Torque Pelican
By deploying Pelican at sporting events, concerts or other live production venues, the high cost of contribution links can be lowered by encoding with high-quality HEVC before sending to the studio.
Furthermore, publishing OTT content needs vast quantities of software-based encoders, as each OTT content must be encoded into multiple bitrates within a “ladder”. Pelican’s unique hardware acceleration for decode and encode enables dramatic cutbacks in the number of servers. With that, of course, is a reduction in the heat generated, the energy used, and much simpler systems management.
Additionally, Pelican’s multi-channel overlay feature facilitates superimposing custom graphics, text or RSS feeds onto live content. This is done in the compressed domain, leading to significant cost savings compared to traditional baseband graphics generators.
The Pelican system also presents an easy-to-use web-based GUI for direct control, along with a straightforward REST API for integration into other control systems.
Torque DVMon
The DVMon is an economical monitoring platform for digital television networks. Built on the latest compact 1RU hardware, the DVMon raises the bar in user experience through its distinct, flexible HTML5 GUI. Running on any standards-compliant web browser, it allows opening of any number of windows in any size. The DVMon also facilitates opening multiple viewing panels within each window, and eases zooming in or out on any chart axis.
DVMon ATSC was launched at NAB 2019. With this model, RF measurements can be continuously logged for later inspection or trend analysis. From there, the demodulated transport stream is extracted from the RF signal, where full MPEG-TS monitoring and analysis is possible, including in-depth analysis of complex PSIP.
Torque DVStor
DVStor is a self-contained transport stream recording and playout solution. It archives transport stream data complete with all services, SI/PSIP tables and any private metadata. Transport stream data can be recorded in full, or as a selected subset of content. Inputs to the DVStor can be over a Gigabit Ethernet interface or an optional ASI input. DVStor can play out a custom playlist of content recorded off the input or evergreen material uploaded from asset store. Content in the DVStor can be played out over IP or the optional ASI output.
DVStor Compliance Recording
DVStor Compliance Recording Solution is a robust recording and playout engine for MPEG Transport Streams. It records the entire TS without encoding or modifying it. Stored content is fully fit for rebroadcast or repurpose.
DVStor Disaster Recovery
The versatility of the DVStor also makes it a perfect solution for disaster recovery playout, digital time shift, as well as remote clip extraction. Highly scalable, DVStor can support thousands of channels for months. Air-gapping DVStor at the transmitter provides multi-day reliable disaster recovery playout in the event of ransomware incidents. DVStor assures that broadcast stations remain on-air despite disruptions to the entire operations, and keep ad revenue flowing in.
DVStor Incremental File Transfer
Chunk file transfer offers near-live performance
Torque Electronic Couch Potato (ECP)
The ECP is designed to monitor and test video quality of experience. This affordable, compact, palm-sized monitoring probe monitors true customer viewing experience by providing measurements from the end users’ point of view, after the STB. Scanning through available channels or navigating through interactive content menus via an external IR blaster, the ECP provides a single dashboard highlighting service quality across all channels.
It features a modern open architecture API, making it easy to integrate measurements and alarms into any third party system. This flexibility means that the ECP is not only an indispensable tool for monitoring broadcast content, it is an important tool in automating testing in R&D and system QA applications. It epitomizes the ideal solution to measure the end-to-end process in a television delivery chain. It is available in four models, each with different inputs: HDMI, Composite, DVI and VGA.
Torque Visor
Visor provides central visibility and remote monitoring of multiple probes, plus easy access to a comprehensive log of system events. Operators can retrieve detailed analysis directly on the respective probe, and spot fault trends across services or several geographic regions.
Torque DPI – Digital Program Insertion Auditor
The DPI Auditor supports the ANSI/SCTE 35 2001 standard that defines a fully digital mechanism to control remote splicing equipment via cueing messages embedded in the transport stream. The core of the standard is centered on an SIT (Splice Information Table) which can contain a schedule message or an insert message.
