Video on demand has become the gold standard for catching up on TV outside of the home. The Xenon™ Offline Encoder (XOE) ensures you can create high quality video on demand content from a wide range of filetypes, leaving it ready to stream to a wide range of devices including smartphones, tablets, PCs and connected TVs.

• Benefits
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• Output
• FAQs

• Encode Once

  Xenon™ Encoders makes things simple by enabling you to encode your content once, whilst being compatible with a whole range of streaming formats, such as Apple (HLS), RTSP, HTTP, Silverlight and Flash.

  Fast, efficient, high quality video conversion

  Use Xenon™ Offline Encoder in cluster mode to fully utilise a number of encoders for job collaboration. This significantly reduces the lead time for encoding jobs and simplifies encoding job prioritization.

  HD Encoding

  Xenon™ encoders support up to 1080p HD quality. Ensuring you achieve the best quality possible, dependent on the device to which your content is delivered.

  Market Leading Picture & Sound Quality

  We develop all of our video and audio codecs in-house, and they are the result of many years experience in this field, as well as a huge amount of research into state-of-the-art encoding algorithms. Click here to see an example of the enhanced picture quality you can achieve using the Xenon™ platform.

  Reduce Hardware

  Xenon™ is designed to reduce hardware by a number of features and enhancements. Thanks to N+M redundancy high availability can be achieved on minimal hardware.

• Video	H.264 High Profile H.264 Main Profile H.264 Baseline Profile MPEG-4 H.263 MPEG-2 TS container output over UDP, TCP or RTP (selectable)
  Audio	AAC-LC HE AAC v1 (AACPlus) HE AAC v2 (Enhanced AACPlus) AMR-NB AMR-WB QCELP EVRC
  File Format	Windows Media QuickTime (MOV) Flash (FLV) 8, 9 AVI, MP3, WAV, AIF, AIFF, SND, AU, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 All formats supported by a DirectShow Filter
  General	RTP unicast and multicast output Unlimited output channels (based onhardware capabilities) RTSP and SLSP (Vidiator¨ proprietary between encoder and server)

• Video	H.264 High Profile H.264 Main Profile H.264 Baseline Profile Silverlight Smooth streaming Adobe Dynamic Flash streaming MPEG-4 H.263 MPEG-2 TS container output over UDP, TCP or RTP (selectable) Real Video Flash 8 and 9
  Audio	AAC-LC HE AAC v1 (AACPlus) HE AAC v2 (Enhanced AACPlus) AMR-NB AMR-WB QCELP EVRC
  Resolution	User defined from 1080p (1920×1080), 720p(1280×720) SQCIF (128×96), QCIF (176×144), SIF (320×240), CIF (352×288), 4CIF (704×576)
  File Format	3GPP/3GPP2, MPEG-2 TS segments, MP4, Flash Video, Microsoft Silverlight Smooth Streaming segments, Adobe Dynamic Streaming segments, KWISF, Progressive download (interleaved) mode
  Preprocessing	Overlay any source (graphics, text, VOD clips or live sources) onto the live output inreal-time. This is useful for advertisingbanners and other special effects such as video picture-in-picture Logo insertion, video headers and trailers Color control (brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation) Gamma correction, noise reduction Cropping, inverse telecine, de-interlacing Volume level control and volume normalization
  Monitoring	SNMP support Advanced source input monitoring (packet rate, disconnection, capture card problems) Video input freeze detection (detects ÒfrozenÓ video inputs and raises an SNMP alarm) Video source and output preview windows, and sound level monitoring Real-time output statistics such as the numberof server active connections Comprehensive logging for performance monitoring and troubleshooting Logo insertion, video headers and trailers Color control (brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation) Gamma correction, noise reduction Cropping, inverse telecine, de-interlacing Volume level control and volume normalization
  High Availability Options	N+M redundancy or 2N
  Supporting Operating Systems	Windows Server 2008 (64/32-bit ), Windows Server 2003 (32-bit)

• Q) We have large amounts of data that we need to encode quickly in order to get our content to market first. Can Vidiator help?
  A) Xenon Offline Encoder in cluster mode addresses this problem directly. By segmenting the content to be encoded on different machines in parallel, encoding times can be cut by up to 55%.

  Q) With more and more devices and formats available on the market. How can we ensure our VoD content is available on all of them?
  A) Our Xenon platform has been designed to encode once, stream anywhere. So regardless of the device, you will have the correct output. What’s more, is that being a software based solution, Xenon is easy to adapt when ne w formats arise or current ones evolve.
  

  Q) We have vast amounts of content and a large subscriber base. How can we manage our bandwidth concerns?
  A) The modular design of the Xenon platform enable customers to deploy the whole system in different locations to maximize the bandwidth efficiency. We can also work with private CDN provider of your choice to load balance the bandwidth requirement to handle the large content library and subscriber base.

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