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
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
- Mix variety of uncompressed & compressed sources: SMPTE-2022-6;7/ST-2110/ HEVC /H.264 /MPEG-2 /JEPG2000 TR-01/ HLS/ MPEG-DASH/ MSS/ UHD/HD/SD/RADIO/DATA
- 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
- DVB PSI tables insertion (PAT/PMT/SDT)
- Source redundancy solution (3 sources per stream)
- Channel backup playback from internal file
- 48 Channels on a single 1RU Server
