Brightcove is an Internet TV platform and network which allows both established media companies and singular individuals to produce and publish video online and then make ad revenue from the resulting content.

It is now in the process of changing its service from the ground up, with Brightcove 3, a completely rebuilt service now going in to private beta before a full release in the autumn.

It seems that after Steve Jobs keynote at the WWDC earlier this week, where he unveiled the new 3G iPhone, everyone is trying to get a piece of the Apple action.

We heard a couple of days ago about Sling Media demonstrating the new SlingPlayer Mobile, and now we have Flixwagon doing the same with a live video broadcasting tool.

From Phone To Web

The Israel based Flixwagon specialises in software allowing mobile phone users to broadcast video live in near to real time over the Web. It has already provided the software for the Symbian mobile operating system and is now expanding.

The company is working on versions of the software for the iPhone, Java, and Windows Mobile. This will mean millions of mobile phone owners will soon have access to the software.

Steve Jobs spent his day unveiling the new iPhone 2, or 3G iPhone to a packed audience at the WWDC. And over the weekend, Sling Media announced plans for a Sling Player on the iPhone - Coincidence?

The timing is surely not coincidental, but unfortunately the new SlingPlayer Mobile that was announced and demonstrated for the iPhone is only pre-alpha proof-of-concept software.

Not Available Yet

Until Apple officially accepts the company in to the developer program then that is how this piece of software will remain, in limbo, and not available to anyone but the geeks over at Engadget.

Video transcoding is fine so long as the technology and profiles used stay the same long enough for companies utilising them to keep on top of their needs.

However, a lot of companies want to be able to encode their back catalogue to support new profiles, which can be a tiresome and long-winded task.

Encoding Profiles

I’ve talked to a lot of companies recently about their video transcoding needs and most are eager to support an increased number of encoding profiles.

But as their video library grows, they foresee challenges in encoding their back catalogue to support new profiles while keeping up with transcoding their daily ingest.

Screenflow is by far my favourite screencasting tool, of which you can read my gushing review in this post. But like every application or piece of software known to man, it can sometimes go wrong.

Twittered

Yesterday I was whining on Twitter about how I’d had the tiniest little problem with my Screenflow.

In short, I’d had a couple of shots where a tiny pixel had attached itself to a particular type of cursor. The type of thing that you would never even notice if the footage weren’t super-magnified. Not a biggy.

Within a few minutes, Vara had picked up on my tweet, replied to me and asked if I’d like to submit a support email. Which was awesome - I see Twitter used and abused in a lot of ways, and it’s great to see it being used so pro-actively by a developer to monitor and respond to feedback.

Virtually every Web user will have a Flash Player from Adobe installed, as it’s one of those must haves if you want to do anything multimedia on the Internet. But now, there is an updated version available, with many new features.

Here, Jef Pearlman of Public Knowledge discusses the possibilities it provides for online video distribution.

Flash Gets Flashier With P2P

If you haven’t heard yet, a beta of Adobe’s Flash Player Version 10 is available for download. It offers a host of new features, but one has implications that blow the others out of the water: built-in peer-to-peer. That’s right, all the tools necessary to build a p2p client will be built into the Flash plug-in.

Everyone who installs Flash 10 (and before long, that will be practically everyone) will soon have peer-to-peer clients running in their web browser of choice. What does this do? 

The long-awaited Netflix box is finally here, with Roku, better known for making streaming music hardware the first hardware partner to release their product on to the market.

The box, which is available now from the Roku website, costs just $100 and allows users to stream movies and television from Netflix to their TV using the Instant Viewing feature.

Easy Install

Users install the box by hooking it up to their TV sets using composite, component video cables, HDMI or S-Video and then connecting it to their Wi-Fi network or via an Ethernet cable hooked to the box.

Set-up is simple, and as long as your broadband connection is strong and consistent, the picture quality is good, and streaming is aid to be almost, but not quite, lag-free.

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