Microsoft Windows XP, Intel Pentium IV or AMD Equivalent, 512 MB RAM (1GB RAM recommended), 20GB Hard Disk Drive, 10Mbit NIC, Firewire/1394 Port, Video Capture Card (if capturing video) and Direct X 9.0 or >

VX30 Universal Video is licensed according to usage. Products can be licensed individually, in packages or by the site. Please consult a VX30 sales respresentative to receive a quote today.

VX30 Flash Video is sold at $199 per software copy. A price break is given when buying in packages.

Typically a major upgrade is released for each product every year. Please check back with us from time to time to track our updates.

The file format is .vx30 and can be placed on any standard web server with no special software or configuration needed, with one minor exception. If deploying on Internet Information Server (IIS) on a Windows Platform, the extension .vx30 needs to be added to the MMS Tab.

VX30 utilizes an MPEG 4 Part 2 derivative. Typically a high quality video can be achieved at 300kbps when in a 320 x 240 window frame.

If you are trying to encode DVD files that have copy right protection, it will not work.� If they don't have protection and they still will not encode, you may have to copy the largest VOB file from the DVD to the local drive.� Re-name the file extension from .VOB to .mpg and then use the "add file" option to add the file to the encoder's queue.

Another thing you may want to check with your sample videos is when you have them loaded into the program, go to the expert mode and then highlight the file by clicking on it in the window that is on the top left hand side.� After the video is highlighted, press the purple question mark button that is directly above the file list.� In the window that opens, look at the source file's audio settings.� If the audio is Mono, this might be your problem.

VX30 Video On Demand can be deployed on any combination of hardware and software. e.g. Intel/Linux/Apache, SPARC/Solaris/iPlanet, AMD/Windows/IIS. The VX30 Broadcast Server is a pure Java applications and therefore can be deployed on all major operating systems.

The general rule is garbage in garbage out. The higher quality your input file the better your output will be. Therefore we recommend raw/uncompressed files.

No, but generally speaking we recommend that the server has a Pentium IV or equivalent processor, 1GB of RAM or more and a 10/100MBit NIC.

VX30 Universal Video is backwards compatible all the way to Java 1.1 including Microsoft Virtual Machine.

Currently, we use an MPEG 4 Part 2 variant. An H.264 version is currently under development.

Look for a Digital Video Camera that has multiple aperture settings. We recommend a DV camera that is designated as a DV camera. Also, we recommend the camera has FireWire capability to attach to your computer (for the video portion), and S-Video or RCA connections for the audio portion. Another thing you might consider is an external microphone.

If you plan to attach your camera to your computer system, you might also consider a video capture card to receive the video/audio portion of your video event. Lastly, we do not recommend a camera with a Mini-DVD inside the camera. When it records on the Mini-DVD, it compresses the video and un-compresses the video when it?s placed on your hard disk drive. You want to receive the master video file ?un-touched?, so you can use your video editing software on a video file that has never been compressed/un-compressed. The original video loses some of its quality each time it is compressed/uncompressed, and you don?t want to lose any quality before you edit the video. Remember: The higher quality the video, the better the output will be for your viewers. The fewer times the original video file is ?touched?, the better the quality.

Video capture cards such as the WinTV Go or the Osprey 210 that use the BTTV chipset. These cards allow the processor to do the encoding which will yield the best results when used in conjunction with VX30.

The sort of de-facto standard with web video is to use a 320 x 240 picture size with a bit rate of @ 300kbps. VX30 software supports up to D1 resolution, so the video can be up to 720 x 480 picture size. YMMV depending on the type of audience, the amount of available bandwidth and the type of content.

This is generally a good idea because while most users are now on broadband services, there is still a significant number of users who are still on narrowband networks. If however you are streaming to users that you know have enough bandwidth e.g. over a local area network (LAN), then you may only require one file size. Generally speaking it is recommended to support 3 different quality profiles; low, medium and high.

If the web page and the video files reside in different directories on the server the applet code has to be modified to include the "codebase" parameter. The codebase parameter basically tells the browser where to find the player applet since it does not reside in the same folder location as the web page. Please reference the VX30 User Manual on how to place video on the web.

When in Wizard mode the program will offer 5 different recommended bandwidth profiles. Generally speaking it is good to have one stream at 40kbps or less (for dial-up users), another stream at 250kbps to 400kbps for users who share a broadband connection and a 700kbps for users who are on a dedicated broadband connection or LAN.

Flash plug-in 7.0 is required (support for external FLV files).

Yes, only web domains registered with your license will be allowed to stream the video. This protects your server from bandwidth theft.