Video Streaming can save buffered videos

In the late 90’s, we had no clue about online streaming and its related technologies. Watching a video or listening to an audio was a long row to hoe then. It was more like driving on a bumpy country road without fun, and with so many breaks. But gone are the days when we used to wait for 1 hour to watch a 15 minutes long video. If you are still stuck in the ages old streaming media system, you need to get out of it. Let’s see what we have got to pump you up as well as your videos.

Live Web Streaming is an innovative and exceptionally smooth platform to run all types of videos in all kinds of formats. Companies are now ratifying Online Streaming with great gusto, because there is no other better medium than videos that can build credibility amongst users.  

In 2013 YouTube gathered 124 million unique viewers by enhancing its media streaming. iTunes was second with almost 45 million viewers whereas Netflix ranked sixth with around 28 million viewers.

Streaming Media - A Growing Trend

Today organizations and marketers are now looking at media streaming as future tool for Digital Video Marketing. The technology experts are also working to push the boundaries of media streaming system to gain more advantage from this platform. Experts say, digital video marketing will grow more advanced and stronger in future.  It can bring revolution to online marketing campaigns and advertising campaigns in future with the help of advanced video metrics and deployment tools.

Today, every website requires huge amount of video content such as product profile, testimonials and advertising videos etc, in order to meet speeding demand of video content by customers. Streaming media video cloud creates different renditions videos which can detect user bandwidth to ensure smooth playback at best quality.

Stream Live Events with Effective Streaming Media System

Do you have a live event to be streamed? If yes, then Online Video Streaming is the thing for you. Whether you need to show that live event to the whole world or a just a group of people Video Streaming makes it possible for you. It has become a substantial platform for enterprises to engage their audiences. You can broadcast anything and everything live, whether it is live classes, sports events, speaker presentations, seminars or concerts with professional quality. It gives your audience terrific video quality and best ever experience.

Why Should You Implement Video Streaming Right Away?

• Video Streaming gives you an amazing opportunity to connect with all your users, and allow them to watch online as well as live concerts, sports matches or seminars etc.
• Better user experience and more-scalable Internet infrastructures.
• You can stream hour long videos to hundred of users at least price.
• This platform enables you to stream live videos all across the globe. It is a simple and faster way to stream your videos according to your needs.

In the next few years, streaming applications are expected to become competitors against conventional media.

Oodles Technologies adopted this streaming system quite some time back. We have been delivering successful Video Streaming projects not only in India but across the globe too. We help our clients stream their online videos as well as live events as per their requirements. Oodles provides best-in-class experience to their clients, and an affordable platform to stream videos. You get the best possible streaming service such as FFmpeg Streaming Services, Kaltura Video Streaming, Red5 Media Server and Wowza 3.0 Development.

To implement online video streaming or for queries related to video streaming services, you can contact us info@oodlestechnologies.com or can visit http://www.oodlestechnologies.com .

From WowzaMediaServer to WowzaStreaming Engine

Introduction to Wowza Streaming Engine -

Wowza streaming engine is unified streaming media server developed by the Wowza Media Systems. It is used to stream live and on-demand  audios/videos and rich internet applications over to laptops, tablets , desktop computers and mobile devices, IPTV set top boxes and other devices.  It is a java application deployed on Linux, Mac OS, Unix and Windows. Wowza engine can stream to multiple types of playback clients and devices including Adobe flash player , microsoft silverlight player, apple quicktime player and iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod touch) etc.

To achieve better performance with it Java 5 or latest JVM is recommended. It can be downloaded for evaluation or development, it is a free edition or can request for free trial which is available through the company’s website.

Streaming Engine Usage -

1. Live web streaming of Audio/Video using RTMP and MPEG-TS encoders.
2. On Demand video/audio streaming and simulating live streaming using playlist functionality.
3. Online Radio re-streaming from shoutcast/icecast encoders and servers.
4. Interactive communications ; audio/text chats.
5. Video chat and conferences, screen sharing and online games.
6. Wowza streaming software is used by CDN, mobile operators, multiple system operators, TV and radio broadcasters , government organizations etc.

 

Advantages of using Wowza Streaming Engine for Video On Demand Streaming :

1. Robust and Scalable Media Server
2. Customizable
3. Flexibility and Control
4. Engaged Viewers Experience
5. High Performance
6. Dedicated and Extensible software that integrates with third party solutions.
7. Any media to many device
8. Increased user engagement
9. Maximized reach
10. Uses multi threaded software that delivers live and on-demand streaming
11. Multiple levels of content security
12. Customer Support

Wowza Streaming Engine is used to deliver high quality video content to the viewers who wants to stream their videos to different devices like mobile phones, computers, TV’s and tablets. Wowza Streaming Engine is platform-agnostic, multi-format, and multi-screen. It uses a wide variety of simultaneous security options to stream audios and videos and ensures that the video assets are protected.

It offers expert-email based customer support and access to dot releases and upgrades.

Wowza Media Server is upgraded to Wowza Streaming Engine on 11th Feb 2014 whose demo account is available for 5 days with 4 connections and 250MB of traffic. It transformed the popular media server from command line tool to one with a GUI.

It is very popular streaming platform that allows you to deliver the video content from web to various mobile devices . It supports protocols for Apple iOS, Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flash and other 3GPP platforms.

If you wanted to do iOS streaming in Wowza 3 you had to hand code in three locations, but now, in Wowza Streaming Engine, it’s a radio button. The idea of the GUI, which Wowza calls the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager, is to make the engine that powers multiple media sites simpler to operate.

The idea is to get wowza into many hands than before and now the users can understand it directly from the UI rather than refering to the support documents. It is the next gen Wowza Media Server and is the 4th generation of media server. It is a powerful engine that powers CDN’s and other major sites. Wowza server was not having a GUI before effectively limiting its usage earlier to only those who know command line or XML programming.

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Simple Steps for better Usability

Generally designers start working on a new project without doing any research at all. They think lets try new CSS trick, this looks good on another website, I want to use this feature. But this is not the correct way.These things are more improvements to solutions than they are solutions to the user's problems.

                             

                                         

1. Discover and analyse the problem

Don't look at websites with native fonts and ugly color schemes and try to copy them. Start looking at websites as solutions, solutions to problems. Problems might include:

-  Unwanted steps in a sign up flow

-  Purpose of website is not clear

-  Not responsive

-  Not accessible to all users i.e color blind users

-  Too much load time

2. Try to know your users

First figure out your users who are experiencing those problems and try to find the solutions to their problem from their perspective. Find out as much as you can about your users before you start.

-  What is their average age?

-  What do they want from your site?

-  How does your site suites to their needs?

3. Storytelling

Make a story for your site/app explaining how users will interact with the application and discuss among your team as if you are telling a complete story to each other(as you tell a story of your favourite movie).

This will help in analysing each entry points to the major functionalities you have kept in your system and what users will be looking out from them.

4. Start with wireframes

Now, you can start wireframing the workflow of your application by starting with the most important entry page not always the home page(say blogs is the most important page of your application where users are coming regularly and updating them), take your pen and paper and start adding content. Start wireframing on paper first and then on any wireframing tool.

So, lets suppose we are wireframing our most important page, we need a heading, logged in user icon, the date etc etc. Check each content which you are adding is relevant or not. If so, add it. If not, leave it out. Keep it going until you add all the necessary elements. Also, start thinking how the content should be shown, in a button form/in drop down/icon etc and where exactly it will be shown and where it will direct your users to go(next page or some other link on the same page).every single piece of content you add has a valid reason for being there. It should solve problem which you have discovered in 1st step.

If you offer too many options to them, then they will probably do nothing. So choose wisely.

Similarly start drilling down to all other entry points. It should be easy for the users to complete their tasks in most easy way possible and can reach to their desired goal.

 

5. Make Communication effective

Make communicate of the information to your users in the quickest, most effective way possible. Video and images are very effective modes of communication. Icons are used these days in websites as well as mobile app to communicate with users effectively. you should see well designed websites and see how they are using images and icons to communicate effectively.

Most users scan websites rather than read them. Try to gain their trust. Give a heading which is short and sweet to each section of the page , so users can quickly scan to the section they’re interested in. Try doing different things until you have effectively communicated what you’re trying to say in the most simplest way possible.

6. Guide your users properly

When a user lands in your app and doesn't immediately see how your application can benefit them, chances are they're gonna leave it and won't be coming back anytime soon. So, decide the journey wisely and guide the users at each step for next action and to go back to previous one.

When a user makes a mistake, don’t just inform them directly in a rude manner or a robot style and leave them to figure out the solution on their own.

If you do this, they will blame your application and you will lose their trust instantly. Instead, tell them that they made a mistake in a polite manner, possibly in a humorous way and then point to the solution to correct them.

7. Start rewarding your users

When your users do something right, reward them. Likewise, don't tell them in a robot manner.

Reward your users in a human tone. Congratulate them and they will feel happy to use your product. Then, they will like your product.

8. Develop trust among your users

When you will give better user experience to your users than their expectation, trust is established.

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Intel to Invest Billions in Chinese Mobile Chip Makers

Intel is now planning to strengthen its presence in mobile phone market with more than a billion dollars investment. Intel will be investing $1.5bn in Tsinghua Unigroup to make low-cost SoC (system on a chip) for mobiles, with Intel’s branding and architecture. Tsinghua Group is a government-affiliated private organization, and controlled by Tsinghua University, Beijing. Intel and Tsinghua Unigroup has announced that both parties have signed a series of agreements to grow market of Intel-based mobile phones in China.

Intel has finalized many deals since Brian Krzanich took over the role of Intel’s new CEO, to make sure its chip technology gets wider market. Intel will hold 20% stake in Tsinghua Unigroup who also owns RDA Microelectronics and Spreadtrum. Both of them produce brilliant SoCs for mobile phones and tablets etc.  

With a high demand for smartphones in the US and all around the world, manufacturers have also decided to enhance their reach in China. There is huge demand for smartphones under $150 in China.

Intel performs exceptionally well at developing processors for laptops and computers, but it has struggled a lot to establish its feet into phone market. After struggling to maintain its presence in the smartphone and tablet market, Intel has decided to partner with Chinese mobile chipmakers in the hope to regain their dominance in the market.

"Intel's new CEO has proven to be willing to take on new partnerships and approach new business opportunities that stray from prior conventions," said Suji Da Silva, who is an analyst at Topeka Capital Markets.

Their stock has increased 32% this year because of demand for personal computers. This deal might prove a turning point in Intel’s history, and would provide Intel a larger platform in the Chinese chip market.

"China is now the largest consumption market for smartphones and has the largest number of internet users in the world," Brian Krzanich said in a statement.

Under this new agreement, Spreadtrum will develop and sell a host of Intel architecture-based system on a chip. The products will hopefully be out in the market in the second half of next year. Spreadtrum is one of the chipmakers that specialize in "turnkey" smartphone platforms, which is easy for manufacturers to use in their smartphones and tablets etc.

"It has become a national priority of China to grow its semiconductor industry," said Tsinghua Unigroup Chairman Zhao Weiguo in a statement released by Intel on Friday.

Intel has been flexible about its chip-making process for the past few years; they have allowed other manufacturers to make their chips. Intel also confirmed the first chips from the Tsinghua project will come from a manufacturer hired on contract.

This collaboration between Intel and Tsinghua Unigroup covers from design and development to equity investments and marketing. China is the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturer, and this could prove profitable for Intel’s Business.  According to Intel, the deal is subject to regulatory approval and other conditions.

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