Question: Why UMedia IP hardware? Just another IP cam? Is there anything unique about it?

Answer: Our IP hardware allows streaming of hardware-encoded H.264/AAC audio/video via central streaming server, with no software encoding process involved. Multiple concurrent users can view streams online with Flash Player, with absolutely no additional software installation on their computers!

Problem: Today's IP cameras and encoders have a very important deficiency: these devices cannot stream hardware-encoded content via central server. These devices are designed for streaming directly to viewer's web browser; when such a device is installed at a site with ADSL internet connection, it can only be viewed by several web users at the same time due to limited ADSL upload bandwidth. What if you want to broadcast an event to more than 10 concurrent viewers? The only workaround is to connect these devices to software encoders sush as Windows Media or Live Flash encoders which transcode video to WMV/H.264 and send it to Windows or Adobe Media servers. This is not easy to acheive for IP cameras; it is much easier to do that for USB webcams. However, whatever camera it is, you still need a dedicated computer to perform software encoding for a stream that has been already encoded by the camera itself! That defeats the whole purpose of hardware encoding performed by an IP camera!

Solution: Our IP cameras and encoders send hardware-encoded H.264/AAC streams to Unreal Media Server; no encoding computers are needed. Viewers receive original hardware-encoded streams from Unreal Media Server installed at high bandwidth central location, rather than from the device itself. This architecture enables big internet audiences to view streams from devices installed at low bandwidth locations.

Our H.264/AAC low latency IP cameras and encoders provide high quality audio and video suitable for IPTV, video conferencing, sport/concert events broadcasting, video surviellance, distance learning, telemedicine and other streaming applications.

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Brief Specifications:
TI DaVinci DM365 Processor Video compression: H.264 High profile, bitrates: 40kbps - 4mbps Image Resolutions: CIF (352x288 PAL; 352x240 NTSC) and D1 (704x576 PAL; 704x480 NTSC) Video frame rate: NTSC 30 fps; PAL 25 fps Built-in microphone, Stereo audio input via 3.5mm jack Audio compression: AAC/MP3, encoding bitrates: 8-160 kbps
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