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Headline	New ViewCast Products At IBC
Article	Niagara® GoStream® SURF — The GoStream SURF is the most powerful portable streaming media encoding appliance currently available. It's the newest in the Niagara line of encoders, all of which are powered by ViewCast Osprey® video capture technology. This encoder is the smallest, lightest, and most powerful system in the award-winning Niagara GoStream portable encoder family. Users can capture video to send multiple full-resolution streams to PCs and mobile devices in multiple formats at multiple bit rates — all simultaneously in real time. It's ideal for broadcasters, businesses, and governments that need the flexibility to stream video on location while broadcasting live or on-demand in the most desired compression formats, including MPEG-4, Adobe® Flash® Live, Microsoft® Windows Media®, RealVideo®, and uncompressed AVI. Osprey-450e PCI Express® Video Capture Card Video professionals looking to stretch their budgets while gaining a premium level of video capture quality may want to consider the newest of the acclaimed Osprey® video capture cards from ViewCast. The Osprey-450e delivers robust processing on four independent channels, significantly minimizing internal PC space requirements. The higher channel density offered by the Osprey-450e means fewer computer systems are required to capture multiple channels — dramatically reducing overall system costs. The Osprey-450e PCIe card also takes advantage of the latest architecture standard, the high-speed PCI Express bus, for maximum performance. This enables users to capture four individual channels of analog video and unbalanced stereo audio channels simultaneously and process them independently. Niagara® 8224 Large video surveillance operations that need to consolidate systems for easier management, improved productivity, and resource efficiencies now have a solution from ViewCast. The soon-to-be-released Niagara 8224, with eight channels, enables video surveillance of multiple cameras, each streaming in true D1, full resolution. The 8224, like all Niagara encoders, is constructed with thoughtfully appointed technology to achieve optimized streaming quality and workflow throughout all processes from video capture to ingest and encoding. Standout features of the 8224 include two Osprey-450e PCI Express® video capture cards; encoding in all the most-used viewing standards — simultaneously, live in real time, or save to file; as well as the option to upgrade to S-Video and component connectivity. Niagara SCX® 5.3 Software that advances media streaming workflows and productivity have been a hallmark of ViewCast. With the release of the new Niagara SCX 5.3, an impressive feature of the SCX line, its ability to encode in all the widely accepted standards, such as Adobe® Flash® Live and Windows Media®, has been enhanced. Now the start-up process has been streamlined to boot all encoding standards concurrently as opposed to the user initiating each one separately. This element adds to the multifaceted functionality that enables video professionals to consolidate a network of streaming operations for streamlined control and management, content branding, and more. ViewCast®, Osprey®, Niagara®, Niagara SCX®, GoStream®, SimulStream®, and EZStream® are trademarks or registered trademarks of ViewCast Corporation or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
Company	ViewCast
Date Published	4/7/2008