“As Flash Video continues to rapidly gain popularity among content consumers, we’re seeing significant interest from customers wanting to webcast live with the On2 VP6 codec in addition to file-based encoding and transcoding,” said Shari Beck, Project Manager at Digital Rapids Corporation. “Offering support for On2’s VP6 codec in our highly respected Stream products brings our outstanding quality and speed advantages to both live and file-based VP6 encoding, and makes Digital Rapids Stream the only live VP6 encoding solution supporting multiple-format archiving and a comprehensive professional toolset.”
The optional On2 VP6 support is integrated throughout the Stream systems’ robust workflow and feature set. Content can be encoded to VP6 while simultaneously encoding to other formats, and processing such as graphic overlay can be applied. Live content can also be archived to file in VP6 and other formats seamlessly during live Flash Video streaming. Based on On2’s workstation-level licensing structure, Digital Rapids’ On2 VP6 module includes distribution rights for content created with the VP6 codec, allowing customers to distribute VP6-encoded material professionally without additional licensing fees.
“Digital Rapids’ flexible codec architecture has allowed us to continually expand our encoding workstations as new video format requirements have arisen with our clients,” explained TJ Kudalis, Senior Multimedia Engineer at Internet Broadcasting, a beta tester for the On2 VP6 format option. “The new On2 VP6 support allows us to meet the growing demand for Flash 8 video and takes full advantage of the powerful workflow that we depend on with Digital Rapids solutions, including simultaneous encoding to multiple formats with exceptional performance and throughput.”
Digital Rapids Stream encoding solutions combine powerful hardware for video and audio capture and pre-processing with the intuitive Stream software interface, delivering high-quality, professional multi-format media encoding and streaming. The advanced, hardware-based video processing features ‘ including motion adaptive de-interlacing, scaling, filtering, and 3D motion-adaptive noise reduction ‘ enable optimum quality and the most efficient use of bandwidth in the compressed result.
Supporting the encoding of AVC content for playback on consumer electronics devices, the Digital Rapids AVC Encoder is powered by Nero Digital technology ‘ co-developed by Nero and ATEME ‘ and expands the existing MPEG-4 and AVC/H.264 support in the Digital Rapids Stream product family with superior visual quality and significantly increased encoding speeds, including real-time encoding at maximum quality from live standard definition sources and faster than real-time transcoding from files. Supporting Baseline and Main AVC/H.264 profiles, Simple and Advanced Simple MPEG-4 Part 2 profiles, and AAC and High-Efficiency AAC audio, the Digital Rapids AVC Encoder further enhances the Stream family’s strengths in creating content files for platforms ranging from PCs to mobile phones and personal video devices such as the Apple iPod.
“Nero provides open standards-based solutions to partners to bridge devices, platforms and proprietary systems to ensure interoperability and longevity for consumer electronics devices”, said Tim Windsor, General Manager, Nero Digital, Nero AG. “We appreciate the third-party vendor support and Digital Rapids’ commitment to deliver such solutions to professionals creating content for these devices.” To guarantee interoperability with next generation consumer electronics devices, Nero is launching AVC device playback certification at CES 2007.
“The new Digital Rapids AVC Encoder, combined with our upcoming studio-level AVC options for professional applications such as VOD and IPTV based on technology from ATEME, gives us a comprehensive suite of MPEG-4 and AVC/H.264 encoding capabilities for any level of application,” said Brick Eksten, President of Digital Rapids Corporation. “The high quality and exceptional performance of the Digital Rapids AVC Encoder enhance our customers’ productivity and deliverables when targeting the new generation of delivery devices.”
Digital Rapids Stream encoding solutions combine powerful hardware for video and audio capture and pre-processing with the intuitive Stream software interface, delivering high-quality, professional multi-format media encoding and streaming. The advanced, hardware-based video processing features ‘ including motion adaptive de-interlacing, scaling, filtering, and 3D motion-adaptive noise reduction ‘ enable optimum quality and the most efficient use of bandwidth in the compressed result.
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