This post is intended to provide general guidance on how to set up the Wowza Streaming Engine AWS instance with the Cinegy Playout engine generated input stream.
This post is a slightly amended version of the presentation that we gave at TechCon 2017. The intention of this post is to provide some general information about virtualization and the technologies involved, to give comparison of the main software options and finish up with cloud providers.
This post provides insights on the new features available in Cinegy Convert v11. With powerful pre- and post-scripting events it is possible to extend your workflow way further the out-of-the-box functionality, for example, automatically publish videos on Facebook on user’s behalf. Source codes are also available for the reference.
This post provides details on the new Cinegy Playout WEB API available starting from the v11 release. The post explains basic features available and demonstrates the possible results visualization with simple HTML/CSS/Java script. Source codes are also available for the reference.
As a software provider, we’ve always directed our customers to make the best use of available tooling normally found inside any Enterprise IT deployment for managing their environment. Many technologies have come (and some gone) for tracking problems and for maintaining a healthy environment. Some fantastic products exist, such as SolarWinds for general IT or iControl from Miranda for broadcast, and these can help make managing an environment much easier. We understood that the Cinegy platform does not exist in isolation, and never tried to force yet-another-management tool onto customers for working with our software.
At TechCon 2017, as a part of the general overview of what is coming up, we announced our intentions to improve the experience of customers using our software and particularly managing their licenses. Coming in 2017, we’re going to provide a customer portal for easy review of licenses that they have an entitlement to, and to automate the management and updating of Cinegy License dongles.
Unlike "older" Deltacast cards that have a fixed number of inputs and outputs (e.g. DELTA-hd-elp-d 60 (6-input, 2-output) or DELTA-hd-elp-d 80 (8-input, 0-output)) and are only 1.5G, there appeared new 3G Deltacast cards – the so-called "versatile", bidirectional cards (e.g. DELTA-3G-elp-d 8c). Such cards are recognized by letter "c" at the end of their names. These versatile cards should be pre-configured in bidirectional mode that allows you to define the desired combination of inputs-outputs.
Starting from the release of Cinegy Air 11, there are some enhanced REST API calls accessible via the playout engine, which allow us to make some interesting interfaces to extend Cinegy Air. While this does not allow complete control of the playlist (for this you will need to wait for Cinegy Air 12, or access the engine via the traditional COM API), it does allow some common activities to be controlled ‒ which can be used to make some useful remote panels.
Turkish broadcaster Dogan TV completed the migration from SDI to an IP infrastructure at the end of 2015. Read the full case study on how Cinegy helped them in this transition and how it feels for Dogan TV to be the first national broadcaster in the world, whose workflows are fully IP operated.