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</style><table class="infobox ib-company vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org" style="font-size: 125%;">Xing Technology</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="Software" title="Software">Software</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1989<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1989</span>)</span> in <a href="Arroyo_Grande%2C_California" title="Arroyo Grande, California">Arroyo Grande, California</a>, United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Howard Gordon</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">1999<span style="display: none;"> (<span class="dtend itvend">1999</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fate</th><td class="infobox-data">Acquired by RealNetwork</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent">Chris Eddy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">

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</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>XingIt!</li><li><a href="Picture_Prowler" title="Picture Prowler">Picture Prowler</a></li><li>StreamWorks</li><li>Audio Catalyst</li><li>MP3 Grabber</li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><b>Xing Technology</b> was a live audio broadcast software company founded in <a href="Arroyo_Grande%2C_California" title="Arroyo Grande, California">Arroyo Grande, California</a> in 1989 by former networking executive Howard Gordon.

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<p>Gordon founded Xing on the basis of a simple <a href="JPEG" title="JPEG">JPEG</a> decoding library that he had developed. It attracted the attention of Chris Eddy, who had developed a technique for processing <a href="Discrete_cosine_transform" title="Discrete cosine transform">Discrete cosine transforms</a> (DCT) efficiently through software. Eddy's technique helped create the first Xing <a href="MPEG" class="mw-redirect" title="MPEG">MPEG</a> video player, a very simple <a href="MS-DOS" title="MS-DOS">MS-DOS</a> app that could play an <a href="I-frame" class="mw-redirect" title="I-frame">I-frame</a>-only MPEG video stream encoded with constant <a href="Quantization_(image_processing)" title="Quantization (image processing)">quantization</a>, at 160x120 resolution.

</p><p>Over the next years, Xing expanded in several directions: <a href="Windows" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows">Windows</a> support for the XingMPEG player, a software MPEG audio decoder, a real-time <a href="Industry_Standard_Architecture" title="Industry Standard Architecture">ISA</a> 160x120 MPEG capture board (XingIt!), a <a href="JPEG" title="JPEG">JPEG</a> management system (<a href="Picture_Prowler" title="Picture Prowler">Picture Prowler</a>), and networking. Xing released a handful of network products before StreamWorks, the first streaming audio and video system for the <a href="Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>, with support for both live and pre-encoded sources. <a href="RealVideo" title="RealVideo">RealVideo</a> appeared in 1997 (just before StreamWorks), but at the time, the company behind the technology (<a href="Progressive_Networks" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Networks">Progressive Networks</a>) had only published <a href="RealAudio" title="RealAudio">RealAudio</a> and its flagship technology was primary for broadcasting audio.

</p><p>After the launch of StreamWorks, the company raised $5M in venture capital, but Progressive Networks (which was renamed "<a href="RealNetworks" title="RealNetworks">RealNetworks</a>") raised considerably more in its <a href="Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">initial public offering</a> and acquired many of Xing's competitors (e.g. <a href="Vivo_Software" title="Vivo Software">Vivo Software</a>). Despite that, Xing experienced a period of expansion through its "Audio Catalyst" MP3 software and "MP3 Grabber".

</p><p>In 1998, Xing partnered with SimplyTV to launch a service to offer near-broadcast quality <a href="Video_on_demand" title="Video on demand">video on demand</a>. This service would require a 200 kilobits/s <a href="Broadband" title="Broadband">broadband</a> connection, which was not popular at that time. Forrester Research and RealNetwork were skeptical about its success.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In 1999, RealNetwork acquired Xing.

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</style><cite id="CITEREFAshbrook_Nickell1998" class="citation magazine cs1">Ashbrook Nickell, Joe (3 March 1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wired.com/1998/03/new-xing-effort-too-much-anticipation/">"New Xing Effort: Too Much Anticipation?"</a>. <i><a href="Wired_(magazine)" title="Wired (magazine)">Wired</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080815050022/http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1998/03/11276">Archived</a> from the original on 15 August 2008.</cite></span>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div>

<ul><li>Bert J. Dempsey, Paul Jones <i>Internet issues and applications 1997-1998</i>. <a href="Scarecrow_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Scarecrow Press">Scarecrow Press</a>, Lanham, Maryland 1998. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-8108-3430-8</bdi> (0-8108-3430-8)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/aug96/internetradio.html">SoundOnSound.com Early adoption of StreamWorks by NBC</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1996_April_22/ai_18214615">Findarticles.com: Harvard Law School Usage</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_Feb_11/ai_19105293">Findarticles.com: Early use of Streamworks for live video webcasts</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_Jan_4/ai_53503662">Findarticles.com: Xing releases first Mac MP3 Encoder</a></li></ul></div><div><div class="zim-footer">

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