Florida's Kennedy Space Center recently added Adtec's edje™ digital video player and edje-2000™ real-time streaming encoder to their existing system, enabling them to deliver high-quality video to the NASA Shuttle Logistics Depot off site in Cape Canaveral.
Early this year, the Space Center installed a Soloist 2™ digital video player that delivers Shuttle Ground Operations training via the center's internal cable system. United Space Alliance (USA) personnel, (the Space Shuttle's prime contractor) encode, or compress, training programs from BetaCamSP
videotapes into MPEG files, which are then loaded into the Adtec player for playback. The information can then be organized into play schedules for all three shifts, which USA updates once a month.
The Space Center's addition of the edje-2000™ encoder allows USA to deliver high-quality pictures at very low bit rates to an off site location. Supporting both DVB-ASI and IP platforms concurrently, Adtec's encoder satisfies their encoding needs for contribution and distribution, as well as the IT space where IP based distribution is critical.
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