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February 2007 Internet Broadcasting Brings Local News Online for Major Broadcasters with Digital Rapids DRC-Stream Encoding Systems
www.ibsys.com
by TJ Kudalis, Senior Multimedia Engineer
"The DRC-Stream hardware's on-board processing really makes the cards stand out in terms of quality."
"The Digital Rapids workstations have been the 'Swiss Army knife' that allows us to integrate into virtually every environment."
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Internet Broadcasting is the nation's largest publisher of local news online. Celebrating its 10-year anniversary, the company publishes 79 TV station sites for America’s premier broadcasters, including NBC, Cox Television, Hearst-Argyle, The McGraw Hill Companies, Post-Newsweek, Meredith Broadcasting, and Scripps Howard. Internet Broadcasting’s national reach includes sites in each of the nation’s top 25 markets and 45 of the top 50. We serve approximately 13 million streams each month. (A full history of Internet Broadcasting can be found here).
 As Internet Broadcasting’s Senior Multimedia Engineer, I am responsible for the company's video hardware and software as well as our overall streaming media production process and delivery. We discovered Digital Rapids DRC-Stream cards and software in 2001 while testing out quite a few capture cards and software packages to find one that would fit our requirements. We were looking for a combination of hardware and software that would take us to the next level of quality and reliability in both VOD and live streaming video, while being flexible enough to work with the wide range of technology and facility infrastructure available at all of our partners' TV stations. Speed, efficiency and ease of use were also extremely important, as the systems need to be usable by non-technical editorial staff in a high-pressure breaking news environment.
After looking at about two dozen different cards, the Digital Rapids DRC-Stream cards were the clear winner for editorial video capture and transcoding; virtually everything else was
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