ROOT6 DEMONSTRATE CONTENT DELIVERY EXPERTISE

MAKING its debut at Streaming Media Europe will be ‘hammerhead’; an all-new root6 developed software application, designed to automate the production and distribution of media content.
Also demonstrated will be BEAMBOX - a hammerhead application implemented in conjunction with BEAM.TV, a subsidiary of London's Oscar-winning post production facility, The Mill.
BEAMBOX is a set-top box that, uniquely, enables internet-delivered video to be played out on a TV monitor at full size, and features a DVD-style remote control that compiles MPEG, QuickTime, Real and Windows Media as one seamless reel.
The hammerhead Task Management System provides an extensible toolset that can be used to capture, encode, transcode and manage media for all player types via an HTML interface. The system orchestrates multi-stage processes using an XML- based template system and enables work to be distributed amongst an expandable network of computers. Users can define configurations for hardware encoding, distributed processing and SAN storage solutions that suit immediate needs but remain completely scalable as requirements change
Incorporating new Microsoft .NET and SOAP technologies, hammerhead provides an innovative and elegant solution to media content transcoding and distribution, now employed in an ever-growing number of industry applications including review and approval processes as implemented in BEAMBOX, web streaming and corporate Content Delivery Networks. Innovative tools such as the hammerhead WebLogger and hammerhead Avid Check-in Tool (ACT) provide additional integration into established workflow.
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