ViewCast Supports Millions Of Live Video Streams For Major League Gaming

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Nov 12, 2010 6:00 PM

Major League Gaming (MLG), the largest veteran video diversion joining in the world, has choosen the Osprey 700e HD video takeover card from ViewCast to broach more than 1.9 million streams of its live events in HD to viewers around the creation for up to 60 hours at a time.

Live eventuality streaming is a vicious part of MLG's operations, permitting it to favour and provide to a flourishing online residents of veteran and determined veteran gamers whilst expanding aid and income opportunities, according to Lee Chen, comparison clamp boss of reward services and live eventuality streaming for MLG.

In add-on to discussion MLG's opening and trustworthiness requirements, ViewCast's Osprey 700e HD cards make sure seamless compatibility with MLG's encoding software, Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder and Microsoft Windows 7 drivers, in a condensed form reason for easy formation inside of MLG's exclusive streaming hardware.

MLG uses multi-part Osprey 700e HD cards to power its encoding infrastructure, encoding real-time video for live streaming whilst concurrently capturing calm for post-event VOD. The firm provides 3 simultaneous live announce streams in multi-part resolutions from its events, that take place via the year at assorted locations nationwide.

The Osprey 700e's aptitude to sustain conform to opening and fortitude via HD broadcasts that can run up to 62 hours is vicious to the success of MLG's eventuality coverage, precluding the must be reboot or motorcycle by encoders. For MLG's 50th jubilee eventuality in Raleigh, NC, fans used up more than 2.3 million streams and 825,000 hours of video over the 60-hour long broadcast, all upheld by the Osprey 700e HD cards.

ViewCast's Osprey 700e HD cards provide twin SD/HD encouragement with seamless on-the-fly vigilance switching and the aptitude to feed multi-part encoders (RealVideo, Windows Media, Adobe Flash and MPEG-4) at the same time in any combination. Osprey cards moreover capacitate modernized features such as hardware audio earn control, closed-caption extraction, picture gathering and bitmap conceal to make sure limit administration adaptableness and control.