Ad breaks on the exact frame.
Cue points to the frame. Pods, rules and SCTE-35 follow.
APlayout by AMTECCO Coming soon
Your 24/7 channel, from storage to screen.
Library, rundown, ad breaks, guide and delivery. One playout service, on air around the clock.
Every channel live, with its picture, now and next.
- SCTE-35
- DVB
- MPEG-TS
- SRT
- HLS
- XMLTV
- MRSS
One service
Everything between your files and your viewers.
APlayout is a cloud playout service for 24/7 linear and FAST channels, coming soon from AMTECCO: media library, rundown, frame-accurate ad breaks, programme guide and SRT, HLS or multicast delivery, on a playout engine of your own.
- Store Upload, SFTP, feeds
- Ingest Fetched just in time
- Schedule 24/7 rundown
- Monetise Frame-accurate breaks
- Guide EIT and XMLTV
- Deliver SRT, HLS, multicast
Built for broadcast
The details your platforms check, handled.
Catalogues, not copies.
Feed titles arrive just before air and leave after.
A guide in the stream.
DVB now and next on every set-top box. XMLTV for platforms.
An engine of your own.
A dedicated playout engine per customer. No neighbours.
Checked, not assumed.
Every output analysed the way your receivers will.
- SCTE-35 on the frame
- PCR timing
- Continuity
- EIT present and following
A rundown that never runs dry.
Gaps fill themselves. Slate and logo stay on cue.
Example rundown: Night Riders, then an ad break, Meadow Tales, a promo, Event Horizon, an ad break, High Andes, filler and The Last Ferry, played out over SRT, HLS and MPEG-TS over UDP.
Where it fits
Play it: between making a programme and sending a channel.
- AI Studio Makes the programmes
- APlayout Plays them out, 24/7
- SRT Cloud Sends the channel
- CDN Live Streams it to viewers
- FAST-on-Broadcast Earns from it on TV
TSPulse
Checks the signal along the way
Technical detail
For your engineers
How APlayout fits the live media chain, and the detail your broadcast engineers will ask about.
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01 / Input Your media library Uploads, SFTP drop folders or an MRSS catalogue fetched just in time.
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02 / Service responsibility APlayout Conform, rundown, SCTE-35 breaks, DVB EIT and XMLTV guide.
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03 / Outcome A 24/7 channel on air SRT, HLS and MPEG-TS over UDP, analysed at the transport-stream level.
Built in
- Ingest
- Browser uploads, SFTP drop folders, MRSS with just-in-time fetch
- Media
- Automatic conform and loudness normalisation
- Scheduling
- 24/7 rundown, gap filling, slate, logo, programming rules
- Ad breaks
- Frame cue points, pods, SCTE-35 splice_insert, HLS cue tags
- Guide
- DVB EIT present/following and schedule, XMLTV
- Subtitles and audio
- DVB subtitles, alternate audio
- Outputs
- SRT caller/listener, HLS, MPEG-TS over UDP multicast
- Engine
- One per customer, behind an authenticated API
Not in the first release Live inputs Redundancy 4K SCTE-104 ST 2110 / SDI
Questions
- Can I use APlayout today?
- Not yet. It is coming soon, with no paid service yet. Join the waitlist on aplayout.com to hear first when it opens.
- Do I have to copy my library into it?
- No. APlayout can read an MRSS catalogue, fetch each title just before air and release it afterwards.
- How do ad breaks work?
- Mark cue points on the frame. Break rules fill the pods, and SCTE-35 signals each break in the stream and in HLS.
- Which outputs does it deliver?
- SRT, HLS and MPEG-TS over UDP multicast, with the guide carried in the stream as DVB EIT and published as XMLTV.
- How does it relate to other AMTECCO services?
- It is its own service, from AMTECCO. It plays out what AI Studio makes and hands over to SRT Cloud, CDN Live or FAST-on-Broadcast.
- What will it cost?
- Pricing will be published before launch.
Coming soon
Planning a 24/7 channel?
Tell us what you want on air. We will keep you posted on the launch.