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I have been working with digital rapids for some time now and they one of the leading developer of professional hardware solutions for ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection, streaming, playout and delivery of content. Whatever the scale of your requirements - from individuals to enterprise and global workflows - we have a solution that can boost your productivity and throughput, increase your output quality, and lower your overall costs.

ENCODING & TRANSCODING
Scalable, multi-format, high-performance hardware and software solutions for professional applications including post production, broadcast, IPTV, video on demand (VOD), mobile video, digital dailies, advertising, content protection, corporate marketing, training, education, web distribution, security and more.
LIVE STREAMING
Flexible, scalable solutions for live encoding, streaming and archiving with hardware-based de-interlacing and noise reduction for industry-leading quality; ideal for live event streaming, TV over IP, webcasting, education, corporate presentations, surveillance, houses of worship and other professional applications.
DELIVERY & PLAYOUT
Software for reliable, wirespeed, secure delivery of media and data files with tremendous speed advantage over traditional technologies for post production, distribution, finance, corporations and more; Digital Disk Recorders for compressed and uncompressed ingest, trimming and playout with integrated HD/SD format conversion.

CarbonHD DDR

The format-agile CarbonHD professional HD/SD DDR is ideal for applications from post production to broadcast. CarbonHD features integrated HD/SD format conversion; compressed and uncompressed recording and playback; and integrated software to manage ingest, trimming and output of clips.  Flexible HD/SD Recording and Playback

CarbonHD Collage Digital disk recorders (DDR’s) have become the de facto standard for high-quality high definition recording and playback, with lower initial investment and operating costs than professional VTRs, and tape-based workflows continuing to give way to file-based infrastructures.

Today’s digital disk recorders need to be format-agile, from a broad range of SD and HD input formats to a choice of compressed or uncompressed recording. In addition to 10-bit and 8-bit uncompressed video, CarbonHD supports real-time, wavelet-based JPEG2000 compression in both lossless and lossy modes at user-selectable data rates. This dramatically decreases the cost of high definition video storage while matching or surpassing the quality of tape-based compression formats. Lossless JPEG2000 capture typically achieves close to 3:1 compression, multiplying your storage recording times without compromising quality. Lossy JPEG2000 mode can deliver your preferred balance of quality and storage-saving compression ranging from visually near lossless (6:1 to 15:1) to 100:1 for rough content review.

CarbonHD features exceptional input format flexiblity. With integrated up, down and cross-conversion, CarbonHD lets you work with HD or SD video in its native format, or format convert it on-the-fly during capture from HD to SD, SD to HD, or between HD formats and frame rates. CarbonHD features advanced video pre-processing to maintain exceptional quality. Hardware-based motion adaptive de-interlacing minimizes interlace artifacts when converting from interlaced to progressive formats, while motion adaptive 3D noise reduction enables optimal compression quality and efficiency.

StreamZ Encoding Servers

StreamZHD Encoding Server

StreamZHD format-agile media encoding servers expand the powerful and flexible features of StreamZ into the high definition domain, offering multi-format, high-performance HD/SD content ingest, encoding, transcoding and streaming with outstanding output quality for a broad range of professional applications.

Post production, HDTV broadcast, archive, digital dailies, video on demand (VOD), IPTV, high definition DVD and many other professional applications have embraced the visual quality offered by HD acquisition, production and distribution. With StreamZHD you have a versatile tool that can capture, encode, transcode, and deliver your content in multiple formats ranging from uncompressed HD video to high-quality streaming media, all from a single, intuitive interface.
StreamZHD CollageStreamZHD encoders are format-agile. Powered by the Digital Rapids DRC-5650 hardware, StreamZHD systems can capture HD or SD video in its native format, or format convert it on-the-fly from HD to SD, SD to HD, or between HD resolutions and frame rates. StreamZHD supports 10-bit and 8-bit uncompressed video, plus a broad range of encoding formats including Windows Media 9, SMPTE VC-1, MPEG-4, AVC (H.264), MPEG-2, QuickTime and more. StreamZHD’s hardware-based video pre-processing – including motion-adaptive de-interlacing, noise reduction, proc amp controls and filtering – ensure industry-leading output quality and enable the most efficient use of bandwidth in the compressed result.

StreamZ Live Encoders

StreamZ Live encoders are available with your choice of one of four encoding formats: H.264 (AVC, MPEG-4 Part 10), SMPTE VC-1 (Microsoft Windows Media), Flash 8 Video (On2 VP6), 3GPP/Mobile (H.263, H.264, MPEG-4 Part 2 with AMR, AAC audio) and MPEG-2. An optional module for the H.264 model adds the ability to deliver H.264 in an MPEG-2 Transport Stream to the system’s standard RTP/RTSP elementary stream support.

StreamZLive 1RUStreamZ Live’s advanced real-time video pre-processing features include motion adaptive de-interlacing, scaling, filtering and 2D and 3D noise reduction, delivering superior streaming quality and enabling the most efficient use of bandwidth in the compressed result. StreamZ Live also offers hardware-based graphic overlay and video proc amp controls, with 7-band parametric EQ and dynamic range compression/expansion ensuring great-sounding audio.

The integrated Stream Live software provides an operator-friendly interface for configuring StreamZ Live’s top-quality encoding and streaming capabilities. Encoding parameters from frame sizes and bit rates to advanced codec options can be configured, and video and audio pre-processing settings can be interactively adjusted.

Multiple encoding and streaming configuration profiles can be stored, enabling easy recall of parameters for one-click operation. Persistent Streaming mode enables streaming to start automatically upon power-up with the current parameters. 

DRC-Stream 500 Card & SW

The DRC-Stream 500 bundle combines our entry-level professional DRC-500 PCI capture and preprocessing hardware with the intuitive Stream LE software, delivering real-time multi-format streaming media capture, encoding and transcoding in a low-cost do-it-yourself package.

Professional real-time encoding at an entry-level price

Designed for professional applications but priced competitively with software only products, the low-cost DRC-Stream 500 PCI card and software bundle is ideal for corporate messaging, live web streaming, video archiving, security, distance education, government communication and many other applications. If you have video and you want to get it onto the Internet, onto your local network, or onto a CD/DVD, the DRC-Stream 500 is the ideal solution.

DRC-Stream Cards & SW

Digital Rapids Stream encoding bundles combine the powerful DRC-Stream PCI hardware for capture and preprocessing with the easy-to-use Stream LE software, letting you add real-time, multi-format capture, encoding, transcoding and streaming to an existing PC workstation.

Digital Rapids DRC-Stream PCI capture and processing boards allow you to add professional high-quality, real-time, multi-format video/audio encoding and web streaming capabilities to your existing workstation. With the included Stream LE software, Digital Rapids Stream encoding solutions combine the performance and quality advantages of hardware-based preprocessing with the format flexibility of software codecs, all controlled by an intuitive, streamlined user interface.

DRC-Stream Board and SoftwareThe multiple format encoding capabilities of Digital Rapids Stream solutions allow you to reach a wider audience than you ever have before, with video and audio optimized for each viewing environment. You can encode into formats including Windows Media, SMPTE VC-1, Real, QuickTime, MPEG and more in real time, saving you time and effort. The only limitation to the number of simultaneous real-time encodes is the processing power provided by your workstation’s CPU. You can encode video from live sources or transcode from existing digital media files. Whether you’re webcasting live events; streaming live channels of IPTV; capturing media for archive or production; or encoding on demand content for the web, mobile devices, VOD or DVD, Stream can encode to the compression formats and bitrates needed to reach your target platforms with the highest quality video and audio possible.

StreamP (Portable)

StreamP portable streaming media encoders unleash the power of real-time, multi-format video capture, encoding, transcoding and streaming from the studio, delivering the outstanding capabilities of our DRC-Stream hardware and Stream software as a convenient laptop add-on.

Streaming media production “on the go”

Designed for professional video and audio field acquisition, StreamP portable encoders bring the power of our renowned video capture, encoding, transcoding, and streaming solutions to remote locations. StreamP is a self-contained peripheral which attaches directly to the CardBus or ExpressCard port on your laptop and uses the processing power, storage, and network connectivity of your laptop to give you the same capture and encoding capabilities as a high end workstation solution. The capabilities of StreamP are limited only by the capabilities of your laptop. Performance, quality, reliability and ease of use are all critical in the field, and StreamP delivers.

StreamP with LaptopPristine quality made portable

Powered by our DRC-Stream hardware, StreamP encoders feature our renowned hardware-based video and audio preprocessing technology on all of the DRC-Stream card's inputs, enabling superior quality and the most efficient use of bandwidth in the compressed result. Video preprocessing includes motion adaptive de-interlacing, letting you output progressive scan video at any size without having to worry about interlace artifacts. 2D and 3D noise reduction features automatically reduce or even remove the noise in your video caused by low light conditions, analog sources, dropouts and many other types of noise. 7-band parametric EQ and dynamic range compression/expansion ensure great-sounding audio. The preprocessing also reduces the amount of work that the compression engine needs to do, letting you process more video and audio streams simultaneously.