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Download Demo Here! Click Here For The Manual AirBox provides automated content playout for satellite channels, cable head-ends, over-the-air broadcasters and corporate TV users. It is designed to be extremely robust, in order to meet the highest reliability demands of on-air playout. Due to its unique support of entry-level MPEG2, HDV and DV platforms, it is also suitable for webcasters, hotel Pay TV channels, corporate presentations, video wall sourcing and other program distribution systems. At a fraction of the price of any digital videotape player, a single AirBox server offers the same visual quality at its SDI outputs, multi-channel playback, multi-language audio playback, synchronized fill and key playout, graphics and subtitle insertion, last minute playlist changes or clip editing. AirBox supports MPEG2, HDV and DV streams from virtually every known production platform providing AVI, MPEG or Quick Time content. It has an integrated remultiplexing engine, ensuring the output stream is compliant with the MPEG2 or DV specs. This engine corrects on-the-fly a number of multiplexing errors such as unequal video/audio duration, missing or corrupted frames or packets, poor stream integrity, PTS/DTS inconsistencies, etc. Any combination of MPEG2 clips at differing resolutions, bitrates, profiles and levels can be played in a single sequence seamlessly with no glitches or hardware reinitialization. The cut from one clip to another is completely seamless even with live streams - no black frames, no pause, no last frame freeze, no audio pops, no glitches, no duration limitations... The continuous output stream can be sent to a variety of SDI output platforms or streamed through ASI or UDP technology. Wide hardware platform support covers a broad range of applications and budget choices. AirBox works equally well both with cost-effective and professional MPEG2, HDV and DV playback platforms. The main difference is video output signal quality and bitrate/profile capabilities. Professional platforms support bitrates up to 50 Mbit/sec and 4:2:2 color sampling, or up to 80 Mbit for MPEG2 HD. For live productions, any changes to the playlist during on-air session are possible! There are no "qued" or "locked" clips. Every clip in the playlist, except the one which is currently playing, can be trimmed, edited or repositioned. Moreover, playlist order can be changed on-the-fly with commands like "skip to next" or "Jump". Such order changes are performed seamlessly without stopping current playout session. For automated playout AirBox allows fixed-time scheduling for weeks ahead. Resulting gaps or time overlaps are automatically resolved in order to ensure continuous operation even when conflicting timed events are present. For budget-minded operations, AirBox provides excellent storage savings through the MPEG2 Main Profile at Main Level IPB streams. At 8 Mbit/sec, 24 hours of full-motion, full-resolution content fits in less than 90 GB storage. Moreover, at such low bitrates, high-speed SCSI storage or FC network is not a must anymore. Playout sessions are being logged for monitoring and control purposes. The log can be later used for extracting actual playout sequence with exact timings or identifying user intervention into the playout session. The logging and recovery options allow completely unattended remote operation.
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