Haivision's Kraken: Real-time low-latency H.264 transcoding

Kraken is used within companies for the issuance of high-bandwidth streams, while the Kraken ISR provides very low latency transcoding for metadata-rich applications.

For real-time, low-latency H.264 transcoding Haivision features Kraken. This solution is designed for the IP video transcoding process, mostly for use in Transport Stream to Transport Stream systems. Kraken is used within companies for the issuance of high-bandwidth streams, while the Kraken ISR provides very low latency transcoding for metadata-rich applications.

DVB Stream Distribution

The Kraken prepares high-bandwidth broadcast streams (MPEG-2/H.264) for enterprise distribution and consumption. Since DVB signals have very high bandwidth, company networks can become congested, as can computers trying to decode the stream.

Thanks to Kraken the stream can be prepared for various destinations in a network that connects devices of different capacities/specifications. This allows a perfect and secure multicast structure to be created and maintained.

In the field of Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), the metadata, generally KLV (Key-Length-Value), is usually also included in the FMV (Full Motion Video) stream.

The Kraken ISR can easily disseminate information, allowing the video stream to be formatted for any downstream system and user while maintaining all metadata. This is done with the lowest possible delay (500 to 1000 milliseconds latency) and maintains exact synchronization of metadata and frame.

Kraken

• Low latency H.264 transcoding
• Secure Multicast Structure
• Resolution scaling
• Stream Re-encapsulation and Replication
• MPEG-2 and H.264 a H.264