Over-The-Top media services - which use the public Internet to deliver media instead of a private dedicated network - have become very prominent over the last few years and have contributed substantially to the growth of the broader video delivery market.

It is apparent that none of the three form factors is a panacea for multiscreen encoding. The operating, strategic and competitive practices of each organization are the ones to dictate the appropriate architecture.

Multiscreen video content and service monetization models revolve around two main pillars: subscriptions and advertisements.

Media Excel’s solutions are constantly probed to provide a comprehensive report on input and output parameters that the high-availability architecture incorporates in real-time into the decision-making process.

Media Excel HERO encoders ingest HD Live content over SDI and produce multi-screen/rate Smooth Streaming assets in a fully redundant and timecode synced manner.

Understand the benefits, applications and challenges introduced by HEVC and presents Media Excel’s outlook for HEVC adoption across the value chain of the media & entertainment industry.

Content owners, broadcasters, and operators worldwide typically feature a sizable and rich VoD library and a limited number of live/linear channels.

Media Excel provides a very cost-effective mechanism to address those uncertainties, as the HERO platform can be used interchangeably either as a Live or a VoD transcoder.