Aquila Broadcast

Aquila Broadcast is the latest solution from MediaKind for broadcast compression headends, and is built on over 25 years heritage in providing such solutions. It is based around Encoding Live, MediaKind’s software encoder for both linear broadcast and streaming application. It also includes MediakInd’s Stream Processing, which is a transport stream multiplexer and scrambler. It enables a broadcaster with:

• The minimum bit-rate required whilst maintaining picture quality whether using MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC or HEVC
• SD, HD, 1080P or UHD services, including support for High Dynamic Range
• Wide audio codec support
• Rich subtitles management including ingest of DVB subtitles, teletext and closed caption and their translations for each format
• Wide content protection support including a route to DVB-CSA V3.