Broadcast Suite
Broadcast Server
Feed Recording and Ingest Software
Broadcast Server is a video ingest software to record one or multiple feeds and programs from satellites, internet streams, studio productions, etc.
Control and Monitor All Operations
Record different sources simultaneously. Control all ingest operations on a single web interface and monitor multiple channels at the same time. Record live events to a wide range of file formats and from various supported input cards.
Scaling capacity and High Availability
Scale operations from a single server setup to farm distributed operations. Perform subsequent tasks like file transfer, webservices calls and housekeeping options. Get e-mail and visual notifications from the system to identify problems.
Runs jobs as n+1 or 1+1 redundancy configuration based on three layers of redundancy; frame-accurate video servers, redundant controllers, and multiple clients provide resiliency for different failure conditions. Automatically failing over to ensure sustainability and prevent any interruption such as black-frame, freeze-frame, or drop frames on the screen with router control gateway.
Integration with 3rd Party Systems
Designed to run operations on 3rd party systems by calling APIs and to be called by 3rd parties by exposing its own REST API.
Possibility to control BlackMagic, Bluefish, Decklink or AJA card based computers or 3rd party encoding software.
An overview of the Broadcast Server features:
Features
- SD/HD/UHD/4K/8K support (*)
- Scheduled or crash recording
- Supports live video sources
- Supports live stream capture
- SDI/NDI/SRT/IP Stream source support
- SDI/NDI/IP Stream output support
- UDP/RTP/RTSP/RTMP/HLS/MPEG-DASH/SRT for stream input
- Automatic file transfer and house-keeping options
- Freeze frame, black frame, and signal loss detection
- Flexible metadata and tagging support while recording
- Simultaneous proxy generation with defined formats
- Multiple formats and destination options for each channel
- E-mail and visual notifications “Start/stop/split/pause” all sources with one click
(*) Depending on the type of video cards
The Broadcast Server system specifications:
Hardware Requirements
Entry level system
- Intel Xeon, 3.8 GHz, 6 cores CPU
- 16 GByte RAM
- 512 GByte SSD
- 1 Gbps Ethernet
- Windows 10 Pro
Scale up system
- Intel Xeon, 3.1 GHz, +20 cores CPU
- 64 GByte RAM
- 512 GByte SSD
- 1 Gbps Ethernet
- Windows 10 Pro
Supports all commonly used sources
- SDI - SD to 4K
- NDI - including Skype, MS Teams, Zoom and screen capture
- Web streams - RTMP, HLS, SRT, RTSP, RTP, DASH
- SMPTE 2110
Supported recording formats
- Broadcast formats: AVC-Intra, Avid proxy, DV, DVCPro HD, DNxHD, DNxHR, IMX, JFIF, XAVC Intra, XDCAM EX, XDCAM HD
- Streaming formats: H.264, H.265/HEVC, MPEG2
Supported Capture Cards
- BlackMagic - DeckLink
- AJA - Corvid, Kona
- BlueFish - Epoch
- Deltacast - Delta
- Streamlabs
- Magewell - Pro Capture
(Call us for a detailed list.)
X-Dream-Media
Software integrator with an entire commitment to media IT, developing its own software products for file-based workflows and asset management. Part of the x-dream-group.
Based in Germany.
The Team
Stefan Pfütze
Managing Director and Co-Founder
Michael Weber
Senior Developer
Yousef Jaber
Senior Developer
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