“Streaming video to smartphones and set-top boxes is an essential nowadays, but doing so successfully has many companies in the dark. To help them out and offer best practices, representatives from Haivision, Wowza, Mirror Image Internet, and Cicso Systems took part in a webinar yesterday hosted on StreamingMedia.com.”
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“Cloud streaming delivery models such as Microsoft’s Windows Media Azure could change the landscape for dedicated encoders.
In our recent coverage of the National Association of Broadcasters’ show (NAB), we mentioned Windows Azure Media Services as one of several emerging cloud models for scaling up streaming delivery to television-level viewership. The benefit of cloud-based delivery holds potential, yet one part of Azure Media Services was under-reported: live streaming.
Why does live streaming in Azure Media Services demand more attention? We think the inclusion of at least one live encoder option is a precursor to a larger trend that will occur within the live encoding space: a move towards one-off rentals of live encoding and away from buying dedicated live encoding resources.”
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“Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Brightcove, told CNBC, ‘One of the really exciting things that we saw was the continued very broad based adoption of online video and these mobile apps; we grew our customer base almost fifty percent year over year and that was from almost every sector of society.’”
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“New York — Comcast will soon offer cable TV customers access to WatchESPN — expanding the reach of the live-sports streaming service to 40 million households — and also will become the first pay-TV provider to offer live and on-demand “TV Everywhere” content from Disney’s three children’s cable networks, said Matt Murphy, Disney & ESPN Media Networks senior vice president of digital video distribution.”
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“In our last push, we made some major encoding updates. We started to deliver the MP4/iPhone file instead of the FLV file. This change effects all users that have uploaded videos since our last push. You will need to change your encoding bitrate for the iPhone. We apologize if your mobile videos have been displayed in lower quality than you are accustomed to, but now you know why. Here is step by step instructions on how to make the proper changes.”
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