Optibase has announced the availability of the MPEG ComMotion digital video platform that handles real-time streaming and multicasting of high-quality video streams over digital IP networks. The MPEG ComMotion platform doubles as a network development kit, enabling users to create customised MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video streaming solutions.
The platform is designed for advanced, multimedia networking solutions such as distance learning, business TV, surveillance systems, computer-based training, and video archiving. A key feature is its multi-board support that enables the installation of several encoding boards in a single computer, thus enabling transmission of multiple video channels simultaneously from the same station.
"Network proliferation and higher bandwidth are enabling the use of digital video in many applications,"` says Mark Chertkow, MD of local Optibase distributor, Graphic Image Technologies (GIT). "The MPEG ComMotion platform provides a flexible tool for networked applications by adding new capabilities such as video-in-a-window playback and multi-board support.`"
With Optibase`s SmartMux technology, MPEG ComMotion enables users to encode at lower bit rates and lower frame rates, allowing for a wide bitrate-range of MPEG streams, from a basic ISDN rate to fast Ethernet networks. This, together with the multiple channel support, enables users with variable bandwidth needs to capitalise on their investment when upgrading their network to higher bandwidth.
The MPEG ComMotion platform also integrates with other video servers including Oracle`s Video Server, SGI`s WebFORCE Media Base and nCUBE`s MediaCUBE, allowing live and on-demand video capturing and streaming, alongside Near-Video-On-Demand network based services.
On the receiver end, MPEG ComMotion is now based on Microsoft`s DirectShow architecture and MediaPlayer shell, offering new ActiveX and plug-in controls that allow developers easier integration and customisation of the player into large-scale applications. Its configurable installation utility is suited for fast and easy deployment of large installations, allowing the creation of a single file that can be installed with a single click of the mouse.
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MPEG ComMotion
MPEG ComMotion consists of transmitter and receiver components. The MPEG ComMotion Transmitter manages the entire streaming process. Each streaming station can transmit live or pre-recorded MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams simultaneously, in real-time to the network. Optibase`s proprietary EverSync encoding technology guarantees lasting audio and video synchronisation, ensuring that the customers` video infrastructure will deliver high-quality and reliable streams 24 hours a day, seven days a week throughout the network.
The MPEG ComMotion Receiver plays back any MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 streams in real time, and allows the development of applications in multicast, broadcast or unicast modes. It also supports multiple stream playback on a single PC. The MPEG ComMotion`s Receiver can also be implemented in a wide range of development environments, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, Visual Basic, C++ and Java.