Vienna State Opera at night. Photo: Markus Leupold-Löwenthal/Wikimedia Commons

[Via Satellite 04-18-2016] Ateme announced that FranSat, Eutelsat’s satellite TV bouquet in France, broadcast the Vienna Opera ballet “Le Corsaire” live in Ultra High Definition (Ultra-HD) on April 2, in partnership with Arte channel. The show was available in France, as well as the rest of Europe, the Mediterranean region and the Middle East through the satellite Hot Bird. In parallel, the satellite signal was transcoded by IRT using Titan to power a fine-tuned Ultra-HD Dash OTT real-time delivery on Arte’s HbbTV portal for smart TVs.

Ateme played a major role in the broadcast, encoding the content in Ultra-HD 50fps 10bits using HEVC codec. Titan is a virtualized software-based encoder-transcoder, designed for cable, DTH, and OTT. It supports HEVC, H.264 and MPEG-2 codecs, with resolutions from mobile devices to 4K Ultra-HD. Dash packetization was supported by an Anevia NEA Live Advanced Origin server that directly fed the Akamai Content Delivery Network (CDN) worldwide.

“Using pure software solutions running on COTS hardware — whilst also achieving excellent picture quality — provides the flexibility and cost-effectiveness we need. On top of that, TITAN is a future-proof solution, with a path to 4K-UHD HEVC, HDR and BT.2020 color space, demonstrating its ability to evolve to suit future UHD formats,”  said Rainer Schaefer, general manager of media services and platforms at IRT.

Ultra-HD Live end-to-end solution. Photo: Ateme