## Input

### Compressed input
- **Type:** IP (IGMPv3-based redundancy and dual multicast redundancy), Dual source redundancy (active/active & active/passive modes), Pro-MPEG FEC support  
- **Monitoring:** Packet loss statistics  
- **Protocol:** MPEG-2 TS (MPTS & SPTS), RTMP  
- **Codec:** JPEG-XS, MPEG-2, H.264, HEVC – MPEG-1 LII, Dolby Digital (AC-3), Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3), AAC, HEAAC v1 and v2, Dolby E (baseband input only), Dolby Digital Plus ATMOS  
- **Data rate:** SD / HD up to 50 Mbps, UHD up to 80 Mbps

#### Reliable transport
- **SRT and RIST input/output:**  
  - Carriage of UDP or RTP streams over the SRT protocol  
  - SRT listener or caller mode  
  - RIST sender mode  
  - RIST listener mode  
- **Zixi input/output**  
  - Zixi sender  
  - Zixi feeder or Zixi Receiver mode

### Baseband input
**Info:** Optional hardware required  
- **SDI:** 3G / HD / SD-SDI (max 16 per server)  
- **SDI over IP (SMPTE ST 2022-6)**  
- **SMPTE ST 2110**  
  - SMPTE ST 2110-20 uncompressed video up to UHD resolution,  
  - SMPTE ST 2110-30/31: uncompressed audio,  
  - SMPTE ST 2110-40: data (VITC/Time code, AFD/BAR, Closed captioning, OP-47 Teletext, SMPTE 2031 Teletext),  
  - All SMPTE ST 2110 essences can be input as ST 2022-7  
  - NMOS IS-04 and NMOS IS-05 support

## Pre-processing
### Enhancement filters
- **Video:** De-interlacing, Cropping, Letter boxing, Stretching, SD and HD Cross-scaling, 3:2 Pull down, MCTF,  Deblocking filter, Spatial denoising filter, Cross Talk filter,  Sharpening, Diamond filter  
- **Audio:** Automatic loudness control (A/85), Audio gain adjustment, Mute

### Image  
- **Image settings:** Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue, Gamma, Temperature  
- **Image overlays:** Image insertion on input loss  
- **Aspect ratio:** WSS, AFD, Video index

## Metadata
- **Subtitles passthrough and translation:** EIA 608/708 Closed Caption, SCTE-20, DVB Teletext, DVB Subtitles, SCTE-27, ARIB B24  
- **Metadata:** SCTE-104, SCTE-35, IA 608 / 708 Closed Caption, SCTE-20, DVB  Teletext, DVB-VBI, SCTE-27, OP47, SMPTE 2031, VITC , SMPTE 2038, ARIB  B24  
- **Streaming subtitles**  
  - Closed Captions: WebVTT for HLS, DFXP for HSS, WebVTT or SMPTE-TT for DASH  
  - DVB-Teletext page 888: WebVTT for HLS, DFXP for HSS, WebVTT or SMPTE-TT for DASH  
  - DVB-Subtitles: DFXP for HSS, SMPTE-TT for DASH  
- **Ad insertion:** EBIF / EISS / AITSCTE-35 passthrough  
- **Nielsen:** Watermark extraction for multi-screen devices

## Video encoding
- **Video codec:** HEVC Main 10, HEVC Main Profile, H.264 Baseline / Main / High profile, MPEG-2  
- **HDR:** HDR10, HLG10, PQ10. Dolby Vision 8.1 & 5.0  
- **Rate control:** CBR, VBR, constant video quality  
- **Data rate:** From 100 kbps to 60 Mbps  
- **Resolutions:**  
  - Progressive: from QCIF to UHD, up to 60 fps  
  - Interlaced: 480i, 576i, 720i and 1080i  
- **Templates:** Channel templates creation and management

## Audio encoding
- **Audio encoding:** MPEG-4 / MPEG-2 AAC, AAC 5.1, HE-AAC v1 & v2, HE-AAC 5.1 1, Dolby Digital (AC3), Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3), Dolby Digital Plus ATMOS  
- **Audio channels per service:** Up to 8 stereo pairs. Radio channels.  
- **Passthrough:** MPEG 1 LII, Dolby Digital (AC-3), Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3) 5.1-ch or stereo, Dolby E, Dolby Digital Plus ATMOS  
- **Data rate:** From 4.75 kbps to 320 kbps (from 64 to 1024 kbps for DD+)

## Multiplexing
### Processing
- Full re-multiplexing support including real-time PSI regeneration, and dynamic rules-based passthrough of descriptors  
- PID re-mapping  
- SI/PSI generation/re-generation and insertion from external source  
- Statistical multiplexing bit rate allocation for MediaKind software encoder  
- Bitrate policing  
- Input Content Extraction

### Content protection  
- DVB-CSA V1, V2 scrambling  
- AES-128 scrambling  
- BISS Mode 0, 1, 2

## Broadcast output
### Output type and format  
- Adaptive TS / MPEG-2 TS (ALD, EBP, IDR or RAP-based signal)  
- SPTS over UDP

### Transmission  
- Multicast / Unicast, UDP, RTP

## Streaming output
### Formatting  
- Apple HTTP Live Streaming (Over CMAF or TS), Microsoft Smooth Streaming, DASH  
- Common CMAF segment delivery for HLS and DASH  
- Low latency chunking support for DASH  
- RTMP

### Multi audio  
- Multiple audio streams per output for HLS, Smooth Streaming and DASH

### Content protection  
- Microsoft PlayReady DRM support for HLS/TS, Smooth Streaming and DASH  
- Apple Segment for HLS/TS  
- FairPlay support for HLS/TS and HLS/CMAF  
- Adobe Primetime Access support HLS/TS  
- Widevine, PlayReady and Marlin support in CTR mode for DASH  
- Widevine and PlayReady support in CBC mode for DASH  
- Key provisioning interface to leading CAS & DRM vendors

### Content publishing  
- Support for pull scenarios in just-in-time packaging  
- Support publishing to local storage or to WebDAV servers

### Origin server  
- Built-in live and VOD origin server for HLS, Smooth Streaming and DASH  
- Custom HTTP headers management (Expiry settings, CORS headers…)  
- Built-in support of HTTP 1.1 Chunked Transfer Encoding for Low Latency

### CDN  
- Interfaces to leading CDNs  
- Certified with Akamai MSL 4 for HLS and DASH

## Monitoring & control  
- **Control interface:** Up to 2 IP ports, monitoring and control ports (primary and spare) through API & GUI  
- **Control and system protocols:** REST, HTTP, NTP, FTP, IGMP v2 / v3, SNMP v2 / 3c  
- **Content replacement:** SCTE-35 in-band / ESAM out-of-band. Triggers: Time signal, Splice-out / Splice-in, Alternate command, or manually triggered from GUI.  
- **High availability:** Support both 1+1 and N+M redundancy schemes. Service synchronization on encoder and packager

## Infrastructure  
- **Servers:** MediaKind-referenced hardware IT Datacenter based on COTS servers  
- **CPU:** Intel, AMD