Osprey SimulStream(TM) software, which gives users the ability to output multiple video and audio streams settings using multiple encoding applications with independent capture settings from a single Osprey capture card, is now available as Osprey Digital SimulStream to users of Osprey-500 and Osprey-2000 line of products.

For the Osprey-500 and Osprey-2000 series, the Osprey Digital SimulStream software solution provides cost-effective capabilities in DV and professional audio/video source distribution to software applications. This unique new offering creates a "virtual splitter'' of video and audio from either DV or SDI sources. Professionals can now process media from digital sources simultaneously, substantially improving production workflow and saving valuable time.

Streaming media content creators typically encode several different streams of the same media in order to provide streams for modems and broadband connections, as well as for different formats, such as RealNetworks®, RealVideo®, and RealAudio® and Microsoft's Windows Media. Before Osprey's SimulStream offerings, content creators had to repeat the encoding task for each file, or use multiple cards to speed up the process. With Osprey SimulStream, multiple encoding tasks can be launched simultaneously on a single computer. Osprey SimulStream reduces encoding time up to 83 percent while greatly improving the video and audio on the resulting streams.

Three of the biggest challenges for streaming professionals are the quality, cost and workflow of content creation. The combination of the industry's standard streaming codecs -- RealVideo and Windows Media -- with Osprey's new SimulStream software, makes huge strides toward overcoming these obstacles of programming quality, hardware costs and personnel intensive workflow.

SimulStream is a new concept to the streaming media world and will fundamentally change the way a lot of streaming media is created. Professional broadcasters want to reach the broadest possible audience, and the availability Osprey Digital SimulStream allows them to distribute digital content from a single source to a variety of different applications. This substantially improves streaming encoding workflow, saving both time and money.

Osprey SimulStream was introduced in October as an exclusive product for ViewCast Osprey® Video Osprey-210 and Osprey-220 capture cards. Osprey SimulStream is also provided as part of ViewCast Systems package offerings in Niagara(TM) Streaming Systems that utilize the Osprey-210 and Osprey-220 for their capture engines. With support extended to the digital streaming capture cards, customers can capitalize on the benefits of multi-streaming from analog to digital.

Add the Niagara SCX multi-encoder remote control software and you have a powerful suite of workflow management tools! Read more about Niagara SCX in the following story.

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InfoValue Computing, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance video streaming software and a valued ViewCast Partner, has integrated ViewCast's Osprey-2000 MPEG encoder card with InfoValue's QuickVideo Multicast 6.1 software. This combination efficiently delivers high quality video to desktop users at a price that most corporations can afford.

ViewCast's Osprey capture cards are the de facto standard in narrowband and broadband streaming applications using industry-standard formats from RealNetworks and Microsoft. The Osprey-2000 product family combines advanced media capture capabilities with cost-effective MPEG encoding to deliver DVD-quality video for networked streaming applications.

The Osprey-2000 provides real-time encoding of either MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 for both live and on-demand uses. Bridging the gap between the streaming and professional video markets, the Osprey-2000 family also provides professional-quality digital and analog video and audio inputs.

InfoValue's QuickVideo Multicast (QVMC) software uses IP multicast technology to delivery high quality video with easy to use, TV-like operation. QVMC also integrates with other InfoValue products, to enable innovative features such as instant replay, automatic recording, and video archiving. QVMC seamlessly interacts with the Osprey-2000 encoder to provide live MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 multicast streams with full-screen resolution and CD-quality audio.

Users can purchase the Osprey-2000 encoder and the QVMC software from authorized ViewCast and InfoValue resellers respectively.

The two products are also available as part of a bundle server package, which consists of InfoValue software, pre-installed with the Osprey-2000 encoder on a Hewlett-Packard low-profile Netserver computer. This hardware-software bundle provides a convenient and easy-to-use, enterprise-class streaming solution, in a compact and low-cost package. Bundled solutions are available from InfoValue and its authorized resellers.

The combination of a powerful streaming software suite like InfoValue's QuickVideo Multicast and ViewCast's Osprey-2000 MPEG encoder brings industry-leading video quality to business desktops. Like never before, business video is fast becoming a necessity for corporations to leverage the power of their networks to realize cost and efficiency benefits for training, corporate communications, and information/news distribution. This new, powerful package delivers unparalleled performance at very affordable prices.

QuickVideo Multicast is easier to deploy, more effective to use and provides lower all-in cost of ownership than any competing system on the market today. Adding Osprey support to the latest version of the InfoValue software ensures compatibility with the streaming media's leading capture cards.

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