This Essential Guide provides a unique reference resource for production companies or teams preparing to package and deliver assets to broadcasters & streamers. It gathers the published content delivery specifications from the DPP, Netflix, Apple TV+, NABA, The BBC and others and details the common requirements for assets, metadata, video & audio formats, rights management, subtitling, localization, content sensitivity and more.
One interesting aspect of containerized, hardware-agnostic processing apps is that they seamlessly adapt to a variety of generic server models - with little or no code tweaks. This has countless benefits.
Scheduling a continuous monitoring process will detect problems at the earliest opportunity. If the diagnostic tools run often enough, they can forecast a server outage before a mission critical failure happens. Pre-emptive diagnosis and automatic corrections are a very good thing.
With the ongoing growth of OTT content consumption, and the drive from live sports broadcasters to provide high-scale and high-quality Direct to Consumer OTT services, Streamers and their customers now demand streaming services that operate at the scale and quality of existing broadcast services.
Much of the OB production infrastructure has moved to IP, but has the connectivity between the cameras and the OB or backhaul also migrated to IP?
Software based systems bring immense flexibility but they also bring increased vulnerability and inevitable trade-offs between flexibility and security.
Lawo’s management platform for IP-based media infrastructures can now be upgraded to version 4.x. It comes with powerful new features and also introduces a significant change designed to provide more flexibility: the former HOME core licenses will cease to exist.
SMPTE, the home of media professionals, technologists, and engineers, has announced that the Content Provenance and Authenticity (CPA) in Media Study Group has opened its first public survey.
