Yospace adds closed captions to Flash streaming
SDK which allows Flash to interpret HLS streams now meets CEA-608 standard
Staines-upon-Thames, United Kingdom(02 Apr 2013)
With closed captioning now an FCC requirement in the USA, and a powerful access tool elsewhere in the world, Yospace has announced full support for captions in its live streaming technology, including its unique solution which allows Flash players to display HLS content.
Yospace offers an SDK which allows a Flash player to consume HLS streams, and it is this which is now compatible with CEA-608 captioning. The CEA-608 standard defines the means by which closed captions are embedded within video data as it distributed, either by the means of traditional broadcast or internet streaming.
The result is that broadcasters and content owners can now meet the requirement to caption content online using HLS while using the workflows that exist to embed closed captions in broadcast.
"The support for CEA-608 in Apple devices means that broadcasters can already deliver closed captioning to a wide audience using a workflow they should find familiar," explained David Springall, CTO and founder of Yospace. "By adding the same support in our Flash SDK for HLS, we have extended that reach to Flash-based players with no further workflow adaptations needed."
The Flash player SDK, closed captioning, seamless content replacement and other leading edge streaming technologies will be demonstrated on the Yospace stand at NAB 2013, Booth SU8503 <http://www.mapyourshow.com/shows/index.cfm?Show_ID=nab13&exhid=410613&booth=SU8503&hall=C>.
About Yospace
Founded in 1999, Yospace is a veteran of the mobile & multimedia industry. It provides a highly innovative platform allowing broadcasters, digital publishers, applications developers and mobile operators to rapidly and affordably deliver and monetise cross platform video services.
With the growing convergence of traditional broadcast with cross platform media consumption, Yospace is now a major player in content distribution. It entered the market in 2005, delivering user-generated content to mobiles, first through the breakthrough SeeMeTV community on the UK network 3. Today it provides streaming services and advertising replacement technology to broadcasters looking to retain audience loyalty and build revenues by making content available on all connected platforms and devices.
Yospace provides its solutions in the cloud as software as a service model. This allows it to provide highly scalable solutions giving its clients flexibility without being locked in to heavy costs.
The company's customers include Thomson Reuters, Canadian Broadcasting, BBC, Vodafone Group, ITV, Hearst Television, UTV and Al Jazeera.
Further information can be found at www.yospace.com<http://www.yospace.com>