Fraunhofer Watermarking

Onlinelib offers the first complete system
After more than a year's total development time, Onlinelib releases the first video watermark solution for Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight and Apple iPhone. In cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in Darmstadt, the Fraunhofer watermarking algorithm was integrated into an encoding solution that can generate robust video watermarks. This is an important step for the future of Internet TV streaming, since it provides a low-cost tool for copyright protection in this media sector that does not constrain the user in any way.

The advantages of watermarking technology
The watermark is invisible and cannot be read by the user without additional software. The legal end user can play back the video unhindered and unaware of the watermark. Watermarks are gaining popularity over other digital rights management systems as the standard weapon against piracy. The video watermark presents a sure way of identifying and legally pursuing the original license holder. Yet this individual may be only a part of the full picture, and is not necessarily the source of illegal distribution. If the video file always comes from the same license holder, then perhaps he or she has a security problem with an end user? The video watermark helps in such cases.

The all-unifying encoding solution
The Onlinelib Encoding Solutions (OES) make up a complete system of hardware and software components. Alongside this ready-to-go solution, Onlinelib also offers a plug-in version for other platforms. The first plug-in version released is for the Carbon Coder by US software developer Rhozet/Harmonic. More plug-ins for other platforms are under development and will be released as they become ready.

More than 40 input and output formats can be marked with a video watermark.
These include the well-known streaming formats such as Flash8 Vp6, Onlinelib 's proprietary x264+ developed for Flash and Silverlight, Mainconcept H.264, Silverlight SmoothStreaming VC-1 and H.264, as well as all industrial formats such as XDCAM and Quantel. Onlinelib has also recently released its own watermark detector, which comes included in the solution. Armed with all this, rights owners can examine video material for possible copyright infringement, comparing them against an existing reference database. Digital watermarks have already been used in many lawsuits as proof of copyright infringement. Comparable solutions in the past have always come at a very high price. Onlinelib offers the world's first complete video watermarking solution at a fixed price for an unlimited number of watermarks per customer.

Use scenarios
The license may not be used as a web service for other customers of the license holder. Each license applies to file-based encoding. Using the license for DVD, Blu-ray or other image format press plants requires special agreement, and is not a component part of a license.

Example with and without an embedded Watermark in a Videoframe.
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OES proTranscode Watermarking process.
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For any Questions please contact us:
Onlinelib GmbH, 
Schwansbeller Weg 32, D-44532 Lünen, Germany
Telefon: +49 (2306) 998060 Internet: http://www.onlinelib.de/

Fraunhofer-Institut für Sichere Informationstechnologie (SIT), 
Rheinstraße 75,
D-64295 Darmstadt
Telefon: +49 (6151) 869-213 Internet: http://www.sit.fraunhofer.de