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| Swarmcast Releases Autobahn HD for Flash Player Swarmcast has announced the release of its new player, Autobahn HD for Flash. This player enables full-screen, high-quality video while protecting against video stalls and skips. Exponential growth in the online video market over the past two years and high expectations of video quality have fueled consumer demand for high-quality online video. Content providers and video aggregation sites have begun to showcase HD content on their websites, but the lack of reliable delivery methods has resulted in poor user experiences. Factors such as network congestion, overloaded servers and users' bandwidth limitations have hampered the online video industry's attempts to service the demand for HD content. Autobahn HD for Flash is the industry's first syndicatable media player to combine the power of Adobe's Flash platform with advanced video delivery technology. Built on Swarmcast's patented multi-source streaming technology, which provides network acceleration, Autobahn HD for Flash also features adaptive bitrate streaming. Adaptive bitrate streaming dynamically adjusts the video bitrate (video quality) to ensure that individual viewers are always watching the highest-quality video possible for their Internet connection. Completely transparent to the end-user, network acceleration and adaptive bitrate streaming give content providers the confidence to showcase their high-quality video assets without fear of poor user experience. Swarmcast has also announced that it will be making source code available to the Flash developer community, enabling and encouraging developers to freely modify and extend the Autobahn HD player. Additionally, Swarmcast is offering use of its player and a risk-free hosting trial for those who want to showcase high-quality video on their websites. To enhance the HD viewing experience, users have the option to upgrade their Flash experience with Swarmcast's Autobahn, which transparently accelerates video delivery. Additionally, Autobahn has built-in accelerator functionality for music or videos from supported applications such as the iTunes store, and video sites such as MySpaceTV and Veoh.com. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |