Introduction Of ProMedia Carbon
In this Era of faster communication techniques there is always need for better tool to save time and cost for service providers. Which is beneficial for both subscribers and service providers as well.
So various tech giants does the Research and Development to provide more efficient solutions to service providers. Although it takes time to develop a new product and test it. But various tech giant have lot of years experience which make them little bit easy to develop a product.
Today in this article we are going to discuss about a product named as ProMedia Carbon and Its Features.
What is ProMedia Carbon
ProMedia Carbon is Harmonic’s product which facilitate us for File based Transcoding. It is a efficient software to perform the Transcoding function for Broadcasters or OTT service providers.
It is powerful tool for efficient and scalable transcoding. It also reduces the transcoding cost for a service providers due to its intelligent transcoding. It also performs many tasks like Conversion of HD into SD & NTSC PAL conversion too. It can also used for the insetion of logo and for color improvements. It also facilitate us with API functionality.
Working Of ProMedia Carbon
As shown above in the figure which explain itself, ProMedia Carbon is receiving the content from CDN then it can be directly converted into required format for braodcasting of content. While you can also do the editing in content then send it for brodcasting.
ProMedia carbon have function of intelligent transcoding. Which makes it easy to understand the input file format and then convert it into the output file format. It also automatically transfers the files to FTP Protocol. Which enable the broadcaster to perform the tasks automatically with intelligence.
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If you are providing the pre recorded content to ProMedia Carbon then it is stored in the system in a standard format in systematic manner. So if someone is requesting to access this content then it fetch the content from storage and then transcode it. Which makes transcoding more efficient.
If there is need for large amount of transcoding then a transcoding farm can be created. The ProMedia Carbon nodes creates this transcoding farm. for that Harmonic provides a WFS engine which control this transcoding farm. Which shows the health of your transcoding farm that how many transcoding are going on currently and their status etc.
ProMedia Carbon supports various formats High Definition and Standard Definition. which makes easy transcoding tasks. Also many updates are provided in this software for improvements which makes it more efficient and use friendly. It is having user friendly Graphical User interface.
Harmonic also provides you a XML based SDK with ProMedia Carbon. Where this SDK is very useful to control the various tasks in transcoding like parameters and filtering. You can also insert the ads.
Conclusion Of ProMedia Carbon
ProMedia Carbon is highly scalable and efficient tool for transcoding for brodcasters. It is complete package to perform various tasks like Transcoding, Editing and Format converter. You can also extract he Closed Captions. It also facilitate you for multiple transcoding to use it more efficiently.
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