Delivering More Video Streams with Better Quality
White Paper: Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
Imagine ICE* Video Platform Delivering More Video Streams with Better Quality: Solving the quantity/quality challenge for HD and on-demand video
The Imagine ICE* Video Platform is helping Comcast and other system operators solve this critical challenge by enabling up to 50 percent more video streams to be delivered over existing infrastructure, while simultaneously ensuring the highest video quality at any given bit rate. Imagine’s video processing appliance plugs seamlessly into the existing IP technology ecosystem and provides a quick, cost-effective way to expand premium services and improve customer satisfaction. Since it is implemented on industry-standard servers based on Intel® technology, it also provides a uniquely scalable, flexible and adaptable platform for meeting both current and future requirements.
To transmit video content over today’s networks, video assets are first encoded and then combined (multiplexed) for efficient transmission. Imagine ensures high quality for digital broadcast signals (HD and SD) by integrating an accurate and objective video quality measurement system (ICE-Q*) into its video processing architecture. Multi-pass encoding is applied to every macroblock. The resulting quality is then compared to the compressed source using the ICE-Q algorithms. This allows the Imagine solution to reduce the bit rate, while ensuring there is no viewer-discernable impact on video quality. As a result, operators can dramatically expand their digital HDTV broadcast capacity while maintaining excellent video quality and performance.
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Delivering More Video Streams with Better Quality
White Paper: Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
Imagine ICE* Video Platform Delivering More Video Streams with Better Quality: Solving the quantity/quality challenge for HD and on-demand video
The Imagine ICE* Video Platform is helping Comcast and other system operators solve this critical challenge by enabling up to 50 percent more video streams to be delivered over existing infrastructure, while simultaneously ensuring the highest video quality at any given bit rate. Imagine’s video processing appliance plugs seamlessly into the existing IP technology ecosystem and provides a quick, cost-effective way to expand premium services and improve customer satisfaction. Since it is implemented on industry-standard servers based on Intel® technology, it also provides a uniquely scalable, flexible and adaptable platform for meeting both current and future requirements.
To transmit video content over today’s networks, video assets are first encoded and then combined (multiplexed) for efficient transmission. Imagine ensures high quality for digital broadcast signals (HD and SD) by integrating an accurate and objective video quality measurement system (ICE-Q*) into its video processing architecture. Multi-pass encoding is applied to every macroblock. The resulting quality is then compared to the compressed source using the ICE-Q algorithms. This allows the Imagine solution to reduce the bit rate, while ensuring there is no viewer-discernable impact on video quality. As a result, operators can dramatically expand their digital HDTV broadcast capacity while maintaining excellent video quality and performance.
Read the full Delivering More Video Streams with Better Quality White Paper.
