During IBC2014 (12-16 September) Wohler, a leading provider of IP monitoring,
encoding and decoding, as well as well as video, audio and captioning solutions,
will showcase the refined IP and multicast capabilities of the company’s MPEG
Series monitors. Wohler will also highlight the capabilities newly added to the
award-winning iON™ platform, as well as its improved speed and extensibility.
New for IBC2014 is the introduction of WohlerCaption, which addresses the
captioning/subtitling requirements used around the world and gives users
complete flexibility in delivering captioned/subtitled media in the international
marketplace. Wohler will also demonstrate its flagship AMP2-E16V audio/video
processing monitor throughout the IBC2014 exhibition.
MPEG DVB-ASI and IPTV Monitors
Providing functionality critical for facilities migrating toward IP-oriented
distribution networks, the MPEG Series monitors decode and provide convenient
at-a-glance monitoring of program content from MPEG-2/4 ASI and Ethernet IP
streams, as well as 3G/HD-SDI inputs. To meet broadcasters’ increasing need for
stream-based monitoring, the MPEG video monitors identify, decode, and display
in high resolution both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 signals (input via BNC or Ethernet)
while giving users the ability to browse the PAT, PMT, PID, EIT, and NIT data
(both ATSC and DVB tables) for each selected stream. In addition to MPEG ASI
and dual-input 3G/HD-SDI with loop-through, the MPEG monitors also
accommodate audio with level meters, GPI, and tally. Convenient monitoring
capabilities include Dolby Digital and Digital+ decoding, as well as the capacity to
decode as many as 12 audio groups. In-picture level metering of up to 16
channels of audio is provided for both average and PPM (peak) levels with
selectable meter scales.
iON™ Remote Monitoring Platform
Uniting Wohler’s world-class technology for signal management and confidence
monitoring on a single software platform, iON™ gives users the ability to access,
control, and manage a broad range of signals and associated data remotely
from any Web-enabled PC, Mac®, smartphone, or tablet device, with video and
audio content streamed in real time. iON enables practical, highly efficient
monitoring of both baseband and stream-based signals, presenting monitored
content in a browser for convenient review anywhere and anytime. Taking
advantage of iON’s increased power and modular design, users can also add
features and functions with confidence as their monitoring operations require.
WohlerCaption — Now Addressing Captioning/Subtitling
Globally
A turnkey closed-caption/subtitle translation solution, WohlerCaption leverages
Wohler’s RadiantGrid” technology to extract closed-captioning from media
sources and insert closed-captioning back into the transcoded output file.
Boasting a new captioning/subtitling framework built on open standards, the
solution now supports an enhanced range of input and output standards in
addition to a variety of data presentations. Any captioned/subtitled input can be
leveraged across any output platform while maintaining compliance with
caption/subtitle requirements for broadcast and Internet-delivered content.
Translation of closed-caption/subtitling data between these standards occurs
without any impact on video or audio, which remain in their native state.
However, because this solution is built on RadiantGrid technology, it allows
users to execute multiple concurrent processing tasks, such as
captioning/subtitling translation along with a transcode, and thereby output
deliverables with much greater speed and efficiency.
Wohler DPP Packaging and Delivery Solution
Wohler has leveraged the powerful RadiantGrid Intelligent Media Transformation
Platform” to address plans by major U.K. broadcasters to require that file-based
deliverables be compliant with the new DPP (Digital Production Partnership)
standard. This turnkey solution accelerates assembly, repackaging, and delivery
of file-based content in the AS-11 UKDPP file format that is specified by the DPP
standard.
European Debut: Cinnafilm Tachyon® Wormhole™ Automated File-
Based Retiming
Cinnafilm’s Tachyon® Wormhole™ is an automated file-based retiming solution
that enables up to a plus or minus 10 percent runtime adjustment while
preserving not only video and audio quality, but also closed caption integrity.
Based on Cinnafilm’s popular Tachyon Standards Transcoding” plug-in and the
Wohler RadiantGrid Intelligent Media Transformation Platform” framework,
Tachyon Wormhole saves time for content producers, allowing them to “fit and
fill” — easily adjusting content to meet specific customers’ length requirements
without compromising the integrity or quality of audio, video, and
captioning/subtitling. In many cases, this approach allows users to replace a
great deal of expensive specialized hardware with a single server at a fraction
of the cost.
AMP2-E16V Series Modular Audio/Video Processing Monitor
The AMP2-E16V monitor’s feature list continues to be the longest in the industry,
yet the product is operated with one-touch simplicity. In addition to its top-
quality audio system, it features simultaneous multiformat monitoring, quick
programme selection, instant stereo downmix, loudness monitoring, internal
channel mixing including SDI re-embedding, and audio delays. The monitor also
includes a wide variety of meter scales and ways to view meters, video, and
Dolby or SMPTE 2020 metadata.
The AMP2-E16V offers Dolby Zoom, Dolby E line position, and CRC error
monitoring, as well as automatic system configuration based upon signal inputs,
32 complete system configuration presets, a complete internal help system, and
Ethernet software updates. Audio processor card options facilitate easy
configuration for multiple SDI, AES I/O, analog I/O, and connection to external
surround systems.
A new AVB Monitoring Option card allows AVB channels to be mixed, level-
adjusted, and monitored alongside AES, SDI, analog, and other input types, and
in the same fashion. Further enhancements include new processing modules
and newly developed software that expand the feature set and capabilities to
include loudness monitoring and extended audio interfacing.
