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Xing Technology was a live audio broadcast software company founded in Arroyo Grande, California in 1995 by former networking executive Howard Gordon.[1]

History

Gordon founded the Xing Technology Company on the basis of JPEG decoding library that he had developed to put on the market . The software interested Chris Eddy, who had developed a technique for processing discrete cosine transforms (DCT) efficiently through software. Eddy's technique helped create the first Xing MPEG video player, a very simple MS-DOS application that could play back an I-frame-only video MPEG stream encoded at a constant quantization level at 160x120 resolution, in 1992.

Over the next several years, Xing expanded in several directions: Windows support for the XingMPEG player, a software MPEG audio and video decoder, a real time ISA 160x120 MPEG capture board called XingIt! , a JPEG management system Picture Prowler and finally networks. RealNetworks released a handful of network products before StreamWorks, a streaming audio and video decoding system for the Internet, with support for live and broadcast decoding purposes. In 1997 'Xing' company put out on the market the XingMpeg Encoder package who intereste RealNetworks Company which buys out the company in 1999. After the Encoder RealNetworks' StreamWorks became tre only competition, and at the time it was known as RealAudio and could not hangle Video. After StreamWorks, RealNetworks acquiered 'Xing Technology' and staked the company at $5M. in venture capital. That acquiering gave RealNetworks a greater income thanks to the integration of Xing technologies.

Xing experienced a period of expansion through its AudioCatalyst MP3 software grabbing tool, and MP3 Grabber.

The "Xing Catalyst" is a software package licensed to directly create backup copies of Audio CDs into MP3 format.

Xing was bought by RealNetworks in 1999.

References

  1. ^ http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/08/03/1237220/san-luis-obispo-technology-wizard.html Howard Gordon dies of heart attack in San Luis Obispo, California on July 20, 2010 at age 57.
  • Bert J. Dempsey, Paul Jones Internet issues and applications 1997-1998. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland 1998. ISBN 0810834308 (0-8108-3430-8)
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