TransAct Encoder/Transcoder

As the delivery of IP video over managed and unmanaged networks continues to grow, video service providers (VSPs) are demanding the latest in HTTP adaptive streaming technologies - they require products with the versatility to deal with both baseband and compressed streams, along with files that come in different formats. A key component of RGB’s eVIA family of IP video products, the TransAct Encoder/Transcoder offers a highly flexible solution for a variety of applications and leverages a next-generation compression engine capable of pristine video quality at very low bitrates.

RGB’s TransAct Encoder/Transcoder supports a wide variety of operational modes, addressing many applications with a common feature set and operational procedures. Key modes supported and applications include:

• Stream-to-stream, with input as baseband SDI or compressed streams (e.g. MPEG-2 TS over IDP/IP). Applications include locally generated content arriving by dark fiber or high-bandwidth IP or SONET/SDH infrastructure as SDI, or a relatively small number of compressed inputs.
• Stream-to-file, with typical applications including time-shifted TV targeting multiscreen devices, and content stored in a mezzanine format for later packaging/encryption, or content stored pre-packaged.
• File-to-file, often used for video-on-demand (VOD) applications; also used to create a mezzanine format or for offline transcoding and packaging/encryption.

Addressing encoding/transcoding needs for managed IP video, over-the-top (OTT) delivery, IPTV, and web and mobile applications, the TransAct Encoder/Transcoder accommodates on-demand and live video delivery needs with market-leading price, performance, flexibility, scalability and interoperability.

RGB Networks offers the TransAct Encoder/Transcoder as either a software license or as an appliance. The software license-only solution can be downloaded or shipped on a DVD and allows customers to deploy on their choice of server-based hardware platform. Running on an RGB supported appliance - the Application Media Server (AMS) - the TransAct Encoder/Transcoder provides a minimum MTBF of 100,000 hours, as the AMS is an extremely durable hardware appliance requiring minimal ongoing maintenance.

Containers	Video Codecs	Audio Codecs	Transport & Application Protocols	Delivery Protocols
MPEG2 TS WebM ASF FLV MP4 MPEG-2 PS AVI 3GP 3GPP (3G2) MP3 DIVX F4V MOV MP4 MPEGV MPG MPG2 OGG QCP WAV	H.264 BP, MP, HIP(HP) high10, high422, high 444 MPEG-2 VP8 WMV9 SP, MP, AP VP6 MXF MPEG-1 M-JPEG H.263 MPEG-4 Sorenson CVID DVC DVSD Indeo MJPEG MPEG-4 MS VIDEO RLE RPZA SVQ1 SVQ3 Theora TIFF TrueMotion VP6 TSCC WMV1 WMV2 WMV3 XVID MXF	MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-2.5 L3 WMA7, 8, 9 PCM AAC-LC AAC-HE AC-3 Enhanced AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus) AAC-HEv2 ADPCM MU-LAW QCELP Truespeech VORBIS Dolby Pulse	UDP TCP FTP NFS	RTP RTSP RTMP HTTP HTTPS HTTP Live Streaming HTTP Dynamic Streaming Smooth Streaming MPEG-DASH