We encode video and audio for streaming or download delivery on the web in all formats: Real Video, Quicktime, Windows Media, MP3, broadcasting (live Webcasting). Using our experience with video & audio compression, file sizes are kept to a minimum and yet retain remarkable quality. Video appears clean and without over-pixelation and audio can be of CD or MP3 quality.

 

We believe that streaming video encoding should be an extension of the care and quality that was put into the creation and production of your original video production. We provide numerous quality checks throughout the entire encoding process to insure that your new digital version reflects your original in every way. Your original video production was not created in an automated fashion, and it shouldn't be converted that way. High quality video is a result of end-to-end quality control, efficiency and experience.

 

Need to know more? The techy stuff

 

Streaming video is a sequence of "moving images" that are sent in compressed form over the Internet and displayed by the viewer as they arrive. Streaming media is streaming video with sound. With streaming video or streaming media, a Web user does not have to wait to download a large file before seeing the video or hearing the sound. Instead, the media is sent in a continuous stream and is played as it arrives. The user needs a player , which is a special program that uncompresses and sends video data to the display and audio data to speakers. A player can be either an integral part of a browser or downloaded from the software maker's Web site.

 

Major streaming video and streaming media technologies include RealSystem G2 from RealNetwork, Microsoft Windows Media Technologies (including its NetShow Services and Theater Server), and VDO. Microsoft's approach uses the standard MPEG compression algorithm for video. The other approaches use proprietary algorithms. (The program that does the compression and decompression is sometimes called the codec .) Microsoft's technology offers streaming audio at up to 96 Kbps and streaming video at up to 8 Mbps (for the NetShow Theater Server). However, for most Web users, the streaming video will be limited to the data rates of the connection (for example, up to 128 Kbps with an ISDN connection). Microsoft's streaming media files are in its Advanced Streaming Format (ASF).

 

Streaming video is usually sent from prerecorded video files, but can be distributed as part of a live broadcast "feed." In a live broadcast, the video signal is converted into a compressed digital signal and transmitted from a special Web server that is able to do multicast , sending the same file to multiple users at the same time.