Portable VideoVista Professional Edition v3.0.4.370
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2009-01-31, 11:00 PM
Web
video streaming is keeping up the pace with the rest of web
technologies on the market. Web sites focusing on video content only
are more and more numerous. Some of them are true giants and almost
monopolize the market. Most of you know that 90% of the video content
on the web is in Flash format. This should not come as a surprise as
this type of file is very flexible when it comes to embedding on web
pages and the size of the video file is greatly reduced by the encoding.
However,
video streaming, besides sharing video information with the end user,
also allows you to protect your videos from being stolen. Usually for
video content streaming the end user would need a bunch of codecs and a
good Internet connection. Given the fact that Internet connection is no
longer a problem for most of us (as for the others, this will soon be
fixed as the Internet connection price is on downslope and the
bandwidth is getting better by the day), the only problem would be the
codecs.
For the streamer, the thorniest problem is finding a
server to store the video content and roll it beck to the users. Well,
this used to be the problem as Vista Tecnologie came up with the
solution to the issue and created VideoVista. The application is a
video encoder to the software's native file format, .vvf. The good news
is that you no longer need a server and the quality of the video will
not diminish by much.
Additionally, there is no need for the end
user to download and install a myriad of codecs just to watch a little
movie on the Internet. VideoVista uses Java applet as video player so
you will no longer have to wait on downloading and installing video
codecs.
The price? For the Home Edition there is no fee, but if
you want more options and a larger window to work in, then Professional
is what you are looking for. The price of this edition of the software
is significant, reaching to approximately $250. VideoVista is actually
a video encoder that converts the AVI, MPG, MOV, MP4 and 3GP (or any
other format supported by Windows 2000 and Windows XP) video files into
VVF, the software's native format.
The interface is as
simple as can be, containing the essential options necessary for
encoding a video. There is no complicated deal into this and even a
rookie could get along quite successfully. The three parts stated in
the online help file composing the interface (Video tab, Batch tab and
the Menu) are not clearly delimited, but this will not hinder at all
your activity.
The Video tab allows you to specify the video
source and output folder. The output folder will not result in a single
video file of VVF format. The user has the choice of configuring the
software to also generate an HTML page. This way you can preview the
quality of the video and the way it looks in the web page. Another file
generated by VideoVista is in JAR format. This is an important
component as it encloses the Java applet player necessary for viewing
the video.
One thing, though. In order to encode a larger number
of video formats you should check for the necessary codecs required by
the video format. Otherwise, VideoVista will not be able to complete
the job and will display an alert suggesting to download the
appropriate video and audio codecs.
In the right hand part of
the Video window there is displayed the video information. This
contains the duration of the video, the frames per second, audio
channel type, aspect ratio and the audio sample rate. For the encoded
video some of these settings can be changed as well as the section of
the video to be converted. You can set a start and end time of the
video and perform a cropping of the video. The downside is that there
is no real preview to this and you will have to wait to see the change
on the output result.
Additional options include selecting the
streams to encode the video for. The available options in this concern
are Modem, ISDN, ADSL1 and 2 and MEGA. But the flexibility of the
software allows adding more options by the user. Just click on an empty
box and type in all the values and the name for the desired stream.
Although
web video streaming is protective enough, VideoVista comes with
additional security options. There is the possibility that the
resulting video subject to video streaming to be protected via
encryption from being delivered by unknown domains. During the
encryption process there will be generated a security file that should
be embedded in the applet as parameter. The applet will check the
security file and will give a green/red light to playing the video,
according to the list of allowed/restricted domains set by the user.
More
then this, a secured video can be supplied with an expiration date.
This means that if the user defined date expires, the video will no
longer be available for streaming from the domains in the list. For
each domain, you can set a different expiration date.
The Good
Working
with the application is easy and poses no problem, absolute beginners
included. There are no fancy options and every setting is as clear as
can be.
All the end users need to have on their computers in
order to benefit from the advantages of VVF files web streaming is
Java. The rest is up to VideoVista. No codecs, no players, just a web
browser with Java support.
There is no time limit to the video
and there is no problem if it is a bit lengthy as the application will
encode it with the same ease.
It has support for batch encoding. The video quality of the encoded video is pretty close to the original.
