IN PART II of our IBC round up, we have picked out a selection of product innnovations that will feature at this year’s show. Our IBC Daily
Digital Rapids
MPEG-DASH for adaptive streaming
By Carolyn Giardina
DIGITAL RAPIDS plans to support the MPEG-DASH (dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP) specification in upcoming new technology and software updates in the company’s line of live and on- demand encoding, transcoding, streaming and workflow systems. MPEG-DASH support will be
available in upcoming systems powered by Digital Rapids’ new Kayak technology platform, including version 2.0 of the Digital Rapids Transcode Manager media processing software and the StreamZ Live Broadcast integrated broadcast/ multi-screen live encoder. Driven by the Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG) with collaboration from industry
Transcode Manager 2.0 is among the Digital Rapids technologies that will support MPEG-DASH
team are keeping on top of the exhibitor news across all 14 halls of the RAI Amsterdam. The exhibition writing team for the show this year consists of Michael Burns, David Davies,
Carolyn Giardina, David Fox, Monica Heck, George Jarrett, Heather McLean, Ian McMurray, Anne Morris and Adrian Pennington. Read our 30 page IBC report for the latest show news.
purchasing will play the content they want to watch, and vice versa — and content providers, who should be able to reduce the number of formats and protocols they must deliver to reach their full potential audience,” said Tony Huang, senior product manager, broadcast and live at Digital Rapids. In related news, the new
Kayak workflow platform is making its European debut at IBC. It is developed to enable media organisations to design, deploy and manage customised workflows for the expanding multi-screen media landscape. “Unlike workflow approaches
leaders and other standards groups, MPEG-DASH was designed to provide a universal delivery standard for adaptive bit rate (ABR) streaming while incorporating elements of existing proprietary ABR technologies. “MPEG-DASH holds the
potential to alleviate the current fragmentation of adaptive streaming protocols and to simplify adaptive streaming delivery for multi-screen viewing for both consumers — who would no longer have to worry about whether the viewing device they’re
that simply orchestrate between separate applications across multiple workflow stages, Kayak is built on a philosophy of fine-grained modularity with technologies as components, from media-specific functions to business-oriented functionality. This approach is designed to provide greater control and efficiency while making integrating new or emerging technologies faster and easier for our customers,” said Brick Eksten, president and CEO of Digital Rapids. 7.F33, 14.351
Wohler Technologies
New 1RU compliance recorder
By Monica Heck
WOHLER TECHNOLOGIES is showing several new products for the first time in Europe, including the company’s new ContentProbe compliance recorder, which features purpose- built hardware and software that records 24 hours a day. The recorder is built into a
1RU enclosure that can handle up to four video channels or 16 audio channels, combined with up to 720 days of RAID 5 hot-swappable storage and dual-power supplies. ContentProbe provides compliance recording with FaultTracker signal fault monitoring for audio, video, captions, and loudness. It also uses Media FingerPrinting technology for commercial content verification and RealSync frame-accurate recording to allow users to tailor alerts and notifications. A Silverlight Web interface is
available to support frame- accurate cueing. 10.A10