Advantages of Digital Rapids Transcode Manager
Easy custom integration — Transcode Manager features powerful capabilities for integration into custom applications and existing enterprise management systems. Transcode Manager FE directly supports a variety of third-party databases (such as Oracle 10g® and Microsoft® SQL Server), while a comprehensive Web Services (SOAP) API lets developers take advantage of the Transcode Manager’s enterprise-level performance, load-balancing intelligence and failover capabilities of Transcode Manager through an easy XML-based programming interface.
Benefit: Powerful and easy integration tools allow Transcode Manager to be integrated seamlessly into custom applications with minimal development time and effort
Capture system integration — while some competitors offer the ability to add live capture (usually through the addition of capture hardware and optional software modules), none offers the robust capture capabilities available through the combination of Transcode Manager and our Digital Rapids Stream encoding solutions. Ingest operators using Stream can submit jobs directly to Transcode Manager for distributed multi-format encoding – taking the encoding load off the ingest station – while taking advantage of our encoding benefits including hardware-based pre-processing for industry-leading quality. (See “Advantages of Digital Rapids Encoding Solutions”)
Benefit: Live capture can be combined with distributed transcoding to relieve the encoding burden on ingest stations and deliver unparalleled quality in a streamlined workflow.
Advanced processing — many alternative solutions rely on the built-in functionality of their target codecs for video processing. While our capture/encoding and transcoding solutions can also use codec-inherent features, we provide – and customers prefer – our advanced software plug-ins that deliver superior quality, performance and/or functionality. The Digital Rapids Scaler, for example, provides better scaling quality and reduced CPU overhead compared to the built-in scaling in popular codecs. Standard and optional plug-ins including video and graphic overlay, adaptive Inverse Telecine, color space conversion, forensic watermarking and more complement features such as automated clip trimming and adding head/tail clips.
Benefit: Advanced processing plug-ins deliver superior output quality, increased throughput and powerful functions for modifying the video automatically.
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