TAG Video Systems: 100% Software, 100% IP, 100% COTS
TAG Video Systems is a 100% software based monitoring company that delivers the best quality video experience to viewers around the world.
TAG supports over 60,000 channels across the four primary broadcasting applications: Live Production, Playout/Master Control, OTT and Delivery. Their Zero Friction philosophy offers scalability, flexibility and asset utilization to broadcasters and content distributors across the globe.
TAG Video Systems provides the following features:
Probing / Monitoring
Multiviewing
Decryption
Management & API
IP Radio
Probing / Monitoring
The TAG all IP software solution offers a complete probing & monitoring application tool from the transmission layers (2110/2022-6 uncompressed, MPEG-TS compressed, & OTT streams) down to the encoded video content and quality. Overall it is a strong tool for error detection and alerting.
Features
High density solution; concurrent monitoring
Real-time, simultaneous analysis of all sources on all channels
Three monitoring levels: Transport Level (based on ETR-101-290 compliance), Video/Audio Baseband Content Level, and Template-based (detect configuration changes in monitored stream)
Multiviewing
With the multiviewing application tool, receive and monitor all broadcast formats (2110/2022-6 Uncompressed, compressed MPEG-TS, and OTT streams) as well as the encoded video content and its quality.
The created output Mosaic/Head (HD or UHD video stream) is encoded and transmitted as 2110-21 and standard H.264/H.265 SPTS along an HLS parallel output. This makes remote multiviewing, mobile device access and flexible installation topology possible.
Features
Flexible Mosaic layout generation (1-100 channels per layout)
Overlay display of errors, Tally, UMDs, events & DVB/Teletext/CC/ID3 multi language subtitling
Mosaic output encoded as standard HD or UHD Multicast H.264 /H.265/ MPEG-2 SPTS service , and/or low latency ST-2110/2022-6/7 with simultaneous HLS output for each generated Mosaic
32 audio streams loudness display per service
Decryption
Decrypt, monitor and view DVB Simulcrypt in real-time. The IP software also offers OTT content after the packager within the secure zone and after the CDN while interacting with Verimatrix MultiRights key management.
Features
Real-time decryption that enables probing, monitoring & multiviewing display of encrypted content as if it were an undecrypted service
MPEG-TS DVB-BISS & Simulcrypt decryption support
Available for OTT streams encrypted with Verimatrix, Huawei, SkyDRM, & Irdeto KMS solutions
Management & API
The all IP software system is managed by an elaborated management scheme combined by a JSON API. This allows for full management and control of functionalities, plus status and events/errors reporting.
Features
“All IP” Software only solution
Runs on COTS Server Hardware
Complete configuration via web UI
Network & software management via CLI
Advanced & fully elaborated JSON API
Ability to group multiple server units to a single logical system
IP Radio
An independent solution provides real-time transcoding of internet audio streams (i.e. radio stations) and encapsulates them into MPEG-2 transport streams.
Features
Real-time live transcoding of internet audio streams and encapsulation into DVB MPEG-2 Transport Stream
Audio re-sampling to a variety of frequencies / Stereo to mono down sampling
