coralbay.tv to demonstrate new features at IBC 2024

Leeds, UK, 14th August 2024 – Cloud playout specialist coralbay.tv Ltd announced today that the company will exhibit at the upcoming IBC 2024 show and is looking forward to demonstrating new features recently added to its coralPlay, coralMAM and coralFlow products. The company will also present coralCaption, a new live captioning product.

New features include:

• A “Routines” feature that allows for rules to be set up to perform a variety of tasks without having to write custom software each time a customer wants to do something different. The new Routines feature allows for actions to be performed automatically based on triggers and conditions. The actions that are supported can be playlist functions, such as “Go-to-next Event”, MAM or workflow functions, such as “Purge Media”, “Move Media” or “Run Report”. Triggers can be incoming SCTE, DTMF or API triggers or dates and times. Conditions can be “event must be a live event”, “free space below a certain level”, “media type is commercial” or “media expiry dates”. Examples of the uses for the routines are: 1) at certain times of the day or week, automatically delete media that hasn’t been played in the last month, 2) When a SCTE trigger is received, perform a “Go-to-next event function”, if the event on-air is a Live event. In future, the routines framework could be used for many other purposes such as scheduling recurring recordings or for deploying resources, such as video pipelines, at certain times of the day or week and then decommissioning them at other times.
• Integration with SPX graphics. SPX is a company that provides HTML5 graphics for the broadcast market, whose products can be hosted in public clouds or on-premises. Via the SPX API, coralPlay can select graphics templates and render them in real time. We are also able to populate the templates via information derived from the on-air playlists or external feeds such as RSS. Adding support for SPX graphics means that our customers now have even more choices for the creation of graphics and can choose between Adobe Animate, Google Web Designer, Singular.Live and SPX.
• Our video pipeline now provides support for the latest version of WebRTC. WebRTC is a low-latency video standard for web applications and is used in coralPlay for our live preview function. It is ideal for projects that have live events where delays cannot be tolerated. We also offer HLS as an option where lower resource requirements are a greater priority.

Other recent enhancements that will be demonstrated at IBC for the first time include:

• A new live input framework that provides for live input switching in IP. Rather than decoding all incoming sources in case a user might want to switch to any source, which is inefficient and costly, the system pre-empts via the playlist schedule. If any live events are scheduled in the playlist, the system decodes those sources in advance in the order that they are needed so that they are available at the right time. Other sources are not decoded until they are either scheduled or there is a request by an operator. This method saves on compute resources and reduces costs, whilst still providing the ability to switch between live sources as required by the playlist. It is now possible to switch seamlessly between any of the supported input formats, which includes transport streams using zixi, SRT, RTP or UDP protocols, as well as NDI and SDI. In addition, the new live input handler provides redundancy. Users can set up a preconfigured number of sources as backups for each main source and define their priority. If the main source were to fail, the system would automatically switch to the second source and at the same time report the failure of the main source to the user. If both the main source and principal backup source were to fail, the system automatically switches to the second reserve source. In the unlikely event that the main source and all the configured backups were to fail, the system will switch to a preconfigured graphic, which could be an apology caption.
• Event transitions have been added. It is now possible to schedule V-fades, cut-fades and fade-cuts via the playlist using preconfigured transition rates such as slow, medium or fast.
• It is now possible to lock the on-air event in view so that if an operator scrolls down the playlist, the on-air event is always displayed at the top of the playlist.
• Blocks can be defined in the playlist using tags and markers. Controls, such as Go-to-next block type, can be applied to the blocks. This could be used for example to go to the next commercial block as soon as possible, irrespective of what is scheduled next in the playlist. In this case, all events from the current event until the next commercial block are skipped. Blocks are visually identified in the playlist to make it easier for operators to view and create blocks.
• Configurable event state names and colours. It is now possible for users to configure event state names and colours to suit their preferences.

coralCaption is a new product that inserts captions into live transport streams without decoding and then re-encoding. The caption data is generated automatically using AI tools or is entered by users reviewing the audio and video from an automatically generated proxy. The product is built on coralbay.tv’s microservices-based platform and can be hosted in any public cloud or on-premises.

The company will be exhibiting on stand no. 7.A09e

About Coralbay.tv Ltd
Based in the United Kingdom, coralbay.tv offers next-generation real-time playout, workflow and media preparation solutions. All products are cloud-native and are a suite of microservices that are containerized using docker and deployed and orchestrated using Kubernetes. They are optimized to take advantage of the inherent elasticity, redundancy and flexibility that hosting in the cloud offers. Systems can be hosted in any public cloud as well as on-premises.

Media Contact Details
Gavin Smith, Communications Manager, coralbay.tv
+44 113 873 0002
gavin.smith@coralbay.tv