You receive and process many programs—multiple Gbps of content—for delivery over the ABR and/or linear network. That content must be encoded or transcoded, and checked for regulatory compliance before being sent downstream to viewers. You want to be sure that the content you are receiving is at the quality you expect, and that the quality you are producing through your own encoding workflow is at the levels that viewers demand, because mistakes here will affect ALL viewers. Inspector LIVE is your solution for meeting the 24/7/365 demands of high-density ABR and traditional linear video delivery. Inspector LIVE can be used standalone, or as part of a multi-element video quality assurance platform using iQ video management solutions such as iVMS, iVMS ASM and cVOC. Inspector LIVE is available in appliance-based, virtualized software and cloud-based formats.
Key Benefits
Key Features
In an adaptive streaming network, a single video program is transcoded into many bit rate variants, so that the player can adjust the playback to network performance. This bit rate “shifting” can occur often, as the content is being played. If the shifts do not go smoothly, playback issues can occur. All of these bit rates versions must be properly “aligned” with each other for smooth shifts. Video remnants can also be introduced during segmentation, making it necessary to monitor both QoS and QoE at the network edge as well as in the head end/origin. But this additional technical risk can be managed. Inspector LIVE’s advanced adaptive streaming video monitoring capability provides Encoder Boundary Point monitoring and IDR alignment verification to ensure that bitrate switches occur smoothly.
Inspector LIVE validates content at the ingress points of the network and provides QoS & QoE monitoring and analysis to ensure the video quality before it goes into the distribution network. Moreover, compliance reporting is made simple by scheduling Closed Caption reports to execute automatically at regular intervals.
