Harmonic has unveiled Rhozet Carbon Server 4.0, a new workflow-based distributed transcoding system and Rhozet Carbon QC 1.0, a new quality control product.
According to Harmonic, the new Carbon Server 4.0 is designed to manage a network of Carbon Coder transcoders and the new Carbon QC 1.0 quality control modules. It provides file-based workflow management, including transcoding, quality control and delivery. The new Carbon QC 1.0 brings automated compliance and quality testing into the transcoding workflow. Together these two new offerings provide media companies with improved efficiency in an automated workflow.
Harmonic said that the new Carbon Server provides load-balancing and failover protection. It manages a variety of tasks, including quality control, transcoding and delivery. It allows users to design workflows that incorporate a variety of processing tasks and conditional behaviours.
The company said that the new Carbon QC 1.0 analyses both incoming and outgoing assets during the transcoding workflow. It can be configured to check a variety of video and audio characteristics, including black detection, silence detection, audio levels, letterboxing, blockiness, bit-rate, duration and transport stream compliance.
In addition, the new Carbon QC can provide an automated visual comparison between input and output data to guarantee visual quality of the output. It can check all video assets or a subsample, and isolate those video assets that don’t meet the quality requirements of a particular job. It provides both automated checking of the content and an interactive tool to allow operators to review problem files.
David Trescot, vice president of Rhozet business unit at Harmonic, said: Carbon Server 4.0 and Carbon QC 1.0 tackle the key concern of our customers – how to achieve cost-effective, high-quality transcoding in a scalable environment. The Carbon Coder family of transcoding solutions continues to see great momentum in the marketplace, securing our position as a leading provider of enterprise-level transcoding.
