s quality standards . no cleanup reason has been specified . please help improve this article if you can . april 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message kulabyte corporation type acquired by haivision july 2011 industry video encoding technology founded san marcos texas usa 2004 headquarters san marcos texas website www.haivision.com kulabyte was a private company headquartered in san marcos texas that developed live video encoding and video streaming software and provided streaming event services . kulabyte was acquired by haivision in 2011 1 and is now part of haivision s product line . kulabyte s claimed advantage in video encoding is that it provides higher quality live hd h. 264 video than any other encoder on the market while requiring lower delivery bandwidth . 2 history edit kulabyte was founded by chris gottschalk and blake wenzel in november 2004 . 3 in 2005 kulabyte first unveiled its video encoding technology at the ibc show in amsterdam 4 in 2006 kulabyte announced a partnership with mainconcept to use the mainconcept video encoding codec . 5 kulabyte announced a partnership with on2 technologies in 2007 to use kulabyte s timeslice technology with on2 s vp6 for flash video based personal and professional grade desktop encoding and publishing solutions . 6 at the same time kulabyte also announced support for h. 264 in the adobe flash player using mainconcept s h. 264 codec . 7 by 2008 kulabyte delivered its first major live streaming event using its video encoding technology . the event was a live concert webcast from kuwait called operation myspace and was done in partnership with myspace.com using adobe flash media server through akamai s content delivery network . 8 kulabyte released its xstream live version 2 flash encoding software and istream live version 2 http streaming software for iphone in 2009 . 9 haivision a montreal based encoding technology company acquired kulabyte in july 2011 . 10 references edit http www.streamingmedia.com articles news online video news haivision acquires kulabyte and montivision 76719 . aspx http www.haivision.com products kulabyte http www.kulabyte.com company.html http www.lightreading.com document.asp doc id 101056 http www.mainconcept.com site news 9 2006 21671 kula media group 17833.html l 1 http www.on2.com index.php id 486 & news id 103 http www.macsimumnews.com index.php archive kulabyte supports live hd adobe flash player 9 h264 for flash media server http techcrunch.com 2008 03 05 operation myspace has real tech behind it debut of kulabyte http www.kulabyte.com press releases 40 kulabyte releases istream live 2.html http www.streamingmedia.com articles news online video news haivision acquires kulabyte and montivision 76719 . aspx external links edit kulabyte now redirects to haivision s kulabyte page retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kulabyte & oldid 647131436 categories software companies based in texassan marcos texasstreaming media systemssoftware companies established in 2004companies based in texashidden categories articles needing cleanup from april 2010all articles needing cleanupcleanup tagged articles without a reason field from april 2010wikipedia pages needing cleanup from april 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 18 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view