Cabsat 2012 - Stand S2-25
28 February – 1 March, 2012 | Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre
Company Overview:
Volicon provides the broadcast and cable industries with the most efficient, reliable, and cost-effective automated multi-channel video content logging and monitoring system for compliance, media analysis, content repurposing, and quality of service. Its Observer® real-time digital video monitoring and logging solutions are based on Volicon’s patented Virtual Media Network (VMN). Volicon Observer’s core is comprised of a multichannel video streaming engine, interactive search, content analytics, and service monitoring and alarming capabilities. Volicon products and services meet the demanding requirements of broadcasters, cable, and IPTV service providers, and enterprise and government organizations looking to improve broadcast product quality, enhance video management, and lower costs.
Volicon Products on Display at CABSAT 2012:
Observer® TS
The new Observer® TS (transport stream) logging system gives broadcasters, networks, and cable operators the ability to handle MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 transport streams natively and efficiently over the WAN with a low-resolution proxy, retaining the content and associated metadata within the stream. Complementing the existing Observer Enterprise analog, SD-SDI, and HD-SDI systems, this new interface simplifies signal flow, allows for greater signal density and flexibility, and enables full-quality content logging. Observer TS opens the door to new use cases — such as rebroadcasting high-resolution data, interactive content, and dialnorm reporting — for logged content. Using Observer TS for compliance logging and air checks, operators can easily extract MPEG metadata and troubleshoot the MPEG transport stream live or from the Observer log.
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Observer® Enterprise Version 6.0 Media Monitoring and Compliance Logging System
The new release of Observer® Enterprise version 6.0 includes several new features, including fully ITU-R BS.1770 compliant Loudness Monitoring, AC-3 (Dolby Digital) decoding, and additional updates. Awarded Broadcast Engineering’s 2011 Engineering Excellence award for its integration at PBS, the enterprise-grade, 24/7 Observer Enterprise media monitoring and compliance logging system is the industry standard logger installed in more than 400 facilities in 43 countries, and monitoring over 6,000 channels worldwide.
Content Matching Module
The Content Matching Module (CMM) for Volicon Observer® systems enables operators to flag and access specific audio cues when they appear in a broadcast. Using a prerecorded segment, the CMM creates an audio fingerprint database that is continuously checked against the incoming stream for a match. When the audio appears in a broadcast, the system provides an immediate alert and notification to the operator along with immediate access to the video in which the segment occurred. The matched content is added to a log that can be referenced along with clips that can be shared, within the organization and beyond, to provide all the evidence necessary for regulatory, copyright, and ad placement inquiries.
New Observer® RPM Version 6.0
The latest release of the Observer® Remote Program Monitor (RPM) fulfills the video industry’s growing need to assure the quality of critical on-demand and interactive services and advertising by leveraging automated video monitoring tools that can emulate customer actions. The RPM also now incorporates a new, low-latency remote control that allows quick remote operation while continuously logging content.
Through an easy-to-use Web interface, this post-set-top-box solution allows operators to monitor hundreds of channels, troubleshoot real-time video issues, and verify broadcast content and advertising in an exportable 24/7 log. By providing a remote view of the customer’s experience at the point the customer experiences it, the Observer RPM 6.0 enables providers to identify and troubleshoot problems with linear, on-demand, and interactive content quickly, before they turn into customer complaints or costly chronic troubleshooting sessions.
Specifically addressing the effective management of large-scale installations, the Observer RPM 6.0’s new Element Management Services (EMS) module enables centralized configuration and alert management of multiple probes in a large operation. RPM 6.0 also includes significant enhancements to the Interactive Services Module (ISM), which enables reliable testing of complex on-demand or interactive services using pattern matching, advanced decision making, and improved quality-of-experience (QoE) detectors. The ISM now includes an Interactive Services Wizard, a desktop application for developing reliable interactive services scripts, and a module that enables the ISM to work with every encoder in the operation.
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