Two Hardware Solutions for Streaming Directly to Multiple Platforms

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1月时: We've been doing live streaming for a while, and new platforms have opened up that made it really attractive to want to distribute to multiple platforms at the same time. You might use a service like Livestream, but you still want to go out to Twitter, you still want to go out to Facebook Live, you still want to go out to YouTube Live, and what we're going to discuss today are ways you can do that.

Our first category are hardware devices that stream directly to one or more services, and we're going to talk about two products, matrix Monarch HDX, 和Teradek T-RAX. Starting with the Matrox Monarch, I did a review of that product that's available 在这里.

And 在这里's what it looks like from an I/O perspective, and what you see is that you've got two separate inputs for both HDSDI and HDMI on the back, and you've also got two ether网 connectors if you want to do that as well. 在前面你可以看到一些USB接口, and those USB ports are for local storage, that can be any kind of USB hard drive. 您还可以看到一个SD卡插槽, 这样你就可以在SD插槽里录制视频了, 在你制作视频的时候, 以太网口流出.

So you've got two encoders in this product, and you can use it in a couple different ways. If you want to stream to two different services, you can stream to two different services. If you want to record one version locally, 你可以使用这个输入, 将其本地存储到SD卡, 然后流式传输另一个, 这样就可以共享输入. 所以这是一个很灵活的产物, if you want to do one at three megabits a second to go out to YouTube Live, and you want to do one at 10Mbps for your own internal 网work, 你也可以这样做.

Why do you want to use an appliance rather than a cloud service? We're going to be discussing cloud services towards the end of the presentation. And they talk about some of the primary use cases. You can stream primary back-up server destinations for redundancy. 那很好啊. You can stream locally at a high bit rate, and send a lower quality stream to your CDN. 这也很好. Obviously, you can stream to different services. 这就是我们在这里的原因.

What key features differentiate your product from others in the same category? 两个独立编码器, so t在这里's not a lot of hardware devices in the $2000 price range that have two separate encoding capabilities. 它还有一个很好的功能, SDI功率损耗, 所以如果单元出了什么事, the SDI signal would be routed through the box. It'll go out the other side, and you can continue to use the signal with another encoder. And then, it also has closed caption capability if that's important for you. And the hardware, as I said, costs about $2000.

Matrox does a very good job with their marketing, 他们有一些案例研究, if you're interested in understanding how companies or other organizations are using these, you can check out the case studies 在这里.