The Gearbox™ II 2-16 Port HD-SDI/IP is a real time H.264 or optional H.265 encoder designed to capture up to sixteen simultaneous SDI, HD-SDI, and/or optional HDMI signals and transform them into IP streams that are optimized for streaming. It is designed to be scalable, easily adaptable, and field upgradeable to meet the needs of streaming service users who are very comfortable with embedded Linux® based appliances. It relies on a Dual 16 Core Intel® CPU for encoding. We have optimized the encoder to obtain Telco grade reliability. The Gearbox II is an excellent multichannel HLS streamer. Resulting streams can be viewed with standard transport stream compatible settop boxes, streaming video, smart phones, or software clients such as VLC or JW Player. The system encodes individual H.264 streams up to a maximum of 15Mbps.
- Input format can be mix of SDI and/or HD-SDI
- Outputs: multiple simultaneous IP streams (H.264) via 10 GigE ports
- IP output protocols: UDP, RTP, RTMP (Open Flash), HTTP, with DLNA support
- Supports logo insertion, text overlay, and SCTE 35 compliant cue tone insertion ("ad markers") on outputs
- SDI and/or HD-SDI video loop through for monitoring
- Encodes up to 16 SD streams, or 16 720p HD streams, or 16 1080i or 1080p HD streams, and more derivative streams, for grooming to HLS, RTMP, DASH
- Supports HLS (adaptive) for output to mobile devices
- Supports rotating key servers like Verimatrix® VCAS™
- OPTION: Supports Streaming from local hard drive
- Supports 50 HLS users natively. Optional built-in server supports 1,000+ simultaneous HLS, DASH, and/or RTMP users
- Supports NTSC or PAL input and PAL to NTSC conversion
- Supports closed captioning – CC 608 and 708
- Encoding bit rates: 0.1 to 15Mbps
- Supports 1080i, 1080p, 720p, 576i, 480i, and 480p and any other broadcast or video format
- Supports HDTV input formats SMPTE-274M/SMPTE-296M2001, ITU-R BT.656
- SNMP, REST, SOAP support for remote management and monitoring
- Support for Variable Bit Rate (VBR) encoding maximizes adaptive streaming video quality and bandwidth efficiency
- Tested to work with Atlas™, Wowza®, and Adobe® Flash® media servers
- Tested to work with Akamai, Tulix, Verizon, etc. CDN's
- Tested compatible with major brands of IP devices including Amino™, Roku®, Telergy, Android™, and Apple iPad® and iPhone®
- Audio Input: SDI Embedded
- Audio Output: AAC, MPEG-1 Layer II, optional MP3, and/or optional “SurCode for Dolby Digital” AC-3
- Based on embedded Linux® running on tiny flash memory module
- Remote GUI includes some scheduling
- Redundant power supply
- Option for IP in and out: DELL servers with 16 core CPU's and dual redundant power supplies
