Digital Rapids Ships Stream 3.8

Digital Rapids has announced it is now shipping version 3.8 of the Digital Rapids Stream™ software for the company's StreamZ™ and StreamZHD™ ingest, encoding and streaming solutions.
Advances include H.264, MPEG-2 and DVCPro encoding enhancements including 4K Ultra HD H.264 encoding support; expanded support for automated multiscreen advertising insertion workflows and new predefined project files for transforming content for Netflix delivery.
H.264 (AVC) encoding enhancements in Stream 3.8 include increased quality and support for 4K Ultra HD encoding. Version 3.8 also features increased quality and performance for MPEG-2 encoding, plus improved DVCPro output quality.
Stream 3.8 extends the Stream software's support for automated, live advertising and monetisation workflows with new support for the latest updated SCTE-104 specification and the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol. Cueing messages in live input sources are detected to automate the insertion of markers into HLS outputs for triggering subsequent ad insertion or replacement.
"The encoding performance and quality gains in the new version will bring immediate benefits for most media transformation applications, and with a broad range of specific yet powerful new features and enhancements, users from post production facilities and studios to multiscreen content distributors will each find operational improvements for their particular needs," said Darren Gallipeau, Product Manager at Digital Rapids.
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