When adding video to our website or utilising the streaming of media in our business or organisation it is all too easy to forget about the behind the scenes work that is needed for it to display properly and run without hitch. Think about it for a moment, streaming video needs to be put together and recorded, it needs to be encoded, and the video even needs to be hosted. All of this you never see but is essential for the smooth running of any audio or video.
Unless you or someone within your team has the skills necessary to take care of getting your streaming video up and running, you will need to employ the services of specialists who can do it for you. Although the Internet is littered with companies claiming to be at the top of their game, can they really do everything that is needed in order to effectively bring your video to fruition?
Companies such as Streaming Tank are able to do all this because they have everything in place to do all of this and even so much more. In terms of streaming media, they are a one-stop solution that can cover all of the varying problems associated with displaying and maintaining streaming media on a website.
Encoding is taken care of in-house with Digital Rapids Pro encoders to ensure that all encoding, trans-coding and streaming is of the highest quality possible. High Definition, bulk video and live or on-demand streaming is a breeze too if needed. The encoding of video streaming can be achieved at a much greater final output than many other types of encoding.
Real time live encoding can be achieved with a combination of pre-processing and software codec’s. Specialised encoding hardware and software packages are utilised to do this. In fact, if needed, faster than real time encoding from existing files is possible using these methods. Live and on demand audio/video can be pre-processed and some of the features available for video are motion adaptive de-interlacing, scaling and filtering to name just a few.
Hosting is possible too, if you want to implement WebTV and 100% uptime is needed, what better place to host it than with a company that has a platform that can cope with the high demand and volumes of traffic these forms of video can produce. How does Streaming Tank do this? With two http server data centres located in London and Texas that has servers to cache through a much larger network of 2000 servers spread across 72 data centres throughout the world.
It is of course, the utilisation of some or all of the superb services on offer from Streaming Tank that makes them a force to be reckoned with. Whatever type of streaming media you require, they are on hand to provide a solution that will allow your website and media content outshine your competition. Find out more at www.streamingtank.com.
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