Features List

Content Ingestion

MRSS / Podcast / JSON feed ingestion
- Feed synchronisation mode
- Aged expiry mode
- Item limit expiry mode
- Custom metadata import
- Input feed monitoring and email notifications
- Fetch content from HTTP/HTTPS & FTP locations with or without authentication
FTP ingestion
- Set-up any number of FTP drop boxes
- Restricted IP address access modes
- Metadata supplied in XML fragment, with multiple XML grammars supported
- Age and Item limit expiry
Media Item API
- Web Services / SOAP API
- Create, Get Status and Delete Media functions
- Metadata update function
- Replace Media function
- Status callback API
Manual Upload via Content Management Console
Content Adjustment on Ingestion
- Volume Adjustment
- Definable aspect ratio policy
- Frame cropping
- Video cut
- De-interlacing filter

Usage Profiles
- Define any number of derivative audio & video formats
- Supported containers include MP4, WMV, FLV and 3GP
- Supported video codecs include WMV, H.264, H.264, MPEG-4 and VP6
- Supported audio codecs include MP3, AAC, AAC-LC, WMA, AMR-NB
- Remote object storage (placement via FTP)
- Define HLS profiles with arbitrary bitrates and encoding specifications
Metadata Schema
- Extend standard RSS metadata with your own tags
- Supported field types include Text, Rich Text, Tags, Date, Integer, Floating Point and Menu
- Define your own XML namespace
- Map tags from external RSS feeds into your own tags

Title editing
- Video preview
- Thumbnail choser
- Metadata editor
- Revise/update video content
- Publish video into multiple channels
Channel management
- Detail and summary view modes
- Video search by keyword or ID
- Drag and drop custom channel ordering
Role-based Access Control
- Super-user
- Editors
- Advertising Operations
- Content Contributors

Define any number of RSS output feeds per channel
Group multiple RSS output feeds into Masterfeeds
Limit item count per feed
Define CDN access point per output feed
Define sort order per output feed
Define custom feed level metadata per output feed
Define GUID policy per feed
Web variant selection modes
- Select exact match rendition
- Specification-based best fit criteria (frame size, frame rate, bit rate)
Syndicate into YouTube account via Public API
- Customisable metadata mapping

Video Access URL syntax for:
- Intelligent player access (HTML5, Flash, etc) with exact match selection or constraint-based selection
- Native player access with automatic device detection (Mobile)
- Unified access
Access Control API with shared secret
- IP address
- Timestamp
Geo-restricted access
- Blacklist mode
- Whitelist mode

Enable DRM (multiple 'forward lock' measures supported include OMA DRM, auto-detected for device)
iOS (iPhone) Access Modes
- Progressive download with cellular / WiFi quality auto selection, with definable qualities for 3G mode
- Adaptive bit-rate streaming (4 levels, Apple guidelines compliant)
Non-iOS Video access modes
- Streaming (RTSP) only
- Download (HTTP) only
- Streaming, with fallback to Download
- User Choice mode
Selectable video quality
- GPRS rate
- EDGE/3G rate
- 3G/HSDPA rate
- HSDPA/WIFI rate
User Choice page options
- Display thumbnails
- Display video duration, description, and download sizes
- Rebranded via custom stylesheet

Ingest live feed via HTTP streaming (FLV), RTMP or MMS
Output multiple bit rates and formats covering practically every streaming capable device
Full iOS (iPhone) streaming with adaptive bitrate (Apple guidelines compliant)
Automatic device detection redirects to most appropriate stream
Live Streaming API