The industry's first software-based broadcast-ready media processing platform.
Using the Harmonic VOS virtualization media processing platform, the Electra X virtualization media processor offers an unmatched set of features for video content and service providers, enhancing operational flexibility and limitless scalability. At the core of the Electra X is the VOS encoding module: the Harmonic PURE compression engine. This technology supports MPEG-2 format for SD and HD, CBR AVC and HEVC MPEG-4 formats, as well as VBR and AVR encoding techniques. The PURE compression engine delivers exceptional video quality for the Electra X with minimal bandwidth.
As a complete virtualized media processing system, Electra X offers a new approach to encoding and channel playback. The software-based solution includes integrated video imaging and channel packaging. Its playback performance for transport streams includes channel direction, linear ad insertion, and SCTE automated control. With exceptional video quality, bandwidth efficiency, and workflow flexibility, Electra X will undoubtedly simplify your infrastructure, reduce costs, and increase your profits.
Main Features:
- Providing fully virtualized SD/HD MPEG-2, MPEG-4, as well as AVC and HEVC encoding for broadcasting and multi-screen services.
- Utilizing the Harley PURE compression engine to deliver market-leading video quality at the lowest bit rates.
- Video images and channel packaging are simple and easy to deploy.
- Playback of streaming content allows for channel targeting and linear ad insertion.
- Optimized IP Statistical Multiplexing
- Utilizing Dolby Digital Plus encoding and Jünger Magic automatic audio level adjustment technology to enrich audio expressiveness.
Compression Performance
Harley has extensive experience that leads the market in video compression algorithms and multi-channel encoding technology. The Electra X utilizes PURE compression engine technology to deliver exceptional video quality at the lowest bit rates, significantly enhancing encoding efficiency. Compared to hardware-based encoders, the Electra X offers a more streamlined upgrade capability. The Electra XVM supports MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVC, and HEVC encoders, and is compatible with SD, HD, and Ultra HD formats, making it suitable for the transmission of constant bitrate, interactive streams, and adaptive bitrate streams for broadcast television, cable television, satellite television, and IPTV.
Preprocessing
The Electra X utilizes advanced Harley signature Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering (MCTF) noise reduction technology, enhancing the expressiveness of video material, and supports powerful deinterlacing technology for clean transmission of progressive formats.
High-quality graphics and video packaging
Electra X utilizes advanced processing technology to handle and package images through a unique set of procedures, preparing them for subsequent content distribution and service delivery. The advanced processing technology supports up to eight video encoding layers, digital video effects compression technology with dynamic text insertion capabilities, and complete slate insertions, allowing for individual packaging for each channel. This enables the creation of complex live broadcast appearances and allows for separate monetization through a second screen.
Statistical Multiplexing on IP
Electra X maximizes the efficiency and flexibility of statistical multiplexing through its close integration with Harley's DiviTrackIP technology. DiviTrackIP is applied in LAN or distributed WAN environments, capable of supporting up to 300ms of WAN round-trip delay, self-adjusting to accommodate changes in the IP network, and can simultaneously create up to 64 channels of MPEG transport streams in a single instance.
Full Virtualization
Electra X is a transcoder that operates on Harley's VOS platform. This platform is built on licensed blade servers, enhancing hardware transparency and maximizing operational flexibility through OpenStack or VMware vSphere virtual machine environments. The Electra XVM in a virtual machine environment can dynamically enable and disable functions based on demand without compromising video quality and firmware performance, and it can adjust the MIPS performance of the data center based on the combination of tasks being executed.
Broadcast-grade video processing
Codec: MPEG-2 MP @ ML; MPEG-2 MP @ HL; MPEG-4 AVC MP @ L3; MPEG-4 AVC HP @ L4; HEVC Main 10
HD Resolution and Frame Rate: 720p @ 50 and 59.94; 1080i @ 25 and 29.97; 1080p @ 24, 25 and 59.94
SD resolution and frame rate: 576i @ 25; 480i @ 29.97
OTT Multi-Screen Video Processing
Codec: AVC (H.264) Main, Baseline; HEVC Main 10 60 Hz, 50 H