Tedial attends IBC'09 looking to the future more than ever

Tedial will attend IBC'09 this year bringing with it the latest versions of its wide range of products dedicated to content management, system integration and the design of audiovisual production flows (Tarsys, AST, MPM, Indexer and Ficus).

Tedial does not stop looking to the future, always seeking maximum compatibility of its technology with third-party systems. Tedial is currently working to adapt its products to the standard content management services standard, CMIS, (Content Management Interoperability Systems), providing them with an advanced layer of document management and audiovisual content to adapt to the required functionalities. Companies such as Oracle, IBM or Microsoft have already joined this standard, as will happen with many other forward-thinking companies.

CMIS allows interaction between systems from different companies taking advantage of the standard service. This enables the unlocking of content between companies and acts in favor of customer service and knowledge exchange. CMIS represents a substantial advance with respect to the SOA architecture, since it unifies access to information systems, regardless of the internal architecture, and forces them to present a common access interface. CMIS will simplify the design of embedded systems and reduce integration costs.

Tedial, following its dynamics and vision, is one of the few companies that can transform any SD and HD video format to H.264 with AAC audio, resulting in H.264+DolbyAAC. Tedial has experimented and verified that H.264+DolbyAAC is a light format, fast to transfer and with sufficient quality to be edited with a tool as powerful as Final Cut. TEDIAL encapsulates the H.264+AAC media using the ISO/QT standard considering Dolby 5.1 and Dolby 7.1 audio. As in other cases, the support of the new H.264+DolbyAAC format has represented the development of the set of tools for analysis, indexing, transcoding, editing, restoration and verification of the corporate profile of media files. Tools that have been incorporated into the Indexer system and are available as a function library for use in the implementation of system integration flows in the MPM system.

Storing small files on data tapes using backup or HSM presents a significant problem both in the efficiency of access and in the durability of the tapes themselves. Formats such as H.264 or AAC increasingly reduce the size of media files. On the other hand, in a multimedia document system a large number of very small files must be stored: storyboards, indexes, images, text documents, among others. To take advantage of the increased access speed of LTO technology (120 MB/s) it is important that the files have a significant size. Furthermore, the life cycle of a data tape is directly related to the number of read mount, rewind, and forward/stop operations. Tedial has developed a new module for the AST system that fully automatically compacts small files to a size that maximizes the performance of access operations and minimizes operations that reduce the life cycle of tape drives. It is important to highlight that the new AST system compaction module is developed using completely standard components of the Unix/Linux operating system, guaranteeing full compatibility with any application developed in said operating system.