Tandberg Movi
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Tandberg Movi is a SIP
-based videoconferencing
software client, developed by the Norwegian company Tandberg
.
Movi is targeted at the enterprise market, and must be used in conjunction with a Tandberg Video Communication Server. The software is often paired with a Tandberg PrecisionHD USB camera, as Movi is capable of delivering video at 720p
and 30 fps
.
and H.263+ for video and 20KHz MPEG4 AAC-LD
for audio, as well as AES
for encryption.
component that was initiated through a client-initiated HTTP
connection to a Movi server. Movi was later redesigned as a standalone application, and Movi 2, released in April 2009, featured a new provisioning solution. The current version is Movi 4.2, released April 19, 2011.
Session Initiation Protocol
The Session Initiation Protocol is an IETF-defined signaling protocol widely used for controlling communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol . The protocol can be used for creating, modifying and terminating two-party or multiparty sessions...
-based videoconferencing
Videoconferencing
Videoconferencing is the conduct of a videoconference by a set of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously...
software client, developed by the Norwegian company Tandberg
Tandberg
This article is about the video-conferencing vendor, a Cisco company. Other companies with the same name such as Tandberg Television or Tandberg Data for data storage: see here and here...
.
Movi is targeted at the enterprise market, and must be used in conjunction with a Tandberg Video Communication Server. The software is often paired with a Tandberg PrecisionHD USB camera, as Movi is capable of delivering video at 720p
720p
720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan...
and 30 fps
Frame rate
Frame rate is the frequency at which an imaging device produces unique consecutive images called frames. The term applies equally well to computer graphics, video cameras, film cameras, and motion capture systems...
.
Audio and video support
Movi supports H.264, H.263H.263
H.263 is a video compression standard originally designed as a low-bitrate compressed format for videoconferencing. It was developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group in a project ending in 1995/1996 as one member of the H.26x family of video coding standards in the domain of the ITU-T.H.263...
and H.263+ for video and 20KHz MPEG4 AAC-LD
AAC-LD
The MPEG-4 Low Delay Audio Coder is audio compression format designed to combine the advantages of perceptual audio coding with the low delay necessary for two-way communication. It is closely derived from the MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding format...
for audio, as well as AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
Advanced Encryption Standard is a specification for the encryption of electronic data. It has been adopted by the U.S. government and is now used worldwide. It supersedes DES...
for encryption.
Editions
The first version of Movi was released in May 2007. Movi 1.0 was written as a light-weight ActiveXActiveX
ActiveX is a framework for defining reusable software components in a programming language-independent way. Software applications can then be composed from one or more of these components in order to provide their functionality....
component that was initiated through a client-initiated HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol is a networking protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web....
connection to a Movi server. Movi was later redesigned as a standalone application, and Movi 2, released in April 2009, featured a new provisioning solution. The current version is Movi 4.2, released April 19, 2011.
External links
- Official Movi software archive, ftp.tandberg.com
- Official Movi documentation