The Niagara Pro is designed for enterprise IT professionals, professional studios, broadcasters, cable head-ends, ISPs, and a plethora of other professional needs. The Niagara Pro is ideal for Internet TV, webcasting, video archiving, and streaming training videos. This powerful system is an excellent choice as the high-end solution for video capture to file for archiving, as well as repurposing video for Internet and Intranet distribution.

The Niagara Pro capture engine is based on ViewCast® Osprey® Video software drivers and professional capture hardware. For over a decade, professionals in search of exceptional quality — from broadcasters to multimedia producers who need 24 hour-a-day, 7 day-a-week performance — have relied on Osprey Video for capturing and streaming content over the Internet.

The Niagara Pro is a professional rack-mountable streaming media appliance designed for high-quality, high-resolution video capturing and streaming. This dual-channel encoder features three EZStream® buttons, which are pre-programmable using the Niagara configuration Web interface. This unique feature allows users to create custom encoding profiles, or use pre-defined encoding profiles, and execute those profiles by simply pressing a single button on the front panel of the Niagara Pro.

The Niagara Pro front panel includes a video confidence monitor, which is selectable by input channel, or can be set to automatically cycle between input channels giving a constant view of the input source video. Niagara Pro also features SDI, S-Video, and composite video inputs with the benefit of embedded SDI, AES-EBU, and balanced and unbalanced audio inputs.

FEATURES

• Advanced setup and profiles allow experienced users to customise configurations.
• EASE Menus allow basic encode/setup for novice users from the front panel interface.
• USB ports allow easy installation of software upgrades, encoding profiles, and for transfer of archive files.
• Client management software (Niagara SCX Pro) and Web-based software (Niagara SCX Pro Web Interface tool) is included.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Video Input: SDI, S-Video, Composite
• Audio Input: Unbalanced stereo (2 x BNC), Balanced stereo (2 x XLR), SDI Embedded, AES/EBU
• 2 USB ports
• Video encoding formats supported: Windows Media®, RealVideo®, MPEG-4, Flash® and AVI
• (2) 1-gigabit Ethernet port

Niagara Pro is the newest streaming media encoding appliance created by ViewCast® featuring an embedded Operating System. The product is a 2U, 2-channel, rack-mount encoding appliance with user controls and status displays located on the front panel. New front panel controls include 3 EZStream® buttons for easy access to pre-defined encoders and a new EASE menu system on the LCD. The Niagara Pro supports MPEG-4, RealVideo, Windows Media, AVI and Flash Video formats as well as container support for 3GPP and 3GPP2 using Niagara SCX® Pro software and can be remotely configured, controlled, and monitored from any TCP-IP access point.

Included Software 

Niagara SCX® Pro software Included

Niagara Pro includes Niagara SCX Pro remote encoder management and control software and Osprey Digital SimulStream which enables multiple concurrent streams of supported formats at multiple bitrates and resolutions from a single video source. Niagara SCX Pro also features a new Web-based interface.

With Niagara Stream Control Extension (SCX) software, users can setup and control streaming systems throughout an enterprise or over the Internet with a single interface for multiple encoding and streaming formats, including uncompressed AVI capture to file, Flash capture to file and Windows Media® and RealVideo® capture to file and stream.

Niagara SCX Pro features the same capture to file and streaming CODEC support as Niagara SCX, while adding MPEG capture to provide file and live streaming capability.

• Encoder Management Configuration
• Control Management Functionality— Access, Monitor, Control, Configure, Aggregate, and Secure
• Convenient and Remote Access
• Real-Time Any-Time Monitoring- System Health, Ingest through Distribution, encoding statistics and more
• Complete Encoder Control:
• System CODEC and profile selection
• Windows Media®, RealVideo®, Flash®, MPEG-4 (Niagara SCX Pro only), AVI, DRM for Windows Media & Adobe Flash Live (NEW)
• Modification of capture resolution and attributes
• Ability to adjust video pre-processing filters such as de-interlacing
• Adjustment of video resolution through scaling while minimizing CPU load
• Branding and protecting of video content through logo watermarking
• Enabling/Disabling/Configuring Osprey SimulStream®

If you want full control of multiple streaming encoders over your network or have one interface for multiple cards in a single PC, Niagara SCX is the solution for you!

Osprey Simulstream Included

Get the most out of your stream with SimulStream!

Osprey® SimulStream® is a premium software upgrade that extends the capabilities of Osprey Video capture cards. SimulStream enables a single Osprey Video card to output multiple instances of audio and video data from a single input source to multiple applications.

Streaming and Scalability

Streaming media production today faces potential scalability concerns. Reaching the broadest audience of media consumers with an optimized experience requires increased production time, hardware requirements, and general bandwidth.

The Optimised Solution...SimulStream!

SimulStream is designed to provide the optimised experience of streamlined workflow.

The SimulStream Solution provides multiple formats to multiple audiences with minimal hardware and CPU impact.

Plus the scalability that allows for multiple formats and individual stream optimisation.

Advantages:

• Optimised streams for a diverse internet audience in realtime
• Maximum efficiency without sacrificing quality
• Complete utilization of latest processor speeds
• Maximum solution density for streaming production
• Reduced hardware costs