The Official Medialooks Blog (Page 5)

Inuktun builds video-enabled robots for places where humans can’t go

Based out of Canada, Inuktun Services is a designer and manufacturer of robotic crawler and inspection camera systems that help people reach hazardous areas, confined and underwater spaces. Years into developing their system control and data reporting software, they chose to move their video pipeline to a Medialooks SDK. A

Video Transport

Remote PTZ cams control in Video Transport

Since recently, our Video Transport solution supports remote control of PTZ cameras, which seem to be getting some solid traction these days. Pan-tilt-zoom cameras “were regarded as being low quality and not suitable for professional use,” writes Adrian Pennington in a piece on Broadcast Bridge. “Thanks to the advances in

Video SDK

Video SDK: new playout engine for Vector 3, Spain

I met Pere and Roman from Vector 3 in their great office in the very centre of Barcelona to learn more about the company and how they used our Video SDK to create a new playout engine that would work seamlessly with Blackmagic Design. Roman Ceano co-founded the company with

Video SDK

AV Stumpfl takes control of codecs with a Medialooks SDK

This Austrian company manufactures high-performance mobile and installation projection screens and builds some of the world’s most powerful multi-display and show control systems. MFormats SDK in the heart of its playout and video capture software. The big pictures AV Stumpfl was founded out of a passion for the large

Medialooks’ customers at IBC2018

Our footprint at this year’s IBC is represented by the following customers: * Planetcast, 1.F05 * Quicklink, 3.B30 * Arvato Systems, 3.B38 * Libero Systems, 3.B39 * x-dream-media, 3.B39 * Elements, 7.D08 * Metus, 7.D13 * Vector 3, 7.D17 * Avmeda, 7.D18 * ProMAX Systems, 7.D55 * Masterplay, 8.A16

NDI

Medialooks announces integration with BirdDog Comms

IBC2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands — September 14, 2018 — Medialooks today announced integration of it’s Video Transport solution with BirdDog Comms, an NDI-powered software intercom solution for live video productions. BirdDog Comms is the world’s first audio intercom system that integrates live camera feeds. The software provides a touchscreen interface that

NDI

Medialooks announces free NDI® software convertors

IBC2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands—September 14, 2018—Medialooks today announced free software converters that allow video engineers to publish SDI streams via NDI or convert NDI streams to SDI. The new applications will be shown at IBC2018 in Amsterdam, where Medialooks will exhibit at stand 3.B39. Both tools have been

Press Release

Medialooks announces membership in the SRT Alliance

IBC2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands-September 14, 2018—Medialooks today announced that it has joined the SRT Alliance in order to provide customers with the most up-to-day video transport technology. SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) is a relatively new protocol designed in partnership by Haivision and Wowza with the aim to deliver high-quality video

Remote Production

Multi-camera at-home video production with Medialooks Video Transport

We’ve released a new version of our Video Transport solution, which brings it another step closer to supporting true multi-camera at-home video production scenarios. At-home video production, also known as remote video production, is an engineering approach that allows event producers to bring their costs down by sending less

Live Streaming

BirdDog has built a business around NDI®

I recently spoke to Dan Miall, CEO of an exciting company called BirdDog. Founded in 2016 and based in Melbourne, Australia, BirdDog is currently less than 2 years old, but has already won the Best of NAB 2018 award from Streaming Media. The BirdDog story Dan had made a career

Video SDK

The new HTML5 Plugin handles animation overlays for Digilab

Somewhere in 2016 we began researching a way to replace an outdated and heavy component, which we no longer maintained, but one that was quite popular with customers, who needed to overlay dynamic and animated graphics—the Flash Overlay Plugin. We spoke with Carlos Alberto Phelippe, System Analyst from Digilab

Live Streaming

A few thoughts after NAB Show 2018

While the official buzzwords of this show were supposed to be 4K, HDR, AV1, VR, AR and AI (the latter three not being exactly specific to the industry), that was not what occupied our attention at the NDI Central booth right in the middle of hall 7: we were busy

Press Release

Osprey Video adds seamless integration with Medialooks’ SDKs

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — April 9, 2018 — Osprey Video today announced official support for Medialooks MFormats SDK. Osprey Video has been providing mission-critical video capture devices since 1994 with PCI, PCIe capture cards including SDI, HDMI, composite and VGA models and USB capture devices with support for both Windows and

NDI

Commercial licensing for our video transport solution

Our video transport service is ready for commercial licensing. This post explains in detail, how our licensing and pricing work. Premium features The free version of the product will still be available, but some existing and potentially new features will only be available in the paid version: * Premium TURN server

NDI

Medialooks launches premium video transport service

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — April 9, 2018 — Medialooks today announced the launch of its premium video transport service with NDI® support. At IBC2017, Medialooks first introduced a prototype of its video transport solution that needs no dedicated hardware or network infrastructure — making it possible to connect distant locations in any

NDI

NewTek to ship NDI® 3.5 soon after NAB

NewTek has announced in an email that a new release of its Network Device Interface is due soon after NAB Show: it looks like the 3.5 release will be packed with plenty of value. Better networking This release was definitely focused on making NDI more bullet-proof for large-scale deployments,

Live Streaming

Upstream Media streams Ice Climbing World Cup with Medialooks’ transport

Upstream Media is a video production company from Switzerland, who focus on live streaming and remote production. I spoke with Jan Schäfer, who has organised the first known production deployment of our video transport. The World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 2018 in Davos The first time we spoke, Jan explained

Video SDK

Video SDK: easy-to-use video streaming with WinBroadcaster

WinBroadcaster is a new app for non-professional streamers—those who need to broadcast and record video content in order to promote their business, but are not ready to hire a professional team or invest into advanced equipment and software. We reached out to Michael Garanin, who had a working prototype

Video Transport

Low-latency video transport over the Internet

Since we’ve launched our video-over-Internet transport app, we’ve being doing our best to understand and clearly position this product on a very complex and constantly changing market. Part of this process is understanding and being certain about our differentiator, which is the fact that our technology works over

Video Transport

Point-to-point streaming tool is now portable and supports alpha channel

We have uploaded a new version of our point-to-point streaming app. In fact, we’ve released multiple new versions (around 15 to be exact) — here’s what we’ve been working on. For starters, the software is now portable. It is distributed via a ZIP archive and does not have

Video SDK

Customer x-dream-media builds Carbon Coder plugin with MFormats SDK

It is usually the x-dream-media booth where we demo our solutions and hold meetings at IBC. The company, a software integrator for the media industry, hosts many of it’s partners at their booth, including us. In addition to integrating third-party solutions, x-dream-media uses MFormats SDK to develop some of

Video Transport

Remote video production via IP

Two articles have recently been published by IBC365, an online editorial by the well-known industry conference: Testing the tools for remote production by Alana Foster and Is it time to sell the OB truck? by Tony Gregory. Remote video production is now officially labelled as an industry trend. This post

Video Transport

First test of new NDI® over Internet tech

This Thursday we released a beta version of a simple product that makes NDI® streams available at remote locations with almost the same latency as they would on a local area network. We built a pair of very simple Windows apps. The first app, the “Publisher” will scan your network

Press Release

Medialooks August release: SCTE-35 triggers detection and bug fixes

We are glad to present you a new version of MPlatform and MFormats SDKs. Our main goals for this release were SCTE-35 triggers support, stability improvements and bug fixes. Here are our results: * Added SCTE-35 triggers detection — here is an article. * Added Cisco OpenH264 encoding option. * Seamless switching between scenes

Medialooks integrates Nablet’s high-quality UDP streaming technology

NAB Show 2017, Las Vegas, United States — April 25, 2017 — Medialooks, a leading provider of multimedia development tools, announced today that it has integrated UDP streaming technology from nablet into its software development kits. The UDP protocol plays a major role in creating DVB-compliant IP streams. Instead of using expensive,