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Advantages of Digital Rapids Transcode Manager

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Digital Rapids Transcode Manager distributed transcoding systems offer a number of advantages over competing systems. While specific advantages vary, there are a number of general differentiators that summarize some of compelling ways in which Transcode Manager excels against alternatives:

Load-balancing intelligence — Digital Rapids Transcode Manager is far more sophisticated in allocating jobs than standard load-balancing mechanisms that simply distribute a new job to the next free transcoding resource or node. Transcode Manager tracks the performance of all networked Transcode Engines for each type of encode, “learning” which nodes are best for each (for example, newer host systems will often feature improved processor capabilities – faster speeds, more cores, tailored instruction sets, etc. – and the degree to which these new capabilities deliver performance benefits will vary between codecs and formats) and allocating jobs accordingly to optimize utilization and throughput. Transcode Manager also intelligently allocates the creation of multiple outputs from the same source to minimize decoding and network transfer. See the separate document “Digital Rapids Transcode Manager — A Deeper Look” for more details.

Benefit: Digital Rapids Transcode Manager’s intelligent load balancing constantly monitors networked nodes’ performance and ensures greater throughput.

Performance per node — Transcode Manager uses the same proven, multi-processor and multi-core optimized encoding engine that has delivered performance advantages to our customers for years. Our highly efficient, scalable thread and stream management architecture has long provided significant throughput benefits compared to basic implementations of the same codecs on competing platforms, without sacrificing quality or strict conformance requirements. Customers have reported test results with our systems providing file-to-file transcoding speeds multiple times faster for some formats than the competing solution they were testing against, which also claimed advanced performance on multi-CPU systems.

Benefit: Transcode Engines deliver consistently high performance on system configurations from one CPU core to many.