dicas streaming live from IFA 2009

Berlin, Germany – 4 September 2009 -- dicas, a leading developer of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 software and hardware products, is powering the live streaming of the Tech Watch Congress at IFA 2009.

The MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Flash live stream will be encoded using the dicas2010 SD encoder, part of the dicas2000 encoder series. The dicas 2010 is a professional broadcast-quality advanced video/audio encoding and streaming 1-RU solution. This sophisticated, high performance encoder convinces with an outstanding picture quality at lower bit-rates and highest reliability for 24/ 7 usage.

This product features also dicasFlash, an optional software plug-in enabling the dicas2010 SD encoder to communicate with the latest version of Adobe’s Flash Media Server 3. The dicasFlash plug-in opens an additional content distribution channel for the IPTV, Internet TV and Mobile TV industries since MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 content can be professionally delivered over RTMP to the Adobe Flash Player, which is installed on over 850 million internet-connected desktops and mobile devices worldwide. dicas is an official Adobe Solutions Partner.