Haivision Focuses On Video Management: Mason

LAS VEGAS — Video, video everywhere. Montreal-based Haivision started life a decade ago helping video owners encode their content; now it wants to help them organize the plethora of videos that have been digitized. “For the last 10 years, we’ve been focused on helping people distribute assets across the internet; now we’re all about managing those […]

 
 

Cisco Brings More Virtual Video To NAB: Yates

LAS VEGAS — This time last year, Cisco unveiled Videoscape Virtualized Video Processing (V2P), a set of technologies allowing video workers to process their material using virtual, or cloud, services. Now it says it has improved the offering, after feedback received from customers. Cisco service provider video marketing director David Yates says improvements are threefold – “multi-vendor” integration, more virtualized […]

 
 

Microsoft Unveils New Video Player, Encoding Solutions

LAS VEGAS — Microsoft has used the NAB Show to announce it is expanding its video services suite, including a new video player that speaks fluent HTML5 as well as other standards. Azure Media Services is getting a new video player and transcoding that will take place in the cloud. “(Azure Media Player) does automatic device detection and […]

 
 

Better Video, Audio Coming To MPEG-DASH: Microsoft’s Sodagar

LAS VEGAS — The next-generation format for video compression has grown fast over the last couple of years, with adoption from names including Google’s YouTube, Microsoft’s Azure, Adobe Primetime and Akamai. Support for live ad insertion, digital rights management and the HEVC standard was added recently, and European internet TV standard HbbTV just just moved up to version […]

 
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