AirBox

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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 modular architecture, it is also suitable for webcasters, hotel Pay TV channels, corporate presentations, video wall sourcing and other program distribution systems.

AirBox Multi Parallel Output enables the running of two or more SDI or IP streaming SD/HD outputs simultaneously so that broadcasters can easily provide parallel outputs in any combination needed to deliver the content.

AirBox supports a wide variety of video/audio formats from virtually every known production platform. Files from third-party video servers such as Leitch, Seachange, etc. are natively supported.

Any changes to the playlist during on-air session are possible! There are no locked clips in the playlist, except the one which is currently playing. They can be trimmed, edited or repositioned. Playback order can be changed on-the-fly with commands like skip to next or jump. Such order changes are performed seamlessly without stopping the current playout session. Live productions are facilitated by the powerful Live Show Clipboard which allows insertion and/or execution of various events or live streams.

For automated playout AirBox allows playlist 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. Special facilities ensure uninterrupted operation if content files or even entire schedules are missing or misplaced.

 VideoCompression Format

• MPEG2, DV, HDV, WMV/VC-1, MPEG1, MPEG4, AVC/H.264, DVC Pro, JPEG

2000, AVC-Intra, Apple ProRes 422, DVCPro50, DVCPro HD, HAVC/H.265Bitrate

• PAL / NTSC / 1080i HD / 720p HD / 1080p HD / 4K UHD 1 - 15 Mbit/sec in MPEG2 MP@ML • 10 - 50 Mbit/sec in MPEG2 422P@ML 1 - 80 Mbit/sec in MPEG2 MP@HL • 25 Mbit/sec with HDV and DV up to 80Mbit/s MPEG2 HD HP@HL • up to 40Mbit/s AVC/H.264 Baseline/Main up to 80Mbit/s AVC/H.264 Main/High • class 50 and 100 AVC-Intra

Color Sampling

• 4:2:0 - MPEG2 Main Profile (incl. HDV), 4:2:2 - MPEG2 4:2:2 Profile 4:2:0 / 4:1:1 - DV 25 Mbit/sec, 4:2:0 - WMV and AVC 4:2:2 - Apple ProRes, 4:2:0 - AVC - Intra

AudioCompression 

• MPEG audio Layer 1 or 2, AAC audio, Uncompressed PCM, Windows, Media Audio, Dolby Digital (AC3)

Bitrate

• 64-384 Kbit/sec

Sampling

• 48 kHZ

Media File Formats

• Program Streams, M2T or TS - Transport Stream (SPTS and MPTS)
• OpenDML AVI and WAV (mono and stereo), QuickTime, MXF, GXF
• DV OpenDML Type 1 and Type 2 AVI, QuickTime, Raw DV, MXF, GXF
• HDV MPG or M2T / TS - Transport Stream, QuickTime, MXF, GXF
• HAVC/H.265 Transport Stream, QuickTime
• Transport Stream (SPTS and MPTS), QuickTime, MXF
• WMV
• System Stream

Video Boards

• DeckLink Duo; DeckLink 4K Extreme; DeckLink 4K Pro; DeckLink 4K Extreme; DeckLink SDI 4K; DeckLink Studio 4K;
• Corvid 3G; Corvid 11, Corvid 22, Corvid 44; Corvid 88; 
• Delta-3G-elp-11, Delta-3G-elp-22, DELTA-3G-elp-key 11, DELTA-3G-elpkey 22

•  Intel QSV hardware accelerated
• MPEG2/H264/HEVC decoding and
• MPEG2/H264/HEVC encoding
• SCTE35 triggers reading and generation over IP UDP transport stream
• SCTE104 triggers reading and generation over SDI outputs
• MPEG DASH dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP output
• HLS HTTP live streaming IP output
• Matroska Multimedia Container (.MKV) content supported in the playlist
• Nvidia VGA hardware acceleration support for H264/AVC and H265/HEVC decoding
• Targeted time code information to specific IP address
• Support of audio-only content in for radio, music and informative channels playout automation purposes
• Support of encrypted audio and/or video content
• Fast forward feature to provide with more time for commercial in 24 hours standard scheduled playlist for movie channels purposes
• Grayscale option per output