can post a video and let the technology sort out the rest. So which product is best for you? (7/31/2009)
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Apple's New Final Cut Studio Offers Workflow, Output Improvements
The new Share command in Apple Final Cut Pro lets you bypass Compressor, while Compressor itself now features Job Actions for output directly to YouTube, MobileMe, and Blu-ray (7/23/2009)
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HTML5 Video Tags: Inevitable or Pipe Dream?
Activism, Working Groups and the dream of a single online video codec
(7/7/2009)
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