Encoding Partner Quotes in Support of Adobe H.264/HE-AAC

“Anystream customers are rapidly adopting Flash Media Server for on-demand content delivery. New methods for affordable Flash Player content delivery let them better leverage their video assets for online business models. With the Flash Media Solution Provider program and new support for H.264 video, Adobe makes it easy for us to support our clients’ initiatives. True to Anystream’s charter, media companies can encode once and trust that their viewers can access on any desktop.” - Russell Zack, Vice President of Product Management, Anystream

“Digital Rapids is a leader in H.264 encoding and transcoding solutions, with a comprehensive suite of H.264 encoding capabilities for any level of application from consumer electronics devices to IPTV. We’ve also been at the forefront of video encoding for Flash, supporting both encoding to files and live streaming through Flash Media Server as options throughout our complete range of solutions, including Digital Rapids Stream media encoding systems and the Digital Rapids Transcode Manager distributed transcoding software. We’re pleased to bring our expertise in both of these areas together to deliver support for Adobe’s new H.264 and AAC+ capabilities in Flash Player, and to continue working closely with Adobe as part of the expanded Flash Media Solution Provider program.” - Mike Nann, Director of Marketing/Communications, Digital Rapids

“Kulabyte is focused on delivering the fastest and highest quality HD H.264 Flash Player video encoding solution. With the new Kulabyte Express Series, our unique TimeSlice technology supports not only MainConcept H.264, the same codec as the new Adobe Flash Player, but other industry standard video codecs, such as On2 VP6, forming a complete, high quality performance solution when encoding for Flash. We’re thrilled that the Adobe Flash Media Server 3 and Adobe Flash Player are adopting these standards to deliver the highest quality multimedia experiences. We look forward to expanding our relationship with Adobe as a new member of the Adobe Flash Media Solution Provider program.” - Chris Gottschalk, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Kulabyte

“H.264 is rapidly becoming the compression format of choice for delivering quality and efficiency in multimedia applications and we’re delighted that Adobe Flash Player has adopted this standard. We look forward to being actively involved in Adobe’s Flash Media Solution Provider program and working closely with the development community to ensure that RipCode continues to support the most popular codecs and standards demanded by the digital video industry.” - Brendon Mills, CEO, RipCode

“We at Sorenson Media are excited about Adobe’s decision to support the MP4 format in the most recent iteration of Flash. Sorenson Squeeze is the leading cross-platform tool for encoding to the MP4 format, and our new Sorenson Squish tool easily encodes a high volume of user-submitted videos. Sorenson Media plans to fully support Adobe’s efforts in future versions of Sorenson Squeeze and Sorenson Squish with new features and presets specifically designed for the Adobe Flash MP4 format.” - Matt Cupal, President, Sorenson Media

“Telestream is proud to be a supporter of the video and audio formats compatible with Adobe Flash Media Server 3 and Adobe Flash Player delivered with our FlipFactory and Episode media encoding software products. We are pleased to announce that we are continuing that commitment through participation as a new partner in the Adobe Flash Media Solution Provider program.” - David Heppe, President/COO, Telestream

“ViewCast is pleased to be partnering with Adobe to enable the delivery of live and on-demand Flash media content. Adobe’s new Flash Media Server 3 release combined with the simple push button encoding experience of ViewCast’s Niagara streaming media appliances offers customers a compelling content publishing solution.”
- Dave Stoner, President, ViewCast