Features New SOAP Remote Operation and Advertising Insertion Capabilities

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (08.11.06) - 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 can be purchased online at www.sceneware.nl

About Sceneware
Sceneware is a world-leading MPEG-4 encoding specialist. The company provides a suite of competitively-priced verification, manipulation and streaming solutions for mobile and Internet-focused video content providers, backed up with exceptional levels of support, experience and advice. Owned and run by its founders since 1992. Sceneware works with service providers, broadcasters, content owners and OEMs including Vodafone, Orange, KPN, Universal, Tandberg, Motorola, Siemens, TDK and Philips.

Further information and downloads

For more information please contact info@sceneware.nl

Product Fact Sheets and Evaluation copies can be downloaded from www.sceneware.nl

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