Virtual Channel Creation helps broadcasters and content providers to increase relevance and reach both for their viewers and advertisers by creating regionalized and customized online channels in a cost-efficient manner. The solution has proven especially valuable when adding regional news or weather to national channels or to provide regionalized ad insertion.
Virtual Channel Creation is based on a unique technology where content is stitched together from various sources into a channel. Compared to the needs typically posed by other systems, it does not require the significant investments in production, encoding and storage capacity.
Regional channels are often encoded and stored as full channels, meaning the national content is encoded and stored multiple times – once per regional channel. With Virtual Channel Creation, national content only needs to be stored and encoded once. Regional content can then be stitched into the national channel to create each full regional channel. As a result, encoder and storage needs are reduced. If using cloud-based encoders, the cost savings enabled by this is significant. Similarly, the need for NAS storage, which is required to create Live to VoD content, is reduced.
Virtual Channel Creation also provides an option to use lower bitrate options of the regional content, reducing the encoder and storage need even further. Use cases demonstrate a 95% encoder capacity saving for national channels and an 89% encoder saving for regional channels when using the option to use a lower bitrate variant for the regional channels.
It can also be used to insert public safety messages, as well as efficiently manage restrictions in content distribution rights by inserting replacement segments, programs or providing a blackout solution, even for time-shifted content.
Virtual Channel Creation resides within StreamBuilder, providing broadcasters and content providers with segmentation, packaging and subtitling functionality needed for internet-based distribution.
Other products from this company:
Cavena Subtitling
Edgeware StreamBuilder
Edgeware StreamPilot – Multi CDN Control
Edgeware TV CDN Infrastructure
Virtual Channel Creation
Cavena Subtitling
Adding subtitles to your content – either translating the language of the audio or providing assistance for hard of hearing viewers – is often an important requirement, and these subtitles need to be displayed at the same high quality as your content. Edgeware can now make subtitling easy with our Cavena solutions.
There are many complexities when delivering high quality subtitles to multiple device types and screen sizes. Subtitling is usually two rows of text with a timecode that determines when to display and when to remove the text. But there is an array of different formats and character sets that need to be supported.
Edgeware offers the Cavena-based technology for the highest quality subtitling. Integrated with Edgeware’s Packager and Protection product, the combined solution delivers high quality subtitling across any screen format, to any client and in any character set.
Cavena’s technology delivers high quality subtitles for TV, using Optical Character Recognition to convert subtitles from image to text formats, which provide a much higher quality experience for OTT viewers. The system can also transcode subtitle formats with one subtitle format in, transcoded within milliseconds, and another format sent out.
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Edgeware StreamBuilder
Edgeware’s StreamBuilder does the preparation of live and VoD content that is necessary for OTT distribution to any device. Accurate segmentation of streams, storing content for time-shift services, just in time ABR packaging to any format and any device (HLS, DASH, MSS) including encryption are all offered in the StreamBuilder product family. Add to this our innovative technology to create tailor made channels and live streams using the Virtual Channel Creation, our Ad Insertion technology, OCR-based transcoding of Subtitles and the possibility to deploy and run the whole lot on a wide range of cloud platforms or on regular COTS machines!
StreamBuilder includes the following products:
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Edgeware StreamPilot – Multi CDN Control
StreamPilot, Edgeware’s multi-CDN control platform with newly-added automation capabilities, solves these problems. It lets you take full control of the OTT TV delivery, fully independent of the delivering CDN. It’s completely client agnostic, which allows you to measure the delivery of every single content segment in real-time.
With its strategic location – sitting in the control plane between the CDN and the client – StreamPilot allows you to proactively and in-session switch or modify the delivery of every single segment from the CDNs to whichever client device your viewers might be using. It measures every segment request made by the client and redirects it to the most optimized CDN.
The addition of its automated optimization capability, referred to as AutoPilot, gives broadcasters and content providers the option to automatically perform actions triggered by StreamPilot’s real-time session data when using a multi-CDN set-up. The AutoPilot feature identifies and automatically presents a unified view of problems that could affect users’ quality of experience, independent of which CDN is delivering the TV service to the viewer.
The issues presented can be related to the device, delivery CDN, ISP or the content itself. The data is processed, grouped and presented with a classification on severity level.
Not only does the AutoPilot feature enable users to react quickly and resolve potential problems, it also identifies problems they cannot resolve, such as ISP-related or other infrastructure-impacting circumstances. This reduces operational costs and allows users to focus on other tasks. Valuable session data around CDN performance and overall QoE provides key insights to help content providers monetize their services, such as creating innovative service offerings and performing A/B testing.
By giving users the unique capability to automatically – or manually – mitigate the problems through actions such as selecting another CDN for the delivery, StreamPilot meets a growing demand from broadcasters and content providers to automatically optimize delivery, rather than presenting the data for them to then analyse and act upon.
StreamPilot is cloud-based and offered as part of the Edgeware Cloud Service.
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Edgeware TV CDN Infrastructure
Capture OTT TV growth, and deliver your TV services with maximum deployment flexibility and QoE-optimized features, with our HTTP solution. Or, maximize your IPTV business with our RTSP solution.
Edgeware’s TV and Video CDN infrastructure delivers your TV content, live or VoD, with the best possible quality and without any buffering or glitches. Deployed in the cloud of your choice or on purpose-built hardware for edge deployments, its optimized storage architecture and intelligent routing policies offer a modern and highly scalable CDN solution.
It takes TV delivery closer to the viewer, meaning content caching and streaming are provided in the edge for the best possible viewing experience.
The solution’s predictive load balancing feature provides a smooth onboarding process for big live events by handling the requests from thousands of viewers who are simultaneously waiting for their live football game or film premiere to start.
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Virtual Channel Creation
Virtual Channel Creation helps broadcasters and content providers to increase relevance and reach both for their viewers and advertisers by creating regionalized and customized online channels in a cost-efficient manner. The solution has proven especially valuable when adding regional news or weather to national channels or to provide regionalized ad insertion.
Virtual Channel Creation is based on a unique technology where content is stitched together from various sources into a channel. Compared to the needs typically posed by other systems, it does not require the significant investments in production, encoding and storage capacity.
Regional channels are often encoded and stored as full channels, meaning the national content is encoded and stored multiple times – once per regional channel. With Virtual Channel Creation, national content only needs to be stored and encoded once. Regional content can then be stitched into the national channel to create each full regional channel. As a result, encoder and storage needs are reduced. If using cloud-based encoders, the cost savings enabled by this is significant. Similarly, the need for NAS storage, which is required to create Live to VoD content, is reduced.
Virtual Channel Creation also provides an option to use lower bitrate options of the regional content, reducing the encoder and storage need even further. Use cases demonstrate a 95% encoder capacity saving for national channels and an 89% encoder saving for regional channels when using the option to use a lower bitrate variant for the regional channels.
It can also be used to insert public safety messages, as well as efficiently manage restrictions in content distribution rights by inserting replacement segments, programs or providing a blackout solution, even for time-shifted content.
Virtual Channel Creation resides within StreamBuilder, providing broadcasters and content providers with segmentation, packaging and subtitling functionality needed for internet-based distribution.
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Adaptive NightVision
Vimond VIA
VIA Orchestrate
VIA Live
Virtual Channel Creation
StormGeo Studio
Interoperable Master Format (IMF)
Easel TV OTT Service
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Enveu OTT Subscription Manager
Enveu OTT Experience Manager
Enveu OTT Content Manager
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
GO Live
Piksel Fuse Publisher
Enriched Media Streaming Solution (EMSS)
High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP)
THEOplayer
OpenTV Video Platform
Brightcove Player
Goose OTT Vdemo
Goose is the most affordable OTT SaaS platform in the global market, and we help you to monetize your VOD + Live channnels with SVOD, TVOD, AVOD by providing a self-serving white label platform, using which you can launch your own branded video streaming service in a most efficient way.
Highlights:
1)Live TV and VOD in one platform
2)streaming service across multi devices
3)Develop your offline reseller distribution network
4)Quick time to market (30 days)
5)No setup fee and upgrade fee
6)Zero-coding maintenance
7)Flexible user acquisition options
8)Vcoin exchange/promotion
9)Pre-paid and post-paid payment supported
10)Abstract special content and recommend(e.g.Sports, Live to VOD)
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Vizzi – Next Generation OTT-TV Platform
VIZZI is a powerful, robust, and cost-effective end-to-end video platform that combines in one place all the flexible and scalable tools that Media companies, Broadcasters, Mobile Service Providers, Telecoms, ISP´s and Pay TV operators to need, for the dynamic delivery of Live TV and VOD services across any IP-based device, deployed on the cloud, on-premises or using a hybrid architecture.
Media Preparation:
- Record, Ingest, Transcode, Playout, Stream, Encode, Decode, Packaging, Catch-up Storage, Metadata enrichment;
- Live Channels Ingest;
- EPG Ingest.
Media Management:
- Intuitive CMS Backend;
- User Management;
- Rights Management;
- Catch-up, nPVR;
- Assets and Metadata Management
- Analytics
- Flexible Monetization Models;
- DVR Scheduler;
Distribution:
- AOS and CDN;
- Encryption DRM
- Packaging
Consumption:
- White-label Player;
- Multiple Devices Support and OS Support
Experience:
- Catch-up;
- Piracy Protection;
- Visual Designer.
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OTT & IPTV Solutions
Nextologies' customizable turn-key IPTV & OTT solutions enable media companies and service providers to rapidly serve new platforms. This allows you to manage, distribute, syndicate and monetize your content cost-effectively with minimal risk. The result is an improved personalized cross-device TV experience for consumers seeking either VOD, live, or catch-up TV.
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M2A LIVE
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Master Control & Playout Services
Nextologies master control and playout operators have the ability to insert commercial spots and programming into any of our content partners live channels ensuring your schedule stays accurate and profitable.
Using our custom designed time shifting module, we can time shift your signal 24+ hours and into multiple time zones.
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BCNEXXT VIPE MAM
In the era of multichannel playout, file-based workflows and existing channel management systems, the specific delivery requirements often result in a complex infrastructure. VIPE MAM is designed to offer transparent (automated) workflows, resulting in increased control, reliability and efficiency.
VIPE MAM manages both primary as well as secondary media files. It handles all aspects of the workflow from ingest, QC, Soft parting, subtitles/audio management to enhancing/modifying any asset data. All metadata is fully indexed and searchable. Usability experience is powered by elastic search, particularly useful for large volume databases.
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Edgeware StreamBuilder
Edgeware’s StreamBuilder does the preparation of live and VoD content that is necessary for OTT distribution to any device. Accurate segmentation of streams, storing content for time-shift services, just in time ABR packaging to any format and any device (HLS, DASH, MSS) including encryption are all offered in the StreamBuilder product family. Add to this our innovative technology to create tailor made channels and live streams using the Virtual Channel Creation, our Ad Insertion technology, OCR-based transcoding of Subtitles and the possibility to deploy and run the whole lot on a wide range of cloud platforms or on regular COTS machines!
StreamBuilder includes the following products:
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5G Multi-Stream Sync Playback
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Adaptive NightVision
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Vimond VIA
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VIA Orchestrate
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VIA Live
VIA Live allows you to manage linear and event based live streams, automating the creation of VOD assets for distribution to OTT platforms and multimedia services. This significantly reduces the amount of manual work, making the process more efficient and cost effective.By combining the broadcasters' channels and electronic program guide (EPG) data, VIA Live is a one stop shop for channel planning and monitoring. Monitor inbound live feeds on a streamlined timeline, and use imported EPGs as a basis for program creation, complete with content ingest and scheduling.
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Virtual Channel Creation
Virtual Channel Creation helps broadcasters and content providers to increase relevance and reach both for their viewers and advertisers by creating regionalized and customized online channels in a cost-efficient manner. The solution has proven especially valuable when adding regional news or weather to national channels or to provide regionalized ad insertion.
Virtual Channel Creation is based on a unique technology where content is stitched together from various sources into a channel. Compared to the needs typically posed by other systems, it does not require the significant investments in production, encoding and storage capacity.
Regional channels are often encoded and stored as full channels, meaning the national content is encoded and stored multiple times – once per regional channel. With Virtual Channel Creation, national content only needs to be stored and encoded once. Regional content can then be stitched into the national channel to create each full regional channel. As a result, encoder and storage needs are reduced. If using cloud-based encoders, the cost savings enabled by this is significant. Similarly, the need for NAS storage, which is required to create Live to VoD content, is reduced.
Virtual Channel Creation also provides an option to use lower bitrate options of the regional content, reducing the encoder and storage need even further. Use cases demonstrate a 95% encoder capacity saving for national channels and an 89% encoder saving for regional channels when using the option to use a lower bitrate variant for the regional channels.
It can also be used to insert public safety messages, as well as efficiently manage restrictions in content distribution rights by inserting replacement segments, programs or providing a blackout solution, even for time-shifted content.
Virtual Channel Creation resides within StreamBuilder, providing broadcasters and content providers with segmentation, packaging and subtitling functionality needed for internet-based distribution.
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VOS360 SaaS
Recently, Harmonic enhanced VOS360 SaaS with channel origination in the cloud capabilities for file-based and live streams. These new functionalities provide operators with support for graphics, branding, and digital video effects (DVE) for both file-based and live workflows in addition to pre-existing capabilities such as encoding, encryption and distribution.
By adding channel origination capabilities to VOS360 SaaS, Harmonic is helping drive the transition to software-based and cloud workflows, allowing video content and service providers to launch OTT offerings faster, increase their operational efficiencies and reduce opex and capex.
Unique playout capabilities and benefits include:
Live and file-based playout: Beyond just processing of live streams in the cloud, VOS360 SaaS allows video content and service providers to deliver file-based content from clips and graphics that augment the live streams. With other key processes (i.e., traffic, billing, asset management) already integrated or present in the cloud storage environment, operators can deliver complete channels that are comprised of live and file-based content all within the cloud infrastructure, without the need for conventional playout solutions. This opens up new monetization opportunities for operators.
Streamlined control: Harmonic offers seamless integration for control systems in the cloud to streamline playout management. An API and user-based controls for the playlist enable users to manage channels, as needed. With the control system present in the cloud environment, users can focus their attention on other important tasks as opposed to continuously checking the playlist status.
Reduced operational costs: Service operators using cloud solutions for OTT delivery would normally perform playout operations on-premises (i.e., playback of video clips, graphics and branding) and send a live stream into the cloud, where they would then apply different delivery platform profiles for broadcast and OTT. Now that VOS360 SaaS includes playout capabilities, operators can run entire channels in the cloud. This dramatically reduces operational costs, because operators no longer need physical infrastructure on-premises. Pay-as-you-go pricing for VOS360 allows operators to realize ROI in the shortest time possible.
Orchestrated management: Playout functionality is built into the VOS360 SaaS solution. There are centralized services for management, profiles, tracking of user accounts, billing, DevOps, interfaces, and more.
Maintenance and monitoring: Harmonic’s VOS360 SaaS is fully maintained and monitored by Harmonic to keep services operational, resulting in better quality of experience for end customers.
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StormGeo Studio
Key features and benefits:
- Access to world class weather forecasting and data intelligence.
- A cloud and subscription based software built with award-winning graphics from Singular.Live.
- Requires no dedicated hardware or upfront investments.
- Easily integrates into your existing SDI, NDI or streaming media workflows.
Workflow and easily accessible:
- Built on common web standards.
- StormGeo Studio API’s for interaction, templates and rendering capabilities are easily integrated into your workflow.
- StormGeo Studio runs across all bowser enabled devices without the need for 3rd party plugins.
StormGeo Studio opens a lot of possibilities for publishers, such as on-demand weather data for over the top (OTT) playouts, adaptive graphics across different devices and the possibility to offer regionalized weather data to their users and viewers.
Leslie Kajomovitz
Product Manager Consultant for Media Production tools
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Interoperable Master Format (IMF)
Key Features
Ability to create deliverables for DPP (AS-11) and iTunes from an IMF package
Future-readiness with support for SMPTE’s upcoming Applications (beyond 2 and 2e) based on RDD 44 specification
Supports ingest of Complete IMF packages and Supplemental IMF packages
Provides users the ability to work with IMF Compositions created using any of the desktop CPL edit solutions (Clipster, Color Front, Gray Meta and Netflix CPL Editor, among others) over streaming proxies
Allows users to perform:
Search
Playback
Upload (Complete Packages, Partial/Supplemental Packages, only Updated Essences)
Download (Complete Packages, Partial/Supplemental Packages, only Updated Essences)
Distribution of IMF packages (Complete Packages, Supplemental Packages)
Distribution of Rendered and Transcoded Output (Video Files instead of Packages)
Easel TV OTT Service
Easel TV OTT delivers a complete streaming media/OTT cloud video service to the world's leading consumer devices.
The Easel TV OTT Dashboard provides a rich set of cloud features in an extensive suite of management tools; a powerful CRM and CMS management system which provides content and user management, promotional tools and reporting, all through a single portal.
Our award-winning template-driven consumer applications provide a feature-rich, intuitive and cohesive user experience across web, TV and mobile devices.
We avoid expensive multi-partner solutions by having a ready-made horizontal systems integrated OTT service. In this way, we look to minimise the risk and increase the return on your investment by using an OTT VOD platform that is already up and running, tried, tested and approved.
Built on Amazon and Microsoft cloud technology, and the world's largest CDNs, Easel TV OTT provides an immediate low-cost route to market, using a stable, scalable cloud service.
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Easel TV OTT
Easel TV OTT is a multi-tenant streaming media video platform supporting film, TV, lifestyle or Brand entertainment services on the world’s leading consumer devices (PCs, tablets & mobiles, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TVs, Roku, Virgin TiVo etc.).
Easel TV's underlying OTT eco-system includes content upload, encoding, hosting, formatting, content protection and distribution across a multi-CDN architecture to offer the highest possible quality service, globally.
Our suite of editorial, marketing, administrative and analytical management tools support all aspects of an OTT service, from content ingest, product pricing, packaging, promotion, device and consumer entitlements, usage analytics, wholesale billing and more, and are operated through a single intuitive user interface; one supplier solution, one complete administrative dashboard. Making Suggested TV one of the simplest and most comprehensive carrier-grade OTT SaaS services on the market.
We are all about providing affordable, high-quality stable OTT services, fast, with the most complete, easy-to-use, full suite of management and editorial tools on the market.
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Skype Broadcast
Enveu OTT Integration Manager
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Enveu Experience Cloud- Low Code OTT Solution
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Enveu OTT Subscription Manager
This product is intended for Chief Technology Officer, Head of Product, Product Manager, Business Head, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Strategy Director, Head Of Strategy, Owner, and Founder.
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Enveu OTT Experience Manager
Better UX = Better ROI
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Enveu OTT Content Manager
Get a 30K ft. view of your content portfolio and access performance insights. Leverage a comprehensive headless CMS that allows you to import, create and manage flexible content structures and manage metadata all in one interface. "This product is intended for Chief Technology Officer, Head of Product, Product Manager, Business Head, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Strategy Director, Head Of Strategy, Owner, and Founder."
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Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Connectivity
- <10 ms latency in major cities
- <30 ms latency around the world
- Intelligent routing with high network redundancy
- Rich API support
- Security
- HTTPS secure cloud acceleration
- Back-to-source verification
- Referrer anti-theft chain
- Support for TLS 1.3, certificates, black and white lists
- Reliability
- Zero packet loss between nodes
- Multi-server and route redundancy for load optimization
- Real-time monitoring and analytics
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GO Live
The most important features of GO Live are: • Live-TV, Start-over TV, Pause live-TV, Trick play and Catch-up• TV guide with catch-up support• Personalized channel listing & EPG• Fast channel zapping• Intuitive and user-friendly interface• Support for native language & subtitling• Customizable to fit operator branding• Google Cast and AirPlay support
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Piksel Fuse Publisher
Using Fuse Publisher for….
Improving operational efficiency and quality
Fuse Publisher orchestrates and automates asset management workflows so that operational staff can simply manage by exception based on the step validation and alerting Fuse provides. Operational expertise on repetitive tasks is reduced and can be focused on quality enhancements.
Decrease Time to Market
Fuse Publisher's script driven workflows combine with out of the box integrations to major asset processing systems, such transcoding, stitching, QC, encryption, fast file transfer. This combination enables complex workflows orchestrations to be quickly configured thus enabling new business opportunities to be implemented at pace. Fuse open API’s, provide a means to implement integrations with all your existing systems in order to integrate into the data and event driven workflows.
Scale at Speed
Fuse’s Cloud native architecture and auto-scaling delivers the necessary on-demand scaling to meet new business challenges. Fuse seamlessly manages all aspects of scaling thus removing the headache and freeing up cycles from the Operations team.
Timely Delivery
By Integrating Schedule metadata, Fuse can drive workflow automation and enable alerting for management by exception. These aspects help ensure that the necessary asset packages and metadata files are prepared, validated and distributed aligned to the schedule.
Enriched Media Streaming Solution (EMSS)
The exchange of metadata is not standardised, resulting in multiple proprietary systems. This means that custom integrations for SSAI are almost always necessary for each SSAI solution, which then leads to vendor lock-in.
EMSS SpecificationThe specification discusses the standard for metadata, how that metadata is transported in HLS or DASH, and how the metadata should be processed.
This specification touches on announcing and annotating ads to the viewer, modifying UI during ad playback, enforcing business rules for skipping over ads and beaconing.
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High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP)
HESP is an HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) streaming protocol that enables streaming services to be delivered with sub second latency, with a significantly reduced streaming bandwidth, at scale. An impressive list of improvements, further augmented by significantly reduced zapping times, pushing viewer experience and engagement to the next level.
HESP allows you to stream with, on average, a latency that is 7 times lower than current industry standard low-latency HAS approaches. An end-to-end latency of up to 400ms can be achieved. Low enough to enable new interactive TV formats and services. When using the HESP protocol the average zapping time is 20 times faster than with industry standard low latency streaming approaches. With a zapping time of less than 100ms, the channel change will happen in the blink of an eye.
What is the HESP Alliance?
The HESP Alliance was launched on the 1st July 2020. The HESP Alliance was launched by founding members; THEO Technologies and Synamedia. With the aim to bring together streaming video vendors and media companies to provide superior online video quality of experience at reduced cost through standardising and advancing the High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP) and marketing of HESP solutions.
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THEOplayer
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OpenTV Video Platform
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Brightcove Player
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