There are some whispers about the availability of YouTube Live Stream for everyone. No, no...we must settle down. Only people who already have it can use it, and it's merely improvements to the service as-is.

Labor Day has come and gone. So put away those white pants, summer's over. Meanwhile, the rest of the universe chugs along at its standard pace which means, we've got news to round up and collect for you to peruse over your Saturday morning coffee (or cartoon commercial breaks)

Sorenson makes some pretty great software and video services and have a large user base. So they decided to ping the user base and see what kind of trends are ongoing in terms of video file formats and usage within that user base. The methodology was a survey of Sorenson Media software/service users with more ..

Zencoder announced several new features at the NAB Show, I knew I should have been there, that will boost its usefulness and make it the first cloud transcoding provider to support closed captioning for multiple formats including Apple HTTP Live Streaming. FCC Closed Caption Requirements April 30th is the beginning of requirements for closed captioning ..

And you all thought that Verizon was just aiming to cover its own customers and network with content? Well, apparently we were all wrong. It seems that they've dropped a pretty large penny, $370M worth of them in fact, in working out a streaming video content delivery system and video ad platform that will reach the web and mobile users with no word on limiting it to just their own consumers

A while back, I wrote about Raystream 's new technology that is set to revolutionize the online video industry, or is it? I sent them a 271MB video file and asked them to do that voodoo that they do to it and send it back

Dailymotion is expanding outside of the curated content business and into the cloud-based online video serving business and why not? After all, everyone else is doing it too no? Alright, not everyone

Raystream tells me they've got a new proprietary video compression that can chop down the size of streaming HD video an average of 70%, without a loss of quality. You know me, I'm skeptical about numbers that large so I did some further investigation. The crux of the Raystream claim is their new compression algorithm, which of course we can't peak into since it basically amounts to the whole basis for their company

Here we go folks! All those high-priced OVPs are going to have to fight to stay alive as Longtail’s Bits on the Run has announced they’re going freemium (YA!) with a Free video hosting and streaming service option. While they’re not the first OVP to do free (as I already use PlayWire’s freemium service which is still going through some growing pains but for which you can sign up and click Free Premium account), they are perhaps one of the largest and most well known. Of course, it’s not quite all that