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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 11 - Issue 9 | September 2021
InMedia
Compliance and Logging
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Contributing Editor David Kirk looks again
at the latest developments in terms of
hardware, software and services...
roadcast compliance and logging
had their origins in the Code of
Practice recommendations issued by
national public-service broadcasters. Its
focus then, as now, was on social issues,
programme ownership rights, proof-ofpublication
and technical factors such
as signal quality. The transition from
analog to digital production simplified
the entire business by introducing the
use of metadata for content tracking
and allowing 'as-run' recordings of a
channel's entire output to be stored at
relatively low cost. In terms of signal
quality, compliance monitoring is a
largely automated process which has
advanced strongly in recent years. An
accelerating trend is the inclusion of AIbased
tools for content analysis. This
article looks at the latest developments
in terms of hardware, software and
services.
Actus Digital compliance logging
and monitoring supports the recording
of any video, audio and Internet
format and any metadata extraction.
Compatible standards include, ATSC,
ASI, SDI, TSoIP, SMPTE 2022-6, SMPTE
2110, HLS, MPEG-DASH, RTMP, DVB
etc. All the mandatory and
metadata requirements
are included such as
SCTE
35/104,
management,
Loudness
CC, DVB
Subtitles, Teletext etc. OTT
monitoring is included
as well. Any deployment
platform is supported: on
premise,
Virtual
Machine,
Cloud based and Hybrid.
It includes QoS and alerting system
for audio and video issues such no
video, frozen image, pixelization etc.
and TS analysis (ETR 101-290). Actus
compliance and monitoring is a part
of a much larger intelligent media
monitoring
platform.
Additional
workflows are supported such as
advanced clips editing and fast
content publishing to social media,
advanced
fingerprinting
technology
for content matching, automatic
ads detection and reports, AI based
workflows for automation and video
and audio analysis: speech to text, face
recognition, brand detection, as a few
examples.
Actus OTT and Delivery Synchro
Digital Nirvana's MediaServicesIQ
is a combination of cloud-based
microservices designed to streamline
media production, postproduction and
distribution. It produces a record of
transmission performance to within
one second of a transport stream
failure. Black frames are inserted into
the proxy media to document outage
duration.
Video fingerprinting auto-detects,
displays and reports on the frequency
and location of commercials and lets
users add custom metadata. Other
features include speech synthesis,
content classification,
generation and compliance.
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Artec Technologies' Xentaurix Media
and Broadcast Logger allows multiple
channels to be stored using MPEG2
or H.264 video codecs. Features
include
secure
access,
fast
content
retrieval, validation and exporting.
The logger is available as
standalone device with up
to 16 channels or as scalable
system. Both versions have
integrated data storage or can
be connected to external servers.
The logger can also be used as
an IPTV headend in connection
with DVB-C/S/T receivers. With the
H.264 Anywhere transcoder and
streaming server, streams can be
displayed on various platforms, live,
time-shifted and as VoD. Up to 20 HD
or 40 SD channels per device can be
encoded, transcoded, streamed and
recorded in racks of 1U or 3U height
depending on the type of signal. Media
and Broadcast Logger functions and
features are also available as a cloudbased
service. The company's cloud
data centre has antennas that receive
TV and radio stations from Europe and
the Middle East.
Digital Nirvana's MediaServicesIQ
Artec Technologies' Xentaurix
Easy Media Suite's Easy DVB
Analyser enables operators to check
all key aspects of DVB transport
streams. It performs a variety of
standards-based output stream
validation tests. Supplied as software
to run on a Windows-based PC, it can
test for transport stream sync loss,
sync
byte
error,
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