UniversCiné taps Unified Streaming for multiscreen distribution


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Michelle Clancy

| 24 January 2016




French independent film platform UniversCiné has selected Unified Streaming to create a multiscreen distribution platform.



Viewers can watch more than 4,000 independent films ranging from classics to contemporary successes of independent cinema.

Founded in France in 2001, UniversCiné is an initiative of independent film producers and distributors. Their initial goal was to raise attention for independent film through a video-on-demand (VOD) service offering the latest titles, classics and less well-known films, as well as some directors’ interviews, articles, reviews, factsheets and festival information in order to enrich the users’ experience.

“A key strategic focus at UniversCiné is to use advanced technologies to be future-proof and offer our customers video anywhere, anytime.” says Benjamin Henseler-Campana, CTO of UniversCiné. “There are various advantages like no need for repackaging or re-encoding, no need for extra storage and quick time-to-market with which we are ready to compete in today’s fast moving over-the-top (OTT) industry.”

Unified Streaming will provide on-the-fly packaging to all formats and platforms, including DRM protection. To address older and some Android devices, progressive download of MP4 can be selected, making it possible to start watching before the download is completed.

“UniversCiné is a great reference and shows how our software can be used for creating an efficient and feature rich video-on-demand platform.” said Simon Westbroek, VP. Global Sales, Unified Streaming.

“An important requirement for UniversCiné is offering viewers: download-to-own. Unified Origin makes it possible to stream from a single file all adaptive bitrate formats including the format required for download-to-one.“