Niagara 4218RW - THE BROADCASTER SPECIAL!
Single-Channel P4 Rack-Mount Streaming System with Digital Inputs & MPEG CODEC

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The Niagara 4218RW is part of the Niagara series of integrated, turnkey 2U rack-mount systems for real-time encoding of video and audio content.

This powerful 2GHz P4 streaming system is also a tri-mode device for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding and decoding in addition to advanced video/audio capture card capabilities.

The professional quality of MPEG serves the streaming world for Video-On-Demand (VOD) purposes. The MPEG CODEC ability allows the Niagara 4218RW archive video content to use high-quality MPEG for later transcoding to popular streaming formats. The Niagara 4218RW effectively delivers real-time transcoding and streaming from an MPEG source file in one step.

It offers high quality video/audio capture from analog, DV and professional digital sources, for both NTSC and PAL video sources. Analog Composite and S-Video video plus unbalanced stereo audio are available for outputs when used for MPEG decoding. Audio loopback/monitoring capabilities are provided via unbalanced RCA audio output.

Niagara 4218RW Features:

  • Osprey 2000 DV Pro streaming capture card and MPEG-1/MPEG-2 CODEC
  • 1U rack-mount breakout panel for audio and video inputs and outputs:
    • Composite video (BNC) input
    • S-Video input
    • DV (IEEE 1934) input
    • SDI (SMPTE-259M) video with embedded audio input
    • Unbalanced stereo audio (RCA) input
    • Balanced stereo audio (XLR) input
    • Professional digital audio (AES/EBU) input
    • Consumer digital audio (S/P-DIF) input
  • MPEG playback outputs:
    • Composite video (BNC)
    • S-Video
    • Unbalanced stereo audio (RCA)
  • Niagara SCX remote encoder management and control software for monitoring and control of multiple, remote or distributed streaming encoders throughout an enterprise or across the Internet
  • Osprey SimulStream software - supports multiple concurrent streams of RealNetworks Real Video and Microsoft Windows Media at multiple bit rates
  • 2GHz Pentium 4 processor system
  • RealProducer Plus Version 8.5
  • Windows Media Encoder 7.1
  • Windows 2000 Professional
  • Optional Accordent PresenterPro software - streaming media presentation authoring software

If you have additional questions, please contact us at [email protected] or call 1-800-250-6622.

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