How Catena's VOD catalog helps you prepare movies for different devices, upload them to your servers, create copies and distribute viewers. Follow the first movie from upload to playback and connect the streaming layer to your storefront.
Read more →Build an IPTV pilot from the first channel to the viewer’s TV: connect sources, create channel packages and subscribers in Catena, then add an M3U playlist and XMLTV programme guide to iMPlayer.
Read more →Catena distributes VOD viewers across copies and connects to EZDRM. Mcaster adds multicast standby and separate output renditions. Watcher shows real NVR update progress and supports configuration rollback. Media Server fixes playback of long DASH recordings and memory growth.
Read more →The same camera sells for opposite reasons to a homeowner and to a retail chain. A breakdown of the surveillance market by customer type, camera location and the job the camera is hired to do — and what each segment expects from the platform behind it.
Read more →One node now holds 18,000 concurrent WebRTC viewers instead of 200–300, and delivers more than 100 Gbit/s of HLS. Catena gained DRM, a viewer storefront with a real programme guide, timeshift channels, VOD transcoding and fMP4 capture over HLS and DASH — the last pieces that kept operators on Flussonic Media Server. Mcaster became a headend you can put in a broadcast chain: SDI from DekTec cards, SMPTE ST 2110, MXL, RIST, full control over the outgoing MPEG-TS, conditional access, and a register of customers and what each of them bought. Watcher's NVR replaces its media server with the new core by the ordinary update button.
Read more →Catena 26.08 serves 30,000 concurrent viewers from a single node over low-latency protocols, migrates from Flussonic v3 with an import wizard, installs in one command together with its database and operator account, issues its own Let's Encrypt certificates, and gains NVIDIA hardware transcoding, MPTS program selection and a cluster-wide VOD catalogue. Watcher stopped keeping quiet when an NVR is not writing its archive, shows which camera ate how much storage, and got a media layer package of its own.
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