In 1996, the founders of Monsoon Multimedia founded Dazzle, where they developed the world's first affordable PC hardware and software products to compress video based on MPEG standards.
Monsoon Multimedia was founded in 2004 by a team of digital video pioneers and serial entrepreneurs with a track record of launching successful startup companies in the growing digital video space. Let me take a second to steal some text from their website to tell you about the company itself. Now, lets see if the Flow can stand up to the hype. Let’s face it, HSS is not the largest blog out there but these guys got me a review unit of the Vulkano Flow after telling me they would do so at CES. I remember getting excited about what they were telling me but also had that bit of reserve thinking, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” First of all, I like it when a company speaks with me and remembers me after the sales pitch extravaganza that CES is. I first met Monsoon Multimedia at CES 2011 and talked with them a little bit about their up and coming products. Warning: 'Correct error-detection' and 'correct ripping' are different events. 'Correct error-detection' happens when ripper detect errors correctly relatively binary content of source studio audio file, that is used to CD manufacturing. Quality Ripping speed depend on own CD drive's correct reading ability. At just $99, Flow is almost half as cheap as Sling’s lowest-priced offering, the $179 Slingbox Solo. But Sling is far from the only maker of placeshifters, and Monsoon is making a push for the mainstream market by undercutting the Slingbox line’s pricing with products like Flow. Choosing “Slingbox” as a product name didn’t hurt either, as it readily conjured up images of slinging your favorite TV shows from your house to whatever hotel room you happened to be stuck in on the other side of the country. Sling captured the placeshifting market’s mindshare with their slick hardware/software offerings and relatively heavy marketing campaigns over the past few years. Without interrupting the flow of your content to the TV set, the placeshifter allows you to watch your video from somewhere else on another screen – e.g., In another place (hence placeshifting) on a phone, or other device.
The entry-level Vulkano Flow is a $99 fighter that offers up the core functionality of a placeshifter with a few bonuses and a few notable absences.įor the uninitiated, a placeshifter is a piece of hardware that sits between your audio/video signals (antenna, cable box, DVD player, etc) and your TV set. Monsoon has been selling placeshifters for awhile now, first under the Hava brand name, and now called Vulkano.
About VLC Player for Mac VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, avi) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.