Optivision Introduces New LiveWare Software For Building High-Quality MPEG Video-Enabled Intranets
PR Newswire - May 05, 1998 11:07
New Features Include Support for DirectShow, MPEG 1 Software and Hardware Decode and MPEG 2 Hardware Decode
LAS VEGAS, Networld+Interop '98, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Optivision Inc., (Booth # 2437-28), industry leading experts in high-quality networked video, today announced the newest version of LiveWare(TM), its powerful client/server software. LiveWare makes it possible for companies to easily deliver high- quality MPEG-video content such as training videos or corporate presentations to desktops anywhere on the network at any time. The LiveWare client now supports both MPEG-1 software and hardware decoding as well as MPEG-2 hardware decoding. With its DirectShow support, a Microsoft application programming interface (API), LiveWare can be easily integrated in a Microsoft environment, and is the interface which is gaining support from a number of suppliers.
LiveWare displays all MPEG-encoded video files through the familiar Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator 3.x Web browser to desktops anywhere on a company's network, enabling users to receive and view video files. LiveWare can be used off-the-shelf to give PCs the capability to play and/or save to a server both live video content and pre-recorded content such as training videos.
"LiveWare can be easily modified through the use of Java classes or SNMP when used as a platform to develop a variety of custom applications for distance learning, telemedicine, surveillance, training, or other applications requiring high-quality video," said Mike Galli, director of marketing for Optivision. "This feature provides companies with a flexible, cost-effective way to extend LiveWare's functionality to match their future requirements for video applications and increase return on investments."
Features and Benefits
LiveWare software is network independent, ensuring that the integration process with customers' existing IP-networks is virtually seamless, and making it more cost-effective than ever for companies to add video functionality to their local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN).
LiveWare has built-in ease-of-use features, such as a Live Channel Changer, enabling users to change channels as they would on a television with a mouse click. In addition, users are able to save video to files on local or remote disks, and play stored files on demand with the click of a mouse.
Pricing and Availability
LiveWare is now shipping and priced at US $75 per client. Optivision is demonstrating LiveWare and LiveSystem during NetWorld + Interop, May 5 - 7, 1998, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Optivision will encode MPEG files to Microsoft's NetShow Theater client in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion, Booth #2437-28.
About Optivision
Optivision, Inc. develops and markets high-quality networked video solutions for commercial and professional markets. Optivision's products enable MPEG video capture, playback and content distribution across asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and IP-based networks, for applications such as videoconferencing, distance training, telemedicine and surveillance. The company's application and solutions partners include 3Com, AT&T, Microsoft, Newbridge Networks, Oracle, SGS Thomson, Sprint, Sun, and Silicon Graphics. End-user customers of their video solutions include Merrill Lynch, Shell Oil Company, KRON-TV, Sea Change, Hughes Network and the State of Utah.
Optivision, founded in 1983, is privately-held and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. To reach Optivision, visit their Web site at optivision.com, or call 650-855-0200.
Optivision, the Optivision logo, and LiveWare are trademarks of Optivision, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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