Free Video Playout Server
Magic Soft Playout (new version available). Magicsoft Playout is a broadcast application with a client-server architecture. It's suitable for 24/7 playout to be used by movies, music and news channels, allowing to insert commercials and switching between multiple live video. CUBA Playout Management is a powerful web-based, platform-independent tool, providing all the features you need to plan and import playlists, monitor playout servers and manipulate the rundown. It allows operators to remotely control an unlimited number of playout servers, regardless of the servers’ location which can be anywhere on the globe.
My employer is going to be remodeling a TV studio, and we are presently in planning stages. Essentially we are looking for the best device to use to play out clips, like B-Roll, and pre packaged segments during live productions. In our present studio we use a TriCaster so everything is all contained with the two DDR's.
We also are looking at replay systems as well, and I'm not well versed on the matter but they can play back any sort of clip that we load on to them right?
What I have in mind: 1.) CasparCG (el cheapo, we use it occasionally in our present setup, kinda clunky) 2.) Abekas Mira/Tria 3.) Grass Valley K2 Summit 4.) Avid Airspeed
We are still in the very very early stages, haven't even decided on a switcher yet, but we will most likely be going MVS-3000 or Carbonite. Presently the studio has a Ross Crossover and we are ditching it for something that has two M/E's. Film-film laga terbaik 2018. We would like to be able to trigger playback like we can with the trickster DDR's, thats one reason we dislike the CasparCG machine we have.
Just looking for some feedback..thanks!
Free Video Playout Server Software
A video server is a computer-based device that is dedicated to delivering video. Video servers are used in a number of applications, and often have additional functions and capabilities that address the needs of particular applications. For example, video servers used in security, surveillance and inspection applications typically are designed to capture video from one or more cameras and deliver the video via a computer network. In video production and broadcast applications, a video server may have the ability to record and play recorded video, and to deliver a large number of video streams simultaneously.
- 1Video broadcast and production
Video broadcast and production[edit]
In TV broadcast industries, a server is a device used to store broadcast quality images and allows several users to edit stories using the images they contain simultaneously.
The video server can be used in a number of contexts, some of which include:
- News: providing short news video clips as part of a news broadcast as seen on networks (like CNN and Fox News).
- Production: enhance live events with instant replays and slow motion and highlights (sport production) (see OB Vans)
- Instruction: delivering course material in video format.
- Public Access: delivering city specific information to residents over a cable system.
- Surveillance: deliver real-time video images of protected site.
- Entertainment: deliver anything used for entertainment. It can be gaming, news, movie trailers, or movies.
A professional-grade video server performs recording, storage, and playout of multiple video streams without any degradation of the video signal. Broadcast quality video servers often store hundreds of hours of compressed audio and video (in different codecs), play out multiple and synchronised simultaneous streams of video by, and offer quality interfaces such as SDI for digital video and XLR for balanced analog audio, AES/EBU digital audio and also Time Code. A genlock input is usually provided to provide a means of synchronizing with the house reference clock, thereby avoiding the need for timebase correction or frame synchronizers.
Video servers usually offer some type of control interface allowing them to be driven by broadcast automation systems that incorporate sophisticated broadcast programming applications. Popular protocols include VDCP and the 9-Pin Protocol.
They can optionally allow direct to disk recording using the same codec that is used in various post-productionvideo editing software packages to prevent any wasted time in transcoding.
Features[edit]
Typically, a video server can do the following:
- Ingest of different sources : video cameras (multiple angles), satellitedata feeds, disk drives and other video servers. This can be done in different codecs.
- Temporary or definitive storage of these video feeds.
- Maintain a clear structure of all stored media with appropriate metadata to allow fast search : name, remarks, rating, date, time code, etc.
- video editing of the different clips
- Transfer those clips to other video servers or playout directly (via IP interface or SDI)
Generally, they have several bi directional channels (record and ingest) for video and audio. A perfect synchronisation is necessary between those channels to manage the feeds.
Video surveillance and inspection[edit]
In some surveillance and inspection applications, IP video servers are employed which convert analog video signals into IP video streams. These IP video servers can stream digitized video over IP networks in the same way that an IP Camera can. Because an IP Video server uses IP protocols, it can stream video over any IP-compatible network, including via a modem for access over a phone or ISDN connection. With the use of a video server attached to an analog camera, the video from an existing surveillance system can be converted and networked into a new IP surveillance system.
In the video security industry a video server is a device to which one or more video sources can be attached. Video servers are used to give existing analog systems network connectivity. Video servers are essentially transmission/ telemetry / monitoring devices. Viewing is done using a web browser or in some cases supplied software. These products also allow the upload of images to the internet or direct viewing from the internet. In order to upload to the internet an account with an ISP (internet service provider) may be required.
Phone apps that send direct security video feed to smartphones from security video servers are another recent security video server application innovation. This allows smartphone users to view security video server feed from anywhere they can use their smartphone.[1]
See also[edit]
- Broadcast automation and playout
- Media server (Consumer)
References[edit]
- ^Viewing Your Security Camera on Your Android Smartphone with MPRMS