Multichannel Ingest and Archive Server

An indispensable tool for audio-visual recording system, is the scheduler. We have seen in previous articles how the scheduler on the client tool works, which allows the definition of session by selecting channel, date and time.

The scheduler 24 hours, which resides on the server, is intended to automate tasks of recording and creating repetitive patterns of recording, to allow us to configure the system, for example, continuous recording of a channel or a recording takes place every Monday from 6-8 pm.

The scheduler, is aimed at defining how we want the server to perform the recordings based on every day of the week, you can set a different record type for each day of the week and for each time slot each of those days.

We have four recording templates for each channel, we have kind of day A, B, C and D for channel 1, A, B, C and D for channel 2 … and so on for all channels on our server. Besides the four types of templates, there are several ways to operanción, NO RECORD, RECORD IN ONE FILE, RECORD TIME BASED, RECORD SIZE BASED AND RECORD BASED O CLIENT SCHEDULER TOOL

Making combinations of templates recording channels and recording modes, you can set, with great flexibility our server’s an example:

Suppose you have an 8-channel TebasDVR server in an environment of city hall, where several functions are being conducted with this server. They are designed to record six channels of broadcast TV channels in undertaking a media manitoring, the two remaining channels are allocated to the recording of full information and commissions, in addition to recording the various events that occur in the building, either press conferences or public events.

Thus we have that 6 of the 8 channels foroma burn continuously for every day of the week, with some specific parameters. Configure every day of the week for that record according to the template A.

Configure the template to channel 1 to 6, as follows. from 2 am to 6 am, NO RECORD, as it is determined that this information is not relevant to the task of media monitoring. 6 am to 1:30 pm, we configure the template to record continuous splitting files into 1 hour slots, RECORD TIME BASED, from 1.30 to 15.30, we set the recording mode ONE FILE, to get all the news programs into a single file easy to manage, from 15.30 to 20 hours, reconfigure RECORDING TIME BASED, in files of 1 hour and 20 to 22 hours in ONE FILE mode again, for the evening newscasts. 22 to 24 hours, RECORDING TIME in 1 hour. Thus we have configured the channels responsible for the audit of television media.

Channels 7 and 8 for information commissions, plenary sessions and events, will be configured as follows:

A template is configured channel 7 in not recording, so that this channel remain there pending a request for recording the client tool manually from Thebes, and will be the town clerk, who will to record the session and stop the recording at the end of it.

Configure the template to channel 8, to attend the recording scheduler requests client Thebes, given that this channel will be used for press conferences and events, and then may be edited, it is easy to use the calendar client tool for programs recording sessions to begin a day to a specific time with a specific duration, resulting in time frame, which then can be removed by editing the recording with the authoring tool itself Customer Thebes.

This is an example of how to create repeating patterns that automate recording server tasks, and release the staff of these tedious tasks.

According with the consolidation of the 2.0 version and the recent TebasDVR compatibility with Windows 7, appears in a new family member. TebasDVR Lite, targeted at all users who have audiovisual recording requirement, but are not framed in a very professional needs, and can dispense mainly of redundancy in the storage system and require fewer channels and fewer hours of recording.

TebasDVR Lite is the recording server family that uses Thebes initially licensed for 2 channel recording audio / video, and can be increased to a total of four channels, adding two channel licenses. It has simple power supply and storage is a single 1TB disk video recording, which corresponds to approximately 2000 hours 1Mbps H264-quality video. It is an ideal compact to be moved from one room to another easily, a sleek chassis that fits in desktop, combining well with the aesthetics of any room or hall meetings that need an audiovisual recording.

With each and every one of the features of their older brothers and a pricing environment of 4,500 € to 6,000 € becomes a great tool of 2 or 4 channels for audiovisual recordings, with performance far superior to DVD recorders hard disk.

The tools of the Lite version are identical to those of the standard versions of the product, 24 hours recording Planner, Recording scheduler from Thebes control tool, start / stop manual recording, managing and editing recordings to cut them. A channel manager identical to other versions. The server can be configured to record both video and video + audio only or audio only, allowing also set the recording codec either H264 or MPEG 2.

Management has a deletion that allows the maintenance of your hard drive, it must be remembered that the servers are not designed as TebasDVR documentary archive, but as a temporary storage of information before being used.

A new member of family Tebas, appears to meet needs of digital audio recording, TebasDAR (Digital Audio Recorder) is a digital audio recorder 16 or 32 channels of audio on a single server.It has the same features as its predecessors, that is, has a calendar to schedule the tasks of recording each of their channels, it has also has a very specific set of features aimed at digital recording of meetings, Digital Certificate of Assembly. This module, available as a plug-in for any of the recording servers, allows real-time annotations on the audio or video is being recorded, and drafting minutes of the meeting may then be digitally signed.

Look at its implementation in a parliamentary environment, or a City Council Assembly. Now be collected in a Book of Acts, all items on the agenda that emerged from the various committees prior to full information, as well as the agreements had been reached for each of these points by voting processes . The method used in most municipalities, is the analog or digital, using audio tapes or minidisc, which was filled with notes that the Secretary himself full out during the course of the same. This information is transcribed the Book of the Act which constitutes the official record kept of what happened in the House. The existing method, requires transcribing much of the conversation in full, as the record book should contain all the political discussion happened in the room and it makes the transcription work is tedious.

Workflow

Using a system like TebasDAR, and Digital Certificate module, we have a recording server that allows us to obtain a “Daily Record”, the digital record of what is said and happens in full, since in case of having a TebasDVR, this paper could also be not only video and audio as in the case of TebasDAR.

The digital certificate tool allows us to manage the configuration of the House, adding political parties or corporations, and the names of its members and has a structure that introduces annotation written information about the daily recording session. It has a button to record the time observations of it and allows us to introduce a text on the observation. Interventions A button, a window with the configuration of the corporation of the House, leaving us to select the name of the person to step in and pointing the exact time that has intervened. We also have a voting buttons, that allows us to record the outcome of these and there is also the possibility of introducing any comment at any time of the recording.

With all these entries are generated by the draft of the “Book of Acts” of the plenary session, which can be exported in RTF (Rich Text Format) into a text editor for editing and writing correctly, thus creating the final Book of Acts, which will be associated with a ” Daily Session “(Record of the audio or audio / video of the meeting) and these two documents, the Daily Record and Certificate Book, will be the official documentation of that particular right.

Digital Signature

For this system-generated content, will be official, we have a digital signature mechanism, first, to ensure that the recorded sound or video / audio recording, corresponding to a recording made by or TebasDVR / TebasDAR and has not altered or modified in any way. Tebas has a digital signature mechanism, with the self certification authority, which guarantees if a file has been recorded by him and has not been modified in any way.

Similarly, Tebas incorporating digital signature protocols, using the relevant certification bodies, which are guaranteed and faith, that the documentation contained in the Book of Acts refers to a particular diary sessions and that’s exactly what happened or argued in the courtroom.

So, once associated with the document “Book of Acts” with the “Daily Record” the General Secretary, and charges that are required, may sign the document using your digital certificate or ID card, thus legitimizing the law thereof.