miniCASTER® partners with niche11

Unterfoehring, 30th May 2011 –The miniCASTER®/TV1.EU crew is the exclusive live encoding & streaming partner of niche11 – the Nouveau Niche Media conference at Medienkloster Munich.

The keynote and some selected workshops will be broadcasted live on June 4. miniCASTER® will encode the camera signal and deliver an H.264 Livestream via TV1.EUs Content Delivery Network (CDN) . The live stream is going to be available on the website of niche11 and its Facebook account. The recordeded stream will also be published as an on-demand version after the conference.

Norbert Gierlich is responsible for miniCASTER®s marketing and will host the session “Live Streaming – as easy as a phone call”. He is going to introduce the audience to the miniCASTER® functionalities also as the different types of devices, broadcast scenarios and certified and compatible live streaming platforms. The brain behind the world´s first H.264 encoder, Michael Westphal, CEO of TV1.EU, will be at Norbert´s side at this workshop. All participants on site will be able to test the functionality of the pocket-sized miniCASTER® and are invited to discuss their experiences subsequently with the miniCASTER® Team.

miniCASTER® CEO, Michael Westphal: “miniCASTER® is a one of a kind device that revolutionizes the encoding and broadcasting industry. It enables any camera operator to stream live to platforms like youtube, livestream.com, ustream.com or in the very near future facebook and reach millions of viewers. It was never this easy and affordable to broadcast live from almost everywhere to almost any website by the push of a single button.”

About miniCASTER®
miniCASTER® is a truly mobile hardware based H.264 live encoder that converts any camera or video source signal into an IP based livestream and delivers it via landline, WiFi, satellite or cellular networks to the leading Content Delivery Networks and video platforms. Through a built-in lithium battery it is possible to work stand-alone. miniCASTER® generates one HD and one SD Stream in parallel and is able to record on SD-Card in the device itself at the same time. The mobile live encoder in pocket size comes in two different versions and can be operated in real-time via a web-based remote management portal.