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Asset Management/IT
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Digital Rapids Showcases New Products and Software Versions at NAB2006
By Myrna Tobisoo
Apr 24, 2006, 20:07
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Digital Rapids, a provider of video ingest, encoding, transcoding, and media delivery systems, will be showcasing its complete range of professional solutions in booth SL616 at NAB2006.
New Products
Broadcast Manager — enterprise management and control application for multiple live streaming encoders. Broadcast Manager simplifies operation with automatic system setup through discovery and centralized administration and reporting, while bolstering reliability with multiple-mode failover management.
Transcode Manager — enterprise management and load balancing solution for media transcoding. Working in conjunction with the forthcoming XCoder standalone software transcoding application, Transcode Manager features automated job management and failover support.
CableLabs Packager — packages media files with CableLabs-compliant metadata for loading onto a Video on Demand (VOD) server.
New Software Versions
Stream 2.2 — professional encoding with simultaneous output to multiple formats. New features include video processing plug-ins that can be used during live ingest or transcoding; additional Closed Caption options; clip trimming prior to encoding; enhanced MPEG muxing; support for CableLabs VOD files; and
MPEG2 unicast and multicast live streaming.
StreamZHD 2.2 — professional multi-format HD/SD video
encoding solution for archive, dailies, VOD or streaming media delivery from SD or HD source material. Includes the new features of Stream 2.2 plus a new StreamZHD Preview Player for previewing clips through StreamZHD’s VGA and SDI outputs.
Existing Products
StreamZ-CP — adds digital video watermarking to StreamZ for rights protection, tracking and monitoring with sophisticated forensic watermarking technology
from Philips. Includes integrated database for watermarking ticketing.
CarbonHD 1.0 — professional multi-format HD/SD video encoding and playout DDR with integrated software to manage ingest, trimming and playout of clips.
Copper 1.2 — wirespeed, secure delivery of media with tuneable rate control and bandwidth scheduling providing complete control over network utilization.
Digital Rapids will also host a number of partner companies in our booth, showcasing complementary solutions and applications of our technologies:
PlanetVu — IPTV powered by Digital Rapids technology, enabling access to a broad range of multi-cultural TV channels from around the world over the Internet.
Media acceleration boards from Aspex and Tarari — the Accelera HD MPEG2 Encoder from Aspex and Tarari Encoder Accelerator for Windows Media® allow the highest quality and fastest throughput when encoding HD or SD material, and enable real-time live encoding of an enhanced range of HD frame sizes and rates.
Storage area networking from Ciprico and Atto — integrated SAN architecture featuring the Ciprico Media Vault and Atto Fibre Channel host adapters combines shared storage with the throughput needed for HD encoding, and provides maximum efficiency when moving video files between systems for processing.
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