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| Harris to Launch Videotek QuiC Media Analysis Server Harris has announced the launch of the Videotek QuiC media analysis server system, a fully automated test and measurement platform designed to verify the quality of video and audio content stored on servers and storage networks. Unique in the marketplace, the QuiC server not only verifies the quality of audio and video content at speeds faster than real time, but also provides file correction tools. Ensuring content quality has become increasingly challenging for broadcasters as compressed digital content may be comprised of differing standards, formats and resolutions. The QuiC media analysis server technology is designed to provide broadcasters with a more efficient, consistent method of verifying content of all popular formats and parameters. The system supports many file formats, including MPEG2/IMX 50, MPEG-2, DV25, DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO 100, VC1 (WM9) and MPEG4-H.264. While traditional stream monitors test for compression and syntax errors, the robust QuiC server checks visual (pixel by pixel) and aural (sample by sample) quality assurance (QA) parameters, including video and audio levels, video color space compatibility, audio phase, low audio and letter and pillar box limits. The process can be initiated manually via the intuitive user interface, or the QuiC server can be set to automatically process files by time or event. Once a media file is recognized by the QuiC media analysis server, the system tracks its status and builds a database of test results and any changes made to the file. This information is then encapsulated in the file's MXF metadata. The QuiC server then presents the "ready-to-air" status of files it has analyzed on the network, along with information about the file, in an easy-to-understand summary screen. In addition to the file manager summaries, QuiC also presents other information in easy-to-follow formats such as detailed video and audio quality checks for a single file, summary reports for all files in the database and user-inserted comments. To ensure QuiC is able to meet a customer's future requirements, the system's hardware is scalable in numerous ways. First, slave servers can be added to the primary system in order to increase system throughput time. Control of the file QA process is possible on a remote View Station or locally on the monitor and control GUI. The View Stations, which incorporate Harris' patented Videotek Q-SEE display technology, provide various ways of analyzing the file's video and audio content, including waveform, vector, audio level meter, gamut and picture displays, scrub control and error timeline. In addition, the View Stations provide uncompressed serial digital video and audio outputs of the file content, allowing for further monitoring and signal comparison. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |