New Snapstream Web-Based Model Brings TV Monitoring to the Mac
By Rob Scott
January 20, 2012
January 20, 2012
- “Snapstream offers a TV monitoring service that helps various news services, government agencies and educational clients keep tabs on subjects discussed on TV, clip them and save them for later,” according to GigaOM. “Or, if you’re a customer like ‘The Daily Show,’ you’re using those clips as part of your own broadcasts.”
- Prior to this week, Snapstream’s service was only available to Windows users.
- The company released a Mac Web player this week for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and above. Mac users can now “search TV recordings, clips relevant video segments, transcode those recordings to a Web-friendly format and set up alerts for when certain subjects are discussed on TV,” explains the post.
- The new player features a plugin that plays back MPEG-2 recordings. According to GigaOM: “Since lots of video professionals are already using Macs and Final Cut Pro, that could greatly improve workflow for current customers and win over potential new customers.”
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