Mobile video is growing ever more popular, particularly with the emergence of smartphones such as the Apple iPhone. But Delivering content to mobile phones is still a problem, particularly in the field of live streaming.

RipCode has already grown into a leader and innovator in the On-Demand Transcoding market built around the strength of its flagship product, the RipCode Video Transcoding Appliance. 

Real-Time Stream Transcoding

But today, it has announced a new step in the evolution of RipCode.  In addition to offering on-demand transcoding of stored content, it is  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 its customers to reach more markets with a single transcoding appliance.

Now that YouTube is owned by search expert Google, you’d think it would be easier than it is to find the video you are looking for in amongst its glut of content. But it’s currently quite a hard task.

It could be about to get easier however, at least if you want to find a video from, or about, a certain location. YouTube is now experimenting with geosearch - the ability to find videos tagged with a location name.

Video editing software is now more important, and more of an essential purchase than ever. If you want to get anywhere in the world of online video, you need software enabling you to produce high-quality clips.

It’s all very well just shooting a 30 second video clip and uploading it to YouTube, but if you really want to make it, and possibly become the next Internet phenomenon, those clips need some work doing to them.

Just look at Fred, no I know it’s not pleasant, but love or hate him, his clips are well-produced, well-edited, and al the bad shots, and times it didn’t quite go according to plan have disappeared.

Pinnacle Studio Feature Set

One of the best-selling pieces of video editing software is Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Version 11, which currently retails on Amazon for just over $100. That makes it quite an expensive option, but the least of feature maybe warrants the price.

We spend our time here at WebTVWire talking about online video, with high-profile companies such as Apple, Fox and Hulu getting mentioned at every opportunity.

However, to stand a chance of putting video on to the Internet via user-generated content sites such as YouTube, Metacafe or Daily Motion, you first need to have the tools to capture and edit the video to be view-worthy.

Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus

This is where video editing software such as the Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus comes in to play, enabling people everywhere to produce professional-looking videos, slideshows and DVDs without needing a degree in IT.

The Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus is one of a range of video editing suites available, and in this field, consumers certainly have a wide range of products to choose from.

Microsoft’s Mediaroom is currently the company’s IPTV solution which is used by AT&T U-Verse in the States and BT Vision in the UK, allowing TV to be delivered to your home over IP.

By the simple use of a set-top box, you can currently use the service to grab high quality HDTV that is of a much better quality than you would get using a Cable service.

Current Features

It currently also offers features such as quick channel changing, multi-room viewing, and picture-in-picture, but according to an article on Gizmodo, a lot more is coming soon.

Over the last 30 years, capturing memories on film has gone from being a rarity to something that everyone does on a regular basis.

If the popularity of sites like YouTube tell us one thing, it’s how popular, and populist, capturing and sharing ordinary events on camera has become.

One of the main problems associated with that sheer amount of footage which is taken though, is once a new format, or way of filming emerges, what then becomes of your old footage?

Two well-known media companies have chosen technology by Maven Networks, a private company founded in 2002, to launch new online video offerings.

Sony BMG Music Entertainment and FT.com (Financial Times) are on the verge of launching new consumer online video offerings built on the Maven Internet TV Platform.

Sony BMG will use the Maven technology to syndicate its Musicbox video content to hundreds of web sites throughout 19 European countries. The Maven Internet TV Platform will automatically deliver content in each market’s native language and monetize content through interactive advertising.