due to the migration to UHD and HDR, etc. Some flavour of production-grade, lossless picture compression like JPEG XS will be required, and your existing devices may be unable to provide it. DO THE FLEX: PART 1 Flexibility – or elasticity – also entails that, if it is not necessary or practical to use SMPTE ST 2110-native devices for video and audio ingest, NDI or SRT sources can be used. The quality gap is narrowing, after all, and it is often more important to cover an event than to improvise just because there are no ST 2110 devices available.
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Media content is increasingly consumed on smartphones and tablets. This has in turn encouraged broadcasters to broaden their offerings by adding special-interest and pop-up OTT channels. In most cases, such productions are rather low-key, with a smaller team and fewer cameras. Since
Up to a point, because even though software has been at the heart of most dedicated processing devices for years, an off-the-shelf server may be used for completely distinctive applications at different times. Control surfaces – mixing consoles, video switchers, cameras, I/O devices, gateways – are still needed to allow operators to get signals into and out of the system. But the tools used to process those signals can change. Some vendors would tell you that the most straightforward solution is to simply shift all processing tasks into the cloud. Merely lifting and shifting a system, however, would be a huge pity: it imposes hardware-inspired constraints on a boundlessly flexible software architecture. The more features a software title has, the bulkier it becomes. There are flaws to this: more compute resource is needed to perform a specific
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the HOME Apps also support NDI and SRT, one could envisage using more affordable hardware for such occasions. DO THE FLEX: PART 2 Broadcasters are clamouring for more flexibility, which can mean anything. Is it software running on a standard server?
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