RGB TransAct Commander

An important component of the RGB TransAct product family is the TransAct Commander. The TransAct Commander is a sophisticated software application packaged as a software license or a one rack unit server that manages and controls the on-demand transcoding operations and workflows supporting a single RGB TransAct Transcoder appliance or a cluster of up to 50 Transcoders. The TransAct Commander interfaces directly with the TransAct transcode appliance API providing back-end intelligence to route on-demand transcode requests to available TransAct Transcoders, balancing the workload and ensuring the on-demand transcoding application is always available by delivering failover and redundancy capabilities.


The TransAct Commander provides video service providers with a more efficient video transcoding environment. It fully optimizes the power of the TransAct Transcoder, and allows providers to easily scale the processing capacity of the on-demand transcoding solution by simply adding more appliances as additional processing power is needed.

TransAct Commander Advantages

Load Balancing, Cluster Management, and Transcode Management: Manages and controls on-demand transcoding operations and workflows, supporting a single or cluster of transcoding appliances.

Low Latency Delivery While Transcoding: Notifies the TransAct Transcoder to immediately begin streaming or progressive downloading of a file once the first frame is transcoded.

Content Distribution: Once a transcode is complete, provides notification of file availability and stores content as a cache
asset for future distribution upon subsequent requests via HTTP.

Application Integration: Provides integration with a full set of TransAct on-demand. transcoding or third-party applications via an intuitive XML-based API.


Cluster Management Functionality

Streaming of Transcoded Files for Mobile or Internet: Provides streaming workflow management across multiple applications.

Cache Management: Manages various types of content including cached transcoded media, partially transcoded media, progressive download and RTSP streaming files.

Cluster Load Balancing: Responsible for balancing workload across all transcoding appliances in the cluster.

Cluster Workflow Configuration: Workflow cluster configuration is easily performed via the Web UI.

Cluster Software Update: Provides the capability to update software across a cluster of transcoding appliances.

Cluster Database Backup/Restore: Manages backup of the cluster workflow configuration database.

Server Failover: Standby TransAct Commander servers can be installed per on-demand transcoding cluster providing a warm failover capability.

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