Monitor Ad insertion in Live Input Streams
The ACR100 can find matching video clips stored in its database on live input streams. The software can receive live input streams via IP or DVB-ASI interfaces. Multiple IP streaming formats are supported, including UDP, RTP, HTTP, HLS (HTTP Live Streaming). The input stream can be single program or multi program transport streams. On each input stream, multiple Ad clips can be monitored and detected simultaneously.
The system automatically records input streams and monitors the presence of Ad clips on the input streams. The recorded files have specific time length, such as an hour, and saved in a local hard drive. For multi-program TS, each program is recorded in separate files.
When a matching clip is found in an input stream, the system will record related information such as matching Ad clip name, location of the matching clip in the recorded file, matching segment length, detection time in the system database. The system provides functions for searching database and exporting data.
The recorded files are saved in the local hard drive for a number of days based on user configuration and can be played back for verification and auditing purpose. Since the software records the information where Ad clips are located in a file, it helps users to find the Ad clips more easily when they playback the file in later times.
Each monitoring system can monitor multiple input streams simultaneously. Since the application runs on standard Windows computers, different server hardware configuration can be selected based on the total number of programs to be monitored, which provides scalability and flexibility.