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# Tech Specs

## Input

### Compressed input

* Type: IP (IGMPv3-based redundancy and dual multicast redundancy), Dual source  redundancy (active/active & active/passive modes), Pro-MPEG FEC support

* Monitoring: Packet loss statistics

* Protocol: MPEG-2 TS (MPTS & SPTS), RTMP

* Codec: JPEG-XS, MPEG-2, H.264, HEVC – MPEG-1 LII, Dolby Digital (AC-3), Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3), AAC, HEAAC v1 and v2, Dolby E (baseband input  only), Dolby Digital Plus ATMOS

* Data rate: SD / HD up to 50 Mbps, UHD up to 80 Mbps

#### Reliable transport

* SRT and RIST input/output:

Carriage of UDP or RTP streams over the SRT protocol

* SRT listener or caller mode

* RIST sender mode

* RIST listener mode

* Zixi input/output

Zixi sender

* Zixi feeder or Zixi Receiver mode

### Baseband input

Optional hardware required

* SDI: 3G / HD / SD-SDI (max 16 per server)

* SDI over IP (SMPTE ST 2022-6)

* SMPTE ST 2110

SMPTE ST 2110-20 uncompressed video up to UHD resolution,

* SMPTE ST 2110-30/31: uncompressed audio,

* SMPTE ST 2110-40: data (VITC/Time code, AFD/BAR, Closed captioning, OP-47 Teletext, SMPTE 2031 Teletext),

* All SMPTE ST 2110 essences can be input as ST 2022-7

* NMOS IS-04 and NMOS IS-05 support

## Pre-processing

### Enhancement filters

* Video: De-interlacing, Cropping, Letter boxing, Stretching, SD and HD Cross-scaling, 3:2 Pull down, MCTF,  Deblocking filter, Spatial denoising filter, Cross Talk filter,  Sharpening, Diamond filter

* Audio: Automatic loudness control (A/85), Audio gain adjustment, Mute

### Image

* Image settings: Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue, Gamma, Temperature

* Image overlays: Image insertion on input loss

* Aspect ratio: WSS, AFD, Video index

## Metadata

* Subtitles passthrough and translation: EIA 608/708 Closed Caption, SCTE-20, DVB Teletext, DVB Subtitles, SCTE-27, ARIB B24

* Metadata: SCTE-104, SCTE-35, IA 608 / 708 Closed Caption, SCTE-20, DVB  Teletext, DVB-VBI, SCTE-27, OP47, SMPTE 2031, VITC , SMPTE 2038, ARIB  B24

* Streaming subtitles

Closed Captions: WebVTT for HLS, DFXP for HSS, WebVTT or SMPTE-TT for DASH

* DVB-Teletext page 888: WebVTT for HLS, DFXP for HSS, WebVTT or SMPTE-TT for DASH

* DVB-Subtitles: DFXP for HSS, SMPTE-TT for DASH

* Ad insertion: EBIF / EISS / AITSCTE-35 passthrough

* Nielsen: Watermark extraction for multi-screen devices

## Video encoding

* Video codec: HEVC Main 10, HEVC Main Profile, H.264 Baseline / Main / High profile, MPEG-2

* HDR: HDR10, HLG10, PQ10. Dolby Vision 8.1 & 5.0

* Rate control: CBR, VBR, constant video quality

* Data rate: From 100 kbps to 60 Mbps

* Resolutions:

Progressive: from QCIF to UHD, up to 60 fps

* Interlaced: 480i, 576i, 720i and 1080i

* Templates: Channel templates creation and management

## Audio encoding

* Audio encoding: MPEG-4 / MPEG-2 AAC, AAC 5.1, HE-AAC v1 & v2, HE-AAC 5.1 1, Dolby Digital (AC3), Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3), Dolby Digital Plus ATMOS

* Audio channels per service: Up to 8 stereo pairs.  Radio channels.

* Passthrough: MPEG 1 LII, Dolby Digital (AC-3), Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3) 5.1-ch or stereo, Dolby E, Dolby Digital Plus ATMOS

* Data rate: From 4.75 kbps to 320 kbps (from 64 to 1024 kbps for DD+)

## Multiplexing

### Processing

* Full re-multiplexing support including real-time PSI regeneration, and dynamic rules-based passthrough of descriptors

* PID re-mapping

* SI/PSI generation/re-generation and insertion from external source

* Statistical multiplexing bit rate allocation for MediaKind software encoder

* Bitrate policing

* Input Content Extraction

### Content protection

* DVB-CSA V1, V2 scrambling

* AES-128 scrambling

* BISS Mode 0, 1, 2

## Broadcast output

### Output type and format

* Adaptive TS / MPEG-2 TS (ALD, EBP, IDR or RAP-based signal)

* SPTS over UDP

### Transmission

* Multicast / Unicast, UDP, RTP

## Streaming output

### Formatting

* Apple HTTP Live Streaming (Over CMAF or TS), Microsoft Smooth Streaming, DASH

* Common CMAF segment delivery for HLS and DASH

* Low latency chunking support for DASH

* RTMP

### Multi audio

* Multiple audio streams per output for HLS, Smooth Streaming and DASH

### Content protection

* Microsoft PlayReady DRM support for HLS/TS, Smooth Streaming and DASH

* Apple Segment for HLS/TS

* FairPlay support for HLS/TS and HLS/CMAF

* Adobe Primetime Access support HLS/TS

* Widevine, PlayReady and Marlin support in CTR mode for DASH

* Widevine and PlayReady support in CBC mode for DASH

* Key provisioning interface to leading CAS & DRM vendors

### Content publishing

* Support for pull scenarios in just-in-time packaging

* Support publishing to local storage or to WebDAV servers

### Origin server

* Built-in live and VOD origin server for HLS, Smooth Streaming and DASH

* Custom HTTP headers management (Expiry settings, CORS headers…)

* Built-in support of HTTP 1.1 Chunked Transfer Encoding for Low Latency

### CDN

* Interfaces to leading CDNs

* Certified with Akamai MSL 4 for HLS and DASH

## Monitoring & control

* Control interface: Up to 2 IP ports, monitoring and control ports (primary and spare) through API & GUI

* Control and system protocols: REST, HTTP, NTP, FTP, IGMP v2 / v3, SNMP v2 / 3c

* Content replacement: SCTE-35 in-band / ESAM out-of-band. Triggers: Time signal, Splice-out / Splice-in, Alternate command, or manually triggered from GUI.

* High availability: Support both 1+1 and N+M redundancy schemes. Service synchronization on encoder and packager

## Infrastructure

* Servers: MediaKind-referenced hardware IT Datacenter based on COTS servers

* CPU: Intel, AMD