GravityLab Media Video Blog » Streaming Media: Video

HTML5 and mpeg4 h264 video hosting

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:16:01 +0000

GravityLab delivers HTML5 video and players for your web site, and we have supported mp4 h264 video for years on our CDN. You can count on our technical expertise reaching a wide spectrum of screens for wherever your audience is.

Today, HTML5 is essential to serving video to audiences browsing the mobile Web. HTML5 and H.264 are the runtime/format combination that you have to support. And while the mobile market is fragmented, iPhone and iPad users represent an attractive audience demographic of early-adopting, technologically-savvy users that tend to fall into higher income brackets. So yes, if you care about mobile Web video at all today, you’ll need to consider an HTML5 support strategy.

Take a look at our Mobile Video Hosting plans here.

GravityLab Multimedia helps you stream video and audio to mobile devices

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:32:20 +0000

If you distribute or produce content that will be digitally consumed, you are faced with preparing your media for a multitude of screens. From Android-based tablets to the iPad, iPhone 4, and beyond, mobility is the new video frontier. So what’s the right strategy to reach all these devices? How many variants of one clip must a publisher create? Which platforms will yield the greatest uptake?

By becoming a GravityLab mobile video hosting client,we can help you deliver live and on demand streaming to every screen. Let us help you:

develop an effective and efficient streaming mobile device strategy
simplify video delivery to mobile devices
increase views and reach a broader audience with mobile video
overcome the challenges for monetizing video to mobile

Get started with GravityLab Mobile Streaming Video Hosting today !

HTTP Dynamic Streaming now available for all video hosting account services

admin — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:18:30 +0000

GravityLab is pleased to offer HTTP Dynamic Streaming for all accounts. Here is an overview of the top features available to all our customers:

• HD quality with H.264 and AAC
• Adaptive bitrate
• Support for a wide range of http delivery products
• Live streaming with DVR support
• On-demand streaming with enhanced seeking
• Client tracking and reporting
• Open Source Players Available
• Multiplatform browser, desktop, and device support
• Linux and Windows Server® support
• MP4 standard format … open standards

Content Delivery Network scalable delivery:

Use existing caching infrastructures and standard HTTP server hardware to deliver on-demand and live content on a large scale with maximum quality.

Go way beyond progressive download delivery:

Enjoy enhanced playback features including adaptive bitrate streaming, live support, DVR functionality, and interactive seeking over HTTP connections.

We support open source:

Achieve a live streaming experience using MP4 fragment format, the industry standard for adaptive bitrate delivery.

Want more information? Check out the FAQs. Ready to get started with HTTP Streaming hosting?

HTTP Streaming to iPhone / iPad / iPod: HTML5, iOS streaming media service

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:31:02 +0000

GravityLab Multimedia Adds Full HTTP Streaming For iOS4 Devices
Live and on-demand streaming now available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

Eugene, OR – March 27, 2011 — GravityLab Multimedia, the world’s most cost effective and most reliable content delivery network (CDN), today announced full support for HTTP live and on-demand streaming to the Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Today’s announcement includes full support for Apple’s new iOS 4, keeping GravityLab poised to meet surging market demand for streaming to millions of Apple iOS devices, including the iPhone and iPad.

“It’s important for us to make HTTP streaming to iOS as simple to deploy as possible for a wide spectrum of users, from technical web developers to non-technical users.” Said JD Hauger, director of Media Services.

Whether streaming audio or video, live events, or sending secure on-demand content with encryption and streaming server authentication, the parity between of Apple and GravityLab Multimedia means anyone, anywhere can deliver efficient, high quality video to every Apple portable devices.

GravityLab’s iOS 4 support includes http dynamic stream technology, which is supported by the media player built into Apple iOS 4. Http dynamic streaming selection lets an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch automatically switch between different bit rates depending on the device’s current connection speed. By switching bit rates as needed as network conditions change, Your audience and video stream is far more likely be a clear and buffer free viewing experience, whether connecting through AT&T’s EDGE, 3G, Verizon or Wi-Fi.

GravityLab Multimedia’s streaming customers can now deliver video streaming to all Apple iOS 4 devices. Streaming media to some of the world’s most popular consumer devices is very appealing, and doing so via a global CDN brings significant competitive advantages. GravityLab uses global load balancing and automatically routes users to the streaming server and datacenter fastest and closest to them. This ensures that Apple iOS devices receive a clear, uninterrupted experience, free of the usual issues related to network congestion or long distances between viewers and streaming video content servers.

HTTP streaming for Apple devices is available to GravityLab clients for both live and on-demand content. To learn more, visit, contact us today.

About GravityLab Multimedia:
Delivering streaming video to every screen, everywhere, GravityLab is the world’s most reliable content delivery network. To learn more, visit www.gravlab.com.

HTTP Live Streaming, iPhone, iPad, iPod, and iOS are trademarks of Apple, Inc.

Media contact:
J.D. Hauger
(541) 914-2012

GravityLab is changing live flash video delivery with DVR features

admin — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:31:00 +0000

GravityLab’s digital video recording (DVR) feature changes the way you think about live video on the web. Many of us at home watch our television through the use of a DVR, the successor of the VCR. You can use it to record your favorite shows when they air, or pause a live stream while you tend to something else. In either case, you can watch your program in its entirety or even go backwards to catch something you missed the first time through. The trend here is that video consumers are watching live media on their own time — and on their own terms.

Considering this new aspect of live television, it’s only natural to look toward the same experience on the web. GravityLab will change the way we watch, interact, and monetize live streaming on the web.

Flash Media Server has always had the ability to archive a live stream on the server for On2/Sorenson based content. Flash Media Server can now archive H.264/AAC content too. DVR functionality extends this basic archive function by allowing you to watch the stream as video on demand as it’s being written to the disk. You can pause, play, and seek around the video cache, as if it were a prerecorded stream. You can even insert cue points to manage advertising (for example, disabling the seek bar when ads are played).

The most exciting part of this feature is the ability to scale. If you choose to deploy the Edge caching technology of Flash Media Server or manage your own large cluster, this functionality is easy to deploy using the automatic caching technology or manage by creating custom plug-ins.

From the client side, nothing special is required. When your live event is over, you can take the DVR cache and make it available as a VOD stream.

GravityLab’s live flash video DVR functionality. Changing the way your broadcast on the web.

Deliver streaming video to thousands of different mobile devices from a single source mp4

admin — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 06:42:15 +0000

You upload a single source video. Our Mobility platform delivers that video optimized for thousands of different devices.

It’s difficult to deliver video to wide range of mobile devices. Mobile video quickly turns into a user experience nightmare. There are thousands of mobile devices and the diversity is increasing every day. What video format will play on what mobile device? Too often, users get videos that will just not play (“Video format not supported”) or playback is of unacceptable quality. GravityLab’s Mobility platform is the solution.

When a video is requested by a mobile device, GravityLab’s Mobility detects the device and optimzes the video specifically for that device and transcodes on the fly. Mobility ensures that your users – whether on the latest smartphone or on a more basic handset – instantly get the most optimal mobile video viewing experience.

Mobility uses a proprietary databases with 7000 mobile devices that have been visually tested to ensure the video is delivered to the screen using the optimized screen size, the optimized streaming video format, and the correct protocol. New devices are continuously updated and added. GravityLab’s Mobility does not require any client application to be installed by your users.

GravityLab’s Mobility is a simple solution to deliver content in a complex mobile ecosystem.

Interested in delivering video to thousands of different mobile devices? Contact us today.

Our video hosting solutions compatible with iPhone 3.0

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:56:28 +0000

Today Apple talked about the new iPhone 3.0 software that will be available this spring.

Apple announced that the new iPhone software will be compatible with embedded video in HTML5, which is supported by GravityLab’s mobile hosting solutions, like mp4 H.264. Also HTTP streaming for audio and video, codecs and chunking support.

Trust the GravityLab network for all your streaming video hosting solutions, including iPhone streaming products designed to reach your mobile audience.

To get started with a free consultation about converting your multimedia assets to mobile compatible formats and delivery, contact us today.

Pacific Northwest bands at the Experience Music Project in Seattle

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:47:09 +0000

The Lonely Forest, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head and The Oregon Donor are Pacific Northwest pop bands finding new fans across the country. The groups are getting recording contracts, touring widely and generating buzz in the pages of pop music magazines like Spin. Part of their success comes from their prize winning performances at Sound Off. Sponsored by Seattle’s Experience Music Project, the Sound Off competition is a battle of Pacific Northwest bands made up of musicians 21 years old and younger.

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Live performance from Tom Morello, lead guitarist from Rage Against the Machine

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:46:52 +0000

Tom Morello, lead guitarist for Rage Against the Machine performing “Midnight in the City of Destruction” from his new solo album “The Fabled City” at the Wall Street Journal … of all places.

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Interview with YouTube founder on how they’ll finally generate revenue

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:38:04 +0000

Google investors have really only one question about YouTube: When does the search giant figure out how to turn those hundreds of millions of video views into cash?

While founder Chad Hurley is still bullish on YouTube’s ad potential, he told us that this one, big online video answer everyone was looking for didn’t exist. Instead, YouTube would be rolling out a range of options starting in the next few months.

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Life is Not Virtual – Tom Brokaw at MIT

admin — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:33:27 +0000

Tom Brokaw speaks passionately about the transformative power of technology at MIT.

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Emerging Technologies and Trends in Online Entertainment and Business

admin — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:37:29 +0000

With the arrival of digital technology, we’ve become a nation “of multitaskers, snackers and samplers,” says Jonathan Miller, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AOL. A longtime player in the media industry, Miller perceives two distinct trends emerging: the fragmentation of consumption, due to “an incredible explosion of choice,” and the consolidation of money and power in the business.

These intertwined phenomena will continue to play out, Miller believes, “to the consumers’ benefit,” because the consumer is in control. Content is available across many platforms, from cell phones to laptops to handheld games, and with broadband and wireless penetration, users can get their fix of video, news, entertainment and data virtually anywhere, anytime. Consumers have at their command cheap and easy ways to produce and distribute their own content, whether original or freely exploited from other authors. There’s been a grassroots explosion of blogs, websites, mashups, instant messaging, and YouTubing. Miller notes that the internet served up five billion screens of video in 2002, and in the past year, five times as many.

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