Catena SE¶

Catena Streaming Engine is software that can ingest, transcode, record, and deliver TV streams on a cluster from 1 to 200 servers.

Catena SE can work with Catena middleware as well as with other IPTV middleware solutions.

Key capabilities of Catena SE¶

• Video ingest
• Real-time monitoring of incoming video quality
• Ingest resiliency: backup sources and failover policies
• Transcoding and preparing video for TVs and set-top boxes
• Video recording
• Automatic load distribution across the cluster when there is more than one server
• Middleware integration (including Catena): access control, URL/playlist issuance, DRM
• Observability and operations: metrics, alerts, logs, operator audit
• Automation: templates, APIs, and bulk operations for managing channels and servers

Quick start¶

• Quickly launch the system for a test
• Configure a TV channel
• Play a TV channel

Documentation navigator¶

This documentation will help you:

This documentation will help you:

• Quickly launch the system for a test
• Configure a TV channel
  • Ingest a channel from the internet
  • Capture a local multicast
  • Create a TV channel from uploaded files
  • Add a fallback slate (“mattress”)
  • Configure input failover
  • Transcode to MBR
  • Manage templates
  • Enable DVB subtitle recognition to HLS WebVTT
  • Prepare screenshots for fast seeking
  • Record an archive for nPVR
  • Time zone compensation (timezone shift)
  • Send TV channel to a multicast
  • Play a TV channel
  • Show screenshots for seeking
  • Set up playback authorization
  • Set up authorization in different middlewares
• Add to Catena
  • Integrate with another middleware
  • Manage channels in bulk from middleware
• Check system status
  • Read logs
• Maintain
  • Back up and restore from backup
  • Add a server
  • Remove a server
  • Build a cluster