RealProducer

RealProducer converts common audio and video files into high-quality RealAudio® and RealVideo® for live or on-demand streaming broadcast for audiences from dialup to broadband speeds.

RealProducer includes powerful tools to manage the demands of professional production. Many encoding professionals who stream audio and video use

RealProducer. It is used every day in mission-critical applications by content providers, network service providers, government, education, and corporate enterprises.

Combine RealProducer with Helix Server to:

Broadcast live or "simulated live" audio and video webcasts
Convert audio and video files for on-demand streaming media
Create synchronized multimedia presentations combining multiple datatypes.

Features:

Import job files from previous versions of RealProducer
Professional-grade broadcasting platform: redundancy and forward error correctionBroadcast content to multiple servers for ultimate scalability and redundancy
Productivity: Job files and command line interface with batch encoding
Encode in Constant Bit Rate or Variable Bit Rate for highest video quality
Pre-filtering options: cropping, frame rate conversion, inverse-telecine, de-interlacing and noise filtering
Metadata attributes, such as title, author, copyright
Firewall traversal: broadcast to servers behind NAT firewalls
Log Files: error messages saved to file for troubleshooting and analysis
Log Viewer: displays log messages real-time during encoding sessions
Highly reliable encoding with redundant output
Automatic File Rollover: continues encoding when previous file reaches a specific size
Automatically reconnects to Helix Server if the initial push connection is lost
Multicast: conserves bandwidth while increasing redundancy and scalability
Pull Broadcasting: allows servers to proactively connect to RealProducer
Connectionless UDP Transport: reliable one way data transmission

Specifications:

Technical Specifications
Output	Protocol Helix (RBS) support for push, pull and multicast Multiple destination support (live or file)
	Audio/Video RealAudio/RealVideo 8, 9, 10 Custom frame sizes up to 1920x1080
Input	Capture Card Most capture cards that support Direct Show, VFW or WDM Osprey (100, 210/220, 230, 240e, 440, 450e, 500DV, 530, 540, 700e HD) Winnov (Videum Duo, Videum Quattro) USB and Firewire (IEEE 1394) based PC cameras
	File Format AVI, MOV, DV, MP3, MPEG-4, WAV, MPEG-2 (MPEG-2 requires a separate Direct Show MPEG-2 reader, not included.)

System Requirements
OS	Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008
CPU	Pentium 4 or Core2Duo (recommended)
Memory	Capture Card Most capture cards that support Direct Show, VFW or WDM Osprey (100, 210/220, 230, 240e, 440, 450e, 500DV, 530, 540, 700e HD) Winnov (Videum Duo, Videum Quattro) USB and Firewire (IEEE 1394) based PC cameras
Video card	A video card and display supporting 1024x768 or greater
Software	Direct X9.1 or later (to read .avi, .wav, and Windows Media files) (minimum) QuickTime 7 (to input .mov, .mp4, .3gp, and other filetypes) (recommended) DirectShow MPEG-2 Decoder (to input MPEG-2 files) (recommended)

Latest Feature Enhancements

- New Graphical User Interface

GUI has been completely redesigned in the latest version of RealProducer. The Interface displays both the source multimedia content and the encoded content side by side for comparison.

- High Quality Encoding

Highly optimized RealAudio and RealVideo compression for both live and on-demand content, delivering the best video quality. Multiple Input/Output Capacity Enables high density encoding with multiple inputs and multiple output profiles per input, thus maximizing encoding capacity and throughput.

- Setting Advisor

The GUI Settings Advisor provides automatic alerts of errors, warnings and informational conditions to help optimize encoding settings.

- Audio/Video Signal Detection

graphical audio/video preview plus watchdog reports for absent, noisy or frozen video and silent, clipped, imbalanced or out-of-phase source audio.

-Timeline Editor

Use the timeline editor to set starting and ending points for the encoding job, thereby cutting unwanted video content at the beginning and end of the video clip.

- Live Rate Adapatation and Multi-Rate File Creation

Create multi-rate streams to improve overall end-user QoS by delivering the highest bit-rate possible supported by the network at any given time for both live and on-demand content.