http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/12/company.utilizes.h264.capabilities.on.iphone/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/livestream-story-12.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Livestream has launched its live internet video service, Livestream Procaster, allowing for app-free access to streaming video on the iPhone. The service allows users to stream video content from webcams, video cameras or the desktops of a Mac or PC. The feeds can be accessed from an iPhone and iPod touch, using either 3G or Wi-Fi. The turnkey service uses H.264 HTTP live streaming functionality b... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/12/company.utilizes.h264.capabilities.on.iphone/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/03/iphone.live.streaming.platform.to.launch.in.q4/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/livestreaming-story-03.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Telestream and Wowza Media Systems have announced a new platform for streaming live media to the iPhone and other web players. Using Telestream's Wirecast production software alongside Wowza's soon-to-ship Media Server 2 Advanced, which has expanded beyond Flash by adding H.264 support, users can stream high-quality video to the iPhones or iPod touch, Silverlight, Flash, QuickTime and IPTV-based s... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/03/iphone.live.streaming.platform.to.launch.in.q4/ Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/11/ms.silverlight.3.released/ <img align='left' src='0' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft has released Silverlight 3, a new release of its multimedia software for Web. The software is available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. Version 3 of new version of software, designed only for Intel-based Macs, offers better performance, GPU acceleration, tools to run on the desktop, and support for higher quality audio and video, including native H.264/Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) Audio,... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/11/ms.silverlight.3.released/ Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/05/64gb.ssd.full.hd.camcorder/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0901/05-samsung-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Samsung Electronics has extended its line of full-HD digital camcorders with four new models - the HMX-H106, HMX-H105, HMX-H104, and HMX-H100. In addition to full HD video, the new H-Series offers a renowned Schneider Kreuznach Varioplan HD lens with Optical Image Stabilization, H.264 and internal Solid State Drives to provide onboard memory. Samsung's new flagship HMX-H106 features an internal 64... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/05/64gb.ssd.full.hd.camcorder/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/13/bbc.upgrades.to.h264.aac/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0808/bbc-iplayerH264-13.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Later this week, the BBC will update its iPlayer streaming service with H.264 and AAC+ compression schemes, the UK broadcaster has announced. The move is aimed at supporting open standards, and additionally improving steaming quality, jumping bitrates from 500 to 800Kbps, according to Macworld. The compression schemes will offer improved visuals and sound for users streaming over Flash, currently ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/13/bbc.upgrades.to.h264.aac/ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/08/evetv.302.update/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0801/eyetv3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Elgato has released the v3.0.2 update to EyeTV, its TV streaming and recording software. The patch makes significant changes, most crucially support for broadcasts with H.264 compression, which are said to be increasingly popular; in Europe, for example, a number of DVB-T channels offer only H.264 streaming. Elgato has also introduced the export of closed captions to QuickTime videos, in partic... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/08/evetv.302.update/ Thu, 08 May 2008 19:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/15/blackmagic.usb.video.sdi/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0804/14-black-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Blackmagic Design recently unveiled several new video interfaces at the NAB 2008 conference, the USB-based Video Recorder ñ available in consumer and professional versions ñ and a large scale 8U rack-mount SDI router. The Blackmagic Video Recorder offers consumers the ability to capture video directly to H.264 through component or S-Video onto their computer. The consumer USB Video Recorder sells... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/15/blackmagic.usb.video.sdi/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/10/ambric.am2045.gt.for.mac/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0804/9-ambric-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Ambric today unveiled plans to show its pre-release version of Am2045 GT on the Mac platform at this year's NAB conference. The Am2045 GT is a video reference platform that allows video professionals users to accelerate HD MPEG-2 and HD H.264 encoding for distribution on platforms such as Blu-ray, Flash, and DVD. The hardware also accelerates Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and After Effects CS3 via a plug... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/10/ambric.am2045.gt.for.mac/ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/10/pyro.debuts.video.encoder/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0801/pyr_080110_kompressorsm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Pyro AV has unveiled Pyro Kompressor HD, a PCI Express-based accelerator solution that encodes HD MPEG-2 and HD H.264/AVC up to eight times faster than software-only video compression. The single-slot PYRO Kompressor HD board is powered by the Ambric Am2045, a parallel processor with 336 RISC processors delivering 1.2 teraOPS-class of video horsepower for consistently high throughput encoding. Pyr... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/10/pyro.debuts.video.encoder/ Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/12/14/quicktime.broadcaster/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0712/app_071214_qtbsm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has released QuickTime Broadcaster 1.5.2, an application combining the power of QuickTime with Apple's ease of use that allows average users to produce a live broadcast event. The update offers H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10 video) live broadcasting, as well as 3G streaming support for sending live broadcasts to multimedia-enabled cellular phones. QuickTime Broadcaster 1.5.2 requires Mac OS X 10.4.10... http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/12/14/quicktime.broadcaster/ Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:25:00 GMT