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Linius Technologies has announced that it is on track for commercialisation with the latest step being the successful completion of its transcoding Showcase with Village Roadshow.
The Showcase is said to have confirmed that the Linius Video Virtualisation Engine (VVE) removes the need for transcoding. It was devised to prove that the Linius VVE removes the need for transcoding for:
- the immediate play out of a video file saved in one format when the original video file is in an entirely different format; and
- the immediate play out of a video file in size and aspect ratios that are different from those of the original video file.
The Showcase has achieved these objectives and has proven that the Linius VVE removes the need for transcoding, resulting in a reduction in additional video files and the associated storage.
“The transcoding and storage markets are each multi-billion dollar markets in their own right and we are extremely pleased that Village Roadshow has confirmed that our technology has the impact we’ve been saying it would,” says Chris Richardson, CEO of Linius.
”We can safely say the Linius virtualisation process removes the need for many kinds of transcoding — in particular, transcoding for broadcast on different size or shape devices, or through different media players, is not required if the players are fully compliant with the MPEG-4 specification,” says Clark Kirby, COO of Village Roadshow.
The showcase was performed on a high-definition trailer for the Roadshow movie The Fourth Phase, saved as an MPEG-4 video file for HTML5 play-out on a 16:9 aspect ratio device. Utilising the Linius VVE, that same file, without editing or transcoding, was streamed on the fly to a QuickTime 7 player in 4:3 aspect ratio.