IP-SERVER is a software solution combining 2 essential functions:

IP-SERVER PLAY: Play Streaming video feeds in real time and in broadcast quality over an IP network.
IP-SERVER RECORD: Record Streaming video feeds arriving over an IP network connection (from professional hardware encoder or gateway devices).

The control interface (IP ADMIN) enables:

• Controlling several PLAYERS / RECORDERS from a single remote interface.

• Start PLAY, PLAY LOOP or RECORD operations.

• Selecting a MULTICAST (or UNICAST) address and the sending and receiving ports.

• Selecting the media source to play or to be recorded.

• Simultaneously viewing of up to 3 video feeds.

 

ADVANTAGES and PERFORMANCE

Advantages :

A software solution that offers a low cost solution architecture:

• A simple Workflow is all that's needed to record or broadcast a professional quality video stream.

1. To record: only an SDI source, a hardware encoder and a computer are needed.

2. To broadcast: only a computer, a hardware decoder and a monitor are needed.

• The machine's performance is directly related to the numbers of players and recorders (ranging from 1 to N players depending on the machine's core number).

• IP distribution can be made using existing computer cabling.

Performance :

• FULL HD
  

• 1 PLAYER per core CPU
  

• Professional high bit rates
  

• The feed is not altered whatever the number of Play/Record.

 

FEATURES

Compatible with:

• SD / HD
  

• MPEG2-TS, MPEG4-TS (H264)
  

• FEC (Forward Error Correction)
  

• Multicast / unicast.

Remote control:

Independently of the control interface, IP SERVER can be managed using GPI, the LOUTH automation protocol, IP or XML

PLAY Functionality:

• Broadcast of SPTS or MPTS video
  

• Forward error correction (FEC) mechanism
  

• PLAY while RECORD (Configurable schedule settings)
  

• Broadcast via multicast or unicast.

RECORD Functionality:

• Record an SPTS or MPTS stream
  

• Forward error correction (FEC) mechanism.

 

Use cases

• Coupled with IP decoders, IP SERVER can be used as a broadcasting video server.
  

• Simultaneously switch the same video to several targets (multicasting) for performance gains and considerable cost reduction (1 to N).
  

• Simultaneously record all the programs from a satellite feed (requires a DVB-H / ASI gateway).
  

• Record the video sent by an IP camera directly to a hard drive.
  

• Transmit a recording with a delay (Time-shifting function).
  

• IP Gateway: receive an SPTS or MPTS on an IP address and send it delayed (25 ms) on to another IP address in order to permit, for example, the real-time internal broadcast of a meeting .