Multi-service platform for video storage, delivery and management

A Platform for Building IPTV Services

The AvediaServer platform centralises a number of important building IPTV services.

User Access

• Portal for multi-platform content delivery via Exterity AvediaPlayer Receivers, Avedia PC clients or AvediaPlayer Desktop
• EPG for viewing live TV and radio schedules
• Easy interface customisation for branding and corporate identity
• Display different backgrounds for individual receivers or groups of receivers, tailoring them to meet your visual needs

Streaming

• Pause live TV
• Create scheduled TV channels from stored video content
• Easily access stored video files on-demand for training, education or entertainment
• Pause, rewind and fast forward VoD content

Recording

• Centralised recording: scheduled and continuous-loop options
• Automatically upload content to VOD/FTP/file share on recording completion
• Create, list and delete recorded assets via 3rd party systems

Management

• Multi-user management and monitoring of devices and channels from most popular browsers
• Mass configure Exterity devices and schedule configuration changes (e.g. channel, volume)
• Control user access and interaction with local profiles or with LDAP integration
• Action Triggered Event feature sends a pre-set command to you IPTV system when a specific event occurs
• Monitor content delivery to PCs and MACs by automatically identifying networked computers using AvediaPlayer Desktop

As part of an Exterity Building IPTV solution, the AvediaServer family delivers a number of benefits:

• Get more from your video assets by delivering them as on-demand and scheduled channels to users- ideal for training, education, entertainment and more
• Reinforce organisational branding by offering all IPTV assets on your network through a consistent, customised interface
• Extend the reach of organisational TV and video by delivering it to PCs and Mac without the need to install and manage clients
• Reduce operating expense by efficiently managing, monitoring and controlling all TV and video assets, devices and user interaction
• FTP

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The AvediaServer Portal application enables you to present users with a customisable interface that gives them consistent access to TV and video assets available on your LAN. These include TV channels, on-demand/scheduled video channels, the output from DVD/Blu-ray players or video cameras, third-party MPEG streams, and RSS feeds (e.g., news, weather).

Portal User Interface

• Combine all IPTV assets on your LAN into consistent user interface
• UTF-8 encoding supports customisation in any language
• Exercise better control over video content access
• Interface with other applications including hotel PMS (e.g., OPERA)
• Customise the look and feel via XSL/XML template files
• Build organisation-specific classifications for TV, radio, and VoD channels
• Populate web-based pages with RSS feeds to provide users with the latest news or social media content

Electronic Program Guide

• Creates a unified program guide for both scheduled playback channels and TV channels from AvediaStream TVgateways
• Modify existing TV listings or create your own by importing XML feeds
• Simple, customisable web interface

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Exterity offers three Avediaserver Play applications:

• The Play 60 application provides 60Mbps of bandwidth for up to 15 simultaneous streams, including and up to 2 simultaneous scheduled-play channels. Includes Portal and EPG modules
• The Play 200 application provides 200Mbps of bandwidth for up to 50 simultaneous streams, including  up to 10 simultaneous scheduled play channels. Includes Portal and EPG modules
• The Play 500 application provides 500Mbps of bandwidth for up to 125 simultaneous streams, including up to 10 scheduled play channels.
• The processing demands of the Play 500 means a separate AvediaServer module to support the Portal and EPG modules may be required.
  

Video-On-Demand

• User control of video content playback
• Asset list shows files currently available
• Video files easily loaded via FTP server
• Accessible via AvediaCentre and AvediaPlayer PC clients
• Supports SD and HD playback
• Easily manage content through administrative web interface

Scheduled Play

• Play back specific content at scheduled date and time
• Repeatable at regular intervals
• Supports SD and HD playback
• Easily manage content and schedule through administrative web interface
• Define playlists on schedules
  

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AvediaServer Record

The AvediaServer Record module centralises your video recording capabilities, preserving local desktop disk space and offer better management of video resources. It provides simultaneous continuous-loop recording of both HD and SD channels, to a limit of 200Mbps; for maximum versatility, channels may be video, audio, or a mixture of both.

A simple web interface uses the Exterity Channel Listener to populate a list of recordable streams. Administrators may select any of these channels for recording.

Recordings can be made on a continual "sliding window" basis, or scheduled to record over a specific period. The hours available in the recording window are dependent on the storage capacity of the Record module, the number of channels selected for recording, and whether they are HD or SD.

Depending on the AvediaServer disk size and the size of the MPEG channel, you may record over 100 days of SD video or over 30 days of HD video.

Once recorded, an administrator may export the content in full or extract clips for storage either on user PCs, AvediaStream Play module or exported to 3rd party applications for re-purposing.

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AvediaPlayer Desktop

The AvediaPlayer Desktop is a media player that allows the AvediaServer platform to deliver highly interactive access to TV and video content on PCs and Macs without the need to install or manage a software client.  It gives users seamless browser access to all live and recorded channels under full administrative control. AvediaPlayer Desktop also provides virtually unlimited scalability to support large numbers of users by eliminating the management burden associated with the installation and update of software IPTV clients.

Among other capabilities, users can select live broadcast TV, radio or VoD content in SD or HD, browse channel schedules from the Programme Guide, choose the language for subtitles or audio, and pause or skim through VoD content. Administrators enjoy granular  control over group and individual viewer access using either AvediaServer Director, the platform’s multi-user management application, or through the organisation’s directory service using LDAP.

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AvediaServer Director

The AvediaServer Director application is a multi-user building IPTV management system. It allows administrators anywhere on the network to cooperate for efficient control of your building IPTV system through an extensive web interface offering an array of tools for device discovery, configuration, control, and firmware upgrades.

With AvediaServer Director you can:

• Monitor bandwidth and disk space
• AvediaPlayer receivers to make these channels available on standard TVs and AV displays
• Mass coniguration of multiple IPTV devices e.g. upgrades and mass channel change
• Task scheduling; any command that can be sent to a device can be scheduled to run at a later date

With AvediaServer Director you can monitor:

• Bandwidth and disk space
• Channel status for all channels including stream integrity verification

Management View Options

AvediaServer Director offers four views of key information:

• A matrix of all the  Exterity devices on the network with ability to filter on:

• Device type
• Location
• Group

• New device view listing all Exterity devices that have been recently discovered over a configurable time interval
• Channels view showing the status of each channel
• Scheduled task view showing all scheduled commands