/PlayoutAutomation

Television broadcast automation system

Primary LanguageC#GNU General Public License v2.0GPL-2.0

Open Playout Automation

Open Playout Automation is television broadcast solution. It is in development in Polish national television broadcaster - TVP (Telewizja Polska) and works as main MCR play-out system in its regional channels. Project uses SVT's CasparCG as clip player. It also intensively uses FFmpeg as media information and transcoding tool. It can be used as a simple (even multi-) channel-in-a-box solution, as well as in much more sophisticated environment (e.g. 2 players and control workstation with additional stuff, as GPI controlled devices).

Main features

Playout

  • multiple channels
  • multi-user with rights management based on PC network address
  • redundant output for every channel
  • GPI as start source, aspect ratio control and external graphics trigger
  • partial clip playout (via media trimming or logical sub-clips)

Rundowns

  • variety of rundown event types: movie, live, graphics, Flash CG templates
  • rundown nesting (aka blocks)
  • event nesting (e.g. movie may contain graphics)
  • event-based GPI triggering to control: branding, parental control and information crawl
  • frame-accurate time calculations

Ingest

  • from watchfolders
  • from ftp's
  • linear (tape or live) ingest with deck control using CasparCG fork
  • from Sony XDCAM decks, supports metadata and subclip ingest
  • extensive clip playout-related metadata

Archiving

  • "shallow" archive for temporarily unnecessary media
  • preserving clip metadata

System requirements

They mainly follow CasparCG requirements.

  • Windows as base operating system
  • .NET 4.5 as application platform
  • Blackmagic Design Decklink as inputs and outputs cards

Instalation

Refer to wiki pages.

Contact

Don't hesitate.