...on-demand transcoding software, Envivio Muse™ On-Demand. This latest revision offers significant improvements in file-to-file transcoding speed—up to 35 percent in internal testing against platforms that require hardware acceleration. Muse On-Demand also delivers industry-leading video quality, measured at 20 percent better than a leading competitor, in tests using objective VQ measurement tools. These efficiency and quality gains decrease capital and operating expenses for content creators and service providers. Operators can reduce the amount of time required for encoding jobs, or alternatively, process more high quality content in the same amount of time. Muse On-Demand offers integrated content protection, including support for PlayReady, facilitating faster time-to-market.

Envivio 4Balancer™ combined with Muse On-Demand, enables simultaneous processing of assets across a pool of as many as 50 encoders, improving system use. Muse On-Demand and 4Balancer are integrated with leading digital rights management (DRM) platforms, workflow systems, content management systems (CMS) and quality control (QC) platforms. Envivio’s software-based product architecture and years of video processing expertise allow operators to flexibly manage the full lineup of live and on-demand services in a converged headend architecture, using the Intel-based Envivio 4Caster™ appliance or HP BladeSystems in an IT-centric datacenter environment.

Muse On-Demand and 4Balancer will be featured at Envivio stand #1.D73 during the upcoming IBC exhibition in Amsterdam, September 7-11.