Outcast Encoder

Government streaming operations require exceptional speed and reliability to deliver the highest-quality information—public meetings, educational programs, emergency notifications, trainings, or special events—to wide audiences. Outcast Encoder enables agencies to deliver high-capacity streaming—without requiring infrastructure changes or extra staff time to manage and support.

How Outcast Encoder can help:

Deliver high-quality live and on-demand streaming media over the Web—while maximizing bandwidth usage.
Simplify your streaming media productions with advanced, automated encoder controls.
Create a rich viewer experience with video indexing, closed captioning, document linking, and keyword search.
Simultaneously transmit your stream to U-verse IPTV networks and the Web—using one appliance.
Stream and index your audio/video from any location—live and on-demand.

High-quality encoding for events held anywhere, anytime

Take any audio/video signal—cable, VHS, DVD—encode and compress it into the highest quality digital format for instantaneous live or on-demand delivery over the Web. Outcast Encoder is also available as a Mobile Solution so you can capture, index, and broadcast events that are held in off-site or hard-to-reach locations—with or without an internet connection.

Optimize your streaming experience for wide audiences

Ensure end-users experience high-quality live and archived streams by leveraging our intelligent routing technology to dynamically reach internal or public audiences without causing network congestion. By delivering streaming media over the fastest paths, avoiding internet congestion, Oucast Encoder helps maximize bandwidth capacity and streaming bit rates. Intelligent routing between our world-class MediaCenter distribution network and onsite distribution servers, MediaVault or StreamReplicator ensures streaming will automatically scale to meet user demands.

Ensure consistent and secure streaming: hosted solution and built-in support

To avoid costly bandwidth fees, you have the option of leveraging our MediaCenter distribution network to host and store your content. Our fully hosted, redundant architecture with multiple geographically separate data centers, backup/failover and automatic reboot capabilities, and 24/7/365 remote system monitoring helps guarantee the highest quality streams and system up-time. Plus, automated software upgrades are included to ensure your encoder performs at its best.

Save time with advanced encoder controls: scheduling, pause, and switching

Leverage MediaManger to automate your streaming operation with auto-start and auto-stop functions for Outcast Encoder. Also, ensure your video flows smoothly and consistently—without long pauses or dead air by leveraging pause, resume, and automatic cut and merge functionality for the archived stream. Switching between simultaneous events and agendas is also possible with Outcast Encoder. For back-to-back events, simply let your streaming run and perform indexing in a new agenda, the single video file is automatically separated with its indexes into multiple videos to correspond with the appropriate meeting.

Deliver integrated streaming media: indexed, linked, and keyword searchable

Governments can create a rich media portal combining audio/video streaming content and synchronized documents—all cross-linked and keyword searchable. This is a powerful tool for governments seeking to make public meeting recordings and public records more accessible to the public. Unlike standard encoders, Outcast Encoder drives the live indexing functionality of our MinutesMaker or LiveManager products. As live event data is indexed—agenda items, motions, votes, roll calls—the data transfers back into our MediaManager application for delivery to the Web in format that’s easy to access and navigate for the end-user.

Easily transmit video signals to U-verse IPTV in the highest quality digital formats

Granicus offers an Outcast Encoder solution 100% compatible with the AT&T U-verse IPTV networks, to help governments meet public demand for information, while making the most of their resources. You can simultaneously encode multiple streams of audio and video at different resolutions and bit rates—from a single output. The end result is a digitally compressed signal ready for use over IPTV networks and the Web.

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