Our team will be at the IBC exhibition from September 11th to September 15th. If you would like to meet up with us, please let us know.

Our numbers at the show (SMS only) will be +7-903-734-1575 or +7-926-371-3030.

Our M-JPEG Decoder and M-JPEG Encoder are available for evaluation download from our web site. A key feature of the two products is ARGB32 (alpha channel) support – something our customers have been requesting from us. The codecs can be licensed either separately or in a bundle.

Motion JPEG is a popular capture format, often used during editing because of its encoding/decoding speed and low compression rate.

We have finally completed adding support for BlueFish444 boards to our SDKs. Currently this affects Multimedia SDK, Playout SDK and Capture SDK. Vision Mixer SDK and Virtual Studio SDK will be updated soon.

We are impressed with the quality of BlueFish boards and their features. Some of them are:

- Dual stream support. The boards can handle two separate simultaneous inputs and outputs. You can use our vision mixing solutions to mix the two video streams and output the mixed stream using a single output.

- Simultaneous capture and playback. With our Playout SDK you can use one of the board’s inputs as a playlist item, and at the same time output the same stream via one of the outputs.

- Keying support. Use our high-quality real-time chroma key technology (available with the Virtual Studio SDK) to separate the key and fill signals from an input stream, and then output the key and fill signals separately. Or, you can use this mode to key text, graphics or Flash animation over the video.

Among other features are RS-422 support, real-time hardware overlay for internal keying, real-time hardware color space conversion and a great selection of input/output connections.

BlueFish444 offers a variety of high-quality boards with various options – feel free to explore their web site. Also, BlueFish usually takes part in trade shows such as IBC and NAB, where you can learn more from the company’s experts.

If you have any questions, please use our new Support System, we are always happy to assist.

We have added two new editions of our line of video switcher software development kits, both centered around our ground-breaking real-time chroma key technology. Our Live Chroma Key SDK features the light version of the color key implementation, streaming support and most of the vision mixing features, but lacks broadcast-class capabilities like support for professional in/out boards. The Vision Mixer SDK features professional in/out, geometric transforms and transition effects, but does not have chroma keying. And, finally, the Virtual Studio SDK – has all the features including the Pro version of the high-quality chroma key technology.

For DirectShow fans, we offer the Chroma Key DirectShow filter.

If you have any further questions, please contact us via our new ticketing system.

We are attending NAB Show in Las Vegas this year. If you would like to meet us, please let us know. For more information about the show – click here.

You can also call us +1 678 559 8206.

MotionDSP has licensed MediaLooks’ QuickTime Source DirectShow Filter for one of its products. MotionDSP is a privately held company backed by NVIDIA and In-Q-Tel, headquartered in San Mateo, California. MotionDSP designs software that improves video from various sources such as mobile phones and surveillance cameras.

Optibase (NASDAQ:OBAS) has licensed MediaLooks’ Video Mixer and Audio Mixer DirectShow filters for its Media Gateway application.

Optibase Media Gateway (MGW) products are professional MPEG encoders designed to stream high definition and standard definition H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 video on many types of networks.

About Optibase

Optibase is a leading provider of advanced IPTV solutions for corporate, government, military and education markets, as well as pioneering ingest solutions for the broadcast industry. The company products feature state-of-the-art high definition and standard definition streaming platforms supporting the latest video formats in the market: H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1.

Inova Solutions chose MediaLooks Screen Capture to be utilized in its award-winning call center reporting software.

Inova’s call center reporting solutions simplify the complexity of call center management. Advanced middleware gathers operational data from ACDs and workforce management systems, and filters it down to just your most important key performance indicators, such as average handle time and abandon rate.

About Inova Solutions

Inova Solutions is a global provider of real-time visual communication solutions. Through the innovative use of technology, Inova Solutions helps organizations communicate faster and more effectively. The offering encompasses award-winning call center reporting software and hardware, mass notification systems for schools and universities, and Power over Ethernet (PoE) network clocks.

Ninsight (France) has licensed Flash overlay and Quicktime source filters and is going to utilize the technology in its leading products: Ayato and e-XS platform.

The Ayato System is a solution for captioning and subtitling designed for the broadcasting industry.

Medialooks technology will be also used in Prographic Commander which is planned for the 2009 NAB Show and currently under test with Ninesight partners. Prographic Commander is a part of e-XS platform – “all-in-one” solution with the non-linear graphics editor. Dedicated to sport and live events, Commander has been developed to replace tedious scripts and graphics programs, often too complicated to implement.

About Ninsight

For the past 8 years, Ninesight has been developing a complete range of software dedicated to broadcasting. Ninesight competency covers broadcast Automation and Digital Asset Management, Off line and Live Subtitling, Dynamic Broadcast Graphics and CG.

If you have a camera or capture card, you cannot use it in more than one application at the same time, and there is no standard Windows option that makes it possible. MediaLooks Virtual Device Splitter splits a single input stream, such as from a capture board or camera, into several steams and presents each stream as a separate virtual device. This allows to deliver the same content to several applications at the same time.

MediaLooks scaling and audio resampling technologies, utilized in the product, enable optional adjustment of the output stream parameters separately for each receiving application. Virtual Device Splitter supports various video capture cards.

An audio decoder filter is now available for download at the MediaLooks web site. The filter is based on ISO/IEC and ATSC standards and supports the following audio codecs: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 1 (MP1), MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 (MP2), MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3), AC-3 and AAC. MPEG-2 audio extensions are also supported.

All decoders are implemented in a single filter, which allows it to switch between decoding patterns dynamically – without reconnecting the graph. This is useful in IPTV applications, particularly for channel switching.

Pricing for this filter is royalty free.

Blackmagic Design Inc. has recently announced DeckLink SDI and Decklink Studio, new models of capture cards specifically designed as a replacement for standard definition cards, but with increased analog connectivity for wide compatibility with older analog equipment as well as SD and HD-SDI for the latest digital equipment.

MediaLooks historically provides support for DeckLink video capture and playback cards in its software development kits (SDKs) designed for the Broadcasting industry, currently including DeckLink SDK, Playout SDK and Multimedia SDK. MediaLooks SDKs allow developers to easily create multimedia applications that utilize DeckLink boards.

DeckLink SDI is designed for high-end broadcast and post production customers who are working in large SDI based facilities needing many creative workstation seats at the lowest possible cost.
DeckLink SDI includes the highest quality 10 bit SD/HD-SDI capture and playback, while also including features high end customers really need, such as black burst/HD tri-sync reference input, and RS-422 deck control. DeckLink SDI replaces Blackmagic Design original SD only DeckLink model, while adding PCI Express, 10 bit HD-SDI capture and playback, and reference input. DeckLink SDI is available now for only $395.

DeckLink Studio replaces the entire Blackmagic Design standard definition product line while also adding HD support, at much lower cost.
DeckLink Studio features independent connections for SDI, analog component, S-Video and composite video, so all types of external video equipment can remain connected without re-cabling. DeckLink Studio also includes SDI connections that switch between SD and HD, as well as an SD only output that always outputs via a built in hardware down converter even when running in HD. The SD down converted output is great when you need to monitor your work in both SD and HD at the same time. No product on the market today has a built in high quality hardware down converter at this low price point. DeckLink Studio is shipping now, and available for only $695.

We have released a new completely rewritten version of our Time Shifting Engine (TSE) – a development component that buffers an audio/video stream to the hard drive and enables an application to play, pause and seek within the buffered data with the ability to switch between the time-shifted video and the live stream seamlessly. Any portion of the buffered data can be saved to a file. The size of the buffer is limited only by the hard drive space. Moreover, the TSE allows several processes to read from the buffer at the same time, which means that a live video stream can be split into two or more time-shifted streams, each with its own time offset. This is really easy to implement with our SDKs.

The previous version of the Time Shifting Technology was based on Microsoft’s Stream Buffer Engine – the new version implements a fully proprietary technology. The new version is more flexible in order to ease the development and fasten time to market as well as better quality characteristics and reliability.

Possible use cases include, but are not limited to:

- Time-shifted TV broadcasting. TV network affiliates from different time zones can make television programming available at a more convenient time for the local viewer than originally broadcast.

- Time-shifted capture or event-based capturing. A good approach for video surveillance and video logging applications. Instead of recording 24/7 and building an infrastructure to extract necessary data from a large number of files, event-based recording can be implemented. The Time Shifting Engine will store a pre-defined amount of data (such as 30 minutes of video) in the buffer and will dump it to a file whenever an event occurs (such as a security alarm or user command). Recording of new data to this same file can be continued.

- Time-shifted playback. A live video can be paused and resumed for playback later. While playback is paused, the live video is being recorded into the TSE. When resumed, the playback continues from the buffer. When the buffer reaches its size limit, the TSE starts removing old data so that new data can be added. Seeking back and forward (such as for skipping ads) within the buffer is also possible.

- Elimination of CPU load peaks. When performing a time-critical task (such as HD encoding), high CPU load can lead to frames being lost and not processed by the encoder. To eliminate CPU load peaks, the TSE can be inserted before the time-critical process.

The new Time Shifting Engine is likely to be integrated into an IPTV SDK – based on our MPEG-2 Transport Stream Splitter and MPEG-2 Decoder.

The TSE will be available with the Multimedia SDK. For more information please see the Time Shifting Engine page.
For testing – please download the latest version of the Multimedia SDK.

Join us at Broadcast India in Mumbai, 17-19 October at the Bombay Exhibition Center, booth number G-710. If you would like to book an appointment with a technical or sales representative, please let us know in advance. We can also provide you with a free entrance ticket.

For more information about the show, please see here.

We will be attending IBC this year. If you would like to meet up with us, please let us know. Our phone numbers will be routed to a local number in the Netherlands.

Our next planned event is Broadcast India in Mumbai 17-19 October. For more information please see our Events page.