To help broadcasters and service providers optimize content delivery, streamline their operations, and enhance audio-video quality to meet today’s ever-increasing demand for quality, Interra Systems has introduced a host of updates to its BATON, BATON Captions, ORION, and VEGA Media Analyzer (VMA) platforms.
The company also offers its ORION 2110 Probe, which supports the SMPTE ST 2110 standard and enables broadcasters to future-proof the end-to-end monitoring of video quality in IP environments. Features include QoS/QoE monitoring of ST 2110 essence streams, ST 2110 main and redundancy signals, and NMOS integration.
Visit us at Booth #7.C09, where we will showcase our latest innovations designed to optimize content delivery, streamline operations, and enhance audio-video quality. Highlights at IBC2023 will include the latest upgrades to the industry-leading BATON solution with a brand-new engine to enhance performance, an AI-powered Captions solution, award-winning ORION monitoring suite, and VEGA Media Analyzer.
The comprehensive solutions address key challenges in meeting today’s ever-increasing demand for quality, including audio/video QoE and QoS, metadata management, and orchestrating cloud and hybrid deployments by automating media processing.
BATON
Interra Systems’ brand new, enhanced BATON 9.0 engine includes the most recent upgrades to its BATON solution – the company’s award-winning AI-/ML-enabled automated QC platform – including major framework updates, performance enhancements for QC and analysis of UHD content, optimized IMF analysis, and optimized reading and downloads from S3 cloud.
New video quality checks include the detection and decoding of QR codes, video dropout, logo detection, color banding for UHD content, and burnt-in-text recognition.
BATON now also offers complete support and checks for subtitles and transport stream formats, as well as Dolby Atmos, enhanced audio quality checks, and support for REDCODE audio, DPX, and TIFF.
ORION and ORION-OTT
For captioning, Interra Systems is introducing new upgrades to its BATON Captions solution, including RHEL support and the ability to browse and download log files from the web browser, export dictionaries, and perform a database backup before upgrading.
The company has also enhanced its BATON Media Player (BMP), which now includes optimized 4K content playback, additional support for Dolby Atmos storage formats, and more options to review errors.
Interra Systems’ ORION and ORION OTT solutions provide real-time monitoring of IP and OTT streams for live and VOD content. New features added to ORION include support for Dolby Atmos, while new ORION-OTT capabilities introduce support for Nagra and Comcast DRM, and updates to DAI monitoring – post server-side ad insertion (SSAI). Other enhancements comprise monitoring of low-latency streams, more DASH compliance checks, and improved freeze detection.
