Stream UK - streaming media and transcoding consultancy services

Consultancy


Stream UK consults in two areas:
  1. With larger media companies to assist in their streaming media processes.
  2. For the European Commission and other governmental organisations.
We cover:
  • End to end workflow analysis and ROI-based system design
  • Workshops on encoding techniques and the fundamentals behind them
  • Design of centralised encoding solutions.
Our fundamental approach is to model the problem using animated Excel flowcharts, these are fully-configurable with real-life variables and produce complete ROI reports, analysis by node and analysis by unit.

To see a typical flowchart analysing an encoding process click here.


What will I find out?

A typical set of deliverables might include:

  1. Analysis of workflow and hardware;
  2. One day analysis of current encoding system;
  3. Flow chart of encoding procedures;
  4. Volumetric analysis of the current system;
  5. Recommendation of an new system based on projections;
  6. Development of a quality control system based on:
    • Objective measurement of the quality of streams;
    • Subjective measure of quality according to defined parameters.
Workshop on parameters:

  1. One day workshop with two hour structured part covering:
    • Considerations when capturing;
    • Different types of video;
    • Aspect ratios and cropping;
    • Transcoding (software options);
    • Categorisation of video according to encoding considerations;
    • Tweaking variables;
    • Quality control.
  2. Two hour question and answer;
  3. Three hours practical;
  4. A set of ideally encoded files to use as reference, a categorisation system and the start of a quality control framework.

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Customer Spotlight

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Service Spotlight

Stream UK has worked on the flagship € 9 million PRESTOSPACE project since 2002.

Partners include the BBC, RAI, INA and a whole series of other industry experts.

To date we've lead two reports:


Awards Won

Stream UK gained Microsoft Accreditation in 2001, at that time we were one of three companies across Europe.

Since then others have come along, but Stream UK has continued to develop its solution.

Click here for Microsoft Windows DRM Partners.