AirBox |
| AirBox provides automated content playout for regional, national and commercial broadcasters and users of corporate TV. It is designed to be extremely robust, in order to meet the highest reliability demands of on-air playout. Due to its unique support of entry-level MPEG2 decoders, it is also suitable for webcasters, hotel Pay TV channels, corporate presentations, video wall sourcing and other similar program distribution systems. At a fraction of the price of a 50 Mbit digital videotape player, an AirBox PC workstation offers the same visual quality at its SDI outputs, multi-channel playback, synchronized fill&key playout, graphics insertion, last-minute air-time playlist changes or clip editing. |
| AirBox supports MPEG2 streams from virtually every known MPEG2 encoder, since it has an integrated remultiplexing engine, ensuring the output stream is compliant with the MPEG2 specs (ISO-13818). This engine corrects on the fly a number of multiplexing errors such as unequal video/audio duration, missing or corrupted frames or packets, bad stream integrity, PTS/DTS inconsistencies, etc. |
| Any changes to the playlist during on-air session are possible! There are no ¡§qued¡¨ or ¡§locked¡¨ clips. Every clip in the playlist, except the one which is currently playing, can be trimmed, edited or repositioned. Moreover, playlist order can be changed on the fly with commands like ¡§skip to next¡¨ or ¡§Jump¡¨. Such order changes are performed seamlessly without stopping current playout session. |
| Any combination of MPEG2 clips at differing resolutions, bitrates, profiles and levels can be played in a single sequence seamlessly with no glitches or decoder reinitialization. The cut from one clip to another is completely seamless - no black frames, no pause, no last frame freeze, no audio pops, no glitches, no duration limitations... |
| Wide hardware platform support covers a broad range of applications and budget choices. AirBox works equally well both with cost-effective and professional MPEG2 decoders. The main difference is video output signal quality and bitrate/profile capabilities. Professional decoders support MPEG2 at up to 50 Mbit/sec (4:2:2 Profile at Main Level). |
| For budget-minded operations, AirBox provides excellent storage savings through the Main Profile at Main Level IBP streams. At 8 Mbit/sec, full-motion, full-resolution 24 hours of content require less than 90 GB storage. Moreover, at such low bitrates high-speed SCSI storage or FC network is not a must anymore. |
| Playout sessions are being logged for monitoring and control purposes. The log can be later used for extracting actual playout sequence with exact timings or identifying user intervention into the playout session. |
