MPEG NATION brings broadband streaming video service to the masses

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Online video streaming network brings TV
commercials to web banner
advertisements.

Online video streaming network brings TV
commercials to web banner
advertisements. 08/02/2004 02:38 AM
The Aura Group, a new media marketing and advertising company in Orange County, has launched a worldwide online video banner advertising system, revolutionizing the way video advertising is delivered on the web. [PRWEB Aug 2, 2004]

Taiwanese National Parliament Deploys
InfoValue QuickVideo™ Broadband Video
Streaming

Taiwanese National Parliament Deploys
InfoValue QuickVideo™ Broadband Video
Streaming 04/13/2005 02:02 AM
InfoValue Computing, Inc. (“InfoValue”), experts in providing innovative, high-performance video streaming platforms and solutions, today announced that the Taiwanese National Parliament (Legislative Yuan) has deployed InfoValue QuickVideo™ broadband video streaming as their platform for streaming high quality MPEG-4 video over their IP networks and the Internet. This deployment represents a major upgrade in the third phase of the Legislative Yuan’s roll out of a state-of-the-art digital congressional meeting system. [PRWEB Apr 13, 2005]

AOL tests streaming-video IM service

AOL tests streaming-video IM service 11/06/2003 06:13 PM
America Online is quietly testing a video feature for its instant messaging products now that the government has lifted restrictions against launching such a feature.

InstantVideoGenerator - Streaming Video
Service on your Website

InstantVideoGenerator - Streaming Video
Service on your Website 12/25/2004 05:07 PM
InstantVideoGenerator - Streaming Video Service on your Website and Your Emails. More details can be found at: whycity.net/instantvideogenerator/ [PRWEB Dec 25, 2004]

Macromedia announces Flash Video
Streaming Service

Macromedia announces Flash Video
Streaming Service 12/16/2003 07:51 AM
Macromedia and VitalStream today announced the availability of the Macromedia Flash Video Streaming Service powered by VitalStream...

Speedera Teams with Macromedia for Flash
Video Streaming Service

Speedera Teams with Macromedia for Flash
Video Streaming Service 09/09/2004 08:31 PM
HostReview.com Sep 9 2004 11:25PM GMT

Broadband satellite moves off the
launchpad, brings 3G phone service
closer to reality

Broadband satellite moves off the
launchpad, brings 3G phone service
closer to reality 03/27/2005 04:18 PM
NewsTarget Mar 27 2005 7:54PM GMT

Speedera and Macromedia Announce
Availability of New Live Version of
Flash Video Streaming Service

Speedera and Macromedia Announce
Availability of New Live Version of
Flash Video Streaming Service 09/09/2004 10:38 AM
Belga Direct Press Releases Sep 9 2004 2:10PM GMT

Streaming MPEG-4 with Linux

Streaming MPEG-4 with Linux 03/13/2003 10:25 AM
Internet video for the next generation.

BCS brings technology to masses through
course for technophobes

BCS brings technology to masses through
course for technophobes 02/16/2004 10:38 PM
Computer Weekly Feb 17 2004 2:17AM GMT

Microsoft Brings Security Education to
the Masses

Microsoft Brings Security Education to
the Masses 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
In the first stop on its Security Summit tour, Microsoft lays out its security progress and commitments.

Google AdSense Brings Advertising to the
Masses

Google AdSense Brings Advertising to the
Masses 06/12/2004 08:35 PM
Search Engine Lowdown Jun 13 2004 1:05AM GMT

Inside Yahoo News: Aggregator brings RSS
to the masses

Inside Yahoo News: Aggregator brings RSS
to the masses 04/03/2005 01:01 AM
Inside Yahoo News: The aggregator brings RSS to the masses

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Broadband for the masses?

Broadband for the masses? 04/14/2004 06:19 AM
Attorney Jim Baller is battling the Baby Bells and the cable companies for the right to let municipalities run their own telecommunications networks.

Tesco touts broadband for the masses

Tesco touts broadband for the masses 08/31/2004 12:02 PM
Pile it high, sell it cheap

Mastering Internet Video: A Guide to
Streaming and On-Demand Video

Mastering Internet Video: A Guide to
Streaming and On-Demand Video 12/17/2004 06:34 PM
Today, we look at Digital Rights Management. A key question here is: "Should you distribute your video online?" Movie industry figures who have watched what happened in the music industry with Napster and its successors are determined not to find themselves in a similar predicament. When a movie studio invests $50 million in a film, it wants to be quite sure the work is not going to be passed around Kazaa and BitTorrent like so many MP3s. By Pearson Education, Inc. 1025

Mydeo Brings Streaming Technology Home

Mydeo Brings Streaming Technology Home 03/29/2005 03:55 AM
A new online service provides the missing link for home moviemakers and small businesses. Mydeo makes it easy and cheap to share your videos over the Internet with family, friends and customers. [PRWEB Mar 29, 2005]

TMPG’s New TSUNAMI MPEG DVD EasyPack
Suite Brings a Complete Package for
Movie Making to Retail Shelves

TMPG’s New TSUNAMI MPEG DVD EasyPack
Suite Brings a Complete Package for
Movie Making to Retail Shelves 03/14/2005 05:24 PM
Soup-to-nuts DVD movie-making that’s easy enough for beginners, robust enough for professionals [PRWEB Mar 10, 2005]

Wireless Broadband Options For A
Streaming App

Wireless Broadband Options For A
Streaming App 05/08/2004 11:48 AM

EZGenerator Website Builder brings
professional website building to the
masses

EZGenerator Website Builder brings
professional website building to the
masses 09/01/2004 04:06 AM
Image Line Software is pleased to announce that the next release of their EZGenerator Website Builder, which is scheduled for mid-September 2004, will contain advanced features, such as an e-commerce module and editable areas, features previously considered only within the reach of professional webdesigners [PRWEB Sep 1, 2004]

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 09-07-2004

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 09-07-2004 07/09/2004 09:54 AM

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 20040806

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 20040806 08/06/2004 04:42 PM

HipFlics gets MPEG-4 video, AAC audio
encoding

HipFlics gets MPEG-4 video, AAC audio
encoding 03/13/2003 10:24 AM

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 18-04-2004

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 18-04-2004 04/18/2004 12:16 PM

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 18-07-2004

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FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 2004-08-28

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FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 1-05-2004

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FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 29-06-2004

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"a high-quality MPEG version of the
video available as a Torrent"

"a high-quality MPEG version of the
video available as a Torrent" 04/15/2005 03:43 PM

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 1-07-2004
SSE2

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 1-07-2004
SSE2 07/01/2004 08:45 AM

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 20040725
Alpha

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 20040725
Alpha 07/26/2004 04:01 PM

HipFlics 1.2 adds MPEG-4 video, AAC
audio support

HipFlics 1.2 adds MPEG-4 video, AAC
audio support 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
Totally Hip has announced the release of HipFlics 1.2, the latest version of the companyÂ’s video enhancement and compression software...

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 16-06-2004
SSE2

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 16-06-2004
SSE2 06/18/2004 03:32 AM

ForeThought.net Launches Mach Broadband
- Cable-Crushing Broadband Internet
Service

ForeThought.net Launches Mach Broadband
- Cable-Crushing Broadband Internet
Service 03/14/2005 05:59 PM
foreThought.net, a Denver-based telephone and Internet company, today announced the launch of "Mach", its new ADSL 2+ broadband Internet access service. [PRWEB Mar 11, 2005]
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OsiriX 0.20a

OsiriX 0.20a 04/14/2004 01:13 PM
3D DICOM viewer for medical images.

AnyCount 4 Released: Word Count,
Character Count, and Line Count Software
- Multilingual Interface, New Export
Formats

AnyCount 4 Released: Word Count,
Character Count, and Line Count Software
- Multilingual Interface, New Export
Formats 04/10/2005 03:26 AM
New version of AnyCount 4: Word Count, Character Count, and Line Count Software. [PRWEB Apr 10, 2005]

Extracting Video from Cat Brains

Extracting Video from Cat Brains 06/22/2005 01:58 AM
`The matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,' said the voice-over, `in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks.' William Gibson, Neuromancer - 1984 It was still very much a 300 baud universe when I jacked into Gibson's future for the first time. In 1984 there were very few systems I could connect to with the surplus CAE acoustic modem I had access to, and almost all of them were a forbidden long distance telephone call away. My borrowed deck suffered from sensory deprivation and just like a person, it hallucinated. It hallucinated games.

Unzip a Windows self-extracting .exe zip
file

Unzip a Windows self-extracting .exe zip
file 12/28/2004 10:47 AM
Sometimes you encounter a file on the Net which is compressed as a self-extracting zip-file for Windows only. Its file extension is ".exe". But you HAVE to have its contents, and you just can't open that .exe file! For instan...

Extracting EXIF data with Python

Extracting EXIF data with Python 11/13/2003 06:27 PM

I've been rewriting the photo gallery management system for KUSports.com in Python. One of the new features is that the system can automagically extract caption and photographer information from the photos, provided the information has previously been added to the jpeg file as EXIF data. I tried several methods of doing this but eventually settled on EXIF.py< /a> because it worked straight away using a simple process_file() function and doesn't require any additional software. Recommended.

Extracting 3G Profit Lessons from Japan

Extracting 3G Profit Lessons from Japan 01/26/2004 12:40 PM
Wireless Watch Japan Jan 26 2004 3:58PM GMT

Extracting the length from MP3 files
with Python

Extracting the length from MP3 files
with Python 12/03/2003 09:45 PM

Ned Batchelder recently wrote about the difficulties involved in extracting the length from an MP3 file. We're going to need to solve this problem soon at work; luckily, it seems that the answer may lie in the Python bindings for mpgedit, an audio file editing library available for both Windows and Linux.

After installing the Windows package and experimenting for a while, I managed to extract the time from one of my test files using the following:

>>> import mpgedit
>>> play = mpgedit.Play('example.mp3')
>>> play.total_time()
(213, 129)
>>> secs, msecs = play.total_time()
>>> mins = secs / 60
>>> secs = secs - mins * 60
>>> print "%d:%02d minutes" % (mins, secs)
3:33 minutes

However, for other files total_time() is returning (-1, -1). I'm sure there's a solution to this but I haven't stumbled across it yet.

Extracting Value from the European
Corporate Bond Market

Extracting Value from the European
Corporate Bond Market 02/19/2004 07:30 PM
marcus evans Feb 19 2004 11:14PM GMT

Newly Found Dinosaur Tissue Raises Hope
of Extracting DNA

Newly Found Dinosaur Tissue Raises Hope
of Extracting DNA 03/24/2005 04:52 PM
A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, scientists reported today, has apparently yielded soft tissues, including blood vessels and possibly cells.

Understanding HD Formats

Understanding HD Formats 01/19/2004 08:29 AM
High-definition television (HDTV) first arrived on the national stage in the late 1980s, but even today only a minority of consumers in the United States and a much smaller minority in other industrialized nations have HDTV systems. However, high-definition (HD) production for video and film is increasing rapidly, as is the installed base of high-definition-capable displays. Consumers are demanding higher-quality content that takes advantage of these better displays. In addition to the content delivered over the airwaves, a significant amount of content will be delivered to the displays through computers. This demand will help to further drive the increasing availability of HD content.

Take Along the Music in All Its Many
Formats

Take Along the Music in All Its Many
Formats 09/15/2004 10:58 PM
New York Times Sep 16 2004 2:44AM GMT

Mac Office 12 to Get XML Formats, Too

Mac Office 12 to Get XML Formats, Too 06/05/2005 11:59 PM
Rick Shaut, a member of the Macintosh Office team, wrote in his Web log that the Macintosh version of Office 12 will also support the Office Open XML format announced Thursday for its Windows counterpart. He also admitted Microsoft Mac Business Unit had fallen behind on XML support within the Office Suite.

New Digital Audio Formats

New Digital Audio Formats 06/13/2004 12:16 PM

Microsoft on Patenting XML Formats

Microsoft on Patenting XML Formats 01/27/2004 11:30 AM
I recently asked whether Microsoft's moves to patent the XML formats it's using in new versions of Office were, once again, a customer lock-in ploy. Here's a (slightely edited) reply from Mark Martin, who's employed by the Microsoft's PR company:

Bridgewater Formats GPRS

Bridgewater Formats GPRS 05/05/2004 08:28 AM
Unstrung.com May 5 2004 12:38PM GMT

Speaking of Image Formats

Speaking of Image Formats 07/22/2004 03:06 PM

The lame UNISYS LZW patent has kept GIF support out of free software for some time. The patent has now expired worldwide, so the popular GD Graphics Library now has GIF support again, after a very long absence.

gd 2.0.28 has been released. gd 2.0.28 restores support for reading and writing GIF images.

So now you can fire up PHP and render your on-the-fly 'Punch The Monkey' animated banner ads.

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Office 12 to Get New File Formats

Office 12 to Get New File Formats 06/05/2005 10:58 PM
Microsoft is making XML-based file formats the default in its next-generation Office suite. Will users bite or take flight?

Office 12 to use XML for file formats

Office 12 to use XML for file formats 06/05/2005 10:53 PM
Microsoft is embracing XML as the default file format for the next version of Microsoft Office. Is that good news for competing office apps?

Versioning and extensibility in XML
formats

Versioning and extensibility in XML
formats 09/20/2004 12:26 PM

On the Atom-Syntax list they're talking about versioning and extensibility, two problems that are very easily solved in XML.

For versioning, define a required version attribute on the feed element, a string in the form x.y, where x and y are two numbers. X is the major version, and y is the minor version. So a version 0.3 feed would have a version attribute whose value is "0.3". A version 1.0 feed would have a version attribute of "1.0".

For extensibility, allow the format to be extended through namespaces and trust the W3C, who is the owner of the namespaces spec to tell you how to do it. Build on the works of others.

For extra credit, the format should evolve by adding new elements. A processor can tell whether it should expect the new elements or not by checking the top-level version attribute.

I honestly don't think there's another way to do it, so all the arguing and fussing is just going to end up there, so you might as well just do it. Of course this is just my opinion, I have no position re the Atom working group, or the RSS advisory board.

Re-ripping CDs to new formats in iTunes

Re-ripping CDs to new formats in iTunes 06/24/2004 11:26 AM
If you want to rip a CD in AAC format, but have already ripped it in MP3 format, insert the CD in your Mac and click Import in iTunes 4. It will tell you that some songs are already in the library, and will give an option to ...

Binary data formats? Just say NO!
(XML.org)

Binary data formats? Just say NO!
(XML.org) 06/26/2002 01:00 PM

Tired of being locked into formats?
Well then don't!

Tired of being locked into formats?
Well then don't! 01/18/2004 01:39 PM

I'm not a fan of OPML, I think it's a truly awful (and unnecessary) format - other people have found < FONT color=#333366>it problematic too - but I did think Dave Winer's Share Your OPML! site looked interesting, especially when there was a little SDK available. But then yesterday I read Eric's post pointing to the floater Dave had left in the pool :
If you wish to use the data for a different kind of application, or convert the data into a format other than OPML, for redistribution, it's likely we'll say yes, but you must ask first.

Anyone that's had dealings with Dave in the past will know what this means. Leigh asked (in comments) but had his request deleted. Basically Dave wants control, and he believes the formats will give him that control (remember the RSS patent application?).

I'm all for republishing, but not with strings attached. I don't want material under my copyright abused in this way. So I politely asked Dave to remove references to sites I maintain from his data. Anyhow, Dave's response was:
Do you want to make a legal case out of this?

Personally I thought that was pretty sad, but that might in part be cultural bias - being English I tend to think of etiquette before litigation. Whatever, unfortunately for Dave, and fortunately for the rest of us, formats aren't such a lever any more because the web will either ignore or work around attempts at lock-in.

I think the most sensible thing is to simply ignore Dave's site, but for purposes of demonstration, here's a workaround. The key obstacle is that Dave insists that you can't republish his data unless it's in OPML format. If it is OPML, you don't even have to ask. Ok, here is another version of the index file that points to all the others at "Share Your OPML!". This is still OPML format. Please do with it what you like. Incidentally, this new file is also valid RDF/XML.

Given that OPML is as thinly specified as it gets, and RDF/XML is designed to make it easy to make XML formats RDF compatible, it wasn't particularly difficult. Here's what RDF-compatible OPML looks like:

<opml opml:version="2.0"
xmlns="http://opml.scripting.com"
xmlns:opml="http://opml.scripting.com"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
< ;head/>
<body rdf:parseType="Resource">
<outline opml:text="John Blog" opml:ctUpdates="8" opml:type="link" opml:url="http://example.org" opml:whenLastUpdate="Wed, 14 Jan 2004 03:28:00 GMT" />
</body>
</opml>


I first had to add some attributes to the <opml> element to give the XML namespace support. That top element becomes a resource in the (stripey) RDF interpretation, with head and body as properties, their contents being other resources. To keep things simple I just ignored the contents of the <head> element, so that gets interpreted as a triple with an empty object (I must check on the semantics of that). The element itself is mandatory in OPML, so that has to stay.
The <body> in effect contains a set of resources of type outline, which is easy to express by adding the rdf:parseType="Resource" attribute on the parent. The attributes of the <outline> elements all slip neatly into being RDF properties with literal values.

Couple of points that probably need explanation - since the spec update there's been no need to include a root <rdf:RDF> element. If the consumer knows it's RDF, that's good enough (the W3C's validator has check box: "RDF is NOT enclosed in <RDF>...</RDF> tags"). Also the use of unqualified attributes has been deprecated, so it should be opml:text="..." rather than just text="...". This makes the code look a bit uglier, but if you're using a lot of namespaces it does make mistakes much less likely.

I made the changes using search and replace, but this could easily be automated using XSLT. But if you are planning on using Userland format data from anywhere else, it's probably a better bet to use something a little less generic than the approach above (stylesheets for OPML to OCS and Userland RSS to RSS 1.0 are linked in the comments here).[Raw]

A survey of playlist formats

A survey of playlist formats 04/26/2004 01:14 PM
the great thing about standards is that there's so many of them to choose from.

Web Page Date Formats

Web Page Date Formats 07/12/2002 10:44 AM
A general survey on date format usage.

Open document formats

Open document formats 06/17/2004 11:33 AM
Last week Tim Bray wrote about his (and Sun's) involvement in the European Commission's investigation into the OpenOffice and Microsoft flavors of XML office documents. The upshot:

You can find the Committee's conclusions here; they're short, readable, and defy summarization. [ongoing]

The conclusions are indeed concise, and the bulleted recommendations even more so. I'll quote them here, changing only <ul> to <ol> for ease of reference:

Therefore, it is recommended that:

1. The OASIS Technical Committee considers whether there is a need and opportunity for extending the emerging OASIS Open Document Format to allow for custom-defined schemas;
2. Industry actors not currently involved with the OASIS Open Document Format consider participating in the standardisation process in order to encourage a wider industry consensus around the format;
3. Submission of the emerging OASIS Open Document Format to an official standardisation organisation such as ISO is considered;
4. Microsoft considers issuing a public commitment to publish and provide non-discriminatory access to future versions of its WordML specifications;
5. Microsoft should consider the merits of submitting XML formats to an international standards body of their choice;
6. Microsoft assesses the possibility of excluding non-XML formatted components from WordML documents;
7. Industry is encouraged to provide filters that allow documents based on the WordML specifications and the emerging OASIS Open Document Format to be read and written to other applications whilst maintaining a maximum degree of faithfulness to content, structure and presentation. These filters should be made available for all products;
8. Industry is encouraged to provide the appropriate tools and services to allow the public sector to consider feasibility and costs of a transformation of its documents to XML-based formats;
9. The public sector is encouraged to provide its information through several formats. Where by choice or circumstance only a single revisable document format can be used this should be for a format around which there is industry consensus, as demonstrated by the format's adoption as a standard.

...

Free Culture formats

Free Culture formats 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
The free Free Culture was released as a pdf under a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license. Some complained about the format. Others, relying upon the freedom granted, created derivative works in other formats. So far, 36 hours after the book was released, I know of 9 versions available, including: MS-re ader, Rocke t e-Book, zippe d, iSilo , Mobip ocket, EasyR ead, PostScri pt, Pl ain Text, html. Most of these are from Blackmask, but thanks to Firas, Mike and Josh as well.

Duel of the dual-layer DVD formats

Duel of the dual-layer DVD formats 12/30/2003 06:27 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 30 2003 5:10PM ET

Rival formats in a duel to the death

Rival formats in a duel to the death 04/17/2005 06:40 AM
Los Angeles Times Apr 17 2005 10:09AM GMT

Dying Languages, Fading Formats

Dying Languages, Fading Formats 03/20/2003 03:13 PM

Office 12 XML Formats Seen As Risky For
Microsoft

Office 12 XML Formats Seen As Risky For
Microsoft 06/05/2005 11:18 PM
Information Week Jun 6 2005 3:26AM GMT

MPEG NATION brings broadband streaming video service to the masses

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