ACTUS

Digital Monitoring Platform

Beyond Compliance Logging

Intelligent Monitoring Platform

Join the hundreds of media companies, including BSkyB, Disney, and Sony, who trust Actus Digital’s broadcast compliance and logging solution for their on/off air recording and OTT compliance and media monitoring needs.

Beyond Broadcast Compliance

Our broadcast compliance software goes beyond recording, logging and media monitoring to meet the variety of demands throughout the broadcast enterprise, providing additional workflow tools for analyzing QoE (quality of experience) , increasing content monetization, repurposing content to social media and the web, and advanced AI for driving workflow efficiency and automation.

Record From Any Video or Audio Source Monitoring Software

Actus View broadcast compliance logging software records a limitless number of channels from any broadcast or internet source such as DVB, ATSC 3.0, ASI, SDI, TSoIP, SMPTE 2022-6, SMPTE 2110, HLS, MPEG-DASH, RTMP, and others (audio, video, and metadata). All video formats are supported (i.e., MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc), as well as input resolutions (i.e., SD, HD, UHD). Actus View saves the recorded video in any (configurable) bitrate and resolution needed from low bitrate up to full HD. Additionally, Actus View can save the recorded TS (Transport Stream) as native for the analysis of the original source. The content can be recorded in one or multiple locations and monitored from a central location.

Review, Search, and Extract Logs to Ensure Compliance

The Actus View log server provides web-based and mobile applications for monitoring of real-time and archived content. The Actus smart player includes intuitive controls for easy and fast content review, scrubbing options, storyboard navigations, and more. A smart search engine enables you to find content based on metadata (such as closed caption, as run, and traffic schedules). With the clips creation engine, you can mark in/out one or multiple segments and export to any destination. The clips can be exported in any format, using a built-in transcoding engine. All of the clips are managed in an internal repository catalog.

Logging Metadata Extraction: Closed Captions, Subtitles, Teletext

Extracting, recording, and monitoring closed captions, DVB subtitles, and teletext from the logged output of on and off-air media is a key requirement of broadcasters in order to comply with regulations and maintain quality of experience. Actus View extracts all of the metadata from the broadcast source, making it searchable and exportable as part of the clips. Our broadcast compliance logging software guarantees broadcasters ensure they are compliant with all regulations.

Loudness Monitoring

The Actus Loudness module lets operators maintain continuous measurements, which identify program loudness, loudness range, and average. The loudness measurements, combined with robust broadcast compliance logging, allow users to quickly review the status and provide continuous, exportable measurements as proof of compliance and to defend against loudness complaints.

Our solution supports the following standards:

S. CALM Act
ATSC A/85 Practice
EBU R128 3341 PLOUD Measurement
ITU Rec. BS.1770-1/2/3

Unique features include:

Export clip with burn-in loudness data
Timed logs with all the measurements
Loudness reports
Average loudness per program/content ID
Interactive graphical representation of loudness

SCTE Monitoring

Unique features:

Supports SCTE-35 and SCTE-104
Monitors SCTE on a timeline, providing interactivity, across one or multiple channels
Provides a summary of all SCTE main commands, synchronized with the video players.
Offers a detailed view (full information of every field) of a specific SCTE command.
Provides SCTE cadence alerts

Broadcast Compliance Content Repurposing Rating Analysis TS Analysis / TS Native Automatic Ad Detection Actus AI Actus Multiviewer.

Proxy and Native logging

Recording from any input, format, and resolution, TS recording as Native

Supports virtualized and cloud environments

Deployment on any platform: on-premises, virtual machines (VM), cloud, or hybrid, including centralized monitoring

Metadata Monitoring

Extract and monitor any metadata, including:

SCTE 35/104
Closed captions
Loudness
Subtitles
Teletext
EPG/as-run
Ratings

Reports

Generation of reports such as alerts, loudness, user’s activities, ads detection, and more

Content Re-purposing and Monetization

Simple and fast workflow for clips creation and export directly to social media and the web by anyone, from any workstation, anytime

Compliance Logging From Any Device

Actus Digital’s platform is accessible from any PC, Mac, iPad, or smartphone (Android and iOS) using any browser (Chrome, Safari, Edge, FireFox)

Integration With As-Run Logs, EPGs, Scheduled Files

Integration with any EPG, as-run log, or scheduled metadata, from any automation system, providing additional tools for searching and finding specific content by program ID, name, or any other parameter, ad tracking reports and more. Our platform is also used for navigation and automatic mark in/out, enabling quick clips export for compliance purposes, ads sales, and content repurposing.

Compare as-run logs and schedules

Create reports based on the as-run log for ads and promos

QoE (Quality of Experience)

Real-time alerts on audio and video issues, including pixelization, frozen images, loss of audio, loss of video, loudness issues, and missing subtitles and closed captions. Export reports with the alerts information, graphs, and pie charts.

Multilingual GUI

Fully browser based, for any browser. The UI supports all languages.

User Management

Integration with Active Directory, OKTA, and SAML user rights management and security

Quick Clips Export

Simple and powerful: mark in/out, burn any metadata/TC, add graphics/animations, built-in transcoding engine, supporting all formats

Content Repository

Internal catalogue for clips management, edit/delete, send via mail, download, and categorize

Save the high-resolution original Transport Stream

Actus TS Native is a video recording solution dedicated to Transport Stream logging. It records and saves the TS in its NATIVE format. Actus Native captures any SPTS or MPTS, including all programs, closed captions, subtitles, and services. The product comes with a built-in TS-player that allows the user to easily navigate, select any TS, any channel (TV service), and play the relevant content in either Live or Archived mode. The same built-in user interface allows the user to mark in/out a video segment, and create and export clips, in either native TS (.ts file format) or in any other format. Actus TS NATIVE Logger also serves as a compliance logging system.

The input TS can be either MPTS or SPTS, IP or ASI, DVB, ISDB-T, ATSC, 8VSB. It is possible to exclude any PID, specific programs or null packets from the TS. All the metadata included in the TS shall be recorded, as well as all audio tracks, subtitles, closed captions, EPG, teletext, SCTE, NAVE etc.

Monitor the Native TS

Clip and export the native TS

Work on the Proxy and cut from the native

Transport Stream Native integrated with Actus Proxy

The TS Native recording is fully integrated with Actus Proxy broadcast compliance monitoring software. The user can work with the proxy version of the video, save bandwidth and not overload the network. It benefits from all the options the proxy system offers, and while exporting a clip, you can choose the option of exporting the relevant content from the original raw TS file. The TS native can be used for further analysis and for content re-purposing (highest resolution, minimum CPU resources).

Looking for a replacement to your existing broadcast compliance and monitoring system? Is your current media logging system outdated?

If your existing compliance and broadcast media monitoring system was declared end-of-life (Volicon Observer, Axon Tracks, or any other) or does not have any support please contact us to learn about special migration plans and support options.

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