SET Broadcast & Cable 2010 Volicon Exhibiting with Video Systems in booth D14-D15
Company Background
Volicon provides the broadcast and cable industries with the most efficient, reliable, and cost-effective automated multichannel 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 patent-pending Video Monitoring Architecture (VMA). VMA 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 Observer® Family
As the industry standard for video monitoring and logging, the Volicon Observer® captures, stores, and indexes broadcast content from multiple channels, offering users simultaneous access to video from their desktop computers. Recently, Volicon announced a significant expansion of the Observer product family to address the full range of broadcast workflows and budgets. The Observer product family now includes Observer Professional, designed specifically for budget-conscious television stations and organizations that require simplified workflows for media monitoring; Observer Enterprise, a fully redundant, enterprise-grade, 24x7 automated record-and-search appliance targeted to broadcasting networks for media-monitoring and compliance workflows; and Observer RPM, providing quality-of-experience monitoring for IPTV, MSOs, independent cable operators, and satellite operators.
Volicon Products at SET Broadcast & Cable 2010:
Observer® Professional
Based on Microsoft® Silverlight™, the Observer® Professional includes an intuitive, streamlined user interface for both Mac® and PC platforms that supports Internet Explorer®, Safari®, Google Chrome™, and Firefox® browsers, as well as integrated export functionality to H.264, Flash®, MPEG-2, or MPEG-4. Volicon will demonstrate significant enhancements to the Observer Professional’s optional Scheduled Recording Module, which integrates with electronic programming guides (EPGs) to enable quick and easy scheduling, recording, and enhanced searching with auto-complete technology on key media mentions in the video stream.
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Image Caption: Observer® Professional Scheduled Recording Module
Observer® Enterprise Version 5.4
The Observer® Enterprise is a next-generation media monitoring and logging solution that correlates several months of video and audio data all within a single Web browser client application. Beyond the core, mission-critical functions of quality and compliance monitoring, the Observer Enterprise offers high value throughout the organization — from marketing, sales, and traffic to business planning and management. The Observer Enterprise is a truly versatile digital logging and monitoring solution, integrating innovative add-on modules such as proactive automated quality-of-service alarms, auto as-run log import, content matching of audio cues for ad verification, viewer ratings data for in-depth competitive analysis, and a content repurposing module (the Producer) for leveraging broadcast assets across multiple delivery portals.
The latest release of the Observer Enterprise features enhancements designed to help users realize the full benefit of these add-on modules. The system’s enhanced user interface now includes integrated tabs for easy access to the Producer and Content Matching modules. Now, users can assign clips to a clip list that sends the video directly to the Producer for transcoding, and they can designate clips for the Content Matching module to use as “stamps” for identifying appearances of video in media coverage. Observer Enterprise 5.4 also includes the ability to import viewer ratings data automatically to hot folders for more efficient competitive analysis, and a new export module enables fast and easy export of video files to a range of formats including H.263, H.264, Flash®, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. In addition, Observer Enterprise 5.4 includes a free module that enables integrated access to the same Observer server from either Observer Enterprise or Observer Professional.
Observer® RPM Version 5.5
The latest release of the Observer® RPM specifically addresses the effective management of large-scale installations with the new Element Management Services (EMS) module, which enables centralized configuration and alert management of multiple probes in a large operation. RPM 5.5 also includes significant enhancements to the Interactive Services Module (ISM), which enables users to reliably test complex on-demand or interactive services using pattern matching, advanced decision-making, and improved quality-of-experience 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’s operation on every encoder in the operation.
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