HERO Live

Partner: Media Excel
Multi-screen encoder/transcoder for live.

The HERO product line enables Live and File workflows in a single platform, and delivers content to over 400 million multi-screen subscribers worldwide. With comprehensive support for the latest codecs, including HEVC, AV1, and VVC, the HERO 6000 ensures your content is future-proof and delivers the highest picture quality. It seamlessly handles multiple IP ingest and distribution formats, such as SRT, RTMP, and ST-2110, offering unparalleled flexibility in content delivery.

The HERO 6000 also excels in low-latency performance, with support for CMAF-CTE in both HLS and DASH, making it the ideal choice for live event streaming. Designed for versatility, the HERO 6000 can support high-density channel deployment across both CPU and GPU-based instances, whether on-premise, virtualised, or cloud, ensuring scalability and efficiency for any deployment scenario.

DIVA AI-enhanced Encoding

Media Excel has developed new groundbreaking artificial intelligence-based DIVA (Dynamic Intelligent Video Adaptive) encoding technology. DIVA encoding’s innovative approach maximises efficiency by performing real-time analysis of incoming video streams, dynamically adjusting encoder settings, and optimising codec performance. Offering unparalleled video quality while delivering a remarkable 20% reduction in bandwidth usage for streamed HEVC video content.

Reduce your OTT streaming costs with this technology. Based on HERO encoders in the Cloud or on-prem this is a game-changer. Click here to read the DIVA AI white paper.

Features
  • Superior visual quality, with the best performance and high density
  • Hybrid software and hardware encoding solution with CPU, GPU and SoC
  • Up to 150% higher performance than HERO’s predecessor
  • Ultra-low Latency e2e mode for OTT
  • Supports all major video/audio codecs
  • Hybrid adaptive bitrate outputs, with multiple protocols and multiple simultaneous publishing points
  • Content-aware adaptive bitrate control (CABR) for optimal use of bandwidth
  • Native advert insertion/signalling and DRM integration
  • Output synchronisation from multiple camera inputs
  • Multi-channel UHD 4K OTT encoding/transcoding
  • Flexible workflow: switchable between live and file mode
  • Optional DIVA AI-enhanced encoding
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