Malaysia’s Broadcaster adds 4K Processing Capability Following their Major Vantage Media Processing Platform Enhancement

(Singapore, 21 February 2020) Techtel, Singapore’s leading broadcast systems integrator has successfully upgraded Vantage Media Processing Platform – a central content ingest facility consisting of two domain systems for dual production and backup for one of Malaysia’s Pay TV Service Providers. This comes as the broadcaster strengthens their focus on efficiency, agility, growing digital reach, content and revenue diversification.  

Complementing the customer’s established Vantage media processing and workflow orchestration platform, Techtel has added three Lightspeed G6 servers to a new Vantage Transcode Multiscreen and Vantage Post Producer software applications in order to accelerate video processing and enable H.264 transcoding.

Vantage Transcode Multiscreen solution combines the quality of x264, GPU acceleration, and complete workflow automation for multiscreen encoding. With Transcode Multiscreen, the broadcaster can now automate the entire process of content ingest, transcoding, packaging, encryption, delivery, media asset management and storage.

Vantage Post Producer application now provides the broadcaster with 4K processing capability, automated editing and assembly of finished content from multiple input media files. As a result, the broadcaster has kicked off a new season of Premier League with the first live 4K UHD broadcast in Malaysia, offering a premium viewing experience to the country’s football fans.

During the final stage of the project, Techtel upgraded 13 existing Vantage servers from Vantage Array to Vantage Array Pro – a premium optimization and management tool with advanced features, for the entire Vantage domain, controlled by one central server.

This multifaceted, interdisciplinary project involved close collaboration between Techtel and  Telestream to supply professional services including hardware commissioning, installation of Vantage utilities and workflow designer, licensing of Vantage domain, integration with existing Vantage products and network services, migrating workflows between domains and extensive product training.

“Telestream’s Vantage Media Processing Platform empowers efficient, automated processing of video content throughout the entire digital media lifecycle, from capture to viewing. We are pleased it has been instrumental in our customer’s operations and will continue to support and enhance its features for the years to come”, commented Mal Chandler, Techtel CEO.