LAS VEGAS—Qligent will demo its new Vision Match solution for programmatic and playout error detection at the 2018 NAB Show. Match mines, compares and analyzes large datasets in real time to identify programmatic errors and discrepancies anywhere in the multi-platform distribution chain out to the last mile, including terrestrial, cable, satellite, IPTV, mobile, OTT and social media platforms.

Match automatically decodes the transport- or IP-based stream back to baseband video and audio, and compares that to the program’s ancillary reference data captured prior to distribution. In this way, it spots programmatic errors that increasingly result from outsourced playout, repeated multiplexing, compression and encapsulation, ad insertions and other media processing.

When Match detects a programmatic mismatch—such as a scheduled program playing at the right time but on the wrong channel—it relays the pertinent information, and video recordings of the reference and monitored streams, to broadcasters so they can take action to restore and maintain an optimal viewer experience for their branded content.

Match is the latest software addition to the Qligent Vision cloud-based delivery analytics platform, which detects a broader range of regulatory/compliance, Quality of Service and Quality of Experience errors.

The 2018 NAB Show takes place in Las Vegas, April 9-12. Qligentwill be in boothN5914. For more information, visit www.nabshow.com.

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MELBOURNE, FLA.—Qligent wants IBC attendees to meet their new Match system, the latest addition to the company’s Vision cloud-based monitoring portfolio. Match, which is available as either a cloud-based system or on-premise software, provides real-time, automated comparison of transport stream, video and audio to spot and flag program-related errors.

According to Qligent, Match is capable of identifying media distribution errors like airing the wrong show, or putting a show on the wrong channel; capturing programmatic local ad splicing errors; assigning a foreign language to the wrong audio track; mistaking a static image for frozen video; insertion of incorrect program elements, such as bugs, crawls, time and temp into the stream; missing subtitles or audio.

“Match can decode the transport stream back to baseband video and audio in order to compare that version with the reference data it captured of the program while it was in its native state prior to distribution,” said Ted Korte, Qligent’s COO. “In comparing and analyzing the video and audio content, Match looks for programmatic errors and anomalies that may have occurred due to repeat encoding, multiplexing or other processes as the signals move downstream.”

Original Match reference data is not embedded in the transport stream, but ancillary data is available for reference at any point in the workflow.

Qligent will showcase the Match system at its booth, 8.E47, during IBC 2017, which takes place in Amsterdam from Sept. 14-18.