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61 OPINION
LEARNING TO COPE WITH SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION
Andy Starks, Board Member and Marketing Work Group Chair, AIMS
I remember having conversations with component suppliers shortly after Covid was in full swing. We were hearing quotes for component lead times climb to over a year! Then 18 months… Then two years… Lately, you can’t have a conversation with a manufacturer making broadcast or pro-AV gear without the conversation turning to supply chain woes. Everyone seems to be spending most of their engineering resources swapping components out for ones that they can actually fi nd. Those are the hopeful stories. Some major components, especially those supporting proprietary technology, have no alternatives. In those cases, the manufacturer cannot ship, at all. At AIMS, our mission is to advocate for truly open standards and, when we do that, we often run up against confusion between ‘free’ as in ‘speech’, open for all to use
however they like, and ‘free’ as in ‘beer’, no cost but owned by a company. It’s hard for people to care about semantic details like this when a solution solves a real problem, is available to everyone, and is available for free or a reasonable price. Quibbling about the nature of ‘open’ can quickly become an ideological debate.
“With a real open standard, manufacturers do not put their ability to ship product at risk by
creating critical dependencies with a single supplier”
But our current supply chain crisis illustrates one of the main reasons why truly open standards matter. With a real open standard, manufacturers do not put their ability to ship product at risk by creating
critical dependencies with a single supplier, thereby creating a single point failure that can cut their revenue off, completely. In our industry, perhaps nothing is more fundamental than the format of our content and the transport mechanisms that we use to deliver it to devices within our production and distribution systems. That is why more than 100 companies have banded together to create ST2110, IPMX, AES, NMOS, IT and other important specifi cations and standards that are open to everyone. Why does that matter? Because multiple companies creating implementations for each of these standards not only provides for more innovation and competitive pricing, but it also ensures a robust, resilient supply of components for the key technologies that support our entire industry. 13.G102
IP VIRTUAL CARD SPELLS ST2110 MIGRATION FOR VOICEINTERACTION Deltacast
BY ADRIAN PENNINGTON
Speech processing developer VoiceInteraction (7.A55) has teamed with Deltacast to debut a virtual card to help migrate speech processing from SDI to ST2110 and produce automatic closed captions in real time for live broadcasts. The IP Virtual Card from Deltacast is a new video and multimedia programming interface allowing the use of third-party computer network interface cards (NIC) to capture and stream out video. The IP Virtual Card brings in support for video transport as per ST2110-20, audio transport as per ST2110-30,
and ancillary data transport as per ST2110-40. The VideoMasterIP SDK provided by Deltacast makes integration easy. The SDK connects the application to the IP Virtual Card through an API, supplied with comprehensive documentation and example source code. Olivier Antoine, Product Manager at Deltacast, said: “VoiceInteraction seamlessly integrated the SMPTE ST2110-30, and ST2110-40 essences natively supported by VideoMasterIP in
Audimus.Media.”
Audimus.Media is
oiceInteractions fl agship software for broadcast, now with ST2110 integration. Existing capabilities include live translation
on-premises, source video signal encoding to enable clip export with synchronised captions to VOD platforms, and HLS playlist creation with ebTT fi les to allow stream accessibility in any language. Renato Cassaca, Chief Software
Development Engineer at VoiceInteraction, said: “The fact that the solution can be installed on any machine independent from the NIC was a key decision factor for us.”
“
Audimus.Media is now
ready for deployment in any IP broadcast infrastructure,
Audimus.Media can use the IP Virtual Card for its real-time closed captions
independently from the NIC card used,” added Cassaca. “This automatic closed captioning platform doesn’t compromise pre- existing infrastructures, accepting the widest variety of inputs, ready for integration.” 7.B12
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