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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What people are saying:

“Video service providers around the world continue to expand their HD and on-demand services to enhance the customer experience and reduce customer churn—the challenge becomes keeping their networks in line with the pace of the changing environment. RGB’s scalable video networking solutions help operators to remain competitive today, while preparing them to address new changes that are on the way as we move towards a ’video everywhere’ world.”

  • Ramin Farassat,
  • Vice President of Product Marketing,
  • RGB Networks