• Educational Institutions -- Deliver your existing live MPEG-2 TV channels to other schools and buildings using the public Internet

• Transportation Departments -- Send your live highway surveillance video feeds to multiple districts, state officials, emergency workers, etc.

• Streaming Service Providers -- Convert your new or existing Windows Media streams to live H.264 and deliver to Flash player and mobile devices.  

• Commercial Organizations -- Add public Internet or private network low speed delivery to your existing MPEG-2 infrastructure

• Government / Defense -- Transmit one, some, or all existing live MPEG-2 video feeds to remote locations over virtually any network, including cellular.

• Commercial Broadcasters -- Use your existing MEPG-2 Transport Stream infrastructure to deliver simultaneous webcasting for commercial linear broadcasting over the web, or for monitoring you feeds.  Customers that use VC-1/Windows Media (e.g. U-Verse) can instantly deliver the video in Flash format.

• Satellite Receivers -- Receive direct broadcasts from satellite and use IP receivers (e.g. Exterity) which will send each channel as a MPEG-2 stream. Rather than multicasting high bandwidth (e.g. 5 Mbps) streams, deliver using H.264 multicast directly from the DVT, and/or deliver over the public Internet via Flash player.  

High Quality
Organizations typically selected MPEG-2 video to achieve broadcast quality video distribution.  MPEG-2 requires 3 to 8 Mbps to achieve this quality, which is not an issue in multicast-enabled local area networks. H.264 provides an order of magnitude improvement in compression efficiency and can deliver the same quality at about half the bandwidth.  Stunning live transcoded video delivery can be achieved at 500 Kbps, very good quality at bit rates as low as 200 Kbps, and applications such as video monitoring are supported at rates as low as 40 Kbps. Of course, you can also maintain existing broadcast quality and even send H.264 via multicast at substantially reduced streaming rates.

Save Money
If you have existing MPEG-2 encoders, the Live Transcoder can be much more cost effective than replacing the MPEG-2 encoder with a H.264 encoder.  The Live Transcoder can cost under $400 per transcoded stream vs. many thousands of dollars for a new encoder appliance.

Moreover, any organization that could not deliver their live MPEG-2 video to a remote location because they did not have sufficient bandwidth can now deliver it with ease.

Send your new or existing live MPEG-2 or WM video via multicast within your LAN, and use the Live Transcoder to deliver your live video virtually anywhere via your private network or via the public Internet.

Windows Media users can now stream in their native WM format, but also in Flash or QuickTime format. The alternative is typically to run two encoders which often requires more bandwidth than may be available and adds complexity.

Flash, QuickTime or Windows Media
The output of the Live Transcoder is H.264 or WM at user-definable video rate, frame rate, resolution, and audio rate. Per industry standards and conventions, each output stream may be standard RTP or Adobe RTMP.  For RTP, the Live Transcoder automatically creates a SDP file that you may use on a compatible streaming server such as Darwin, Helix, Wowza, etc.  and view via H.264 players such as Apple QuickTime player. For Adobe RTMP, the Live Transcoder does a live "push" to a compatible Flash server such as Adobe, Wowza, etc. and you can view your live video using Flash player. If the output is set to Windows Media, then either push or pull is available for each stream.

Mobile -- iPhone/iPad/iTouch, Blackberry, Android
DVT allows you to stream to virtually any mobile device when coupled with the optional Media Server.  DVT overcomes the common issue of needing to provide high quality / high rate stream for desktops yet lower rate streams for 3G mobile devices.

Integration
The Live Transcoder behavior can be configured with simple XML files.  This makes it very easy to integrate with 3rd party and custom system. No "SDK" is required.

Reliability
Live Transcoder runs as a Windows Service that automatically starts when Windows starts. The system automatically recovers if the source MPEG-2 multicast stops and starts, allowing you to control your stream by simply starting or stopping the source multicast.  The system has been designed to run 7 x 24.

Simultaneous Capacity
Depending on the host platform, up to 30 simultaneous live transcodes are possible.  Discover Video offers the transcoder in several platforms, and as a software system for your own computer. The actual capacity depends on the input and output settings (fewer live transcodes are possible at higher resolutions and rates).

Optional Wowza Media Server
The DVT can come with an optional custom Wowza Media Sever.  The server will automatically detect your live transcoded video and deliver directly to iPhone / iPad / iTouch devices, to Flash Players, and to Silverlight players.

With the optional Wowza server, you have one platform that allows you to stream your MPEG-2 and Windows Media streams to virtually all playback devices. 

Windows Media / Reflecting
DVT supports the ubiquitous Windows Media forma for both inputs and outputs.  This allows you to deliver your existing MPEG-2 streams in WM format, eliminating the need to install a player on most enterprise desktops. It also allows you to do enhanced "reflecting" -- transmit your WM video at one high rate and deliver it via either push or pull to viewers at multiple rates.