The Appear ABR Packager is a modular software solution providing powerful video ingest and segmentation engine, high-performance storage solution, just-in-time packager/DRM engine and origin server in one complete suite.
The ABR system runs on industry standard off-the-shelf server hardware and can be customized to meet the operators´ specific streaming requirements. With its innovative architecture, our ABR Server allows for seamless growth and scalable redundancy – both through vertical brick-by-brick scaling and horizontal functional separation.
The Appear ABR system is encoding vendor agnostic. Live ingest can be performed by any multiscreen encoder/transcoder, like the Appear X platform, XC platform and Software-based Video Compression.
VOD ingest is equally easy with open APIs and any multiscreen file transcoder, or the fully-integrated file ingest solution in Appear’s Software-based Video Compression.
Key features include:
- Support for catch-up TV, nPVR and VOD
- H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC compatilble
- Flexible JIT packaging of DASH, HLS, MSS and CMAF
- Pre-integrated with popular DRM vendors
- WebVTT/TTML captions for live and VOD
- SCTE35 tagging for Dynamic Ad Insertion
- Infinite deep catch-up
- Dolby® multi-channel sound
- Encoding vendor agnostic
