Video Broadcast Solutions

Today’s video delivery systems are a complex mix of technologies that must support a variety of signals, interfaces, formats, codecs, and standards. At BSI, we offer IRD solutions that bring new simplicity to this complex infrastructure and ensure the highest quality video delivery available today. Our product, Horizon, offers proven compatibility with a wide range of technologies, including analog, digital, HD/SD, MPEG2, H.264, IP, 8VSB, QAM, and DVB-S/S2. It’s no wonder that Horizon’s IRD’s are installed by more broadcast, cable, satellite, and telco service providers, and across a wider range of applications than any other comparable solution.

We deal with a wide range of streaming solutions, from Blackmagic Design products such as Web Presenter and ATEM Mini to software solutions such as OBS and Wirecast. Blackmagic products make your SDI/HDMI source appear as a standard UVC and UAC compatible USB webcam, so it’s capable of broadcasting video and audio on any webcam-compatible platform and software, including Skype, YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Twitch.tv, Periscope, Open Broadcaster, and XSplit Broadcaster on Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS systems.

Live streaming equipment is a big part of our offer at BSI. This guide hopes to give you an overview of these technologies and help you select the right product for the right purpose.

What is Streaming?

Very simply, streaming is broadcasting live video over the Internet. A video stream is different from a video file. A video file must finish recording before you can upload it, but a video stream continues live until you stop it.

Why is Streaming important to you?

Everyone from the largest broadcaster and media organization to police forces, houses of worship, and gamers are streaming live to mobile devices, iPads, networked screens, computers, consoles… It’s the fastest-growing part of the media industry, worth an estimated US$14 billion worldwide.

How do you Stream video?

You first need to compress the video into a size that you can reliably upload to the Internet, and to do that, you either use hardware or software. If you use hardware encoders, you don’t need a computer, so the equipment is smaller and can even be mounted on a camera. If you use software, you still need to get the video signal into a computer, and there are boxes that do this too.