Features

  • Live and Video-On-Demand SD and HD unified streaming.
  • An upgrade from progressive/pseudo-streaming delivery. A better user experience due to the fast starting and seeking anywhere in the video.
  • The video dynamically adapts to network conditions and video rendering performance. No buffering or stuttering (when meeting the minimum bitrate/CPU requirements).
  • Lower cost to deploy. You can use generic HTTP caches/proxies. No problems with firewalls.
  • Uses the industry standard MPEG 4 container format, the industry standard for adaptive bitrate delivery.
  • DRM, Subtitles, Multiple audio streams, Progressive download, Subclips (Itemization), VOD from LIVE and more.
 

Specifications overview

Encoders VOD

  • Microsoft Expression Encoder 3
  • IRhozet Carbon Coder
  • Inlet Fathom and Armada
  • Elemental Server

    • Encoders LIVE

  • Digital Rapids StreamZHD Live ABR 
  • Inlet Spinnaker 5000/7000
  • Elemental Live

    • Encoders VOD + LIVE

  • Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Pro 
  • FFmpeg
  • Envivio 4Caster C42 Encoder 
  • Allegro (AL1000, AL2000 and AL2400)
  • CodecSys

    • Platforms

  • Windows XP /Vista/2003 Server/2008 Server
  • Linux (all distributions)
  • OSX
  • Unix (OpenBSD, FreeBSD)
  • Solaris

    • Both 32 and 64 bit platforms are supported.

     

    Clients/Devices

  • Adobe Flash Player 10.1 (JW Player 5.x, Flowplayer)
  • Adobe OSMF
  • Apple iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad
  • Android 2.2/3 (Progressive), Android 3 and later (HLS)
  • Microsoft Silverlight 3 and later
  • Playstation, Xbox, STBs
  • Connected TV
  • MPEG DASH
  • HbbTV 

    • Video codecs

  • H.264 / MPEG 4-AVC
  • VC-1 / SMPTE 421M (Silverlight only)

    • Audio codecs

  • AAC (Advanced Audio Encoding) / MPEG 4-AAC
  • MP3 / MPEG 1-Audio Layer 3
  • WMA (Windows Media Audio) Pro (Silverlight only)

    • Webservers

  • Microsoft IIS version 5, 6 and 7.
  • Lighttpd 1.4.x and 1.5.x
  • Nginx 0.8.x - 1.0.x
  • Apache 2.0.55, 2.2.x and 2.4

    • DRM

  • AES (Verimatrix)
  • Adobe Access
  • PlayReady (Microsoft Keyserver, BuyDRM, EZDRM)
  • Marlin/Intertrust
  • Authentec DDA

    • Download the pdf overview:

    USP specifications 01/04/2012