Exhibition of live streaming products from the U.S. firm Elemental: Realization of high-speed processing utilizing GPU

CTCSP, a group company of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions, exhibited encoder products from the U.S. firm Elemental Technologies.

Elemental developed a technology that performs multiple simultaneous parallel processing using a graphics processing unit (GPU) of encoding technologies developed by this firm. It is possible to significantly reduce the costs of constructing a streaming system because processing of full high definition quality video can be performed in one tenth the time compared to the conventional file creation time simultaneously with four channels and a transcoder through this.

The products of Elemental are provided in an appliance form in which hardware and software have been integrated, so operations are possible with a web interface that means absolutely no difficult operations are required.

Elemental Live (high consolidation encoder) makes it possible to select input from one of the three of SDI, IP or files. This is sent out in a container so that it is possible to play on any device (e.g. smartphone or tablet) by the conversion of input baseband video to H.264. This system has a consolidation ratio three to four times greater than encoders from other manufacturers, so it is possible to convert four full HD inputs at the same time.

The Elemental Server (high speed file transcoder) is a file-to-file transcoder. This is high-speed and is capable of conversion in half of real time. Compatible formats allow the use unchanged of files employed by broadcasting stations and post-professionals, such as MXF and ProRes.