Polymedia Video

TXT Polymedia Video is a software product featuring in one unique integrated system, advanced functions for Web Content Management, Multichannel Content Delivery and Media Asset Management.

The product covers the complete lifecycle of multimedia contents, from ingestion to archiving and delivery, enabling the production, the publication and the distribution of complete multimedia products for a variety of distribution channels such as: broadband Web portals, mobile telephony services, IPTV services and digital television.

TXT Polymedia Video is specifically designed for broadcasters, telecom operators, media companies, IPTV operators, content providers and newspaper publishers aiming to leverage their contents in the online world, possibly exploiting multiple delivery chains, by means of flexible, cheap and effective production processes.

TXT Polymedia Video has already been adopted by several important companies in Europe for the creation and management of:

• Multichannel editorial desks
• Media Asset Management solutions for IPTV
• Internet/Intranet Web sites
• Video On-Demand services for broadband networks
• Internet TV services
• Video communities and services based on User Generated Contents

Benefits

• Shorter time-to-market for new editorial products and new services;
• Lower total cost of ownership of editorial products;
• Creation of new revenue sources through the use of multiple distribution channels;
• Open architecture allowing easy integration in any environments;
• Ease of use.

Main functions

The product offers an open and scalable software architecture and a solid set of library services including searching, archiving, flexible metadata definition, contents versioning, check-in/ check-out, multi-channel preview and flexible workflows management.

Specifically for audio/video contents, the product includes functions for:

• ingestion and encoding from live sources, IP networks and video tape recorders. Live video sources can be either in analog or in digital format;
• transcoding in multiple formats (e.g., Flash, WMV, MPEG etc.).
• editing
• integration with DRM solutions.

All the platform publishing and administration tools are fully Web based.

TXT Polymedia Video includes easy-to-use visual modelling tools for contents and metadata structuring, workflow management and platform configuration.

Integration architecture

TXT Polymedia Video provides a powerful and flexible integration framework allowing the integration of the product with virtually any third party software system.

The core of the Polymedia integration architecture is a software framework called Polymedia Feed Handling Module, for the configuration, the execution and the monitoring of acquisition, transformation and delivery processes. The framework includes a visual interface for the configuration of processes based on a large set of predefined basic components. A SDK is available for extending the basic component library.