Video Breakthroughs

Grass Valley demonstrates how easy it is to take any live program and automatically format it for the web and mobile computing devices, complete with the ability to replace advertisements in the live stream, with its turnkey MediaFUSE Live automated content repurposing and multi-distribution system.

This plug-and-play streaming solution offers dynamic live streaming in the Flash, HLS-5, and Windows Media formats. This allows TV broadcasters and all types of multi-platform content providers to automatically convert linear content and stream it live to address 95% of the multimedia consumption devices (such as the Apple iPad, iPhone, and Google Android) in use today.

The new Electra 9000 encoder from Harmonic Inc, which was launched today at IBC, will help service providers build the unified video headends they need to scale multi-screen TV offers cost-effectively, thanks to the combination of high-end broadcast encoder capabilities and web and mobile video processing. The new platform can be seen at IBC and first customer shipments are expected in Q1 2012.

Harmonic describes the Electra 9000 as the world’s first multi-codec, multi-format video encoder for broadcast, satellite, telco and cable operators that simultaneously supports broadcast, mobile and web formats in a 1-RU chassis. Each module supports flexible combinations of up to four SD/HD inputs, with up to eight broadcast output profiles and 32 multi-screen aligned output profiles.

It can be combined with the company’s ProMedia Package carrier-grade adaptive streaming preparation system and ProMedia Origin HTTP and RTMP streaming video server to encapsulate and deliver video to a variety of target ecosystems. There is support for Apple HTTP Live Streaming, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, Adobe RTMP and Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming.