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Looking at live streaming coverage news this past week, TMC’s (News - Alert) Carolyn J. Dawson wrote that Elemental Technologies recently announced that the Wi-Fi Instant Replay system used by the Department of Athletics at Stanford University will be powered by Elemental Live. The company is a supplier of video solutions for multi-screen content delivery.

Stanford Athletics is one of the first intercollegiate athletic programs that brought on board instant replay over Wi-Fi at every one of its sports venues. With this system, fans will instantly be able to gain access to video/audio replay on their Wi-Fi powered mobiles. Diversified Systems is a partner with Elemental and functions as a systems integrator. The company comes with several years of experience in building video infrastructure specifically for sports venues.

In a release, Keith Wymbs, Vice President of Marketing at Elemental Technologies, said, “Demand for real-time, high-quality content on mobile devices is growing and sports fans are no exception. Stanford Athletics offers a unique opportunity to connect fans to an interactive experience that’s already proving to be a huge value-add in major league sports venues.”

Also, director Eve Sussman and her collaborative team, Rufus Corporation, screened their latest film project, whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir, at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Sussman’s film uses a computer to build a movie out of 3,000 video clips, 80 voiceovers, and 150 piece of music – making it a different experience each time an audience views it.

Sussman’s movie follows observations and surveillances of the central protagonist, a geophysicist named Holz, played by co-writer Jeff Wood. Wood’s character gets stuck in a city being operated by a major oil company. The rest of the story depends on what the computer has edited in real-time to show the audience.

Wood explained that the program that drives the movie operates similarly to that of a radio station. Each clip of the film has been predetermined with a specific tag (News - Alert) in the computer. When the computer decides to edit the film it might choose one of those tags and then select similarly tagged content.

EnterMedia has announced version 8.0 of its EnterMedia Digital Asset Management solution to address the high performance requirements of university faculty and students.

Developed in part while working with Harvard Business School and South Dakota State University, EnterMedia 8.0 allows users to create their own branded media sharing website similar to YouTube (News - Alert) or Flickr using open source technologies.

New features included in the latest release allow the solution to handle larger uploading capacity, simultaneous uploading capabilities, increased power proficiency and server clustering. EnterMedia is an open source software company with over a decade of experience in developing digital asset management software and content management systems for enterprise clients.