Navicast Internet Video Solutions

Navicast Feature Summary

We believe that Navicast is the most innovative and easy to use internet video solution on the market.

It is used by various organisations all over the world and was the technology behind the web-TV service that won the 2004 Apple Design Award for Best QuickTime Content for Entertainment.

But don't take anyone else's word for it, go ahead and compare Navicast with alternative solutions yourself. Here is a summary of the key features and benefits of Navicast.

General Navicast advantages.

Navicast is a complete, end to end, full featured, and proven internet video solution.

No expensive programmers or tech wizards needed. Navicast offers drag and drop easy, fully automated movie compression, publication, distribution and presentation to the web, Online TV player application, mobile phones, In-Shop TV, RSS feeds and vodcasts.

Fully integrated, full featured, highly customizable, web-TV players.

Fully integrated, full featured, highly customizable, mobile phone-TV player.

Cross platform solution. All Navicast parts work on both Windows and Macintosh.

Supports QuickTime, Mpeg-4*, H264*, 3gpp* and Windows Media**.

The most powerful and easy to use movie publication tool on the market (Navicast eZender).

Delivers top of the line video quality.

Full support for integration of live broadcasts.

Full support for streaming protocol, rtsp, rtp, Unicast, Multicast.

Full support for HTTP progressive download movies.

Full support for RSS feeds.

Full support for vodcasts (video podcasts).

Power and flexibility.

Navicast will let any organisation set up, manage and run their own unique web-TV or online-TV service with great ease.

Navicast offers multi channel support that will let an organisation set up several different web-TV and online-TV channels for their specific needs. Movies are published, distributed and presented through "channels" on the Navicast System. A Navicast system can have one channel, or many channels. Each channel can have any number of movies in them.

Quick and easy channel creation and management.

The Navicast channels (and movies) can be distributed through a web-TV player or embedded in any web page.

The Navicast channels (and movies) can be distributed through a dedicated online-TV player application (Navicast preZenter).

The Navicast channels (and movies) can be distributed to video enabled mobile phones.

Full control on how all Navicast channels are distributed, to web-TV player, to Online -TV player application or to mobile phones.

The web-TV player can be customized and integrated to any website on a per channel basis. Different channels within a system can have different player designs.

Centralized control of movie compression settings, all published movies will have the same characteristics.

Ability to set, change and choose different movie compression settings on a system wide scope.

Powerful integrated movie search functions.

Sheduled Activation and Deactivation date and time for each movie.

Unmatched ease of use.

Drag and drop easy, fully automated, movie publication to web, online-TV player application and mobile phones.

Automatic slideshow creation out of a series of still images, with optional audio track. Drop multiple images on eZender and it will automatically create a slideshow with cross dissolve effect between each image. Drop multiple images and an audio file on to eZender and it will automatically create a slideshow with audio and cross dissolve effect between each image with the duration of the original audio file.

Full support for publication, distribution and presentation of Virtual Reality (QTVR).

Ability to easily publish manually compressed movies.

Automatic creation and publication of thumbnail images to each published movie.

Full support to add titles, descriptive texts (with html links), images, search words etc. to any published movie.

Easy approval (activation or deactivation) of all published movies.

Full and direct control of all published movies and all information that belong to the movies.

Drag and drop easy management (changes and modifications) of all published movies can be done at any time.

Automatic and manual cropping of movies when publishing. Cropping removes unwanted distortion at the edges of movies and makes the movie look much better.

Full automatic and manual support for 4:3, 16:9, 1,85:1, 2,21:1, 2,35:1 and custom sized movies.

Optional password protection of published movies.

Full automatic support for both streaming and progressive download (HTTP) movie delivery.

Direct linking to any movie within any channel.

Realtime stats and reports on viewer-ship on a per channel and per movie level.

Supports lots of different standard input media file types.

Full integrated control and easy management of viewer comments and ratings.

Ability to turn viewer comments and ratings on and off.

Multi user support.

Multi user movie publication and management, with different publication and management privileges.

Easy creation and management of users (publishers).

Multiple different user level privileges.

Commercial strengths.

Full support to show comercial spots (videos) in front of each movie in the web-TV Player.

Full support to show comercial spots in front of each movie and on repeating intervals in the online-TV player application (Navicast preZenter).

Drag and drop easy, fully automated, publication of comercial spots.

Easy management of commercial spots.

Support for multiple commercial spots per channel that get delivered in random order.

Stats on commercial spot viewings.

Maximum viewer limits on commercial spots, with automatic deactivation when limit is reached.

Pay per view on the internet and in mobile phones.

Pay subscriptions on the internet and in mobile phones.

Supreme viewer experience.