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April 8, 2002 Digital Rapids Corp. Announces StreamStation, a Dual Channel, Streaming Media Encoding and Batch Processing Workstation
NAB 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada: At the NAB 2002, Digital Rapids Corp. announces StreamStation, the most powerful streaming media encoding and batch encoding workstation available. The Digital Rapids StreamStation is an IBM IntelliStation equipped with dual Intel Xeon chips running at 2.2Ghz, and Digital Rapids dual channel Stream video capture and processing hardware. The StreamStation will debut at NAB 2002 in booth S6761 at the Sands Convention Center and will be available for sale late in Q2, 2002.
The Digital Rapids StreamStation offers the same encoding capabilities as the StreamZ and StreamForge server products, but it extends their feature sets by adding the ability to upres video to near HD resolutions (1024x768), preview all changes in real-time, and individually control the encoding process on a stream by stream basis.
StreamStation Hardware Features:
Video
Dual Xeon running at 2.2Ghz
Dual Channel video capture and processing
Live Graphic Overlay
Motion adaptive de-interlacing
3D motion adaptive video noise reduction
2D noise reduction (spatial)
Video Scaling from postage stamp through 1024x768
Aspect Ratio control, cropping, Proc-amp control
SDI, DV, Component (Y, Cr, Cb), S-Video (Y/C), and composite inputs
Audio
7-band Parametric EQ (8 channels)
Dynamic Range compression and Expansion
SDI (2), DV (1), AES (2), Balanced (2), and Unbalanced (2 pair) audio inputs
StreamStation Software Features:
Intuitive GUI
Optimized codec control allowing unlimited mixing of different codec types (wmv, avi, real, mpeg 1,2 and 4)
RS-422 Deck Control, GPI triggering, URL based remote control
XML based parameter (profile) storage
Live Preview and encoded video monitoring
StreamStation workstations control batch digitizing of existing content through direct control of professional video tape recorders (RS-422 & GPI) as well as processing live video in to live streaming out and archiving. Batch digitizing happens at full broadcast quality
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