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SimulStream, The Theory and Reality
ViewCast’s SimulStream is an $599 software upgrade for ViewCast Osprey capture board owners, which gives users the ability to simultaneously encode multiple streams of audio and video at different resolutions and bit rates, from a single board. (3/6/2002)
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Media 100 iFinish 4.5: A Web Producer’s Dream Box
iFinish is a real-time editor for producers who need to begin with high quality video, edit and output various streaming formats for the Web. (1/29/2002)
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Canopus DVStorm SE Plus: Dependable Real-Time DV Editor
This editor/capture solution lets you output DV in real time and exhibits superlative reliability, making it a strong choice in the $1,000 price range. (11/15/2001)
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Niagara Max: Powerful, Pint-Size Encoder
ViewCast’s portable Niagara Max can simultaneously encode and serve up to four unique bit-rate profiles from two inputs. Contributor Jabar McKellar takes the system for a spin to find out if this $27,995 system lives up to its cost. (11/6/2001)
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Pulling Back the Curtain on MPEG-4
MPEG-4 finally shows its face with the release of Philips’ WebCine Encoder, Server and Player. Contributors Dee McVicker and Chuck Adams look under the lid to see if MPEG-4’s general release debut is the fantastical beast of which we’ve heard tale, or something a little more down to earth. (10/15/2001)
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Anystream Agility Workgroup: Encoding Warrior
Video producers repurposing content for the Web — or dual-purposing it from the start — have a growing number of confusing choices for dealing with encoding issues. We begin mapping the landscape by taking a look at Anystream’s Agility Workgroup 1.5. (10/12/2001)
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StreamOS: Bring the Weights, It Will Do the Lifting
Hiding the complexity of CDN selection and management from customers, NaviSite's StreamOS is simple enough for a child to use and powerful enough to deliver some of the world's most streamed webcasts. (10/5/2001)
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DVD Creation for the Rest of Us
Apple claims to have made consumer player-compatible DVD creation so easy that even a parent can use it. (9/6/2001)
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StreamGenie Presenter: Killing Several Birds with One Stone
With TV quality video production, powerful encoding and streaming, and a business presentation capability, Pinnacle's StreamGenie Presenter looks stellar on paper. (8/29/2001)
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Putting the Squeeze on LSX-MPEG Suite 2.0
Ligos’ new MPEG transcoder acts like a vise on video files to bring them down to Internet size, but users will need to get a grip on the physics of compression in order to use it. (8/10/2001)
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Xstream MultiCaster: Streaming Appliance with
Muscle
Winnov’s entry into the streaming capturer/encoder/server appliance market has a lot to offer large customers, but may not be right for everyone. (7/16/2001)
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DV Camera Tribunal
What do you need to pay for a camera to meet your streaming production needs? To find out, we put three cameras to the test. (7/2/2001)
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Clear Vision, Sweet Sounds
Winnov’s Videum II Broadcaster is a professional analog A/V capture device that delivers strong results at a nice price, and is best used by the technically savvy. (6/18/2001)
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Get Ready to SMIL
SMIL can add a lot to your multimedia presentations, but writing the code can be
cumbersome. Here are three authoring tools that can bring SMIL to your content with ease.
(4/27/2001)
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GRiNS for RealSystem G2 Pro 1.5
(4/27/2001)
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SMIL 2.0
(4/27/2001)
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Video Multicasting with Appliance Ease
Optibase’s MGW 2000 server makes intranet/extranet streaming nearly as easy as buttering bread, and saves your bandwidth with multicast capabilities. (4/20/2001)
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Slick Capture
(4/17/2001)
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Agnostic Streaming Delivery
The Generic Media Publishing Service offers webcasters a soup-to-nuts streaming publishing solution that will easily support new formats and bit rates for all of your content, instantly. (4/10/2001)
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Capture Performance
(3/27/2001)
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Advanced Video Capture: The Beauty of Integration
ViewCast’s Osprey 500 DV Pro makes a great choice for advanced capture and processing — unless you also need to encode live in the Real format. (3/27/2001)
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