Hi Everyone -

As most frequent readers will know, RipCode has grown into a leader and innovator in the On-Demand Transcoding market built around the strength of our flagship product, the RipCode Video Transcoding Appliance.  But today, I’m excited to announce that we’re taking a new step in the evolution of RipCode.  In addition to offering on-demand transcoding of stored content, we’re introducing RipCode’s Real-Time Stream Transcoding solution, focused on the transcoding and delivery of live mobile streaming of broadcast content.  With this addition, RipCode has created a powerful dual-application transcoding platform enabling our customers to reach more markets with a single transcoding appliance.

RipCode’s Real-Time Stream Transcoding solution has the largest ingest capability of any solution on the market, with up to 8 simultaneous single or multi-program streams. And, it supports high-density output for video delivery over current and next generation broadcast networks including: 3GPP and 3GPP2, DVB-H, MBMS, ATSC, and Qualcomm MediaFlo.

Additionally, RipCode has added an optional Video Feed Ingest component to provide full-resolution ingests of premium audio and video via an SD SDI channel.

One of the first use cases of RipCode’s new Real-Time Stream Transcoding solution will be through our partnership with NextWave. NextWave Wireless is a global provider of mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies, they’re collaborating with RipCode to supply live video stream transcoding for their UMTS MBMS based TDtv™ solution.  You’ll be hearing more about this later this year.

For more information on our new Real-Time Stream Transcoding solution, you can read the press release or visit the solution page on our website. This is an exciting new pivot point for RipCode and our customers as we continue to innovate and push the capabilities of video transcoding.