Packet Ship Streamline

Packet Ship Streamline is a scalable, standards-based video server for playout to embedded devices or PC clients.

For private network streaming, the server uses industry-standard formats and protocols such as MPEG-2 Transport Streams, RTSP and RTP and is highly configurable, and hence can interoperate with the majority of existing clients. The software has been tested and deployed with market-leading set-top boxes, including Amino, Motorola, Exterity, XAVi and also PC-based clients such as VLC.

The video server also supports public Internet (OTT) streaming to STBs, PCs, iPhones and iPads with RTSP/TCP, progressive HTTP and adaptive HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), from a single asset file.

The Packet Ship Streamline architecture provides full visual 'trick mode' functionality for MPEG-2 and H.264 video, and a high degree of scalability, from small standalone servers for vertical applications such as hospitality and healthcare, to resilient clusters delivering large-scale consumer VOD applications.

Packet Ship Timeline

The Packet Ship Timeline IPTV Recorder provides continuous loop recording of multiple broadcast IPTV channels and their associated EPG data. It then makes the recordings available to the Streamline video server and the programme data available to user interface Web pages, providing a retrospective EPG service for catch-up TV services.

The Timeline IPTV Recorder also indexes the recorded content in real time, so that video server can join the recorded stream at the live position and pause, rewind, and fast-forward with full visual trick mode.

The Timeline IPTV Recorder also continuously records both "now and next" and forward programme event data, providing the basis for both retrospective and forward EPGs. This data is cached in memory and can be queried by a SOAP/HTTP service either from Web server scripts (e.g. PHP Java) or directly from client Javascript for maximum scalability.

Packet Ship Gridline

The Packet Ship Gridline content caching & distribution system provides a high-performance, general-purpose architecture for storage, distribution and edge caching of large media files and their associated metadata.

The Gridline core content repository provides a highly flexible structure to store any kind of content and metadata. The content can then be securely distributed to large numbers of edge caches through highly efficient network protocols, including TCP unicast, UDP multicast and secure peer-to-peer (P2P) transmission.

The Gridline edge cache integrates directly with the Packet Ship Streamline video server for seamless access to cached asset files. Gridline also provides a high-performance SOAP-based metadata query interface that can be used by local middleware to generate a complete content navigation user interface.

The Gridline edge cache is also available in Windows and MacOS versions for direct background delivery of very large media files to consumer desktops.

Packet Ship Keyline

Packet Ship Keyline DRM is a simple but secure encryption system for high-value content, targeted particularly at vertical market Video on Demand applications.

Keyline uses standard, proven encryption algorithms such as AES and RSA to provide ultimate security. It has been certified by studios for delivery of VOD content in the pre-DVD window. Distribution of keys may be in-band (embedded in the content itself) or out-of-band (distributed by an external system, such as Gridline).

Keyline is designed to make best use of hardware decryption support in target devices such as set-top boxes, which would not be able to support software decryption. Packet Ship work closely with set-top box vendors to port Keyline to their platform.

The Keyline encryption process is designed to work in harmony with the Packet Ship Streamline video server, allowing indexing and trick mode playback of encrypted assets. Encryption with Keyline is fully integrated into Centreline Asset Management.

Packet Ship Centreline

Packet Ship Centreline is a Web-based asset management application for ingest of asset files, associated graphics and multi-language metadta, packaging of content, routing of deliveries to remote sites and reporting of usage statistics.

The Centreline management application interfaces with the Packet Ship Gridline content distribution system, which uses the delivery rules set in Centreline to control the automatic delivery of content files and associated metadata to large numbers of remote sites.

The Centreline application can be integrated with Keyline or any other DRM/CA solution and provides automatic encryption, key distribution and key installation services. It also automatically captures usage records from the remote site's Streamline video server, and sends them back to the central server for aggregation and reporting.