Cameras and studios at your production sites send their feeds to one central system, and every office sees them as a channel list on its TVs, laptops and phones. Your editorial teams watch what is happening anywhere in the company, live.
A media company with production sites and offices across a country has live pictures everywhere: cameras on location, studios, bureaus. The people who decide what goes on air sit somewhere else. Getting every feed in front of every editor usually means a patchwork of links, monitors and phone calls, and nobody has one view of what is live right now.
Cameras and studio outputs go into Framecastic encoders and are sent to the centre over the internet with SRT or RIST, or over your company network.
The IPTV Server collects every feed into one channel list, grouped by site or programme.
A small set-top box behind each TV shows the channel list. Staff pick a feed with a remote control, or watch four at once.
The same channels play in a web browser, with no box needed.
One camera on location goes in through a Portable Codec. A whole studio with many outputs goes in through an SDI Encoder, sixteen feeds in one rack unit. Sites send over an ordinary internet line with SRT or RIST, or over your own network.
The central server turns the incoming feeds into channels with names, groups and logos. A feed that drops comes back by itself when the encoder restarts. One server carries more than 100 channels.
User accounts and rights decide which channels each office, team or person can see, so a feed reaches the people it is meant for.
A small set-top box behind each screen boots straight into the channel list, with no one logging in. Each box drives two screens, each showing one feed full screen or four at once, so a single box can show up to eight feeds.
The same channels play in a web browser, with near-instant playback in the office and adaptive streaming on the move.
Inside a building, channels go out as multicast: one stream per channel however many people watch it. A live viewer count per channel shows which feeds people are actually following.
| Where | Unit | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Production site, one camera | Portable Codec | Sends one feed over the internet |
| Production site, a studio | SDI Encoder | Sixteen feeds in one rack unit |
| The centre | IPTV Server | One channel list for the whole company, 100+ channels |
| Every office | IPTV Set-Top Box | Behind each TV: two screens, up to eight feeds |
| Laptops and phones | A web browser, no unit needed |
Remote access to a running system first, then a pilot with a few sites and offices, with a written report you keep either way.