The international swimming competition in Singapore, held from 21 to 27 September at the OCBC Aquatic Centre, marks the first time this prestigious global competition is staged in Asia. With more than 600 athletes from around the world competing in Singapore’s world-class aquatic venue, the event is not only a celebration of sporting excellence but also a showcase of technical innovation. A leading national broadcaster has chosen Lawo’s mc²56 MkIII production console to deliver the official audio mix for the championships, ensuring a sound experience that matches the event’s high profile.
Examples from IT and gaming show that the reliable exchange of data between applications from different vendors, often comes from commercial collaboration around establishment of clearly defined protocols.
With the ongoing evolution from dedicated hardware towards software running on COTS and cloud-compute infrastructure, monitoring compute resource is vital.
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?
