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Video Packaging Unveiled: Netflix goes GPAC

This article is a conversation with Motion Spell’s Founder and CEO Romain Bouqueau. Anne Aaron (see on the right), Director of Encoding Technologies at Netflix, recently said: “As part of our strategy to build a flexible and efficient packaging platform, we needed a strong partner with deep expertise of the best encoding and packaging tools.” In November 2022, Motion Spell, a media technology software and consulting company based in Paris, concluded an 18-month transition phase with streaming provider Netflix – resulting in: the integration of GPAC Open-Source Software into Netflix’s worldwide content operations.
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Daniel2 Dynamo? Next-gen Codecs!

„The fastest codec in the world“ is how the Munich-based broadcasting and production software developer Cinegy advertises its video codec Daniel2; it uses the computing power of the graphics processor to speed up image processing specifically and workflows in general. The codec promises: real-time film editing with Adobe Premiere CC, at a resolution of of 8K - without any drop in frame rate. A conversation with Cinegy boss Jan Weigner about Content Creation with Power Codecs.
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Channel 4 Chooses Pinnacle for Playout

British broadcaster Channel 4 has ordered four MediaStream MSS-900Si servers with the Palladium Store 1000 central storage system from Pinnacle Systems for its broad infrastructure upgrade program and an additional playout suite.
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TV-quality videos via the Internet:

Streaming technology from deuromedia enables broadband transmission in TV quality via the Internet. The Munich-based docutainment broadcaster Discovery Channel is showing this on its homepage during IFA 2001
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MPEG-2 HDTV PCI Card

The HD-PCI is a PCI-bus card covering MPEG-2 HD video and audio decoding, which offers an affordable solution for HDTV playback applications. MPEG-2 data stored on the PC systems hard disk can easily be brought to the screen.
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