Kulabyte’s Xstream Live product line, which powers “Live HD Internet TV” over Flash platforms, is currently being adopted by major broadcast and social networks around the world.   Kulabyte proprietary encoding technologies enable up to a 30% increase in quality, or bandwidth savings when compared to standard live encoding and streaming media technologies. With Kulabyte’s ability to utilize live 2-pass variable bit rate (VBR) encoding and streaming, customers and viewers realize superior qualities, faster encoding speeds and better bandwidth utilization in live IP streaming solutions.  Kulabyte also supports faster than real-time transcoding products for formats such as DV, AVI, MPEG2, QuickTime, H.264, WMV and FLV. 

Bluefish444’s uncompressed video I/O boards are regarded in the broadcast and post production industries as providing unsurpassed video quality and reliability. Every Bluefish444 Windows based uncompressed video card is bundled with Bluefish444’s proprietary Symmetry software. Symmetry, a DI Acquisition, Review and Playout solution frame accurately controls a VTR for seamless video I/O of multiple uncompressed file formats extending to compressed file formats such as MPEG2 and H.264 for live encoding. By integrating Kulabyte’s live 2-pass variable bit rate (VBR) encoding and streaming technology into Symmetry, Bluefish444 will be able to offer its installed customer base an even greater increase in image quality or bandwidth savings compared to regular streaming technologies. 

“The KulaByte TimeSlice technology is processor scaleable, and the only live 2-pass VBR encoding and streaming solution we know of on the market.  They are proving to be the highest quality live web streaming encoder available,” said Craige Mott, Managing Director of Bluefish444. “We expect to release in Q3 2008 KulaByte’s faster than real time TimeSlice™ encoding technology embedded within Bluefish444’s Symmetry software, thereby creating a multi-format capturing, encoding and transcoding solution for uncompressed HD and SD video.”

“Bluefish444’s high quality professional I/O cards are used by many of the customers we are engaged with.  By qualifying their cards for our Xstream Live Solutions, we can now deliver to Bluefish broadcast customers the ability to encode and stream Live Internet TV at a quality they have not been able to achieve before. We continue to be excited about this partnership and the opportunities it creates for both companies,” said Chris Gottschalk, co-founder and chief technology officer of Kulabyte.  “Bluefish444 customers can now realize higher quality with live HD streaming in H.264 or VP6 for Adobe Flash Media Player 9.”

Kulabyte Xstream Encoding Solutions are available now from http://www.Kulabyte.com

Bluefish444 retail video cards and Symmetry software are available from authorised resellers worldwide. See http://www.bluefish444.com for details.