theibcdaily New MPEG DASH for IBC
Conference Analysis By George Jarrett
After its proof of concept trial during the Olympics TV coverage, MPEG-DASH has been one of the buzz subjects of IBC. Introducing it to a wider audience, EBU Project Manager Bram Tullemans explained: “It is a streaming protocol that unifies the protocols from Microsoft, Adobe and Apple. The key advantage is adaptive streaming over HTTP, so it can automatically change bit rates according to the bandwidth available.”
Content providers get a single file format for delivering to all
Bram Tullemans: ‘You now need no proprietary hardware’
devices, and the system corrects itself if there is bad bandwidth, or if there is maximum bandwidth. HTTP
means content will penetrate firewalls at offices.
“It will also use standard web caches, and you now need no
Norway’s NRK chooses miniHUB Norwia By Monica Heck
On its second IBC, up and coming company Norwia has announced it has won a framework agreement with Norwegian state broadcaster NRK to supply its miniHUB platform. In an agreement that spans several years, the 1RU miniHUB frame that houses pluggable cards for optical
video distribution will be used for infrastructure projects over the entire NRK business. This includes short and long haul applications from outdoor arrangements with studio to building connectivity. One miniHUB frame
provides up to 16 optical links within the one frame with provision to expand without changing the front-end cards. “You can change and swap lines or rebuild the product
TRT gets 180 seat system
Octopus Newsroom By Heather McLean
The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) is changing its newsroom computer system in Ankara to Octopus6. Octopus
Newsroom is now working with its Turkish partner, Avkom, to complete the project by the end of November. The TRT news requirement is the largest undertaken to date by Octopus Newsroom in Turkey, following three
Dawn of the universal remote
Conference Analysis By Ann-Marie Corvin
BBC R&D is working on a universal remote control app that can be downloaded into web-enabled devices to control multiple home entertainment systems. During IBC’s ‘Social Media Meets TV’ session, Stephen Jolly, senior R&D engineer BBC, ran through the designs in the BBC white paper, the Universal Control API. Jolly explained that the open
standard API would allow any network-enabled device to be controlled from client software on the home network. Written in
HTML and designed to run on browsers, the application can be downloaded onto a smart phone, which would effectively act as the user interface. The app is capable of
speaking to TVs, set-top boxes, radios, Blu-ray players and any kind of device that selects and presents media to the user, meaning a single remote control interface could control a vast range of media devices. Jolly added that transferring the whole UI to a smartphone provides greater accessibility to viewers with visual and cognitive impairments who would be able to use voice and gesture recognition in place of an EPG menu.
after it’s installed and price- wise you get more flexible technology at a good price,” said Lars Erik Eriksen, chief technical officer at Norwia, who explained that in the miniHUB, one card would replace around 30 cards in a traditional system. “It’s a one-card solution and the whole key to it is the SFP. We developed Auto SFP, a software which automatically detects and updates the combination required.
others within the last two years. It involves 180 users running on Windows platforms to support the national broadcaster’s multiple TV channels and newsrooms.
A major goal is to simplify
the TRT news workflow and, as part of this, system integration makes wide use
Lars Erik Eriksen: ‘More flexible technology at a good price’
Normally inside a big rack, you have to unscrew things, it’s easily a big mess. It’s so much easier to work this way.” 9.C13
of the MOS protocol for communication between the Octopus6 NRCS and media servers, including iSoft playout, Vizrt graphics and Autocue teleprompters. Octopus Newsroom is also advising TRT on the efficient continued use of existing technologies with the new NRCS. 2.B19
proprietary hardware,” said Tullemans. “The new thing for IBC is that we can show it working on HbbTV. It is also working on iOs. “We define the publication of one hour and now you can do time shifting,” he added. “You just swipe the scroll bar to the left and go back into time to create a sort of merging of linear and on-demand services, because it is not a reference to a loose file anymore. It is just integrated in the live stream.” VRT has put a link on its sports site for the demo. What next? “It is a fairly fresh standard so a lot of integration is still needed by people – companies like Apple and a group of Android users,” said Tullemans.
Monday 10.09.2012 In Brief
RBB selects Astra Studio 2 automation Aveco has announced that Radio Berlin Brandenburg, (RBB), a member of the German ARD community, has selected Aveco’s new studio automation solution, Astra Studio 2. In a major public tender for a complete rebuild of two studios, RBB selected Aveco’s Studio 2 as the best product that met both its technical requirements and budget. RBB will use Studio 2 to automate its studio productions, which use Annova’s OpenMedia newsroom system, Snell & Wilcox vision mixers, Lawo and Yamaha audio mixers, and EVS videoservers. Installation is scheduled to start immediately. 3.B67
interoperable IPTV The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) and the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) Consortium say they are collaborating on testing technologies common to IPTV and enhanced broadcast, in order to improve interoperability between connected TV applications, services and receivers. This latest initiative enhances the cooperation that began a year ago and has delivered common procedures for the development, review and acceptance of test material by engineers from OIPF and HbbTV. The results of this
cooperation will be included in the first release of the OIPF Test Suite expected to be available in the first quarter of next year and the second release of the HbbTV Test Suite, expected in the second half. 14.229
File-based MediaCorp Sharjah Media TSL
By Monica Heck
Broadcast integrator TSL Systems has been awarded a contract to provide an end-to-end file-based production and transmission workflow to Singapore media company MediaCorp. TSL has already started work on the design of the project, which will change the way MediaCorp produces and manages programmes at its Caldecott Broadcast Centre. The deployment should allow MediaCorp to significantly improve efficiency, increase output, enhance control and achieve a better return on investment when
adding channels and delivering content to multiple platforms. The first phase of the project includes integration of the file- based systems with existing studios, video and audio post and transmission, as well as the digitising of MediaCorp’s archive. TSL Systems will also provide procurement services, a pre-build facility, installation and
commissioning with training and on-going support.
MediaCorp plans to transmit all
free-to-air channels in digital format by December 2013 under the DVB-T2 television standard. As Singapore’s only terrestrial broadcaster, MediaCorp’s transmits seven channels. 10.B41
picks IPTV system Sharjah Media Corporation is relying on IPTV products from Teracue for the development of an IP-based inhouse video network for its broadcast division.
The H.264 encoders and DVB-to-IP gateways from the German manufacturer, which is presenting its products at IBC this week, make it possible to feed all the TV and broadcasting studio signals of Sharjah Media into the company’s internal network. The planning and systems integration was handled by Teracue’s distribution partner Qvest Media, which is based in Dubai. 14.442
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