TV Automation-CaptureBox Streamer

Any combination of channels from an incoming bouquet can be recorded at any time by using the advanced preset-based scheduling. This allows a single ingest server to record all the channels from a DVB bouquet through a single ASI or UDP input.

By using the above approach the first recompression stage is eliminated, keeping the original quality intact up until the transmission itself.

UDP live streaming can be made either from ASI/UDP sources or from SDI/Analogue video inputs by encoding video to UDP stream in real-time.

Each destination can be saved to a file or UDP streamed over the network, so AirBox can use it as a live video in its playlist. It is also possible to capture to file and UDP stream simultaneously.

A very nice solution to the above is provided by the PlayBox workflow. CaptureBox can capture the entire ASI or UDP bouquet of programs (a.k.a. MPTS) as a single destination, or it can capture individual sets of programs or PIDs to multiple destinations.

Ingesting content from satellite sources is a very popular task. However in many examples it's not handled in the best possible way - the most common mistake is decompressing the already compressed video to baseband (SDI or analogue) and then recompress it again into the selected "workflow" compression. If we consider the fact that during transmission the video will once again be recompressed to a "distribution" compression, then if we compare the incoming satellite feed and the retransmitted feed, there is an obvious quality drop.