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Welcome to the Forum

The Video Convergence Forum (VCF) is a new industry forum dedicated to the development and promotion of open interface specifications and consistent business models for the online delivery of video content – whether for home entertainment, business or the mobile user. Membership of the forum is intended for all stakeholders in the online video ecosystem - including content owners, hosting companies, service providers, broadcasters, device manufacturers, transcoding companies, and online ad insertion companies.

This industry is growing at an incredible pace. comScore are reporting 28 billion video views in October 2009 in the US alone, and a combined 12 billion views in Germany and France. Even in the emerging market of mobile to mobile live video streams, providers are already reporting a quarter of a million streams per month.

A large number of solutions and standards exist for all parts of the online media stream, such as bandwidth management, encoding, digital rights management and ad-insertion - but they currently lack interoperability. This is the motivation for the Video Convergence Forum to develop standardized interfaces for exchanging video-related parameters in real time between different contributors and users of the online video workflow.

Standardizing Workflow Interfaces

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The VCF offers its members many benefits. Member companies are well placed to integrate their part of the video delivery workflow into the open specifications being developed, while membership will raise the company’s profile and facilitate networking with key industry players. The long term objective of “any media, any network, any device” will of course generate an enormous market with huge potential for innovation and commercial opportunities.

For information about joining the Video Convergence Forum, please click here.

News & Events

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  • Mon Sept 13th 2010, Amsterdam
  • 15:30 - 17:00
  • • IBC co-located meeting
  • • Discussion of key cost elements in set up and repurposing content for online distribution
  • • Click here for more information
• • 
  • May 11th - May 12th 2010, New York
• • 
  • Wed April 14th 2010
  • 14:00 - 17:00
  • • NAB co-located meeting
  • • Submissions for technical track
  • • Click to register for VCF Meeting
• • 
  • Tue March 23rd – Wed March 24th, 2010
  • • Introductory meetings to Video Convergence Forum
  • • Click to request face to face meeting at the CTIA show
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  • Feb 17th, 2010
  • • Foundation Meeting
  • • Video Convergence Forum holds its inaugural Foundation Meeting
  • • Click to watch online briefing
• • 
  • Feb 11th, 2010
  • • Press Launch
  • • Video Convergence Forum announced at NetEvents European Press Summit
  • • Download Press release