Mainstream Data is the technology partner behind many of the world’s most prominent news, photo and video agencies. International press agencies use Mainstream’s hosted MediasBrowser platform to syndicate content to their customers worldwide. Celebrity and entertainment photo agencies use Mainstream’s managed FTP delivery system to ensure reliable file delivery at incredible speeds. Video agencies use Mainstream’s video processing technology for on-the-fly video encoding, near real-time push delivery and hosted archiving of digital video files.
And information companies of all sizes use Mainstream’s MediasUpload application for the collection of multimedia content from photographers and videographers in the field.
Mainstream’s MediasBrowser web platform provides your customers fast, flexible and inexpensive access to your multimedia content. Use MediasBrowser to deliver your video, photos, graphics, text and audio files to your customers in near real-time. The MediasBrowser platform includes an automatic video transcoding engine that converts your high-resolution video content to the formats your clients need now – including web-ready and mobile media formats.
MediasBrowser also transforms plain text feeds to web ready formats like XML, NewsML, and HTML.
One of Mainstream’s most popular products is its managed FTP system called MediasFTP. MediasFTP is used by entertainment video and photo agencies, international news agencies, and other information companies to distribute their photos, video and text files to their agents, partners and customers around the world at incredible speeds. MediasFTP is integrated with our HAL monitoring system that provides you with remote access to real-time delivery statistics for all of your end-user sites.
MediasUpload helps you collect content from your network of remote photographers, videographers and journalists scattered around the world. Remote contributors capture or create content in the field and then use the MediasUpload application to upload that content to a central area for processing and immediate delivery. Not only does MediasUpload provide an easy interface for users and administrators to organize incoming content, it facilitates the capture of consistent metadata, which is becoming more and more important with the ever increasing deluge of content in the marketplace.
The Mainstream MediasServer network is our client-side multimedia platform that even the least tech-savvy users can operate with ease. We install a MediasServer at the client site, and then push multimedia content to the server over the Internet, satellite, or both. The server includes an automatic failover mechanism between satellite and Internet to ensure reliable delivery. MediasServers then allow your customers to integrate your content into their own workflow systems in a variety of ways including serial inputs, automatic FTP, HTTP (website) and file share. Mainstream currently has more than 500 MediasServers installed at the most important media companies around the world.