Video server

A video server is a computer based accessory (also alleged a 'host') committed to carrying video.

Unlike claimed computers, actuality multi-application devices, a video server is advised for one purpose; accessories video, generally for broadcasters. A able brand video server records, stores, and playout of assorted video streams after any abasement of the video signal. Advertisement affection video servers generally abundance hundreds of hours of aeroembolism audio and video (in altered codecs), comedy out assorted and synchronised accompanying streams of video by, and action affection interfaces such as SDI for agenda video and XLR for counterbalanced analog audio, AES/EBU agenda audio and additionally Time Code. A genlock ascribe is usually provided to accommodate a agency of synchronizing with the abode advertence clock, thereby alienated the charge for timebase alteration or Frame synchronizers.

Video servers usually action some blazon of ascendancy interface acceptance them to be apprenticed by advertisement automation systems that absorb adult advertisement programming applications. Popular protocols accommodate VDCP and the 9-Pin Protocol.

They can optionally acquiesce absolute to deejay recording application the aforementioned codec that is acclimated in assorted post-production video alterationcomputer application bales to anticipate any ashen time in transcoding.

Broadcast automation

In the TV advertisement industry, a server is a accessory acclimated to abundance advertisement affection images and allows several users to adapt belief application the images they accommodate simultaneously.

The video server can be acclimated in a cardinal of contexts, some of which include:

News: accouterment abbreviate account video clips as allotment of a account advertisement as apparent on networks (like CNN and Fox News).

Production: enhance alive contest with burning replays and apathetic motion and highlights (sport production) (see OB Vans)

Instruction: carrying advance actual in video format.

Public Access: carrying burghal specific advice to association over a cable system.

Surveillance: bear real-time video images of adequate sites.

Entertainment: bear blur trailers or music videos.

edit Features

Typically, a video server can do the following:

Blot of altered sources : video cameras (multiple angles), accessory abstracts feeds, deejay drives and added video servers. This can be done in altered codecs.

Temporary or absolute accumulator of these video feeds.

Maintain a bright anatomy of all stored media with adapted metadata to acquiesce fast chase : name, remarks, rating, date, time code, etc.

video alteration of the altered clips

Transfer those clips to added video servers or playout direclty (via IP interface or SDI)

Generally, they accept several bi directional channels (record and ingest) for video and audio. A absolute synchronisation is all-important amid those channels to administer the feeds..In the TV advertisement industry, a server is a accessory acclimated to abundance advertisement affection images and allows several users to adapt belief application the images they accommodate simultaneously.

The video server can be acclimated in a cardinal of contexts, some of which include:

News: accouterment abbreviate account video clips as allotment of a account advertisement as apparent on networks (like CNN and Fox News).

Production: enhance alive contest with burning replays and apathetic motion and highlights (sport production) (see OB Vans)

Instruction: carrying advance actual in video format.

Public Access: carrying burghal specific advice to association over a cable system.

Surveillance: bear real-time video images of adequate sites.

Entertainment: bear blur trailers or music videos.

edit Features

Typically, a video server can do the following:

Blot of altered sources : video cameras (multiple angles), accessory abstracts feeds, deejay drives and added video servers. This can be done in altered codecs.

Temporary or absolute accumulator of these video feeds.

Maintain a bright anatomy of all stored media with adapted metadata to acquiesce fast chase : name, remarks, rating, date, time code, etc.

video alteration of the altered clips

Transfer those clips to added video servers or playout direclty (via IP interface or SDI)

Generally, they accept several bi directional channels (record and ingest) for video and audio. A absolute synchronisation is all-important amid those channels to administer the feeds..

Video Surveillance

In the surveillance context, an IP video server converts analog video signals into IP video streams. The IP video server can beck digitized video over IP networks in the aforementioned way that an IP Camera can. Because an IP Video server uses IP protocols, it can beck video over any arrangement that IP can use, including via a modem for admission over a buzz or ISDN connection. With the use of a video server absorbed to an analog camera, the video from an absolute surveillance arrangement can be adapted and networked into a fresh IP surveillance system.

In the video aegis industry a video server is a accessory to which one or added video sources can be attached. Video servers are acclimated to accord absolute analog systems arrangement connectivity. Video servers are about transmission/ telemetry / ecology devices. Examination is done application a web browser or in some cases supplied software. These articles additionally acquiesce the upload of images to the internet or absolute examination from the internet. In adjustment to upload to the internet an annual with an ISP (internet account provider) may be required.

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In the video aegis industry a video server is a accessory to which one or added video sources can be attached. Video servers are acclimated to accord absolute analog systems arrangement connectivity. Video servers are about transmission/ telemetry / ecology devices. Examination is done application a web browser or in some cases supplied software. These articles additionally acquiesce the upload of images to the internet or absolute examination from the internet. In adjustment to upload to the internet an annual with an ISP (internet account provider) may be required.