Hello everyone, I thought I'd take a moment and introduce myself and my company, I'm Tristan Crane from Entropy Wave Inc. I've talked to some of you in the past, and we may have met at the Boston Unconference this summer.
A bit about our company - we've been around for about 4 years now, my co-founder, David Schleef is a longtime Gstreamer developer and video codec engineer - his focus has been on open source video codecs and he was one of the lead engineers on the Dirac codec developed by the BBC. We founded Entropy Wave to support open source video and audio codecs in hardware products, specifically in the area of live streaming and high quality video capture. Our products support open codecs while simultaneously working with standard proprietary codecs including H.264, MPEG-4, and Flash. We're based in San Francisco, and are recent graduates of Mozilla's WebFWD mentorship program for companies focused on open source development in their products and apps. We're very excited to have integrated with Matterhorn and look forward to contributing back to the community in any way that we can. We've been talking with Entwine Media to discuss this, and have benefited from extremely useful feedback from them on how to improve our products to better serve the needs of Universities and the Matterhorn community. Our products which might be of the most interest to the Matterhorn community are the C1000 Capture Agent line, we offer both single video + audio and dual video input + audio in this device and currently have both 1U rackmount units as well as audio-rack size enclosures with extremely efficient (ie, nearly silent!) fans which are ideal for in-classroom or podium installation. Feel free to check out our website (www.entropywave.com) for specific product specs, or contact me for a brochure and pricing information. Our products support both standard and High Def input, HDMI (We recommend a particular scaler for VGA to HDMI conversion), video formats include H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Baseline/Main Profiles, Theora, Dirac, and VP8, with an output size of up to 1080p/30. I know that pricing is an enormous concern, our goal is to provide competitive and fair pricing on our products, while still allowing for us to continue to develop features, improve our product, and provide support to customers. Our single input SD boxes start at around $2,500, and the dual input HD boxes run up to around $6,995.00 depending on options selected. Our basic support package includes quarterly firmware updates for the life of the product, bugzilla access to report non-critical bugs, and quick support for critical software issues. We are currently running tests of these products in several Universities with their Matterhorn system installs, please feel free to approach me at any time with questions (or complaints!) about what we do. Our goal is to provide reliable, solid capture agents which will be a good investment for Universities and will allow our customers to have a worry-free lecture capture system, beginning with your capture device. Thank you for your patience with this lengthy email. Looking forward to participating further in the Matterhorn community with all of you. Tristan Crane Entropy Wave (415) 578-4868 x1002 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users
