PLAYOUT PLATFORM
Your complete linear playout chain. One integrated platform
Originate and localize linear channels with integrated graphics, subtitling, encoding, triggers, scheduling, media asset management and monitoring. Run your video servers where they make sense for your operation and manage them through a central backend.
PLAYOUT PLATFORM
Your complete linear playout chain. One integrated platform
Originate and localize linear channels with integrated graphics, subtitling, encoding, triggers, scheduling, media asset management and monitoring. Run your video servers where they make sense for your operation and manage them through a central backend.
HOW THE PLATFORM FITS YOUR OPERATION
Choose where your channels run
Deploy the same video server software on dedicated hardware, virtual machines, or cloud instances. Place playout engines at your facility, in the cloud, at a remote uplink, or close to an affiliate, while keeping management centralized.
Choose where your channels run
Deploy the same video server software on dedicated hardware, virtual machines, or cloud instances. Place playout engines at your facility, in the cloud, at a remote uplink, or close to an affiliate, while keeping management centralized.
Bring your playout workflow together
Coordinate media preparation, playlists, live switching, graphics, subtitling and output encoding within one platform. Give operators dashboards built around the channels and controls they need.
Bring your playout workflow together
Coordinate media preparation, playlists, live switching, graphics, subtitling and output encoding within one platform. Give operators dashboards built around the channels and controls they need.
Integrate with your existing systems
Connect scheduling, traffic and media workflows through APIs and customizable playlist imports and as-run exports. Work with Inetsat or your preferred integration team to connect the platform to your operation.
Integrate with your existing systems
Connect scheduling, traffic and media workflows through APIs and customizable playlist imports and as-run exports. Work with Inetsat or your preferred integration team to connect the platform to your operation.
Keep channels running through interruptions
Video servers cache playlists and media locally, so playout can continue when the backend or media repository is temporarily unavailable, provided the required content and playlist are already cached.
Keep channels running through interruptions
Video servers cache playlists and media locally, so playout can continue when the backend or media repository is temporarily unavailable, provided the required content and playlist are already cached.
ARCHITECTURE
Central management, playout where you need it
The backend coordinates your operation while video servers generate the channel outputs. Media repositories store your content, the Uploader prepares and transfers it, and Template Builder gives your design team control over on-air graphics.
Backend Management Platform
Manage playlists, media, configuration, monitoring, alerts and reports through the web console or API. Coordinate video servers across locations and assign permissions to the teams responsible for each channel and task.
Backend Management Platform
Manage playlists, media, configuration, monitoring, alerts and reports through the web console or API. Coordinate video servers across locations and assign permissions to the teams responsible for each channel and task.
Video Server
The video server combines audio and video playout, graphics, subtitling and encoding. It also handles live inputs, trigger detection and splicing. Run it on hardware, a VM or a cloud instance, with outputs selected for the deployment. Each server maintains its own local media and playlist cache.
Video Server
The video server combines audio and video playout, graphics, subtitling and encoding. It also handles live inputs, trigger detection and splicing. Run it on hardware, a VM or a cloud instance, with outputs selected for the deployment. Each server maintains its own local media and playlist cache.
Media repositories
Store content in cloud-based or on-premises repositories using S3-compatible or WebDAV storage. The platform manages content distribution, and video servers download the media they need based on their playlists.
Media repositories
Store content in cloud-based or on-premises repositories using S3-compatible or WebDAV storage. The platform manages content distribution, and video servers download the media they need based on their playlists.
Uploader
Automate ingest through watch folders. The Uploader extracts and validates metadata, performs technical quality checks, encrypts media and transfers it to your repositories using multiple connections to improve transfer performance.
Uploader
Automate ingest through watch folders. The Uploader extracts and validates metadata, performs technical quality checks, encrypts media and transfers it to your repositories using multiple connections to improve transfer performance.
Template Builder
Design reusable graphics templates with images, animation, text, video, audio, clocks and squeeze effects. Populate templates with playlist parameters or external data and preview the result using the built-in video server engine.
Template Builder
Design reusable graphics templates with images, animation, text, video, audio, clocks and squeeze effects. Populate templates with playlist parameters or external data and preview the result using the built-in video server engine.
Your existing systems
Connect your traffic and media asset management systems through APIs and tailored import/export workflows. Your graphics team can prepare assets in their existing design tools for use in Template Builder.
Your existing systems
Connect your traffic and media asset management systems through APIs and tailored import/export workflows. Your graphics team can prepare assets in their existing design tools for use in Template Builder.
KEY FEATURES
Deliver, monitor and verify your output
Media asset management
Manage content, metadata and associated audio and subtitle files in a central interface. Search and filter assets, organize repositories, define deletion rules and prioritize distribution around the playlist. Automatically manage video server storage and identify missing media before it can affect playout.
Media asset management
Manage content, metadata and associated audio and subtitle files in a central interface. Search and filter assets, organize repositories, define deletion rules and prioritize distribution around the playlist. Automatically manage video server storage and identify missing media before it can affect playout.
Media ingest and quality checks
Use watch folders for automated uploads, with metadata extraction and validation and built-in technical QC. Guide operators through manual content verification to complement automated checks and catch issues that need human review.
Media ingest and quality checks
Use watch folders for automated uploads, with metadata extraction and validation and built-in technical QC. Guide operators through manual content verification to complement automated checks and catch issues that need human review.
Integrated encoding and output formats
Generate multiple outputs per feed with independent configurations. Encode transport streams using H.264, H.265 or MPEG-2, and deliver over UDP, RTP or SRT. Generate HLS outputs with multiple resolution and bitrate profiles. Supported hardware deployments also provide ASI and SDI output options. Resolution and frame-rate conversion help adapt content to different delivery requirements.
Integrated encoding and output formats
Generate multiple outputs per feed with independent configurations. Encode transport streams using H.264, H.265 or MPEG-2, and deliver over UDP, RTP or SRT. Generate HLS outputs with multiple resolution and bitrate profiles. Supported hardware deployments also provide ASI and SDI output options. Resolution and frame-rate conversion help adapt content to different delivery requirements.
Audio processing
Map audio channels, normalize loudness, upmix or downmix audio and create audio-description broadcast mixes. Coordinate audio processing with the language and delivery requirements of each output.
Audio processing
Map audio channels, normalize loudness, upmix or downmix audio and create audio-description broadcast mixes. Coordinate audio processing with the language and delivery requirements of each output.
Customizable dashboards
Build operational views around your channels. Combine stream or thumbnail monitoring, audio levels, playlists, as-run information, subtitles, timers and video server status. Add buttons for common actions, live switching and secondary-event control, with local server access available for low-latency monitoring and control.
Customizable dashboards
Build operational views around your channels. Combine stream or thumbnail monitoring, audio levels, playlists, as-run information, subtitles, timers and video server status. Add buttons for common actions, live switching and secondary-event control, with local server access available for low-latency monitoring and control.
Monitoring and alerts
Monitor server status, connectivity, input signals and channel output. Receive alerts for black or frozen output, missing inputs, playlist and media distribution problems, upload or QC issues, and unsuccessful login attempts. Deliver alerts through email or Slack so the right team can act.
Monitoring and alerts
Monitor server status, connectivity, input signals and channel output. Receive alerts for black or frozen output, missing inputs, playlist and media distribution problems, upload or QC issues, and unsuccessful login attempts. Deliver alerts through email or Slack so the right team can act.
Audience measurement watermarking
Integrate Nielsen and Kantar/BARC audio watermarking into the playout workflow to support audience measurement requirements.
Audience measurement watermarking
Integrate Nielsen and Kantar/BARC audio watermarking into the playout workflow to support audience measurement requirements.
Compliance recordings and as-run reporting
Create compliance recordings for review and troubleshooting, with downloadable TS files or HLS playback. Export as-run logs in the format required by your operation and use audit information to track changes.
Compliance recordings and as-run reporting
Create compliance recordings for review and troubleshooting, with downloadable TS files or HLS playback. Export as-run logs in the format required by your operation and use audit information to track changes.
APIs and workflow integration
Automate management through the platform API and adapt playlist imports and as-run exports to existing systems. Build integrations with your own team, a third party, or Inetsat’s engineers.
APIs and workflow integration
Automate management through the platform API and adapt playlist imports and as-run exports to existing systems. Build integrations with your own team, a third party, or Inetsat’s engineers.
Review the details that matter to your channels
Explore supported formats and capabilities in the datasheet, or bring your requirements to a demo call.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Flexibility, reliability and security in the architecture
Flexibility: choose how your operation fits together
Use the same video server software on hardware, VMs and cloud instances, and place playout engines where they best serve your distribution. Keep media, scheduling and monitoring responsibilities together or assign them to teams in different locations. Connect your existing systems through APIs and customized interfaces. Your deployment can combine these choices. Different channels and locations can use different infrastructure while remaining part of the same managed operation.
Flexibility: choose how your operation fits together
Use the same video server software on hardware, VMs and cloud instances, and place playout engines where they best serve your distribution. Keep media, scheduling and monitoring responsibilities together or assign them to teams in different locations. Connect your existing systems through APIs and customized interfaces. Your deployment can combine these choices. Different channels and locations can use different infrastructure while remaining part of the same managed operation.
Reliability: catch problems before they reach air
Local media and playlist caching reduces dependence on continuous backend and repository connectivity for file-based playout. Technical QC, consistency checks and missing-media reports help identify problems before transmission. Monitoring and alerts help your team respond when something changes. Primary and backup video servers can maintain their own local caches. The appropriate redundancy and output-switching design depends on your deployment and delivery interfaces; our team helps you define it around the continuity requirements of your channels.
Reliability: catch problems before they reach air
Local media and playlist caching reduces dependence on continuous backend and repository connectivity for file-based playout. Technical QC, consistency checks and missing-media reports help identify problems before transmission. Monitoring and alerts help your team respond when something changes. Primary and backup video servers can maintain their own local caches. The appropriate redundancy and output-switching design depends on your deployment and delivery interfaces; our team helps you define it around the continuity requirements of your channels.
Security: protect content and control access
Protect stored and distributed media with integrated encryption using AES-256 and RSA-4096 key protection. Define user groups and permissions, enforce two-factor authentication and password policies, restrict access by IP address and block inactive accounts. Audit logs record platform changes. Video servers can operate behind firewalls and NAT using outgoing connections for backend and media access, while media remains encrypted in the cache until it is decrypted for playout.
Security: protect content and control access
Protect stored and distributed media with integrated encryption using AES-256 and RSA-4096 key protection. Define user groups and permissions, enforce two-factor authentication and password policies, restrict access by IP address and block inactive accounts. Audit logs record platform changes. Video servers can operate behind firewalls and NAT using outgoing connections for backend and media access, while media remains encrypted in the cache until it is decrypted for playout.
USE CASES
Built for your channel workflow
Explore how the platform supports sports, entertainment, FAST, pop-up channels, live events, localization and disaster recovery.