DSF - Bundesliga Aktuell goes online!

DSF, the German sports TV channel, is now broadcasting its much-loved show on the Internet. stream5 and Visual Acting have worked together to develop a video platform with five channels, which will offer users the latest news about football and motor-sports. Viewers can also take part in the action.

DSF- On Demand Video Platform

Objectives:

  • Joint development of a video platform - in cooperation with the agency, Visual Acting - to enable all TV content to be played
  • Maximum flexibility for the design of the front-end and back-end for DSF
  • Central integration of community functions
  • Regional limits on usage rights
  • Interactivity as an element to retain users

Solution:

  • Precise assignment of geographical rights and roles at the clip level using geo-location technology
  • No buffering time
  • Automatic clip conversion and preview generation
  • Enabling user generated content
  • Compilation of a user channel from prescribed content

SnackTV – The world in a clip format

SnackTV – Videosyndication

SnackTV aggregates video clips from a great variety of content providers and links these to various publishers' websites with its own video player. SnackTV thereby offers the first comprehensive program in clip format. Thus users of the associated websites can access at any time video contents in areas such as news, sport, entertainment, documentaries, knowledge, fashion, nutrition, health, automotive, cinema, and others.

Objectives:

  • Joint development of the video platform with Wunder Media GmbH
  • Clearly laid-out display of a great number of videos in the player
  • Design of a pure teaser level with various video categories as well as the integrated video player
  • Linking the player level to the corresponding URLs of the content providers
  • Adaptation of the cockpit for the playout of various contents to the relevant websites

Solution:

  • Video player can be controlled via a central navigation module
  • Up to 20 video categories are displayed in the navigation using a scrollbar
  • For each category, preview pictures are displayed in separate modules
  • Preview pictures can be generated in the cockpit or loaded from the browser
  • Automated clip conversion
  • No buffer times during fast-forwarding or rewinding

O'Neill TV - Branded Entertainment

Global program platform

There is an interactive approach on the website of the trendy brand O'Neill. Surfers and boarders get their money's worth when professionals allow people to catch a glimpse of their lifestyle on the global channel, O'Neill TV.

Objectives:

  • Creation of a global program platform for playing proprietary productions and as a means of generating enthusiastic customer loyalty
  • Setting a benchmark for the field of video usability and play-performance
  • Long-term integration of the application as an important brand component (connection with events, PoS, collections, etc.)
  • Positive image transfer as driver for innovation in this sector
  • Product positioning without direct promotional characteristics
  • Generating Internet coverage

Solutions:

  • Development of a Web-TV platform, primarily with videos on surfing and snowboarding
  • Global distribution of live and on-demand content
  • Image transfer to brands and consumer opinions about role models / professional sportsmen and women / trendsetters
  • No buffer times, full-screen moving images, playlists, clip media data enhancements
  • Clip voting in the timeline   
  • Electronic Program Guide (EPG)
  • Keyword search and playlist results playback
  • Creation of playlist(s) using Drag&Drop in the back-end (Flex)
  • Automatic clip conversion and preview generation
  • Brilliant image quality at bandwidths starting from 650 kbit/s
    Sloggi - The world's first live photo shoot


Sloggi - The world's first live photo shoot

Interactive!

Online participants in this unusual event were able to follow the Sloggi brand's photo shoot live and interactively on the Internet using the stream5 player. Four
different, freely selectable camera angles turned the user into a director.

Objectives:

  • Live web feeds of the six hour photo shoot
  • Global broadcast
  • 4 different camera angles - all freely selectable by the user
  • High image quality
  • Low buffer times
  • High degree of integration and entertainment factor

Solution:

  • Merging of interactive user features with creative content
  • Possibility of designing the shoot oneself ("voting", "tell a friend" functions, etc.)
  • User becomes the director and can change to different spaces
  • User-friendly player construction
  • Ability to participate in live surveys
  • Well-known British TV presenter (Ray Cokes)
  • Interactive voting
  • If the level of excitement drops, the viewer can change channel at any time


Marc O'Polo - Interactive eCommerce solution

InVideo Shopping

The player, designed in cooperation with ViCommerce, for Marc O'Polo allows viewers to order goods seen in the video directly. The dynamic overlaying of product information capitalises on impulse buys and increase revenues.

Implementation

  • Incorporation of the "Paris Spring Collection" video in the stream5 video system
  • Integrated shopping function in the s5 player
  • Link to Marc O'Polo's online shop, with a readily available infrastructure
  • Revenue increases



Webasto - Video Player & Powerpoint

Complex topics can be attractively and vividly presented using parallel play-back of video and Powerpoint. This form of communication is particularly suitable for training purposes, product information, conferences, events and meetings.

Objectives:

Clear depiction of how to fit Webasto's independent vehicle heater to a VW Tiguan for training purposes

 

Solution:

  • Synchronised play-back of video and Powerpoint
  • Connections between technical terms, the tools used and the installation are shown clearly in the video and Powerpoint
  • High quality full-screen mode
  • Download function for the presentation so it can be saved and printed