Anystream is an Internet software company that specializes in streaming media encoding technology.

The company designs scalable software that automated the laborious process of encoding and transcoding media

Digital media

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 for demanding broadcast

Broadcasting

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 and production environments. Anystream's Agility software has become a standard for streaming media

Streaming media

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 encoding and broadcast transcoding for such media companies as BBC

BBC

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, Red Bee Media

Red Bee Media

Red Bee Media Limited is a media management company.Headquartered in west London, United Kingdom at the Broadcast Centre, with international offices in Scotland, Australia, France, Germany and Spain, Red Bee Media has 1500 employees worldwide including homeworkers and revenues of £153m in...

, BskyB, CNet

CNET

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, CNN

CNN

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, AOL

AOL

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, ESPN

ESPN

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, Fox News, Foxsports.com

Foxsports.com

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, NFL Films

NFL Films

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, weather.com and others. In 2004, Anystream was recognized as the industry's largest software-based encoder by market research firm Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan

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, which gave the company its 2004 Market Leadership Award.

In its Apreso product line, Anystream enables educators and trainers to create rich media content for the Web. Institutions of higher education use Apreso Classroom to automatically capture and synchronize the classroom experience – the professor's voice and projected visuals – and post an interactive, indexed Web-based version of the lecture to university websites or course management systems. This software is already in use by several universities, including Temple University

Temple University

Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...

, Medical College of Georgia

Medical College of Georgia

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, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

 and MIT.

Anystream has been acquired by Telestream

Telestream

Telestream, Inc. is a privately held provider of software and hardware products for video capture, encoding, transcoding, and network-based delivery. Products include desktop components, screencasting, video streaming, cross-platform encoding software and transcoding applications to automate...

in 2010.