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MediaLooks at NAB 2012

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

We are attending NAB 2012 this year as usual. Please reach out to us if you would like to meet up. Our key announcement for this year is our new GPU-based low latency multimedia platform specifically designed for broadcast use. Design in-house from the ground up, the platform will feature: This new platform is the [...]

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GPU Acceleration Added to Vision Mixer and Virtual Studio SDKs

Monday, September 19th, 2011

This is our first GPU-accelerated product release. With this latest update customers of Vision Mixer SDK and Virtual Studio SDK will experience the following benefits: – Dramatically improved performance and quality of 3D projections. – Dramatically improved performance and quality of chroma keying (Virtual Studio SDK only). – The ability to change view angles (i.e. [...]

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MediaLooks Becomes a Third Party Tools Provider for AJA Video Systems

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

We’ve just been officially named a third party tools provider for AJA Video Systems. This also means that now we officially support AJA in our Broadcast Automation Platform. The full press release is available here.

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Meet MediaLooks at IBC 2011!

Monday, August 29th, 2011

We are attending IBC and, as usual, we are happy to meet up with out customers. If you would like to arrange a meeting, simply let us know. For the fourth year in a row, IBC News will be subtitled using equipment by our customer Starfish, and that equipment uses our Character Generator technology. Starfish [...]

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Broadcast Automation Platform Adds Video Transitions & More

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Earlier this year, we have replaced DeckLink SDK, Playout SDK and Multimedia SDK with a new product: the Broadcast Automation Platform. In addition to the classic gapless multi-format playout to Blackmagic and other boards, the new product offers several new features and some licensing improvements. Such as: 1) The new Automation module: advanced playlists, clip [...]

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MXF Reader Replaces MXF Splitter and Adds Playlists Support

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

The MXF Splitter we offered earlier is officially out of date. Now we have a better solution: the MXF Reader. Instead of being just a demultiplexer, the MXF Reader is also a file reader, which positions it as source filter in a DirectShow graph and allows it to support MXF playlists. The MXF Reader runs [...]

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Stream Labs Hardware Integration

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

We now officially support selected boards from broadcast hardware company Stream Labs. The currently supported model is the Stream MS2/4-ASI, which is designed for multichannel video logging. We plan to support more boards later. We are happy to have Stream Labs in our list of supported vendors – together with Blackmagic and AJA. More information [...]

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MediaLooks at NAB 2011

Sunday, April 10th, 2011

Our team is attending NAB Show, which opens on April 11th in Las Vegas. Learn more about our new Broadcast Automation Platform through face to face meetings with our engineers and management. If you would like to book a meeting, please contact us.

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More Great Features In CG 1.7!

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Here’s what you’ll get with the new release of our powerful Character Generator product: – Tables to display real-time statistics like sports data and stocks. – RSS feeds as sources of ticker content. – Linked items for tickers: show a related item together with a crawl. – XML support to describe complex items’ design and [...]

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Character Generator Now Available as Non-DirectShow Toolkit

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Our CG engine is now available as an easy-to-use rapid development toolkit that requires no DirectShow skills and almost no programming for some of the popular use cases. This product is the easiest way to turn a PC into a broadcast-quality character generator with the help of just one Blackmagic board with keying support. Or, [...]

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Meet MediaLooks in Amsterdam at IBC 2010!

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Our team will be at the IBC exhibition from September 10th to September 14th. If you would like to meet up with us, please let us know. Our numbers at the show (SMS only) will be +7-926-371-3030.

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Try Our New H.264/AVC Video Decoder!

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

We have released a new product: our own, standard-compliant H.264/AVC Video Decoder DirectShow Filter. The decoder supports Baseline, Main, Extended and High profiles of the H.264/AVC specification and makes use of multi-core architectures and Hyper-Threading. The decoder can be licensed in two versions: as a separate DirectShow filter or as an add-on to our broadcast [...]

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Try Our New Character Generator Technology!

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

We have just released our latest product, the Character Generator DirectShow Filter – our new solution for multi-layered titling and overlays, which is to replace the previously available Text & Graphics Overlay and Flash Overlay DirectShow filters. The new filter is a single component that supports all overlay item types – text, graphics, images and [...]

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DICOM Reader DirectShow Filter Released

Friday, April 9th, 2010

MediaLooks DICOM Reader DirectShow Filter was developed for the needs of medical application developers and is required for DICOM MPEG-2 media files playback. DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine) is a file format standard commonly used in medical imaging. MPEG-2 DICOM format is approved for use in Endoscopy, Microscopy and Surgery. To enable MPEG-2 [...]

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M-JPEG Decoder & Encoder With Alpha Channel Support Released

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

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 [...]

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