Digital Rapids Transcode Manager Elevates High-Volume Transcoding For Stellar Inflight

Digital Rapids, a leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, movie and Web content to wider audiences, has announced that Stellar Inflight, the world's longest running in-flight entertainment company, is using the Digital Rapids Transcode Manager automated transcoding software to transform high volumes of video and audio for both new and traditional in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems and viewing platforms.
A Transcode Manager Server and multiple Transcode Engines are deployed at each of Stellar Inflight's technical facilities in Sydney, Kuala Lumpur and Beijing. High volumes of source files are transformed by Transcode Manager into multiple outputs in the formats required by varying in-flight entertainment systems. Transcode Manager is also used to transcode content for viewing on portable media players and tablets, such as the Apple iPad, now available to passengers on select airlines.
Joel Joslin, Digital Media Manager at Stellar Inflight, said: "Our video facilities were almost overwhelmed with the volume of content we were processing, so we needed an automated solution that could handle the heavy workload while outputting consistent video and audio to multiple, exacting specifications. Digital Rapids Transcode Manager has delivered on all of our requirements and transcoding video with it has proven significantly quicker than the other solutions we've used, enabling us to take on more business."
Nick Fitzgerald, VP, Asia Pacific, said: "The advances in in-flight entertainment are yet another example of the continuing explosive growth of multi-screen content consumption, we're excited that Stellar Inflight has selected Transcode Manager to power their high-throughout media processing workflows. The performance, quality, scalability and flexibility of Transcode Manager are ideal for supporting media organisations' growing needs and expanding content volumes both today and in the future."
Established in 1974, Stellar Inflight - part of the Stellar Group of companies - provides in-flight entertainment services for many of the world's leading airlines.
In addition, Stellar is in partnership with Sky Victory Technologies in Beijing , which provides in-flight entertainment to many major Chinese airline.
Digital Rapids Transcode Manager combines outstanding quality, intelligent automation and exceptional performance for transforming high volumes of media between dozens of acquisition, production, archive and multi-screen distribution formats.
Scalable from small transcoding farms to global operations with hundreds of transcoding nodes, Transcode Manager is ideal for both dedicated transcoding applications and as part of complete ingest-through-delivery media workflows.
(KMcA)