Line of Business

Multimedia Development Company

Goal

The Media Cottage was contracted by a large computer manufacturer in Houston to build a series of kiosks for their new visitor’s center. The kiosks must be interactive, but must also contain great looking video.

Problem

The client originally thought they had to use laserdisk. They said they had never seen "compressed video that meets our quality requirements". However, the client was selling computer systems, and ultimately felt it would be better to use their own systems for the demo in their visitor’s center.

Solution

MPEG Power Professional-2 running on a Dual Pentium II 300 MHz Machine with 256 MB of RAM was used to create several MPEG-2 streams encoded at 5-7 Mb/s. The client was thrilled with the results. Ultimately eight kiosks were developed using MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams.

Benefits

• Video analysis features allow higher quality at lower bitrates.
• Sophisticated interface allows for fine control of encoding parameters.

Quotes

"This client was really worried about compressing their video. But compressed video was really the only way to get the applications to run on their own computer systems. We used MPEG Power Professional-2 to create some MPEG-2 streams for them. We were really excited about the results, and so was the client. MPEG Power Professional works so well, we even convinced them to use MPEG-1 in some of the kiosks."

Contact

Ed Wood
Media Cottage
Phone: 512.847.8956