Kulabyte was a private company headquartered in

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that developed live

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and

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software and provided streaming event services. KulaByte was acquired by

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in 2011 and is now part of Haivision's product line. Kulabyte's claimed advantage in

is that it provides higher quality live HD H.264 video than any other encoder on the market while requiring lower delivery bandwidth.

History

Kulabyte was founded by Chris Gottschalk and Blake Wenzel in November 2004. In 2005, Kulabyte first unveiled its video encoding technology at the IBC show in

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In 2006, Kulabyte announced a partnership with

MainConcept MainConcept GmbH is a software company founded in Germany by Markus Moenig and Thomas Zabel. They specialize in developing video/audio codecs and also applications and plug-ins related to video/audio encoding. They are a subsidiary of Endeavor S ...

to use the MainConcept video encoding codec. Kulabyte announced a partnership with

On2 Technologies On2 Technologies, formerly known as The Duck Corporation, was a small publicly traded company (on the American Stock Exchange), founded in New York City in 1992 and headquartered in Clifton Park, New York, that designed video codec technology. It ...

in 2007 to use KulaByte's TimeSlice technology with On2's VP6 for Flash video based personal and professional grade desktop encoding and publishing solutions. At the same time Kulabyte also announced support for H.264 in

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using MainConcept's H.264 codec. By 2008, Kulabyte delivered its first major

live streaming Livestreaming is streaming media simultaneously recorded and broadcast in real-time over the internet. It is often referred to simply as streaming. Non-live media such as video-on-demand, vlogs, and YouTube videos are technically streamed, but no ...

event using its video encoding technology. The event was a live concert webcast from

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called "Operation MySpace" and was done in partnership with MySpace.com using

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through Akamai's content delivery network. Kulabyte released its XStream Live version 2 Flash encoding software and iStream Live version 2 HTTP Streaming software for iPhone in 2009.

, a

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-based encoding technology company, acquired KulaByte in July, 2011.

References

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External links

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