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.