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Interra Systems Unveils Cutting-Edge Solutions For Superior Video Quality

Interra Systems showcases its latest content QC, monitoring, and analysis solutions at BroadcastAsia 2023. With a focus on delivering high-quality video and streamlining workflows, Interra Systems is setting new standards in media quality control and innovation for APAC OTT service providers and broadcasters.

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The global video streaming market is witnessing remarkable growth, with a projected CAGR of 21.5% from 2023 to 2030, according to market analysis by Grand View Research. In this context, Interra Systems, a leading provider of content quality control, monitoring, and analysis solutions, is set to showcase its latest updates at BroadcastAsia 2023. These solutions are specifically designed to assist OTT service providers and broadcasters in the APAC region in delivering high-quality video and streamlining their content quality control and monitoring processes across the digital media supply chain. With the aim of meeting the increasing demand for superior video quality and workflow automation, Interra Systems continues to set new standards in media quality control, monitoring, captioning, and analysis with its ORION, BATON, BATON Captions, and VEGA Media Analyzer solutions.

Interra Systems’ portfolio of software-based solutions will be on display at BroadcastAsia 2023, focusing on various aspects of media quality control, monitoring, and analysis. The company’s ORION and ORION-OTT monitoring solutions have undergone significant advancements, including improved localization support, expanded HDR and SMPTE ST 2110 checks, enhanced scheduled reports, and improved usability in live monitoring views. ORION-OTT now offers enhanced support for Dolby Atmos audio and low-latency streams, an expanded array of DASH compliance checks, improved freeze detection, and additional system alerts. These solutions cater to diverse cloud deployment scenarios, including linear broadcast, IP-based delivery infrastructures, and live/VOD OTT content.

The migration from traditional SDI infrastructures to IP-based video networks is driving the need for end-to-end video quality monitoring in IP environments. Interra Systems’ ORION 2110 Probe, built to support the SMPTE ST 2110 standard, ensures future-proof monitoring of video quality in IP environments. The solution enables comprehensive monitoring of SMPTE ST 2110 essence streams, including main and redundancy signals, and seamless integration with NMOS, addressing the complexities associated with SDIoIP.

For comprehensive enterprise-wide visibility, Interra Systems offers the ORION Central Manager (OCM) solution. OCM enables centralized management of multiple ORION linear and ORION-OTT setups, allowing broadcasters and service providers to detect and isolate errors more efficiently. The latest enhancements to OCM include improved support for localization, end-to-end ad insertion monitoring, compatibility with RHEL 8.4, and enhanced options for scheduling database backups, ensuring effective disaster recovery measures.

Interra Systems’ BATON, an AI-enabled automated quality control platform, continues to set the bar for quality and compliance standards. The latest updates to BATON enhance the QC and analysis of UHD content, including optimized IMF analysis and improved reading and downloads from S3 cloud. The platform also offers comprehensive support for subtitles, transport stream formats, audio quality checks, and new formats. Additionally, Interra Systems has made notable enhancements to BATON Media Player, enabling optimized playback of 4K content and extended support for Dolby Atmos storage formats.

Addressing the captioning requirements of broadcasters and media professionals, Interra Systems presents BATON Captions, an automated solution leveraging ML and ASR technology. The platform provides features for caption generation, QC, autocorrections, reviewing, regeneration, editing, and localization. The latest features for BATON Captions showcased at BroadcastAsia 2023 include IAM-based S3 access, additional languages, project-based custom dictionaries, burnt-in text detection, profane word detection, distributed processing, next-generation format-specific checks, and support for various subtitling formats.

Furthermore, Interra Systems introduces BATON LipSync, a solution that utilizes advanced image processing and deep neural networks to identify audio-video synchronization errors. BATON LipSync offers comprehensive analysis of lip sync