Whether you are an established TV Channel Broadcaster or planning to start your own TV Station or perhaps migrating to the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) platform from the traditional Analog Broadcasting in order to ON-AIR your contents, you certainly need a Video Playout Solution for this purpose if you intend to Broadcast your Channels through either Satellite, Terrestrial, IPTV or even Cable TV. With the convergence of IT, which has certainly replaced the traditional legacy Broadcasting workflows of the past, we are able to achieve various methods and techniques to put your TV Channels ON-AIR more efficiently and usually with minimal human intervention or supervision except during Broadcasting of LIVE news or LIVE events such as Talk Shows, etc.
With today's more powerful and faster computer processors, memory and storage space, it is possible to ON-AIR more than a single Channel from a single server with each Channel having its own Daily Playlist as compared to the past which is only possible with one Channel Playout per server. With Multi-Channel Playout in a single server, this has bring down the cost of owning and maintaining multiple Channels on multiples boxes considerably and not forgeting that it also brings down the power consumption and reduces manpower as well. Through-out the long run this will eventually leads to a quicker return of investment to the business owner.
Either you are looking to add more TV Channels to your current network or planning to venture in starting up a new TV Channel broadcast, which is a very profitable business, we can assist you with this endeavor as Video Playout Automation solutions is one of our core solutions that we usually offer to our regular customers. From single Channel to Multi-Channel Playout, we have the solutions at the price that you want and the support that you needed. All our Playout solutions are capable to playout video contents in 4K, HD or SD formats and they are easily scaleable to the no. of Channels that you want.
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Our Video Playout Solutions are capable to handle the following scenario:
- Playback of various media files with various compression and file containers, various resolution (NTSC, PAL, 720p, 1080i) and frame rates.
- On the fly Up / Down / Cross-conversion with a change to the fps parameters and Aspect Ratio at the same time.
- Quick Layout and editing of playlists using the built-in playlist editors, able to import playlist from Excel and other 3rd party Broadcast Automation Systems.
- Automatic and manual import of media files from the network to your server storage. (Automatic Media File Transcoding enabled during Media Import).
- Real-time editing of playlist events even while they are being executed which allows last minute insertion of video clips or commercials.
- Trimming of video clips in a playlist of events is possible directly within the playout process.
- Graphic events such as Crawlers, Lower-third text, Graphics, Animations, SMS and RSS feeds are all easily controllable from the playout interface.
- The embedded Web-Based interface provides access to the system administrative functions associated with configuring and customizing the system.
- Video transitions are possible such as Cut, V-mix, X-mix and Overlay.
- Capable to receive LIVE Video Input feeds from Satellite, Studio Cameras or even from VTR during Playout.
- Able to generate Log files to be used in Broadcast Automation Systems or for troubleshooting purposes.
Supports various Compression Formats and Video file Containers such as:
- HD: 1080i - 25 fps or 29.97 fps / 720p - 50 fps or 59.94 fps.
- SD: 625i - 25 fps or 29.97 fps.
- AVID DnxHD (120, 145, 185, 220 Mbps)
- Panasonic (DVCPro25, DVCPro50, DVCProHD)
- Sony XDCAM IMX (30, 40, 50), XDCAM HD 422
- AVCHD
- HDV
- DV25
- MPEG-2 4:2:0, 4:2:2,
- IBP GOP or I-Frames
- MPEG-4 (H.264, H.265)
- Uncompressed 32-bit Video.
File Containers:
- AVI
- MOV
- MP4
- MXF D-10 / OP1A
- RAW DV / DIF
- MPEG PS / TS
- MPG
- FLV
- GXF
Video Input / Output:
- Serial Digital Interface (SDI)
- Component
- Composite
Network Interface:
- 1GBe / 10GBe
- Fiber
Supported Internet Protocols for Video Delivery / Receiving:
- Internet Protocol (IP)
- User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
- Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
- Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
- Single Program Transport Stream (SPTS)
- Multiple Program Transport Stream (MPTS)
Supported Controls and Triggers:
- General Purpose Interface (GPI)
- Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) Cue Tones
- Vertical Blanking Interval Capture (VBI)
- Network Time Protocol (NTP) Time Sync
- RS-232 / RS-422
- IEEE 1394 Firewire
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC) request
Configurable Internal Server Storage for storing Video files (In Terrabytes) with RAID 1, RAID 5 or RAID 10 protection:
- 4TB
- 10TB
- 20TB
- 30TB