Observer Enterprise

Volicon Enterprise platforms offer the highest scalability with enterprise reliability. 1 +1 redundant hot swappable power supplies and RAID-6/RAID5 hot spare enterprise grade storage complement ECC RAM and server grade motherboards and CPUs. Observer Enterprise is offered in a host of platforms from 1RU through 8RU.

Key Features:

Compliance Logging & Video Service Assurance

• Continuous 24/7 recording efficiently stored for quick air-checks and validation for compliance regulations
• Automated service alerts (email, text message & GPI trigger) for loss of audio, video, closed captions or detection of static or black video that are automatically logged and searchable
• Support for embedded AFD codes for tracking purposes
• Fully compliant, real-time LKFS / LUFS loudness measurements
• Support for internal decoding and capture of AC-3 embedded audio for HD-SDI, and SD-SDI programs

Media Monitoring & Competitive Analysis

• User-defined monitoring view, including PIP, Full-screen, Split-screen, and Widescreen to display burned-in closed captioning, time code & XDS data
• Multi-channel Audio: Listen to multiple audio tracks for each video channel with loudness meter
• Using integrated graphical viewer ratings module, compare your programming to the competition

Play | Stream | Clip

• Multiple play modes, including Forward & Reverse Step (Single Frame), Forward & Reverse Slow (½×), Play (1×), Fast (3×), Very Fast (10×)
• Stream at multiple resolutions and bit rates with low latency (2 seconds from live to capture) and ability to navigate to specific date and time, sync all channels or instant live button access
• Intuitive frame accurate clipping tools for trimming streamed content as sub-clips with mark in and out functions

Search, Manage & Retrieve

• Advanced closed caption and teletext search tool with boolean logic to search and extract EIA CC608, EIA CC708 closed caption text in real-time
• Bookmark and manage sub-clips with searchable thumbnail-based clip list view and embedded email HTML video link send capability within your network
• Import EPG data, as-run log, and custom metadata for workflow integration

Content Repurposing

• Export and distribute video clips for review and approval, or repurpose assets for outside use to transcode to along with scheduling and post video processing options
• Quick direct export/transcoding from Observer player (.ASF, H.264, Flash, MPEG-4, MPEG-2)
• Automatic import using the Hot Folder where files can be automatically dropped and imported to the system with no user intervention

User Management

• Secure per-user authentication and per group privileges associations
• LDAP & Active Directory integration

Additional Module-Add-Ons

• Content Matching Module – utilizes audio finger printing for ad verification & monitoring
• Producer Module – content repurpose Observer assets to over 40+formats and codecs
• Scheduled Recording – either manual or EPG-based scheduling tools