Advanced Technology
Overview
The LiveCast video management system includes a patent-pending network and account management system that controls bandwidth consumption, account permissions, video storage, monitoring, reporting, and billing. It was designed to natively support management of video assets from multiple sources and across multiple file formats, including support for Microsoft's Windows Media and Silverlight, Apple's QuickTime and Adobe's Flash. And because LiveCast was built from the ground-up, our white-labeled solution can be customized and evolved to accommodate your ongoing requirements.
Expansive device support
LiveCast's technology has been adapted to run on most mobile operating systems, enabling hundreds of phones, as well as providing support for Windows PCs, Macs and Linux devices. LiveCast supports all the new mobile internet devices (MIDs), netbooks and other pocket-sized devices. As of yet, no other solution offers such broad client software support.
Low level device optimization
LiveCast's strong partnerships with major OEMs and chip manufacturers developed over the past decade, provides LiveCast with deep engineering access to device hardware. This proprietary access to low level software and chip level code allows LiveCast's engineering team to fully optimize the quality of video that can be harvested from any particular device regardless of its processor speed and camera optics. The results from this optimization, are substantial and verifiable improvements in performance.
View live streams on mobile phones
LiveCast provides the only way to stream live video from one mobile phone to be watched live by viewers on many mobile phones. This capability is made possible because the LiveCast system is based on true video streaming technologies and includes the capability for real-time transcoding into formats supported by media players already installed on most phones. With LiveCast, your live and archived videos can be viewed as streams without downloading the file and with no additional software required to view. When other providers claim that videos can be watched on a phone, they usually mean that it can be downloaded and then viewed on a phone, not watched live and not streamed directly to the phone.
Pair real-time video with location based services (LBS)
Built-in GPS receivers are becoming universally available in mobile devices and wireless laptop cards. LiveCast's capability to integrate location data in every frame of video opens up a myriad of potential applications for improving security, increasing effectiveness of monitoring systems and making any personal or professional video more relevant by tracking it on a map. LiveCast's system not only captures and displays specific latitude and longitude on a map, but also speed (mph or kph) and direction, which is particularly useful for monitoring transportation systems.
Networking optimization
Only LiveCast offers a solution that reliably streams on any operator network. This is particularly true for connection speeds ranging from GPRS (28 kbps uplink) to 4G (1.5-4 Mbps uplink). Only LiveCast integrates back-channel network analysis and dynamically adjusts client software encoding parameters on the fly during a broadcast to ensure a fluid stream
LiveCast includes many robust network features such as:
- The most efficient compression technologies possible designed specifically for streaming video.
- Optional settings for quality of video dependent on speed of available network (EDGE, EVDO, HSDPA, WiFi, 4G).
- Ability to automatically and dynamically measure the speed of the network, vary the quality or size of the stream within the specified setting range (a little higher or a little lower), and enable the video to successfully continue to play live.
- “True” streaming technology, which enables LiveCast to continuously stream live from remote locations for hours with no buffering. Other solutions buffer every few seconds and completely loose the stream after only a few minutes.