Key features
Advanced video workflows
Multiple output production
Content monetization support
Built-in automation and management
Detailed specifications
* | Available with optional license |
** | Feature requires an L800 series appliance with a 25GbE Mellanox NIC or an L900 series appliance SKU with a -U designation |
*** | Feature requires a 4K capable appliance SKU |
Input Support
Live Input | - Single and Multiple Program Transport Streams (SPTS, MPTS) over UDP/IP and RTP/IP with FEC and SMPTE ST 2022-7 seamless protection switching - TR-01 with JPEG-2000 compression, PCM audio, and captions - SMPTE ST 2110-20 (uncompressed video) **, 2110-22 (JPEG XS compressed video *) **, 2110-30 (PCM) **, 2110-31 (AC3, EAC3) **, 2110-40 (Ancillary Data) with SMPTE 2022-7 seamless protection switching **, NMOS IS-04 discovery & registration **, and NMOS IS-05 device connection management ** - SMPTE ST 2022-6 with SMPTE 2022-7 seamless protection switching ** - SDI (uncompressed), optional: SD-SDI, HD-SDI, 3G-SDI, 12G-SDI, Quad 3G-SDI (4K), Interleave (4K) - AWS Elemental MediaConnect, SRT protocol (caller mode) - Packaged network inputs: Apple HLS TS with muxed audio and video - RTMPS - RTSP - Video codecs: ⦁ H.264 up to 4:2:2 10 bit ⦁ H.265 up to 4:2:2 10 bit including High Dynamic Range (HDR) * ⦁ MPEG-2 ⦁ Apple ProRes® ⦁ RAW ⦁ JPEG-2000 ⦁ JPEG XS * ** - Audio codecs: ⦁ AC-3 (Dolby Digital) ⦁ EAC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus) * ⦁ Dolby E * ⦁ AAC ⦁ MPEG-1 Layer II ⦁ PCM |
Live Input Redundancy | - Input integrity: Generate repeat, black, slate, or color when input is missing - Input failover, including seamless Hot Backup up to 4K *** (dual decode, single encode) |
Live Input Redundancy Trigger Conditions | - User-configurable - Time-based errors ("Input Loss", "Video Loss", "Audio Silence", "Video Freeze", "Video Black") - Event-based errors ("Transport Error Indicator Flag", "Continuity Counter Errors", "RTP Packet Loss") |
File Input | - Containers: MXF (AS-02, OP-1a-c, OP-2a-c, OP-3c), QuickTime, MPEG-4 - Packaged files: HLS - Discrete audio and caption inputs - OP-47 captions from 436M track of input MXF files |
File Input Features | - Separate audio and video files - Audio delay offset - Audio PID tracking - Audio language tracking - Audio track selection - MPEG-2 deblocking - Source file clipping - Fast seek - Merge multiple sources to single output - Channel selection for multitrack inputs - Audio only Input - Amazon S3 support - Static image overlay per input |
Multichannel Audio Input | - Per clip audio channel assignment - Unlimited audio tracks |
Timecode | - Time code source embedded - Time code Source use local system clock - Override Time code date - Start encoding at specified timecode - External reference connector |
Captions | - Ancillary, DVB-Sub, SCTE-20, SCTE-27, null, SCC, SMI, SRT, STL, Teletext, TTML, ARIB, EBU-TT-D - Source CC channel - 608 to 708 upconvert |
Ad Avail | - ESAM - Virtual input switching via SCTE 35 or asynchronous ESAM messages - SCTE-35 splice insert - SCTE-35 with APOS - SCTE-35 Pullup - SCTE-104 digital cue tone passthrough - Ad avail blanking - Black-out capability |
Nielsen | - Nielsen ID3 certification |
Notifications | - Web callback |
Scripting | - Pre and post processing scripts - Blank output during Ad avail |
608 Extended Data Services | - Line 21 passthrough, rewrite, strip, insert - Pre and post processing scripts - Line 21 passthrough, rewrite, strip, insert |
Copy and Redistribution Control Packets | - Line 21 passthrough, rewrite, strip, insert |
Output Formats
Video | - H.264 (Baseline, Main, High up to 4:2:2*), 4:2:2 High Profile Intra 10 bit * - H.265 (Main, Main10 up to 4:2:2*) including HDR 10, HLG, and Dolby Vision HDR * - JPEG XS * - MPEG-2 - Apple® ProRes (up to 4:2:2 10 bit) - Frame capture to JPEG (thumbnail creation, trick-play tracks) - I-Frame only mode - Uncompressed |
Audio | - AAC-LC, AAC-HEV1, AAC-HEV2 (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, LATM/LOAS) - Uncompressed WAV, AIFF - AC-3 (Dolby Digital) *, AC-3 passthrough - EAC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus) *, EAC-3 passthrough - Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos * , Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos passthrough - MPEG-1 Layer II - Audio only output support (TS, HLS, MSS, RTMP) |
Multichannel Audio Output | - Per clip audio channel assignment - Unlimited audio tracks |
Multilanguage Support | - Follow input type (ISO 639) - Insert audio type (ISO 639) - Follow language code - Insert language code |
Output Locking | - Apple HLS, Microsoft Smooth, and TS outputs |
Output Containers
Live Streaming Outputs | - Adobe RTMP Streaming (RTMP, RTMPS) - Apple HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HLS) - Microsoft Smooth Streaming (ISMV) - MPEG DASH (ISOBMFF) - MPEG-2 Part 1, Systems, CableLabs compliant (EBIF passthrough, EBP, PSI, RAI segmentation marker) (MPEG-TS) - Real Time protocol (RTP) - Single and Multiple Program Transport Streams (SPTS, MPTS) over UDP/IP and RTP/IP with FEC - SMPTE ST 2110-20 (uncompressed video) * **, 2110-22 (JPEG XS compressed video) * **, 2110-30 (PCM) * **, 2110-31 (AC3, EAC3) * **, 2110-40 (Ancillary Data) with SMPTE 2022-7 seamless protection switching * **, NMOS IS-04 discovery & registration **, and NMOS IS-05 device connection management ** - AWS Elemental MediaConnect, Zixi push protocol - SRT (caller and listener mode) |
File Outputs | - Apple QuickTime and ProRes (MOV) - Sony XDCAM MXF (XDCAM) - RAW YUV or RGB formats (uncompressed) - MPEG-4 Part 12 (MP4) |
Apple HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HLS) | - TS or fMP4 segment types - Byte range offset - Single file / multiple segments - Segment length - Minimum Segment length - Auto upload to CDN - Content Base URL - Manifest Base URL - Use subdirectories - Disable caching - Floating point manifests - Resolution tag - Compressed manifests - Use Pantos 7 CODEC identifiers - Program-date-Time flag - Closed-caption tag - Ad markers - Adobe - Ad markers - Simple - Ad markers - SCTE-35 enhanced - SMPTE ST 2038 ancillary data - Alternate Manifest destination - File transfer protocols (HTTP push, Akamai, Webdav) with ULL chunked transfer |
Apple HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HLS) Encryption | - AES CBC, CTR, EBC - Key providers: 1Mainstream, Conax, Inside Secure, Irdeto, Piksel, PlayReady, Secure Media, Cisco, Verimatrix, SPEKE |
MPEG DASH (ISOBMFF) | - Single file / multiple segments with ULL chunked transfer - Fragment length - Segment length - ULL chunked encoding - HbbTV 1.5 support - Base URL - Minimum buffer Time |
MPEG DASH (ISOBMFF) Encryption | - DASH-CENC - Key providers: Widevine, Piksel, SPEKE, PlayReady |
Microsoft Smooth Streaming (ISMV) | - Manifest level encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16) - Collapse identical audio streams |
Microsoft Smooth Streaming (ISMV) Encryption | - AES CTR - PlayReady support - Key providers: Conax, Inside Secure, Seachange, Piksel, Irdeto, SPEKE |
Reliable TS Output | - Deliver to AWS Elemental MediaConnect - Zixi push protocol - SRT caller and listener |
Reliable TS Output Encryption | - AES-128, AES-192, AES-256 |
SMPTE ST 2110 ** | - SMPTE ST 2110-20 uncompressed video (SD, HD, 4K) * ** - SMPTE ST 2110-22 JPEG XS compressed video (SD, HD) * ** - SMPTE ST 2110-30 PCM audio * ** - SMPTE ST 2110-31 AC3 and EAC3 audio * ** - SMPTE ST 2110-40 ancillary data * ** - SMPTE ST 2022-7 seamless protection switching ** - SCTE 35 to SCTE 104 passthrough ** - Precision Time Protocol (PTP) ** - NMOS IS-04 discovery & registration ** - NMOS IS-05 device connection management ** |
System Control
CDN | - Integrated CDN support: Basic PUT, WebDav, and Akamai |
Load Balancing | - Manual or automated load balancing options - Notifications and alerts |
Monitoring | - System resource and statistics monitoring |
User Authentication | - Multiple authentication tiers, Amazon S3 public and private keys |
AWS Elemental Conductor Live | - Separate management system for control, monitoring, and worker failure recovery in a multi-system configuration - Provision and operate channels using templates |
Network Management | - SNMP version 2c |
Real-time Controls | - Stop, pause, and resume individual streams as well as archived files - Audio gain adjustment for real-time control of audio volume - Video and audio preview |
Image Enhancement
Anti-aliasing Scaling | - Reduce distortion artifacts when downscaling |
Lanczos Scaling | - Multivariate interpolation |
Deblocking and Denoise | - Remove common blocking and noise video artifacts |
Deinterlacing | - Motion adaptive interpolation - Motion adaptive blend - Motion adaptive interpolation with ticker |
Inverse Telecine | - Removes 2-3 frame format, restores original 24 fps frame rate |
Telecine | - None, soft, or hard |
Gaming Optimizations | - Fast complexity changes and rapid quality recovery during transitions |
Noise Reduction | - Noise filtering capability (Perceptual Motion-Compensated filtering, Conserve, Spatial, and Sharpen) |
Static Logo Insertion | - Up to eight static image overlays (BMP, PNG, or TGA format), SDR or HDR - Apply image overlay to a single Input, a single output, or globally - Specify z-order and opacity |
Motion Logo Insertion * | - Motion graphic overlay (HTML, MOV, or PNG sequence), SDR or HDR * - Overlay HTML motion graphics generated by third party authoring tools, switch overlays on or off with SCTE-35 signals * |
Thumbnail Creation | - Create thumbnail JPEG images for any single frame or at custom intervals |
Color Correction | - Brightness, contrast, hue, saturation - Full swing range or passthrough - 601, 709 color space conversion - HDR to SDR down conversion |
MPEG-2 Error Concealment | - Temporal pixel substitution |
Cropping | - Select pixel locations to crop |
Timecode Burn In | - Text, font size, position |
Audio Enhancement
Level Adjustment | - Volume control |
Audio Loudness Management | - Audio loudness monitoring and correction; results stored to file (CALM compliant) * |
Channel Mixing and Mapping | - Manual audio remixing - Broadcaster mixed Ad |
Rate Conversion | - Adjust audio sample rate and frequency |
Formats | - Encode multiple formats simultaneously |
Multiple Audio Tracks | - Support for multiple audio streams for each video stream (SAP) |
Conductor Live
Live encoder control | - Create, start, stop, delete, and schedule channels - Visually preview activity on each encoder via video thumbnails - MPTS management for Statmux pool |
Resiliency | - Operator-defined, redundancy groups 1 + 1, N + 1, and N + M - Manual or automatic redundancy switching and customer-defined input source failover conditions - Simulated switchover - Cold backup - SDI router switching |
System control | - Authenticated user access for system control and monitoring with configurable user levels - View all nodes - Monitor cluster status - Schedule backups |
Communication | - RESTful API - HTML-based UI - Channel XML |
Alerts & messages | - SNMP trap emit - Alert email notification - Configurable alerts - Alert history - WebCallBack |
Other features | - High availability - Profile parameters |
Statmux *
User Interface | - Conductor Live for MPTS configuration and monitoring - Statmux API |
MPTS Output | - Up to 60 channels in a pool - Up to 125 Mbps per MPTS - MPEG-2, H.264 (AVC), and 10-bit H.265 (HEVC) codecs, at resolutions up to 4K with HDR - Combine MPEG-2, AVC, and HEVC encoded channels in a single MPTS |
Bandwidth Management | - Video pool automatically optimized during run time - Dynamic changes in audio and metadata accounted for automatically |
Latency | - Under 4 seconds (with software release 2.20.3, dependent on video formats used and operating conditions) - Controlled by multiplexer, optional parameters available to further reduce latency with slight compromises in picture quality |
Redundancy | - 1+1 with coordinated failover - SMPTE 2022-7 internode communication |
Passthrough Features | - All PIDs supported by Live |
Other Features
Metadata | - VBI passthrough (V-Chip, CGMS-A) - KLV Data |
Caption Extraction and Passthrough | - Inputs: ⦁ Embedded ⦁ SCC ⦁ Teletext - Transcaption Outputs: ⦁ CFF-TT ⦁ DVB-sub ⦁ Embedded ⦁ Embedded+SCTE-20 ⦁ SCTE-20+Embedded ⦁ SCC ⦁ SMI ⦁ SMPTE-TT ⦁ SRT ⦁ Teletext ⦁ TTML ⦁ WebVTT - Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - Open caption support - Caption burn in - Language flag insertion |
Processing | - Rate control ⦁ CBR encoding ⦁ QVBR (Quality-Defined Variable Bitrate) encoding with support for Auto mode for Quality Level selection ⦁ VBR encoding ⦁ Statmux encoding * (also requires Conductor Live and Statmux appliances) ⦁ Look ahead - Adaptive Quantization ⦁ Intraframe or interframe perceptual QP variation ⦁ Machine Learning driven auto Adaptive Quantization mode - Insert / respond to AFD - Scene change detection - Minimum I-Frame interval - Force interlace mode - Variable GOP support - Content-Adaptive B frames - RTMP metadata insertion - EBIF passthrough - EBP, PSI, RAI segmentation marker |
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Processing | - HDR 10 support (ST.2084, ST.2086, MaxFALL, MaxCLL) - HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma) BT.2020 - Dolby Vision (Profile 5 and Profile 8.1) * - Conversion between SDR, HDR 10, and HLG - Rec.2020 color support |