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July 2011 Transcoding Goes Stellar with Digital Rapids Transcode Manager
stellargroup.com
by Joel Joslin, Digital Media Manager, Stellar Inflight
The Challenge: Transforming high volumes of source files into multiple output formats for varying in-flight entertainment systems
The Solution: Digital Rapids Transcode Manager
The Benefits: "Transcoding video with Digital Rapids Transcode Manager is significantly quicker and requires far fewer man-hours than our previous solutions. As a result, we've been able to take on more and more work..."
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 Stellar Inflight, part of the Stellar Group of companies, is the world's longest running in-flight entertainment company. Established in 1974, it has grown into a modern multi-national organisation, with offices in Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, Los Angeles, Dubai and Singapore. In addition, Stellar is in partnership with Sky Victory Technologies in Beijing, which provides in-flight entertainment to many major Chinese airlines. The Sydney, Kuala Lumpur and Beijing locations have extensive technical facilities, incorporating multiple video and audio studios, encoding and duplication labs, green screens and MPAA-certified screening rooms. I manage the company's Digital Media department.
As today's broad range of viewing devices continue to drive the explosive growth of multi-screen content consumption, in-flight entertainment has similarly evolved. Not long ago, only a single movie was available for all passengers to watch at any given time. Next came on-demand viewing options built into the seats, where viewers could choose from an array of available television shows, movies and specials. Now, portable media players and tablets - such as the Apple(r) iPad(r) -- are available to passengers on select airlines. As the viewing options available to airline passengers have exponentially increased, so too has the amount of content that our company processes to meet these demands.
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