Ignite Your Video Experience - Qumu Multicast Plug-In for Microsoft Silverlight

  • Enable Live Video Broadcast with Single Video Stream on Enterprise Network
  • Easy to use with sophistication and flexibility of controls in Silverlight
  • Leverage Multicast Networking to Reduce Network Traffic
  • Available as open source from codeplex
  • Fully integrated with Qumu solutions

The new Multicast Plug-in for Silverlight, developed by Qumu in cooperation with Microsoft Corp., allows enterprises for the first time to deliver live video broadcasts via multicast across the network to thousands of Silverlight-based players simultaneously, using existing multicast streaming and network implementations. Today’s enterprise networks typically consist of Microsoft Windows Media streaming infrastructures, which includes the ability to multicast video streaming to Windows Media Players, and with Qumu Video Control Center, can scale to tens of thousands of supported clients simultaneously.

With the new Multicast plug-in for Silverlight, Windows Media Players can be replaced with Silverlight, affording an entirely new rich media experience for users. Corporate Communication initiatives can utilize the ease of use of Qumu’s Employee Generated Content (EGC) interface built on Silverlight with the new plug-in for large scale broadcasts.

Qumu's EGC solution leveraging the new Silverlight Plugin provides users with superior ease of use and flexibility:

  • User preferred layout options of people + content
  • Video thumbnail carousel
  • Video content organization jukebox
  • Easy one click video upload like Youtube
  • Optional approval workflow for content control
  • Social tagging & rating
  • Easy to share videos like hulu.com
  • Social Sharing URL, email link, Intelligent snips
  • Metadata, Closed Captioning, thumbnails
Qumu Silverlight Plugin

The new plug-in provides seamless integration with the Silverlight platform and will automatically recognize selected multicast streams and enable the rich viewing experience without any user involvement.

Multicast delivery reduces the network traffic normally required to stream live video to desktops. With this new Silverlight extension companies can now manage and administer one streaming infrastructure that delivers live, re-broadcast and video-on-demand content using the same streaming infrastructure based on Microsoft Windows Media Services. The new Multicast plug-in for Silverlight is available at no cost from Qumu, and the plug-in is available as open source code for development into custom players via Codeplex, Microsoft's open source project hosting web site (http://projectstarlight.codeplex.com/), and is subject to the terms of the Microsoft Public License.

Live video broadcast is an important technology at many organizations because it enables company executives, managers and thought leaders to reach large audiences that command attention and deliver important and relevant information at very low cost.  Live Intranet video broadcast often take advantage of the use of multicast technology to minimize impact of thousands of simultaneous video streams on corporate networks.   Qumu developed the new Multicast application for Silverlight in response to enterprise customers and long term users of Windows Media Services who desire to move to the new Silverlight player for ease of use and sophistication and flexibility of controls.

Major Benefits:

  • Multicast Support  of live video broadcasts using Silverlight
  • Multibrowser support – Safari, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer on Mac and Microsoft Windows platforms.
  • Transparent operation to the end user – only initiated when a multicast stream file is sent to the Silverlight player
  • Failover for both server and client side play list supported
  • Low footprint
  • Downloaded by developers from Codeplex for use & integration within their products to build rich media players based on Microsoft Silverlight

 

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