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Compatible with a vast variety of MPEG2, HDV and DV sources Supports a wide variety of MPEG2, HDV and DV platforms Totally unlimited playlist editing during playback High reliability and seamless playlist playback regardless of hardware platform MPEG2 at different resolutions, profiles and bitrates can coexist in the same playlist, together with streams coming live Integrated MPEG2, HDV and DV stream remultiplexing engine Playback of clips still being captured supported Content trimming and editing Live MPEG2 streaming supported Synchronized fill and key playout Flexible playout logging Redundant playout (optional) On-air subtitling (optional) Switcher and GPI control (optional) Multi-language playout (optional) VDCP support (optional) HD and HDV playout (optional) Excellent price/performance SDK available for OEMs
AirBox provides automated content playout for satellite channels, cable head-ends, over-the-air broadcasters and corporate TV users. It is designed to be extremely robust, in order to meet the highest reliability demands of on-air playout. Due to its unique support of entry-level MPEG2, HDV and DV platforms, it is also suitable for webcasters, hotel Pay TV channels, corporate presentations, video wall sourcing and other program distribution systems. At a fraction of the price of any digital videotape player, a single AirBox server offers the same visual quality at its SDI outputs, multi-channel playback, multi-language audio playback, synchronized fill and key playout, graphics and subtitle insertion, last-minute playlist changes or clip editing. AirBox supports MPEG2, HDV and DV streams from virtually every known production platform, since it has an integrated remultiplexing engine, ensuring the output stream is compliant with the MPEG2 or DV specs. This engine corrects on-the-fly a number of multiplexing errors such as unequal video/audio duration, missing or corrupted frames or packets, poor stream integrity, PTS/DTS inconsistencies, etc. Any changes to the playlist during on-air session are possible! There are no “qued” or “locked” clips. Every clip in the playlist, except the one which is currently playing, can be trimmed, edited or repositioned. Moreover, playlist order can be changed on-the-fly with commands like “skip to next” or “Jump”. Such order changes are performed seamlessly without stopping current playout session. Any combination of MPEG2 clips at differing resolutions, bitrates, profiles and levels can be played in a single sequence seamlessly with no glitches or hardware reinitialization. The cut from one clip to another is completely seamless even with live streams - no black frames, no pause, no last frame freeze, no audio pops, no glitches, no duration limitations... Wide hardware platform support covers a broad range of applications and budget choices. AirBox works equally well both with cost-effective and professional MPEG2, HDV and DV playback platforms. The main difference is video output signal quality and bitrate/profile capabilities. Professional platforms support bitrates up to 50 Mbit/sec and 4:2:2 color sampling, or up to 80 Mbit for MPEG2 HD. For budget-minded operations, AirBox provides excellent storage savings through the MPEG2 Main Profile at Main Level IBP streams. At 8 Mbit/sec, full-motion, full-resolution 24 hours of content require less than 90 GB storage. Moreover, at such low bitrates, high-speed SCSI storage or FC network is not a must anymore. Playout sessions are being logged for monitoring and control purposes. The log can be later used for extracting actual playout sequence with exact timings or identifying user intervention into the playout session. The logging and recovery options allow completely unattended remote operation.
AirBox Specifications VIDEO
Compression Format Group-Of-Pictures Bitrate† Color sampling†
MPEG2, DV, HDV PAL / NTSC / 1080i HD I-frame only, Short GOP, Long GOP 1 - 15 Mbit/sec in MP@ML 10 - 50 Mbit/sec in 422P@ML 1 - 80 Mbit/sec in MP@HL 4:2:0 - MPEG2 Main Profiles 4:2:2 - MPEG2 4:2:2 Profiles 4:2:0 / 4:1:1 - DV 25 Mbit/sec 4:2:0 - HDV 25 Mbit/sec
AUDIO
Compression Bitrate (MPEG audio) Sampling
MPEG1 Layer 1/2 and uncompressed (DV) 64–384 Kbit/sec 48 KHz
FILE FORMATS
MPEG2 PS MPEG2 TS NEW MPEG2 AVI/WAV DV NEW HDV
MPG or M2P - Program Streams M2T - Transport Stream OpenDML AVI and WAV files (mono and stereo) OpenDML and Type2 AVI files MPG or M2T - Transport Stream
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
CPU† Memory Audio Slots Operating System
Pentium 4 at 2.4+GHz with Hyper-threading 512 MB Sound card for Clip Trimmer audio preview Available PCI slot(s) for playback hardware Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home
OTHER APPLICABLE MODULES
PRO Option NEW Multi-Audio TitleBox AirBox ListBox SafeBox NEW DataBox AirBox LAN Control VDCP NEW SubtitleBox NEW AirBox Backup NEW HD/HDV NEW
GPI, Matrix Switcher and TitleBox control Up to 4 stereo audio outputs simultaneously† On-air graphics insertion Additional playout, fill or key channels Remote playlist preparation Automated content replication and removal Powerful content database Remote control via web browser VDCP automation control interface support On-air automated program subtitling Redundant playout module on separate PC HD and HDV playout
SUPPORTED PLAYBACK PLATFORMS
MPEG2 MPEG2 - HD/HDV MPEG2 / DV MPEG2 - HD/HDV MPEG2 MPEG2 / DV MPEG2 / DV / HDV †
Stradis SDM-260/280/290 Stradis HDM-500 NEW Blackmagic Design DeckLink series DeckLink HD Series NEW Sigma Designs NetStream 2000/4000, Xcard Matrox DigiServer/DigiSuite LX/DTV TV Out VGA cards (Matrox G450/G550, etc.)
feature depends on playback platform Rev.: April 2005
Panda Engineering International Ltd. Unit E, 23/F Seabright Plaza 9-23 Shell Street, North Point Hong Kong Tel. 2566 8162 Fax. 2512 8517 www.pandacg.com.hk
