Resources

Our Streaming Resources page is the place to be for quick links to general information on streaming media from around the Web.

MPEG Industry Forum

The MPEG Industry Forum is a not-for-profit organization with the following goal: To further the adoption of MPEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted and widely used standards among creators of content, developers, manufacturers, providers of services, and end users.

Neomagic

NeoMagic Corporation, based in Santa Clara, California, provides Applications Processors to enable new generations of handheld systems, offering the lowest power, smallest form-factor, and multimedia features and performance. The company has pioneered the integration of memory, complex logic, and analog circuits into single-chip solutions.

NEXTREAMING!

Mobile multimedia

Darim Vision Co.

To make Video Communication more accessible, Darim is committed to developing video compression and transmission technologies. Darim strives to succeed by continuously launching technologically advanced products in its principal business areas: MPEG Encoding, Streaming, Broadcasting, and Security.

Ateme

Ateme's products cover the whole range of imaging and video applications with hardware and software solutions.

Intro to MPEG-7

This article provides a comprehensive overview of MPEG-7’s motivation, objectives, scope, and components. In the July–September 2002 issue of IEEE MultiMedia, we’ll provide more details about the MPEG-7 description tools.

Intro to MPEG-21

MPEG-21 is an open standards-based framework for multimedia delivery and consumption. It aims to enable the use of multimedia resources across a wide range of networks and devices. In this article, we discuss MPEG-21’s parts, achievements, ongoing activities, and opportunities for new technologies.

RealNetworks

Products: Players: RealPlayer, RealJukebox, RealSlideshow. RealPlayer has 150 million unique registered users. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux. RealServer: Real Server Professional, Real Server Intranet, Real Server Plus, Real Server Basic.

Microsoft

Products: Windows Media Encoder: The media player (video and audio) that is shipped with every Windows box. Supports streaming from MS Media Services. Platform: Windows and Mac. Windows Media Player for PocketPC: Windows Media Player 7: Compression file/formats: ASF, WAV, AVI, MOV, MPEG, MIDI, IVF, AIF, VOD, AU, MP3, ID3 Windows Media Rights Manager: Windows Media Services: Streaming server. Compression: Microsoft ASF (MPEG-4). Streaming protocol: MMS (proprietary). Platform: Windows 2000 and Windows NT. Supports Digital rights management. Administration: Web-based.

Apple

Products: QuickTime Streaming Server 3: Free. supports RTP/RTSP and HTTP streaming, requires Mac OS X. Features: Serves QuickTime files stored on the server (video on demand), Supports more than 2,000 streams to QuickTime users concurrently, Supports hundreds of stored files, Acts as a reflector for live broadcasts, Provides access control to media files using authentication modules, Compliant with Lariat Darwin Streaming Server 3: open sourced, based on QuickTime Streaming Server, supports Linux, Mac, Windows, SunOS QuickTime Media Player: for Mac and Windows.

Burst.com

Product: Burstware. Streaming media server software solution, propietary transport protocol, codec neutral, live functionality, fail-safe functionality. Runs on Quicktime and MS Media Player with Burst plug-ins.

Kasenna

Products: Mediabase: Streaming and content management software. Three layers: 1) Media Distribution 2) Media asset management (acquisition, storage, meta data management) 3) Media streaming through Kasenna pump (QuickTime, MPEG 1/2), RealServer, streaming. Platforms: Irix (SGI), Linux, Solaris.

Streaming21

Products: S21 Player: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP3, ASF, VCD. Microsoft Windows Media Player based. MediaServer: compression standards: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP3, ASF, VCD. Java based remote management. Scalable servers, fail-safe functionality. MP3 Server: User authentication and license access control. Architecture that facilitates e-commerce with ODBC MediaCaster: Live and scheduled multicasts and broadcasts. Up to 7 concurrent audio and video channels per server.

iVast

Products: iVAST Studio SDK: a suite of iVast technologies that integrate with 3rd party authoring tools. iVAST Server: MPEG-4 streaming server software. iVAST SystemWare: corba compliant middleware for 3rd party application integration (ad serving, accounting, e-commence, digital rights management). iVAST Player: MPEG-4 player (video, video object planes, 3D rendering, 2D vector graphics, interactivity).

Philips Digital Networks MP4Net

Products: WebCine Player: MPEG-4 player, Windows. WebCine Encoder: MPEG-4, video and audio. WebCine Server: RTP, RTSP, runs on Linux.

3CX

Products: IXJET Streaming Server: Streaming server. Supports MPEG2, MPEG1, QuickTime and ASF files. Platform: Windows NT. Requires Microsoft Netshow Services. IXJET Live Server: Uses Array Microsystem's VF100/200 MPEG-1 encoder board. rcPlayer: Platforms: Windows, Mac. Requires QuickTime, DirectShow 5.1 or later for software MPEG-1 decoding or Java Media Framework MPEG-1 playback.

On2

Products: TrueCast™ Client/Server Architecture: streaming server. Compression technology: VP3™ Codec. Hosted by On2. Player: Java based VP3 decoder. VP3 Plug-in's for QuickTime player and RealPlayer.

Virage

Products: Video Application Server.

BroadWare

Products: Streaming server/hosting with Java based clients.

Audio Streaming Servers

Icecast

Products: Open Source streaming audio server. Compatible with Shoutcast. MP3 streaming. Products: Shoutcast: Shoutcast is Nullsoft's Free Winamp-based distributed streaming audio system. Winamp: free audio player. Spinner: Spinner.com is the first and largest Internet music service, broadcasting over 22 million songs each week to listeners all over the world.

Digital Fountain

Products: IP Multicast technology.

Bandwiz

Products: Magic Media: Steaming Solution, using multicast based system.

Wireless Video Streaming

Packet Video

Products: PVAuthor: MPEG-4 encoder (no interactive MPEG-4 functionality). Software, Windows. PVServer: video streaming server. Platforms: Solaris or Linux. MPEG-4 video streams over RTSP/RTP. PVPlayer: decoder software for MPEG-4 video (9.6 kbps...384 kbps). Video stream supports MPEG-4 temporal salability and PacketVideo's Dynamic Rate Control. Platforms: a number of PDA's (WinCE), smart phones, PC's (Windows)..

Togabi

Products: MPEG-4 and H.263 based video/audio encoder, servers, and players that deal very well with Internet congestion, packet loss as well as with video streaming over wireless channels.

EMBLAZE Systems

Products: Emblaze Wireless Media Platform (WMP): MPEG-4 video encoding and streaming server for wireless carriers. Emblaze Wireless Device Solutions: Software decoder for wireless devices (phones, PDA, etc).

Mobixell

Products: Creating products for the 2.5G and 3G mobile market.

UB Video

Products: UB-Streamforce: low bit rate Video Codec. UB-Live: H.263. UB-Mobile: MPEG-4 codec. UB Video designs MPEG-2, H.262, H.263++, MPEG-4 codecs for the embedded market. Platforms supported: PC, Equator MAP-CA (Media Processor), TI-C6000 (DSP). Propietary Algorithms for rate-control optimization, low complexity quantized DCT algorithms.