Envivio 4Caster C4

Three Screens Video Encoder

The worlds appetite for video is growing. People are watching more TV, from more sources, on an increasing variety of screens. There is a huge opportunity to capture more of a viewers timeif one overcomes the cost and complexity of delivering to multiple screens. The Envivio 4Caster C4 convergence encoding/transcoding platform provides the answer.

4Caster C4 delivers live and on-demand services for Mobile, PC and SD/HDTV screens, all from a single platform, eliminating the need for separate headends for each. The product of years of hands-on experience, 4Caster C4 is delivering services to millions of subscribers worldwide. From bandwidth-limited mobile delivery to full HD over high-speed networks, for one type of screen or many, 4Caster C4 enables your video headend to meet todays goals and provides exibility to address future opportunities.

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One Device to Support All Subscribers
Each screen and network has its own requirements that must be met to deliver the best service. With its multi-prole encoding, 4Caster C4 serves multiple networks and many different consumer devicesboth the ones they have today and those they will crave tomorrow. This enables a single head-end to deliver the best television experience for many consumer devices including:
Mobile phones and mobile broadcast receivers PC and Mac Digital Set-Top-Boxes

With 4Caster C4, live video can even be distributed on networks with no QoS thanks to bandwidth adaptation technologies such as:
Microsoft Silverlight Smooth Streaming Adobe Dynamic Streaming Apple iPhone Adaptive Streaming 3GPP Bitrate Switching Streaming (BSS)

Output to the World

Broad support for standards and seamless interoperability with leading systems vendors cut through geographic and technical boundaries.
For Mobile: DVB-H, DVB-SH, CMMB, ATSC Mobile DTV, 3GPP,

The Best Video Delivery for Every Network

Ensuring a good quality of experience on heterogeneous network is a complex task because every network has unique characteristics and limitations. Broadcast networks have xed bandwidth constraints. 3G networks must maximize every bit of their limited bandwidth. The open Internet has no inherent Quality of Service mechanism. Envivio has developed technologies to optimally address the caveats of each network:
Statistical rate control for broadcast distribution Network aware rate control for 3G

3GP2, HTTP streaming

For PC: Windows Media, Silverlight, Flash Media, ISMA For TV: DVB, ATSC, ISDB-T, AVS

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IP VIDEO HEADEND IP VIDEO HEADEND
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Distribution Network

Three Screens

4Caster C4
Three Screens Encoder

MobileTV
Configuration for Mobile TV
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4Caster C4 Three Screens 4Caster C4

Encoder Transcoder

Internet TV
Configuration for IPTV Internet TV
FILE File

Silverlight, WM Flash (H.264) QuickTime

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4Caster C4
WEB

NETWORK

IP IP IP

Three Screens Encoder

Content

Configuration for Internet TV

Internet TV Digital TV
SD SD HD HD PiP PiP

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4Manager
Headend Management System

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Quality Comes First
Input video sources often arrive degraded and improperly formatted. Before encoding begins, advanced pre-processing prepares the source to appear and sound its best, by applying:
Spatial de-noising lters for HD content Advanced de-interlacing for PC display Brightness and contrast adjustments Adjustable resolutions to match display

The Right Tools for the Job

Different networks, services and devices have different requirements. So, for example, Envivio supports all the latest standard audio video codecs and related transport protocols: H.264 Baseline, Main and High Prole, MPEG-4 Simple Prole, AVS, VC-1 as well as AAC, HE-AAC and WMA. Furthermore, Envivio has developed rened codecs that further improve the quality of experience:
Extreme compression: market-leading

Protect High Value Content

Integrated content encoding and encryption safeguard high-value content from the head-end to the consumer device. Supported technologies include:
Ismacrypt, Simulcrypt for DVB-H CMMB encryption for CMMB Windows Media DRM for PC Microsoft Silverlight DRM, powered by

PlayReady, for PC

capabilities Dynamic and manual aspect ratio management (letterboxing, cropping, etc.) Dynamic sound level compression and adjustment

video quality for high-end mobile devices and the best quality TV experience Elite compression: for optimal playback on mid-range mobile devices with limited decoding capacity Premium compression: for high-quality, high-density IPTV at the lowest bit rates

Input: 4 Composite + analog audio or 4 SD-SDI + embedded audio or 1 HD-SDI + embedded audio or 1 HD-SDI + 1 ASI input + 2 ASI outputs

Dual Power Supplies Hot Swappable 1 x Primary 1 x Secondary

Front panel

Input-output

IP Output Connection to Network 1 x Primary 1 x Secondary

IP Input Content Ingest 1 x Primary 1 x Secondary

Monitor and Control Connection to NMS 1 x Primary 1 x Secondary

Absolute Reliability
A great subscriber experience begins with a service that is on air, all the time. The high-availability platform is built with server-grade components to deliver 99.999% uptime and unshakeable performance. Features include: Redundant Ethernet ports for all I/O and control interfaces Dual, hot-swappable power supplies 4Manager automatic redundancy protection

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A Perfect Fit
Built for IP networks, the 4Caster C4 provides a high-quality, all-digital signal ow that ts new and existing environments, while simplifying operations, reducing equipment requirements and cutting expansion costs. In addition to direct ingest of MPEG-2 or H264 video over IP, 4Caster C4 supports a variety of broadcast interfaces including analog, SDI, HD-SDI inputs, and ASI output. Interfaces comply with specic regional needs to smoothly t into broadcast architectures.

Long Term Thinking

We not only make use of the latest Intel processor capabilitiesEnvivio algorithms are built into Intels designs. The exible software architecture makes it the only encoder that can be enhanced throughout its life. A simple software license enables the 4Caster C4 to be recongured at any time, for any consumer screen.

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Mobile
Transport Supported output profiles IP Transport Protocol Video Encoding MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) Premium Compression MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) Extreme Compression MPEG-4 Part 2 H.263 AVS configuration Windows Media Video WM9 Simple, Main, Advanced Bitrate policy (Constant, Variable, or Available Bit Rate) Data rate Resolutions 3GPP single & multirate, 3GPP2 HTTP Streaming RTP, HTTP Windows Media, Silverlight, Flash, ISMA MMS, RTP, SPTS/RTP/UDP RTMP, HTTP DVB, ATSC, AVS SPTS/UDP, SPTS/RTP/UDP ATSC, DVB, ISDB-T SPTS/UDP, SPTS/RTP/UDP

PC

SD TV

HD TV

Up to 4 channels / 32 profiles Baseline profile* Up to 4 channels / 8 profiles

(HTTP profile only)

Up to 4 channels / 4 output profiles

4 SD channels High / Main Profile 2 SD channels High / Main Profile

1 HD channel per unit High / Main Profile

Up to 4 channels / 32 profiles, Simple Profile* 4 SD channels AVS Jizhun Profile Up to 4 channels / 6 output profiles** CBR, VBR, ABR 128 kbps to 2 Mbps 640 x 480 (VGA), 640 x 360, 480 x 360, 480 x 352, 480 x 270, 384 x 288, 384 x 216, 320 x 240 (QVGA), 320 x 180 2 stereo pairs / 2 mono MPEG-4 AAC MPEG-4 HE-AAC v2

CBR, VBR, ABR 20 kbps to 1 Mbps 80 x 64 to 480 x 360 including SQCIF, QCIF, QVGA, CIF, and HVGA

CBR, VBR, ABR 128 kbps to 3 Mbps 60 x 120 to 720 x 480 (NTSC) or 176 x 144 to 720 x 576 (PAL) including Full, 3/4, 2/3 and 1/2

CBR, ABR 2 Mbps to 20 Mbps 1080i/p: 1920, 1440, 1280, 960 x1080 @ 25/29.97/30fps 720p: 1280, 960, 640 x720 @ 50/59.94/60 fps 4 stereo pairs MPEG-2 & MPEG-4 AAC MPEG-4 HE-AAC v1 and v2 MPEG-1 Layer II AC-3 and Enhanced AC-3 (5.1 or stereo), MPEG-1 Layer II 32 kbps to 384 kbps

Audio encoding Audio channels per service Audio encoding

1 stereo / 1 mono or 2 stereo / 2 mono for 3GPP v6 multirate MPEG-4 AAC, HE-AAC v1 & v2, AMR-NB, AMR-WB

2 stereo pairs / 2 mono MPEG Layer II, MPEG-4 AAC MPEG-4 HE-AAC v2, DRA AC-3 (5.1 or stereo)

Audio Pass-through Windows Media Audio Data rate VBI processing WSS Subtitles (pass-through) Options Low-resolution stream Windows Media DRM / PlayReady Denoising filter WMA, WMA Voice, WMA Pro 32 kbps to 384 kbps

8 kbps to 384 kbps

32 kbps to 384 kbps

EIA 608/708 Closed Caption, DVB Teletext, DVB-VBI 4 (Premium) / 2 (Extreme) 96 x 96 or 128 x 96

EIA 608/708 Closed Caption, DVB Teletext, DVB-VBI

1 PiP: 192x192, 128x96, 96x96

* 16 CIF proles max. out of the 32 proles

** Max. conguration supported : 4 VGA + 2 QVGA

Monitor and Control

Front panel LCD control interface 2 x 10/100/1000 Base-T M&C ports (primary and spare) Alarm protocols: SNMP v2 Control and System protocols: SOAP, HTTP, NTP, FTP Automated Redundancy with Envivio 4Manager NMS

Physical and Power

Dimensions
Width: Height: Depth: Weight: 431 mm (16.9) 44 mm (1.7) 654 mm (25.8) 16 kg (35 lb)

Environmental
Operating temperature range: 0 to 35 C (32 to 95 F) Non-operating temperature range: -40 to 70 C (-40 to 158 F) Non-operating relative humidity: 95% at 30 C (86 F) non-condensing

Power
Input: 100-240 VAC auto-ranging Consumption: 305 W maximum Supplies: dual load-balancing hot-swappable power supplies that can be replaced in the eld

Agency Certications
FCC Class A

CE/ RoHS 5-compliant/WEEE-compliant

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