Digital Rapids Supports Microsoft Silverlight in Encoding Solutions
Digital Rapids-- a leading developer of scalable solutions for media ingest,
encoding, transcoding, protection, streaming and delivery-- announced
today that the company has joined the Microsoft Silverlight Partner
Initiative. Digital Rapids announced immediate support for
Microsoft Silverlight in Digital Rapids' award-winning encoding,
transcoding and streaming solutions. The Silverlight cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in is designed to deliver a new level of rich media experiences and interactive applications on the web. With a media foundation compatible with the SMPTE VC-1 video compression format, Silverlight extends the reach of VC-1 and Microsoft Windows Media Video-based content with robust interactive experiences viewable across multiple operating systems. Through the advanced publishing capabilities of the Digital Rapids Stream software, Digital Rapids encoding, transcoding and streaming solutions-- including StreamZ and StreamZHD media encoding servers, DRC-Stream board-and-software bundles and Digital Rapids Transcode Manager distributed media transcoding software-- support automated publishing of media content into customized Silverlight templates.
"Support for Microsoft Silverlight in our solutions enables powerful
and efficient workflow automation from ingest through encoding and
publishing to the Web," said Mike Nann, Director of
Marketing/Communications at Digital Rapids Corporation. "Silverlight
support is a key evolution of our long-standing VC-1 and Windows Media
support, and being a part of the Silverlight Partner Initiative will
provide us with numerous benefits as we continue to add new
Silverlight-related features based on the needs of our customers."
"We are very pleased to have Digital Rapids join the Silverlight Partner Initiative," said Steve Sklepowich, group product manager for Silverlight Media at Microsoft Corp. "Digital Rapids hardware and software solutions offer Silverlight support in a complete, automated workflow, enabling users to easily create content for Silverlight-powered interactive media experiences within their existing production processes. We look forward to working closely with Digital Rapids to bring the advantages of Silverlight to leading broadcast networks, studios and content providers."
Listed below are 0 links to blogs that reference this entry: Digital Rapids Supports Microsoft Silverlight in Encoding Solutions.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/mt-tb.cgi/686
