PBS Receives Excellence Award

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Apr 1, 2011 2:29 PM

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is the leader of the 10th Annual 2011 Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award in the new college of music technology/station category. PBS was awarded the Excellence Award for its modernized heavenly body monitoring capabilities formed on Volicon's Observer Enterprise programmed and entirely surplus digital video monitoring and logging system.

The PBS Technology Center in Alexandria, VA, provides successive smoothness of transmissions, around 4 HD channels and 8 SD channels, sent to associate stations opposite the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Guam and Samoa. To reinstate the aging logging network that monitored its heavenly body transmissions, PBS chose the Observer Enterprise formed on its aptitude to guard multi-part channels, join as-runs from industrialisation with aired video, capacitate efficient searches opposite aired calm and encouragement easy shave export.

The Observer Enterprise enables engineers to watch live or available video inside of only 2s of transmission, and staff can looking back on a playlist for a specific module or even for difference that would have been present in closed-captioning at the time. The prolongation staff can then guard any vigilance impairments and diagnose the problems quickly. Because the network synchronizes channels to a specific time point, engineers can troubleshoot and establish the range of the issue. Using the Observer Enterprise's shave trade capability, PBS can send video logs to its vendors to rapidly express video issues, enhancing communications and speeding fortitude of video or audio problems.

Although PBS has been embedding metadata and AFD in its MPEG streams given 2009, the broadcaster formerly had no way of logging what had been sent. To residence this challenge, Volicon is right away using PBS to increase new functionality to the Observer Enterprise that will declare that AFD codes have been sent rightly and that stations have received the information they must be manifestation a given square of video properly. If any metadata is gritty to be incorrect, engineers in Alexandria will be able use the logging network to look back, see what metadata was transmitted and start troubleshooting.