Encoders

Haivision powers live streaming video of International Ballet Festival

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:03:00 +0000

Haivision's Mako and KulaByte are being used to provide live video for the onstage production and to stream the production to Internet audiences.

HEVC to have a revolutionary impact on OTT video and UHDTV

Wed, 01 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Dr. Paul Haskell and Thierry Fautier

Better compression: a path to better delivery

As consumers increasingly view live and VOD television on a broader range of IP-connected devices, broadcasters are struggling to deliver these high-bandwidth services. However, a new video compression standard called High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) promises to improve upon the current compression standard H.264, also known as MPEG-4 AVC. Using HEVC, broadcasters can reduce the data rate needed for high-quality video coding by approximately 50 percent, enabling them to deploy higher quality OTT video services using the same amount of bandwidth, or half the bandwidth at the same quality.

Fujitsu improves end-to-end latency for its H.264 video encoders, decoders

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:54:00 +0000

The IP-9610, IP-900 and IP-920 are now capable of operating at less than 99ms back-to-back latency.

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intoPIX launches JPEG 2000 encoder, decoder FPGA IP-cores at NAB

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:20:00 +0000

The customizable reference applications for JPEG 2000 use the smallest 28nm FPGA devices from Altera and Xilinx.

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Motorola Mobility showcases HEVC encoding, decoding at 2013 NAB Show

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:19:00 +0000

One demo focuses on a real-time HEVC encoder delivering streaming content to a Google Nexus 10 tablet for real-time decoding and playback.

Content replacement: New protocols enable flexibility in simulcast services.

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:09:00 +0000

David Springall

IIt’s time for broadcasters to start thinking more viewer-centrically.

Web engineers tend to think user-/device-centric, whereas broadcast engineers tend to think more headend-centric. It’s called broadcast for a reason! However, these worlds are colliding, and — thanks to advances in online video delivery protocols, multi-screen encoding systems and cloud-based distribution services — it is now possible to perform advertising insertion or content replacement, and to tailor it to individual users.

The changing role of content delivery networks

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:00:00 +0000

Andrew Jones

Distributing content to a desktop grows more complex by the year.

The classic definition of a CDN, or content delivery network, is an aggregation of servers dishing out live streams, on-demand content and other files to end users on behalf of various clients. In broadcasting, typical clients range from small radio and television stations to larger broadcast networks and media conglomerates. The CDN’s role in the broadcast space isn’t so much changing but evolving. The now-simple idea of distributing content to a desktop grows more complex by the year. The explosion of mobile streaming and the ever-expanding OTT universe is evidence alone.

ESE reveals timecode reader/inserter at 2013 NAB show

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:45:00 +0000

As many as 30 characters of text may be superimposed onto the video using the HD-488 in Inserter mode.

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Bonded cellular takes off in TV news despite limitations

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:51:00 +0000

The wireless transmission technology, offered by a growing list of companies, has taken the news business literally by storm.

WCBS in New York City was using bonded cellular from LiveU and TVU when a massive nor’easter and blizzard hit the day after Christmas, 2010.

The Weather Channel taps Elemental Technologies for cross-platform video

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:30:00 +0000

Elemental Live supports multi-screen content delivery to the network’s widely deployed digital and mobile applications.