Tedial updates its integrated digital file management system MPM

MPM 4.0, the new version of Tedial's media movement and application integration system, is demonstrating extraordinary scalability in the migration of the Spanish National Radio (RNE) archive system. With the new MPM 4.0 functionalities, Tedial ensures maximum compatibility of its technology with third-party systems.

In 2008 RTVE began the corporate document manager project, selecting the Tedial for the integrated management of TVE and RNE digital files. The RNE sound archive is supported by the Admira system, which includes the recording of some 400,000 hours of audio in PCM and MPEG-1 (Proxy) formats, with a WAV capsule, storing a number of assets close to three million.

MPM 4.0, the new version of Tedial's media movement and application integration system, is demonstrating extraordinary scalability in the migration of the Spanish National Radio (RNE) archive system.

MPM has an architecture based on grid technology, which allows the registration and deletion of services and servers dynamically, without the need to stop the MPM system.

For the migration from the Admira system to Tedial's Tarsys system, five workers/servers have been installed that process a total of 25 simultaneous flows (multithread). Each flow carries out reading the metadata of the asset available in Admira; moving the media (PCM and MPEG-1) to the AST-controlled storage system (TEDIAL's HSM); automatic analysis (QC performed by TEDIAL's INDEXER) of the audio files and restoration of the WAV capsule with metadata compatible with the EBU specification; and the indexing of the media files to facilitate the partial recovery of fragments of interest: registration of the metadata and the media files and indexes in the Tarsys system.

The number of assets processed by the five workers ranges between 600 and 1,900 per hour, depending on the duration of the audio files, with the average being 1,150 per hour, accumulating a total of 27,600 assets daily. Consequently, the complete migration of the Admira system is less than 100 days.

Improvements in MPM 4.0

Among the most important improvements included in MPM 4.0, the following stand out:

• MPM Flow-Manager: It is the module for integrating and receiving media movement orders and metadata in the tapeless system. The new version simplifies the design and implementation of flows through a new library of integration components, which are customizable and editable, using simple configuration options.

• MPM Flow-Builder/Editor: It is the server that generates the media and metadata flows in the tapeless system. The new version includes new flow planning methods and flow preprocessing for the generation of decision rules on flow variables/operations, it allows the conditional execution of the operations of a flow, a running flow can launch other flows as a consequence of applying decision rules.

• MPM Flow-Worker: It is the server that processes the media and metadata flows in the tapeless system. The new version includes the dynamic update of operations without stopping the FlowWorker, configurable multithreading architecture, upload and download of FlowWorkers servers without stopping the installation, the file transfer options between systems are expanded by incorporating the Peer-to-Peer MediaMover service based on the UDP protocol for high latency networks, incorporation of SNMP sensors for real-time monitoring of the execution of flow operations from an external system. Therefore, the FlowWorker provides information via SNMP about both the hardware and the running processes.

• MPM Flow-Monitor: It is the monitoring service for all media and metadata flows defined in the tapeless system. The new version includes new search methods in the flow database, flow monitoring adapted to the user profiles defined in LDAP (ingestion, emission, production, news,...), customization of error messages adapted to the client's language ("jargon"), improvement of the user's interaction with the flows during their execution.

• MPM Data-Warehouse: Facilitates the storage of flow history and the application of data mining techniques to create reports thanks to a structure based on combinable basic units of information. Of special interest is the generation of statistics to evaluate the performance of the tapeless system.

Dr. Zapata, scientific advisor and co-founder of TEDIAL, comments that "the choice of grid technology for the design of MPM 4.0 is the basis for the high scalability, availability and flexibility of its architecture. MPM 4.0 simplifies the integration of systems and the exchange of content between them, reduces development costs, protects clients' investments and represents a new stage for the EAI (Enterprise Applications Integration) industry, based on SOA standards." In this context, he states that "MPM 4.0 is TEDIAL's response to the design and customization of tapeless television installations, integrating the systems and facilitating the exchange of metadata and multiformat media. Demonstrating once again the technological capacity of the company's R&D department, advised by the University of Malaga."

With all these new MPM 4.0 functionalities, Tedial, a world-renowned company in the field of audiovisual asset management, ensures maximum compatibility of its technology with third-party systems.