Sceneware Releases SceneCast 1.1; Features New SOAP Remote Operation and Advertising Insertion Capabilities

Sceneware today announced version 1.1 of its industry-leading 3G mobile content producer tool SceneCast.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (PRWEB) November 9, 2006 -- Sceneware today announced version 1.1 of its industry-leading 3G mobile content producer tool SceneCast. In addition to all the features of SceneCast 1.0 and a number of input, speed and support enhancements, the new version provides SOAP support for remote operation and monitoring, and input-stream switching. These functions are designed to provide customers with a highly marketable and easy to manage revenue-generating tool for creating and remotely managing advertising insertions.

Key new features and functionalities of SceneCast 1.1 include:

- SOAP support: start/stop and monitor SceneCast remotely

- input-stream switching: take two or more inputs (capture, file, screen-capture, etc.) as source and show one of them on the output at will. Driven by SOAP. This is very useful for ad-insertions.

- live Windows Media stream (http, mms, etc) as input source

- faster GUI response times

- improved audio and video packetizing options

- H.264 beta support

- improved synchronization of audio/video streams on the mobile phones where RTCP support is minimal or lacking

About SceneCast

SceneCast allows content providers to encode content for both live broadcast and on-demand delivery to any 3GPP(2) equipped mobile device like a PDA, mobile phone or smartphone. Available for Windows NT/2000/XP, the tool guarantees lower bit rates, higher video quality and a better all-round end-user experience than any of its competitors.

Excellent encoder quality is assured by taking great care not to exceed the maximum bitrate levels imposed by modern UMTS circuit- and packet switched networks, thereby reducing packet loss and improving video and audio quality. SceneCast also ensures extremely low CPU usage, making it possible to run 6 or more QCIF encoder feeds easily on a single processor. Hardware costs can be reduced still further because SceneCast enables content providers to share capture devices between encoder feeds, for example for simultaneous broadcasting of a single channel to both mobile and Internet.

SceneCast 1.1 can be purchased online at http://www.sceneware.nl

About Sceneware

Sceneware is a privately held software company, specialized in MPEG-4 products and media software. It develops products for mobile broadcasting, MPEG-4 file analysis, videoconferencing and voice over IP. Sceneware's enabling technologies are available for OEM and include MPEG-4 systems, 3GPP(2), video codecs (MPEG-4, H.263 and H.264/AVC) and audio codecs.

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