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Dynamic Streaming of Video Provides Best Viewing Experience

Heather — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:42:39 +0000

We’ve all experienced videos skipping or stalling mid-roll while the rest of the video loads because your connection speed became slow or you moved out of wireless range–how annoying is that! Did you know that Delve Networks has support for Dynamic Streaming of video which provides an even better viewing experience on our platform.

With dynamic streaming of video to our players:

Videos will start playing faster
Playback is better, even on lower end CPUs
There is less buffering when streaming videos

How does it work?

The Delve platform handles encoding into the correct video formats, bit-rates, and the logic associated with delivering the right bit-rate depending on the information the players sends back to the Delve platform. The video stream on the player adjusts based on available bandwidth to the highest quality video that can be delivered to the user. As the bandwidth available to the player fluctuates, a smooth video stream is delivered without buffering or significant degradation of video quality.

Here is a cool video that shows dynamic streaming. Enjoy!

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Delve CEO invited to speak at Digital Hollywood

Edgardo Nazario — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:54:36 +0000

Delve Networks’ CEO, Alex Castro, will be participating in a panel with other industry leaders at the Digital.Hollywood conference May 4th-7th. If you are interested in learning more about the intersection of broadband video and television please stop by. The session will be on May 6th from 3:50pm-5:00pm. Additional information can be found here.

Delve CEO interviewed about video meta-data

alex castro — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:40:16 +0000

Alex Castro, the CEO of Delve Networks, discussed Delve’s plans for extracting video meta-data with Beet.TV’s Andy Plesser while attending the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable. Click play on the video below to learn more about how video meta-data can help video publishers achieve their goals.

Video sites continue to grow, but ComScore’s metrics don’t tell the whole story

alex castro — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:22:30 +0000

The latest ComScore video metrics were released last week, and to no one’s surprise, video sites continue to grow at a spectacular rate. Americans watched 14.3 billion videos in December, up 13% from the previous month.

These are certainly impressive numbers, but ComScore’s metrics don’t tell the whole story. The report covers internet video sites. What it doesn’t cover are views on sites that ComScore doesn’t consider to be “internet video sites.” As video becomes more “common” on the web it will show up on sites that aren’t considered video sites. We don’t think of the web as a bunch “internet text sites” do we? We think of entertainment sites, e-commerce sites, travel sites, etc. Video will be no different.

For example, I just recently I came across a site called TVtrip, which provides video guides for hotels around the world. I continue to be impressed by all the creative ways companies and people are using video across the Internet. One of our customers, 1800Flowers, has begun producing high quality video for their increasingly popular site – Celebration.com. If you are looking for ideas for a bridal shower, birthday party, BBQ party, etc., then check it.

More and more companies are realizing that online video can be an asset for their organization. It’s not just about YouTube and Hulu anymore.