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Medialooks in Kerala, India: An Inspiring Journey into Regional Broadcast Excellence

Medialooks in Kerala, India: An Inspiring Journey into Regional Broadcast Excellence

This year, I had the pleasure of attending the Broadcast India Show 2024, a vibrant event that showcased the latest advancements in broadcast technology. Not only did I witness cutting-edge products, but I also had the unique opportunity to visit some remarkable Medialooks partners and customers in Kerala. This journey

Key Takeaways from IBC 2024: AI, Cloud, 5G, and the Future of Media Technology

Key Takeaways from IBC 2024: AI, Cloud, 5G, and the Future of Media Technology

From September 13 to 16, we attended one of the largest and most significant media and broadcasting exhibitions in the world—IBC 2024 in Amsterdam. Our main goal was to meet with clients and partners, strengthen our relationships, and discuss future plans. IBC has always been a platform for networking,

xMediaNode: We Make Video Simple

xMediaNode: We Make Video Simple

At Medialooks, we’ve been developing software for video for many years. Our products simplify complex tasks like video processing, building broadcast, IPTV, and OTT applications, or streaming video with minimal latency. We always aim to make things easier so our clients can focus on their business goals. Today, I

From Broadcast to Streaming, TECLA and DELTACAST Collaborate to Deliver Cutting-Edge Solutions

From Broadcast to Streaming, TECLA and DELTACAST Collaborate to Deliver Cutting-Edge Solutions

TECLA offers a wide range of broadcast and media services, including custom software development, integration tools, consulting, project management, training, and support for media companies. They also provide digitalization and archiving services, and have strong industry partnerships. Their Dynamo TV suite is cost-effective, modular software for multi-channel TV management, playout,

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Video SDK: replacement of internal video playout server by wTVision, Portugal

Headquartered in Lisbon, wTVision builds integrated broadcast solutions for TV stations worldwide, including global customers like Globo and DAZN. The company maintains sales and engineering offices throughout the world, in Spain, Belgium, United States, Brazil, India and Dubai. We sat down with Daniel Gonçalves, Innovation Officer and Pre-sales Director to

Video SDK roadmap for Q1 2024

The latest development build introduced several significant enhancements: * A feature that allows the enabling and disabling of debug logs during production use, eliminating the need to restart the environment for log collection. * Support for the yuv420p pixel format in the DV video encoder. * The introduction of DVB subtitles transwrapping, supporting

beach view on Barbados

Video SDK: internal playout, SRT transport and ad insertion for Caritech, Barbados

Caritech Solutions, a networking company in Barbados, has used our Video SDK to build several video applications for in-house use. We’ve had an interesting conversation with CEO Richard Rawlins about his company and use cases for our SDK. What can you tell us about your company? The company is

India Gate view

Video SDK: playout and graphics for Astech Systems, India

Based in India, Astech Systems supplies TV and radio channels, content aggregators, cable TV companies and satellite broadcasters with solutions for playout, media monitoring and graphics. We’ve spoken to Avnish Daas, the founder, owner and CEO of the company about his company’s story and benefits of using MPlatform,

A few men watching hockey on laptop screens.

Video SDK: sports video analytics for Hockey Analysis, Slovakia

Hockey Analysis is a sports analytics application developed by Patrik Michnáč in Martin, Slovakia. We had a conversation about the key aspects of what video coaches do and how our Video SDK fits in. What led you to building Hockey Analysis? I studied information technology and worked as a computer

Ho Chi Minh City night view

Video SDK: a CG solution for live DVB streams – Seetech, Vietnam

Established in 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Seetech is a supplier of broadcast equipment and solutions for the television market. Some of the company’s solutions are built in-house and are based on a Medialooks Video SDK. Alex Le, a software engineer at Seetech, answered some of our

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Video Transport

Video Transport: delivering multiviews in cloud-based productions for OPPS, USA

Recently, OPPS hasn’t been doing many off-premises multi-camera productions, the subject of our earlier story. Instead, they’ve been using Video Transport in cloud-only productions, mostly for corporate meetings. They're currently using it to deliver multiviews with low latency to production teams. It's really great

DeckLink by Blackmagic

New DeckLink IP cards by Blackmagic Design

At NAB 2023 Blackmagic Design has announced a new family of PCIe cards called DeckLink IP, which capture and playback 10-bit uncompressed, broadcast-quality video directly into 2110 IP-based broadcast workflows. A beta version of the integration is already available with the Medialooks Video SDK. The DeckLink IP family consists of

A woman in front of numerous monitors and control panels

Video SDK: playout automation for SNews Broadcast Solutions, Brazil

SNews was founded in 1997 by Dino Maia, who had a vision to revolutionize the broadcast industry. His innovative spirit led him to create a teleprompter system for radio and national TV companies, which proved to be a huge success. SNews has since expanded its technology to other countries and

Pavilion with plenty of ISE exhibitors stands

ISE 2023

The expo reported over 58,000 unique attendees this year – 33% higher than in 2022, but still not as many as 81,628 visitors in 2019 in Amsterdam. It was great to meet our clients at the show. Customer ioversal was showcasing Vortex, their hardware-independent platform for design and management

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Video Transport

Video Transport: hybrid workflow integration for Solis Films, USA

Based in Atlanta, GA, Solis Films is a video production studio that uses innovative approaches to create compelling narratives for marketing and event agencies. We spoke with Nate Glass about how Video Transport fits into the company’s advanced technology stack. We've really enjoyed using your product and

Video SDK: internal quality control solutions for RPC, Brazil

RPC is a broadcast company based in the state of Parana, Brazil. It is a partner of TV Globo, who are the world’s second-largest commercial TV network operating since 1965. We spoke with Kenneth Sato about the role our Video SDK plays in his team’s quality control process.

Two men sitting in front of multiple monitors broadcasting a sporting event

Live Score uses Video SDK for I/O integrations in scoreboard software

Based in the city of Rohrdorf in Bavaria, Germany, Live Score creates professional scoreboard graphics software for more than 10 sports. We had a conversation with Christian Dangl about how our Video SDK was used to improve his product and development process. I just love the way Medialooks works. It

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Video Transport

Monkey Bubble deploys Video Transport for remote commentary in esports

Monkey Bubble is a leading esports video production company based in the city of Breda in the Netherlands – primarily focused on Blizzard titles like Overwatch. We had a great conversation with Sven van Vossen, who said his unofficial title would be “make stuff work”. We have a physical studio in

The Charminar on a cloudy day

Video SDK: continuous time-to-market wins for Logosys, India

Founded in 2005 and based in Hyderabad, India, Logosys provides playout solutions to hundreds of TV channels in various regions of the country. We had a conversation with Ashwin Kumar, founder and lead developer of the company. I used to do a lot of hardware sales and was speaking to

Guys in the background of the screens in the TV studio

Video SDK: a broadcast software business for Tricube, India

Founded in 2009, Tricube is a software company with its R&D in the city of Kochi in Kerala, India, and commercial headquarters in New York, USA. It delivers broadcast software globally to customers like Manorama News (India), Flowers TV (India), Asianet News (India), News18 India, MBC Group (Saudi

People and stands at IBC2022

Medialooks customers and partners exhibiting at IBC2022

While we are not exhibiting at IBC this year, here are some of our customers and partners you can check in with: * EMG – 1.D61 * Wolftech Broadcast Solutions – 1.A23 * Planetcast – 5.G22 * DELTACAST – 7.B12 * Rohde & Schwarz – 7.B21 * Bluefish444 – 7.B38 * wTVision – 7.C24 * x-dream-distribution – 7.C25

A group of people at the Pulsar Multimedia booth

Pulsar Multimedia runs Video SDK as core product engine

Founded in 1994, Pulsar Multimedia is an audiovisual software solutions provider based in São Paulo, Brazil. The company serves TV and radio stations with solutions for automation, financial management and programmatic media. Having started its activities with maintenance of radio transmitters and newspaper printers, Pulsar Multimedia entered the world of

Solar car in the desert

Video Transport

Livestreaming the Moroccan Solar Challenge 2021

Stream My Event is a regular sponsor partner to the Vattenfall Solar Team, a Dutch student team that designs and manufactures solar cars to participate in world-class solar racing competitions. The biggest one is the bi-annual Australian-based World Solar Challenge, which is a 3000 km race from Darwin to Adelaide.

Light show on the walls of the building

Vertex: a next-generation AV production suite based on MFormats Video SDK

Vertex is the next-generation AV production suite that powers fixed installations at museums, creative projects for marketing agencies, and live events. The product is developed by ioversal – a German company founded by Jan Huewel and Martin Kuhn in 2018. We had an in-depth discussion with Jan about how and why

A wall with a lot of TV screens on it

Sporttotal deploys Video SDK in race monitoring systems

Founded in 1979, SPORTTOTAL VENUES GmbH deals with the conception, planning, manufacture, delivery and commissioning of electronic infrastructure for sports facilities and race tracks. The company is also responsible for the operation and programming of one of the largest digital signage networks in Germany. Ralph Körber, Head of Software Development,