ViewCast Corporation

ViewCast Corporation are a US company based in Dallas, Texas and are best known for the Osprey range of streaming media products. The company produces a wide variety of encoders and decoders for Windows Media, Real Video & MPEG applications. ViewCast Osprey Video has been a major player in the pioneering efforts of the streaming media industry since its inception in 1997 with Progressive Networks (Now RealNetworks). Osprey Video has maintained its position as an industry leading developer and manufacturer of cutting-edge streaming media capture, encoding and CODEC technology.

Osprey 100

The streaming media workhorse that launched Internet video! Don't be fooled by the low price of this card either; industry leaders Microsoft and RealNetworks back it because it is the most widely used video capture card on the planet.

Osprey 200 series

The next step up from the Osprey 100 combining audio and video capture into a single device.

Osprey 500 series

There are two Osprey 500 models to choose from: the Osprey 500DV and the Osprey 560. Both models include a hardware filter to de-interlace video from any of the video sources while capturing in real time. Each Osprey 500 card differs only by input type with IEEE1394 Firewire on the board plus analogue inputs via a breakout cable including S-Video and Composite video, balanced and unbalanced audio. The Osprey DV560 features SDI video and digital AES/EBU audio inputs.

Common Applications

• Web Video content production
• Internet Broadcasting and Live Webcasting
• Multimedia Presentations
• Video Conferencing
• News Delivery
• Telemedicine
• Video Email
• Encoding Services
• Business TV
• Training

Viewcast homepage

The Viewcast systems we have built work extremely well indeed. Installation and configuration was entirely trouble free. In our opinion the only shortfall in the product range is that none of their cards have component video inputs e.g. for inputting BetacamSP. The Osprey-2000 would, in our opinion be an excellent all round solution for MPEG and Streaming media encoding if only it had component video inputs.

More video streaming/encoding products click: Digital Rapids,  Leitch  & Vitec

Note - all prices quoted on this site are UK pounds - ex VAT & delivery

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