Software-based V-Cinema Stream Switcher is a perfect solution for building fast and efficient multimedia streaming servers, which receive multicast streams and broadcast them as unicast streams to end-user devices via IP networks.
V-Cinema Stream Switcher makes it possible to stream live multicast video as unicast over the Internet and networks, where live multicast streams and UDP traffic are not allowed, and where detailed control and subscriber statistics are required. The server can be efficiently applied for live streaming between two work stations with Internet connection for further content broadcasting to end-users. This cost-effective solution can ultimately replace TV channel transmission through satellites with the image quality solely depending on the network bandwidth.
Demo version supports 4 concurrent connections to VoD and Stream Switcher servers:
1 channel of Stream Switcher, NVoD, SVoD, NPVR services and 2 multicast groups for
NVoD/SVoD services.
Features
Receiving live broadcast streams and playing them back via IP Networks as TCP or UDP unicast, controlled by HTTP or RTSP respectively
Receiving media streams over HTTP from the source server
MPEG-2, AVC/H.264, WMV* video formats support
AC3, AAC, MPEG-1/MPEG-2, WMA* audio formats support
RTP and RAW UDP protocol support, with RTP headers added automatically
SAP/SDP announcements support
Product highlights
Various interfaces for smooth integration with CA/DRM, Billing and Middleware systems
Sigma iTV Web Configurator remote control interface for the whole V-Cinema product line
Support of unlimited number of simultaneous client requests to the server depending on the server hardware configuration only
Live Internet streaming support
Advanced user rights management and broadcast access system
ASF streaming over RTMP support*
Specifications
Supported formats
MPEG-2 Transport Stream, ASF*
Announcements
SDP via SAP
Operating systems
Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server, Linux RHEL 5.1-5.4, CentOS
