RealNetworks and Intel have announced an agreement to further accelerate broad-scale deployment of next-generation streaming media programming on the Internet and intranets. As part of the strategic agreement, RealNetworks has licensed and integrated Intel Streaming Web Video software technology into RealSystem G2. In addition, Intel will work with RealNetworks to promote and market the technology to Web media authors.

For broadcasters, the combination of Intel Streaming Web Video software and RealSystem G2 enables up to four times faster video encoding than previous streaming media delivery systems (according to RealNetworks benchmark testing*). For example, where you previously needed multiple computers to encode live video, this new technology, coupled with RealSystem G2 SureStream, will create a single file that scales from 5 Kbps to 1 Mbps in real-time on a 400-Mhz Pentium(R) II processor- based system, while improving video performance and quality.** The combination of Intel Streaming Web Video software with RealSystem G2 streaming video capabilities will also improve the decoding performance of streaming video, providing new levels of streaming media quality to the broadest range of personal computers.

http://developer.intel.com/ial/SWV/