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Communitek announces the Minicaster
March 25, 2010
Source: Communitek
Live HD and SD video
streaming encoder in a 2RU half-rack case to be demonstrated
at NAB Booth N 4019
Communitek Video Systems announces the Minicaster, a high-performance,
standalone encoding system designed specifically for live
streaming of HD and SD content for Internet video broadcasts
and IPTV applications. Offering real-time MPEG4/H.264, Adobe
Flash and Windows Media encoding, this compact
device is the perfect solution for live broadcasts from both
field and studio locations.
Applications include live sports and concert events, high-quality
video conferencing for business, government and medical applications,
as well as worldwide distribution of television and radio
broadcasts over the Internet.
Streams can be generated at bit rates ranging from 100 kbps
to 15 Mbps in real-time from HD-SDI, SD-SDI, S-Video or Composite
Video sources with either discrete or embedded audio. The
Minicaster can also be equipped with up to 2 TBytes of internal
disk storage for simultaneous archiving of live streams during
broadcasts. This self-contained unit, which is capable of
operating on AC or DC power, will be featured at the Brick
House Video booth N4019 during the National Association of
Broadcasters (NAB) convention to be held in Las VegasApril
12-15, 2010.
Employing an optimalcombination of hardware and software encoding,
the Minicaster can be used in any real-time encoding application,
including live sports and concert events. Producers are given
complete creative control over the compression process, which
supports all of the major High and Standard Definition formats
used in broadcast, including 1080i, 720p, PAL 625 and NTSC
525. Frame rates include 30, 29.97, 25 and 24 Hz progressive
as well as 60 and 59.94 Hz interlaced.
Video images can be cropped, scaled, de-interlaced, and formatted
for a wide range of software video players. Both 16 x 9 and
4 x 3 aspect ratios are supported, and captions and bitmap
logos can be overlaid on the outbound stream. Dual Gigabit
Ethernet output ports are provided for high stream capacity
and redundancy.
“The Minicaster integrates the best available technologies
from across the video streaming marketplace,” said Brian
Isaacson, President of Communitek Video Systems. “We
have deployed these units in a number of live webcasts that
we have produced and found that their video performance and
overall reliability far exceed what is possible with off-the
shelf PCs running commercial software packages.”
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