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@Brightcove Acquires Zencoder « Zencoder Cloud Encoding Blog

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“Today, Brightcove entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zencoder. Zencoder will continue to operate as an independent service, but we will do so as a part of Brightcove.

 

We are really excited about this, and hope you will be too, for the reasons outlined below. In summary, Brightcove is a complementary company in the video space who believes in our developer focus, is committed to standalone API-based services, and will keep Zencoder operating largely as you see it today – only better, and with more resources behind us.”

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Microsoft releases SmartGlass SDK for Xbox 360 developers | Ars Technica

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“Just weeks after first announcing its SmartGlass initiative for Xbox 360 at a pre-E3 press conference, Microsoft has released the SmartGlass software development kit. It allows Xbox 360 developers to easily integrate PC, tablet, and phone screens in with their Xbox 360 games and applications.

 

The SDK (Xbox 360 developer login required) comes with an Xbox SmartGlass Studio environment for building ‘SmartGlass Activities.’ It also includes a Javascript API that will work across Windows, iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms, plus a library of sample code for developers to build off of.”

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Netflix changes API program, breaks some third-party functionality – TheVerge

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“Netflix has announced changes to its API program that will render some third-party services useless. Starting today, third-party developers will no longer be able to export a user’s viewing and rating history, display search results that compare Netflix’s library to those of other competing services — a feature currently found with Google TV and Xbox 360′s Bing Search — or charge consumers for services that use the API in any way.”

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nVLC By Roman Ginzburg – CodeProject

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“Ever since I started using VLC Media Player, I was impressed with its capabilities, especially its built-in codecs which require no further installations. After exploring the VLC structure a little further, I found the libvlc.dll module which is an API for the entire VLC engine, and contains a rich set of rendering, streaming, and transcoding functionality. Libvlc is a native DLL which exposes hundreds of C method calls. The main concept of this article is to provide a .NET API for the libVLC interface so the vast majority of VLC functionality could be utilized in managed applications.”

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Beginner’s Guide to Kaltura API & Top 5 FAQ (video) – Kaltura Blog

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“Our APIs work like secret shortcuts to our platform, however, the secret, in true Kalturian spirit, is quite open. Not long ago, we recorded a webinar that went in depth about our API. This webinar prompted us to create a series of posts detailing our APIs and answering some FAQs. Today, we are going to focus on how one gets started with the Kaltura API. So before we get to the Q&A segment, you might first want to take a look at the clip below in which our Director of Community and Developer Relations; Zohar Babin, explains the necessary steps of how to begin working with our API.”

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Koemei Is Out To Transcribe All Video And Make It Searchable – Techcrunch

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“Lord knows there is a lot of online video out there these days, but only a tiny proportion of it has been transcribed (less than 1% according to some estimates). Searching the mountains of video generated by businesses, governments and educational institutions for the valuable information within is almost impossible because the words hidden in the audio are invisible to search. Waiting for it is not just the world, but the many people who can’t access that video because of their disabilities. Transcription unlocks the gold-dust buried in them there video hills.

This would involve transcription on a vast scale, but this is exactly the problem Koemei aims to tackle. It’s a SAAS platform for speech recognition in video. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt it announced it has completed an integration with YouTube’s API in preparation for a potential launch. It also announced the successful completion of its first pilot with the University of Geneva and IMD Business School.”

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New Video Cloud Features Boost Quality and Engagement | Brightcove Blog

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“Re-Transcode Assets in the Media Module:

We’ve introduced a re-transcoding option that lets publishers send an asset through our transcoding engine after it has been uploaded.

 

Drive Engagement With the Overlay Player API:

Additionally, a new overlay player API lets you add any content as a player overlay to further engage viewers.

 

Provide Streaming Quality Details to Viewers via APIs:

Finally, we’ve built APIs that allow publishers to obtain the available bandwidth, current bitrate, and current framerate for a video stream in real time and surface this information to viewers either in the player or elsewhere on the page.”

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Holy moly: Netflix clocks 42B API requests per month – GigaOm

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“Updated. Netflix clocked close to 42 billion API requests per day in January, according to the company’s director of engineering Daniel Jacobson, who revealed the number as part of a presentation he recently gave to the Paypal engineering team. In his slides, Jacobson pointed out that the number of API requests has grown 70-fold in just two years, from 600 million in January of 2010 to 41.7 billion in January of 2012.”

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SproutVideo Adds List of New Features: Facebook O-Graph Support, Protected Videos, Javascript API & More

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“It’s been nearly a year since we sent out our last newsletter announcing the release of our Analytics feature. We’ve added many new features to SproutVideo since then and wanted to make sure everyone knew about them. This newsletter will cover the following 8 major features released in the last year:

• Facebook Open Graph Support
• Mass Video Management
• Playlists
• Javascript Player API
• New customizable video player
• SproutVideo API
• Unbranded Video Pages
• Login Protected Videos

While we’ve accomplished a lot in the last year, we have big plans for the upcoming year. We hope you’re just as excited as we are about the future. If you’re currently a SproutVideo customer, we’re very happy to be able to serve you and hope you’re enjoying all of the new features we’ve been working so hard to give you. If you were a SproutVideo customer in the past, we encourage you to give us another look. A lot has changed!”

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