Streaming media encoder with front panel control interface
AssigneeViewCast.com, Inc.
InventorsMark Hershey, David T. Stoner, Rick Southerland
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Abstract
A streaming media encoder for encoding and delivering media content is disclosed. The streaming media encoder has a media input interface for receiving a media stream, a media encoder for receiving the media stream from the input interface and encoding the media stream, thereby producing an encoded media stream. The media encoder has a first confidence monitor for displaying a video image from the received media stream, a second confidence monitor for displaying a video image from the encoded media stream, and a network interface for providing the encoded media stream to a network.
Claims20
A streaming media encoder for encoding and delivering media content comprising:
- a media input interface for receiving a live, real time media stream from a video source;
- a media encoder operable to encode the live, real time media stream from the media input interface, thereby producing a real time encoded media stream, the media encoder including;
- a host encoder, the host encoder receiving the digitized real time media stream and encoding the digitized real time media stream into a selected format and outputting a formatted real time media stream for streaming;
- a confidence monitor, the confidence monitor operable to display (1) a first video image from the live, unencoded real time media stream from the video source and (2) a second video image from the encoded media stream simultaneously with a split screen view of the first and second images;
- a network interface for providing the encoded media stream to a network;
- a textual display, the textual display providing status information for the streaming media encoder;
- a system status monitor providing a series of navigational menus for display on the textual display;
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- a plurality of command controls for selecting menu options to access system status information for the streaming media encoder.
A streaming media encoder for encoding and delivering media content comprising:
- a media input interface for receiving a live, real time media stream from a video source;
- a media encoder operable to encode the live, real time media stream from the media input interface, thereby producing a real time encoded media stream, the media encoder including;
- a host encoder, the host encoder receiving the digitized real time media stream and encoding the digitized real time media stream into a selected format and outputting a formatted real time media stream for streaming;
- a first confidence monitor, the first confidence monitor operable to display a video image from the live, unencoded real time media stream from the video source;
- a second confidence monitor, the second confidence monitor operable to display a video image from the encoded media stream;
- a network interface for providing the encoded media stream to a network;
- a textual display, the textual display providing status information for the streaming media encoder;
- a system status monitor providing a series of navigational menus for display on the textual display;
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- a plurality of command controls for selecting menu options to access system status information for the streaming media encoder.
A method for monitoring an encoding process of an audiovisual media a stream, comprising:
- receiving a live, real time input signal from an analog audiovisual source;
- capturing a text feed from the audiovisual source;
- displaying a video image from the live, real time audiovisual source on a confidence monitor mounted in a front panel of a rack mountable housing;
- encoding the input signal, including the text feed, to produce an encoded media stream in real time;
- displaying a video image from the encoded media stream on the confidence monitor in a split screen view simultaneously with the video image from the live, real time audiovisual source;
- providing the encoded media stream to a network interface in real time;
- displaying, on a textual display, mounted in the front panel of the rack mountable housing, status information for the streaming media encoder;
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- using one or more of a plurality of command buttons to select navigational menus to access system status information for the streaming media encoder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.