[iptv-users] VC-1 encoder appliances and encoding settings?

[david raistrick]

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote:

> Do any of Envivio's products meet those requirements?

Eh, I poked them once and didn't see anything, but looking them again I 
see maybe 1 product that does.  Digging through a dozen PDFs is fun.

The 4caster-c4 does WM9 (so no vc-1 advanced), but no HD.

(comment for below:  a windows box in my environment means it -must- live 
on the domain(s), have updates pushed to it, will be rebooted at someone 
elses will for updates, run virus protection and IDS software, etc etc 
etc.  Exceptions are nonexistent.  And managing that for, say, 9000 
channels at full deployment would be REALLY painful..  so it's not a 
personal anti-windows issue)



Pretty much what I've come up with so far:

Digital Rapids StreamZ(HD) - flaky software, Windows-via-RDP-only, HD and 
SD if you have them put the right cards in it.  h264 and vc-1 (personally 
tested)

Inlet Spinnaker S7000 - VC-1 (and h264), SD and HD (composite and SDI), 
web UI, front panel AND SNMP control!


Winnov Stream Engine - vc-1, SD only, unknown UI

Viewcast Niagara Pro2 and 8224 - WM9, SD only (and only SDI), winXP 
embeded, web UI, rumored to basically just be a windows box.

Darim mv401/410 - WM9, SD

Tandberg EN5980 - VC-1, HD-SDI only, only seems to exist in press 
releases, not on the website.

Vcast 1210M etc - VC-1, SD only

Allegro AL1000 and AL2000 - VC-1.  AL2000 only receives IP input.  AL1000 
is SD-SDI only.


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