Beamr, a renowned team of media compression and delivery experts behind JPEGmini, have released Beamr Video, enabling the delivery of high quality video at low bitrates using standard H.264 video streaming. Capable of supporting any resolution up to 4K UltraHD, Beamr Video‘s patent-pending optimization technology automatically reduces the bitrate of H.264 video streams by up to 75 percent (4x) without affecting perceptual quality. The optimized streams retain the full resolution, quality and standard H.264 format of the original streams.

Because Beamr Video streams are fully industry standard H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) streams, they can be played by any media player, browser or consumer device without installing special software, enabling the seamless delivery of higher quality video with a fast start and continuous streaming experience over low bandwidth channels to fixed and mobile destinations.

The technology is automatic, always safe and ensures that video content is packaged at maximum quality with the minimum number of bits. Beamr Video supports any video resolution up to 4K UltraHD and accepts any standard video file as input.  While the upcoming HEVC (H.265) standard promises up to 50 percent bitrate reduction compared to H.264, Beamr Video is capable of higher reduction ratios of H.264 streams today, without requiring the installation of new clients.

Content source followed by the bitrate reduction:

• Blu-ray Discs 50 – 75%
• Consumer video cameras (AVCHD, DSC, mobile) 50 – 70%
• Download services (iTunes, Amazon) 40 – 50%
• Streaming services (Hulu, Netflix, YouTube) 20 – 40%

Interested? You can check out the official website by clicking here to see some live demos and examples.