1. No human control required; software designed to automate all insertion processes. All local content (Ad- and live-insertions, tickers and animated banners) is played out by every-day schedules inside of their time windows and/or by SCTE-35/104 marks or by DTMF cue-tones. Also system is capable to be learned to detect indirect features in audio- and video- streams to start and stop regionalization: part or whole image, piece of sound, custom command in data stream such as X31-technology in teletext PID used by VIACOM tv-channels.
   

   However it’s possible to control system and perform operations manually.

2. All content changing operations are performed with frame-accurate precision.
3. System can be set up to avoid transcoding of streams at all when it’s possible within technical conditions.
4. Transcoding, up- and downscaling, short time delay.

• physical input/output – DVB IP Multicast/Unicast UDP/RTP, SRT, DVB ASI, DVB S/S2/T/T2/C/C2 (input only), SDI.
• input/output streams – descrambled DVB SPTS/MPTS/T2MI, video MPEG-2 (ISO 13818-2) and H.264 (ISO/IEC 14496-10), audio MPEG-1 (ISO 11172-3, Layer I and II), AAC, SD- and HD- streams.
• any transcoding direction is possible, SDI -> H264, H264->MPEG2, H264 -> SDI, etc.
• Video signal upscale and downscale.
• control: SCTE-35 (DVB), SCTE-104 (SDI), SNMP, DTMF, DCOM/RPC, Web-interface, custom. Regionalization can be performed manually in Web-interface and/or by network SNMP-command and/or by SCTE-35/104 marks and or by DTMF-tones and/or by any selected piece of sound and/or by any selected [part] of frame. For MPEG2-streams and/or in transcoding mode frame-accurate transition is possible in any point; for H.264-streams transition WITHOUT transcoding is possible only on IDR-frames.
• system is capable to be externally-controlled by 3rd-party software by DCOM/RPC protocols (Visual Basic, Python, MS C++, С# etc).
• physical IP bypass: Silicom Ethernet interface supported.
• local content: spots are to be in ISO 13818 transport stream (SPTS) or Program Stream and are inserted without transcoding.
• local content’s audio loudness can be aligned by RMS algorithm without transcoding.
• all output streams are conformant to TR 101 290 and T-STD/VBV model for both MPEG2/H264.
• all programs that aren’t to be processed/regionalized in input MPTS/T2MI-stream are blindly bypassed to output without any processing.
• processing delay is fixed but depends on type of input and output compression of video streams and possible transcoding, starting from 2 seconds in simple cases till 5 seconds in cases with h264 encoding with T2MI-wrapping.
• short-time (up to 30 seconds) optional user-specified streams delay.
• long-time live-insertion from local SPTS/MPTS- or SDI-feed.
• all known DVB-tables are bypassed or fully regenerated.
• schedules and reports: SCTE-118, CCMS, CSV.
• content store: watch-dog, local (SMB or FTP-server) or FTP-transfer (client). Every-day schedules and local content can be stored locally in watch-dog folders or can be automatically downloaded by system as FTP-client. Content can be overwritten “on the fly”, changes are applied immediately.
• additional functions: stuffing, pid/pgm filtering, PID remapping, table regeneration.
• active heartbeat stream UDP-IP/RS-232, reliability statistics: 99,999% uptime.
• input stream BISS-descrambling.
• configuring: manually, conf-files.
• SNMP state control.

To process DVB IP streams Intel/Broadcom NICs are strongly recommended, particularly Silicom NICs with hardware relay bypass and watch-dog timers for reliability reasons.

To process DVB ASI, system requires DekTec or Deltacast PCIe hardware (particularly DekTec DTA-2145/2175 are equipped with relay bypass and WD-timer).

To receive DVB-S/S2/T/T2/C/C2, system uses any Windows-compatible hardware interface (BDA).

For SDI capture/playout, Deltacast, Blackmagic Decklink, Dektec interfaces supported.

To operate with H264/H265 streams software tries to use Intel Quicksync technology (hardware GPU) if it is accessible. Thus, to achieve best quality and performance, CPU is to be equipped with Intel 530-graphics and higher. Recommended processor models: Intel Xeon E3-12x5v5 and v6, Xeon E3-1585v5, Xeon E-2286G, Core i5-7260U, Core i7-10700, Core i7-1185G7.

Recommended OS: Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC with certain group-policy tuning.

Approximate resource consuming – one server based on Intel Xeon E3-1275v5 with 16 GB RAM can process:

• up to 4 HD channels with full transcoding (graphics, etc)
• dozens of SD-services with transcoding (graphics, etc)
• dozens of HD-services without transcoding