Packager

Real-Time Linear Segmentation, Packaging and Encryption

Given the ever-expanding variety of consumer devices in the multiscreen world, video service providers need state-of-the-art solutions that can easily adapt to the complexities of an ever-changing landscape. Our customers are facing a variety of challenges related to packaging solutions – increased infrastructure costs, need to reach more audiences on more devices, content security and the diverse ever changing ecosystem.

By using our Packager, our customers will rest easy knowing their content is being encrypted using the latest standards and supports a variety of formats like HLS, DASH and CMAF. Our Packager is unique in the market by being pre-integrated with leading digital rights management (DRM) servers and manifest manipulator for DAI workflows. Our Packager is also CDN agnostic to support your Multi-CDN and low latency strategy.

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Real-time linear segmentation, packaging, and encryption
Packages linear content for live, on-demand and just-in-time delivery
Minimizes the need for multiple stored copies
Reduces operational and network bandwidth costs
Supports easy migration to new packaging formats
Enables timely distribution of live captured assets
Allows video providers to cost-effectively expand their TV Everywhere libraries
Offers flexible deployment options — available as software license or appliance

Features

Linear segmentation, packaging, and encryption
Cloud-ready for virtualized deployments
Ingest H.264/H.265-encoded video streams carried in a MPEG-2 transport stream (TS) and MPEG-2 encoded video streams carried in a MPEG-2 transport stream (TS)
Supports all leading delivery protocols — HLS, CMAF, MSS, HDS, MPEG DASH, RTMP
Outputs segmented “packaged” streams or files with full VOD manifests suitable for HTTP delivery
Support for Closed Caption and DVB subtitles in HLS and MSS output
IGMP v3 Source Specific Multicast (SSM) ingest
Integrates key exchange with leading digital rights management (DRM) servers
CDN-friendly — Origin server, reverse proxy, expires headers
1+1 active / active redundancy
Flexibility of software or hardware can be deployed in Virtual Machine environments

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