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Video Conferencing has come a long way since regular television sets and co-ax cables were used to set up a analog “video phone” connection in the early 20th century. The advance of IP networks and compression technologies has made it possible to communicate seamlessly with people across the globe, anywhere, anytime and on any device.

Video communication has permeated virtually every field. Telemedicine has benefitted greatly by technologies that allow doctors to stream and view high resolution videos. Education has reached the remotest areas because instructors can easily set up two way video links with students anywhere in the world. Enterprises have been able to reduce travel with multi-location video conferences because improvements in technology has made it easy and affordable.

Video Streaming has always been a challenge given the constraints on available bandwidth and computing power. However, current video streaming systems use compression technologies that eliminate most of these obstacles. And hence the exponential growth in Telemedicine and Tele-education benefiting the common man.

Colleges regularly invite renowned educators as their guest faculty and visiting professors. However, the true benefit is realized only when large numbers of students participate in these guest lectures. But there are many challenges. How to fit in so many students into lecture halls that are not designed for the excess demand? How can students see repeats of the lecture once it is over? How can the college build up their curriculum with these lectures?

Shakti has been providing solutions to these challenges for the past few years. By implementing solutions based on the NCast recorders, colleges can:

  • Record the video and audio of the lecture and merge with other multimedia feeds like info-graphics and presentations
  • Compose these feeds into a single multimedia stream
  • Encode the stream into a standard MP4 file that can be viewed on any media player without the need of a specific software client
  • Choose the video layout with multiple feeds in 3 windows – saving the effort required in editing the video stream
  • Stream the video live to students either on-campus or off it
  • Archive the lectures in a digital library

Now students are able to not only view the lecture live, but also view it from a digital library through the institution’s portal at a time and location of their choice. Since it is tightly integrated with LDAP, authentication and security is assured. Because of the in-built smart indexing facility, students can search for a particular lecture topic or faculty or lecture date. Students use this when they have missed a lecture or want to reference or review it at their pace.

PR-HD-Basic The PR-HD-Basic captures video, audio and computer feeds together into a combined HD video and records the entire presentation to the H.264/MP4 open standard. It also simultaneously streams the resulting file either locally within a network or across the internet with the NCast Presentation Server or other content delivery services. It fully automates this recording and streaming by offering a dedicated hardware solution with a powerful set of features. The rack-mount unit may be configured with a single encoder or with dual encoders.

PR-HD-Extreme The PR-HD-Extreme captures video, audio and computer feeds together into a combined HD video and records the entire presentation to the H.264/MP4 open standard. It also simultaneously streams the resulting file either locally within a network or across the internet with the NCast Presentation Server or other content delivery services. It fully automates this recording and streaming by offering a dedicated hardware solution with a powerful set of features.

PR-HD-Ultra The PR-HD-Ultra captures video, audio and computer feeds together into a combined HD video and records the entire presentation to the H.264/MP4 open standard. It also simultaneously streams the resulting file either locally within a network or across the internet with the NCast Presentation Server or other content delivery services. It fully automates this recording and streaming by offering a dedicated hardware solution with a powerful set of features.

Medical Colleges and Hospitals have seen an increasing demand for videos of unique surgeries to be recorded and archived for the benefit for the medical community at large and the families of the patients. Also, Hospitals have increasingly started collaborating with specialist surgeons across the globe. However, Hospitals are faced with multiple challenges. Surgery videos are useless unless they are extremely high resolution, combine the patient medical data during the surgery and include the voice of the surgeon explaining the procedure while the surgery is going on.

With the development of Video over IP technologies, solutions to these challenges are easily implemented. Today, multiple high resolution cameras in the Operation theatre can record not just the close up of the surgery, but also focus on the Surgeon and monitor the patient. These video feeds can then be combined with patient data from health monitors and audio from the OT. Cutting edge video recorders capture these various inputs, combine them into a single video in real-time, compress them and then stream them to locations within or outside the campus. Such videos can also be indexed by surgery type, date, surgeon etc. and archived for future reference. To collaborate with experts from different locations, the surgery recording solution can be combined with a Video Conferencing solution that permits 2 way communications. Surgeons in the OT can relay the surgery video feed to experts outside the campus and get their opinion, directions in real time.

NCast Hydra The PR-Hydra is the newest of NCast's presentation recorder products. It is the first in the industry to record two full-screen layouts and create a composite layer. Previous NCast products have side-by-side window viewing. The new PR-Hydra has three windows, which allows for streaming of three different views while retaining the high-quality original recording. Simply connect your source, connect to the network, start the interface, and you're broadcasting your presentation.

Enterprises have greatly benefitted from the technological improvements in Video Conferencing. It all started as large expensive Video Conferencing systems specially designed for board rooms. Senior Management and Directors could conduct video conferences with others having the same system. Due to the cost factor, such implementations were few and restricted to large enterprises.

However, the introduction of SIP standards has drastically changed the landscape. Today’s VC systems can talk to each other over SIP standards, overthrowing barriers of brand and vendor. Improvements in technology has not only shrunk the size of VC systems, but also increased the video quality to HD levels. Improvements compression technologies have enabled VC to reach even small and remote offices on low bandwidths.

The benefits to enterprises are huge. Reduction in travel expenses, reachability of employees and better interaction with remote teams have changed the way business is done. The world had already become flat – VC has made the world smaller.

TelyHD Pro : Perfect for conference rooms, huddle rooms, and manager offices, the telyHD™ Pro delivers a high quality experience at unprecedented value. Standards-based interoperability and integrated Skype support enable the telyHD Pro to immediately connect with millions of users today and ensures investment protection for tomorrow. telyHD Pro also comes with a one-year subscription to telyCloud™, providing multi-party conferencing without any additional on-premise equipment.

TelyHD Base : TelyHD™ Base Edition delivers affordable point-to-point HD Skype™ video calling to meeting rooms, kiosks, and living rooms worldwide. telyHD Base Edition can be upgraded to telyHD Pro to add SIP standard video conferencing, telyCloud™ service, and support for 3rd-party cloud-based conferencing services such as Blue Jeans Network and others.

VSTOR Recorders : The VSTOR III Recorder is one of the most essential tools for a full fledged video conferencing solution. An end-to- end recording and playback solution, the VSTOR completes any professional VC set-up.
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NCAST : To deliver high quality education to students, most educational institutions invite eminent persons and experts as their guest faculty. Normally, such lectures are given to packed audiences since most students want to capitalize on the opportunity of learning from these personalities. Colleges continuously grapple with the challenges of insufficient seating space in the lecture hall and the inability to repeat the lectures
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The VSTOR records video input from various input sources (HDMI, YCbCr, YPbPr and CVBS) in either digital or analog, storing it directly to a USB HDD or a USB Pen Drive. It uses H.264 TS format to guarantee highly efficient compression and timely delivery. Both digital and analog input/output audio are supported through HDMI or RCA interfaces. Recorded video can be played back on any media player or PC / NB that supports H.264 formats.

  • Recording your conference calls
    VSTOR is compatible with HD Video conference call systems, allowing you to easily record without a specialized PC based accessory. It’s a practical and straightforward solution for preserving and storing valuable conference call or meeting video and audio data.

  • Record HD Video and TV programs onto a portable USB drive
    High quality H.264 technology allows the VSTOR to record HD video from Video conferencing system iPads, iPhones, PC/NBs, Satellite Set -top Boxes, through HDMI or component (YPbPr), cables. Accompanying audio is also recorded with 2- channel stereo. The recording format is AVCHD M2TS, which is compatible with most media players and PC / Notebooks.

  • Create your own HD/DVD/VCD library on a central storage device
    The VSTOR recording quality allows you to archive Video Conferencing Sessions, training captures, any other event records and other commercial applications with real-time H.254 compressed recordings at resolutions up to 1080i.

Features

  • Multiple video / audio input ports for different video interfaces

  • Complaint with HDMI and HDCP

  • Supports video input resolution to 1080i (recording)

  • Supports 16-bit 48 kHz audio data arid sampling rate

  • Supports H.264 video compression and MPEG-1 layer 2 audio compression

  • Supports recording file to external USB Pen Drive

  • Support Broadcast 3D Media.

  • Supports video source selection through push button or IR remote controller

  • Simple REC push button records TV Video

  • Supports recording file to external USB HDD

  • By-pass function for real time display, time scape video capture and pause recording.

The NCAST Presentation Recorders have changed the way lectures are delivered to the student community.

The NCast Recorder creates one synchronized video from multiple inputs from

  • The audio system

  • The speaker’s laptop to capture presentation material

  • Video Conferencing systems

  • Smart board, digital pens etc

The Central Control Module caters to multiple encoders at different locations within the campus. The Recorder comes with its own hard disk. Since it is tightly integrated with the digital library, the NCast recorder pushes recorded files to the digital library automatically.

The digital library is the central repository of all the lectures that have been captured. NCast Recorders index video files using Metadata like “Title of lecture”, “Lecturer name”, “Date”, “Topic”, “Brief description”, “Department” etc. This enables students to search for and access the desired lecture easily while viewing it offline. Since the digital library is integrated with the AD, security is guaranteed

NCast gives you the power to:

  • Record videos, infographics and audios of lectures

  • Compose these feeds into a single multimedia stream

  • Encode the stream into a standard MP4 file

  • Choose the video layout with multiple feeds in 3 windows

  • Stream the video live to students either on-campus or off it

  • Archive the lectures in a digital library

The quality of the video stream keeps students captivated since it merges audio, video and multi-media streams – giving students the feel of being present in the lecture hall. It enables students to view lectures from anywhere, at any time and on any device.