OTTAWA, Oct. 2, 2012 /CNW/ - Espial, a leader in
on-demand TV software and solutions, today announced that the
company's Espial MediaBase on-demand video platform now supports
MPEG-DASH, a new adaptive streaming protocol that is being rapidly
adopted across the pay-TV industry. Espial has also confirmed its
affiliation with the DASH Industry Forum, an organization that
encourages mass adoption of the MPEG-DASH standard, through a
formal membership.
"Pay-TV service providers are challenged to choose among
different protocols for streaming HTTP video," said Kirk Edwardson, director of marketing at Espial.
"We believe the MPEG-DASH standard will continue to gather momentum
with its support for on-demand, time-shift and live TV
applications, multiple DRM formats, and selectable streams. By
adding support for MPEG-DASH to our Espial MediaBase solution,
we're enabling service providers to provide a richer user
experience for live and VOD content on any screen."
Espial MediaBase is a high-performance multimedia delivery
system that leverages commercial-off-the-shelf hardware for
industry-leading streaming density for the management and
distribution of video content to any screen, including Smart TVs,
PCs, tablets, and smartphones. By supporting a universal HTTP
delivery format, Espial MediaBase enables cable, IPTV, and
satellite providers to deliver a wide range of on-demand services
more efficiently, including VOD, time-shift TV, network PVR, and
live TV, while maximizing network resources.
As one of the newest members of the DASH Industry Forum, Espial
will partner with many of the industry's leading technology
providers and media organizations to accelerate the acceptance and
deployment of MPEG-DASH. The DASH Industry Forum members believe
that using an open international standard for multimedia delivery
over the Internet will accelerate market growth; enable
interoperability between content preparation tools, servers, CDNs,
and end devices; and reduce the cost of video delivery.
More information about Espial MediaBase and the company's other
products is available at www.espial.com. More information about the
DASH Industry Forum is available at http://dashif.org.
About DASH Industry Forum
The DASH Industry Forum is a group of interested parties
collaborating on promotion of MPEG's DASH specification (ISO/IEC
23009) in the industry and other standards organizations and
consortia. DASH Industry Forum is not a standardization group and
will not develop any specific technical output that can be
referenced by industry. To learn more about the DASH Industry
Forum, visit dashif.org.
About Espial (www.espial.com)
Espial is a leading supplier of digital TV and IPTV software and
solutions to cable MSOs and telecommunications operators as well as
consumer electronics manufacturers. Espial's middleware,
video-on-demand, and browser products power a diverse range of
pay-TV and Internet TV business models. Over 10 million licenses of
its patented software are in use across the world. Espial is
headquartered in Ottawa, Canada
and has offices in the United
States, Europe, and
Asia. Visit www.espial.com or
contact via phone at +1 613 230 4770.
SOURCE ESPIAL GROUP
