Capella introduces high-density channel encoding, Oracle Cloud (OCI) support and complete flexibility between on-prem, cloud, and hybrid operations.

Capella has announced that it now offers extremely high density cloud-based channel encoding, with hundreds of channels encoded simultaneously in order to satisfy the exponential demand for high channel numbers caused by the increasing granularity in content distribution, where a single source can result in dozens of versions being encoded. Comprehensive redundancy and failover strategies ensure that high density encoding is robust and reliable. “Dynamic Swap” keeps live streams running flawlessly, exchanging machine instances without interrupting video streams, and allows for system updates with no service interruption.

Capella has enhanced Cambria’s VOD transcoding flexibility in a mixed on-prem/cloud environment, giving users complete agency over how and when they move to the cloud. This includes the ultimate flexibility of being able to work entirely on-prem if users prefer, or any combination of the two environments. A significant update to Cambria Cluster means that a single instance can now manage both cloud and on-prem Cambria machines

Also new is comprehensive integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including Oracle Kubernetes and Oracle Object Storage. By providing integration with OCI among other widely used cloud services, Capella is ensuring that customers have peak flexibility in how they deploy Capella's transcoding system to best suit their needs.

Ikuyo Yamada, Founder and CEO of Capella Systems, said,

“As content delivery becomes increasingly fragmented, our aim has been to embrace this trend and make transcoding workflows more manageable and efficient. We now have effectively no limit on the number of channels we can transcode simultaneously, and we can do this reliably. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is an exciting new platform for content encoding and distribution and we are pleased to announce full OCI support for Cambria FTC. Last year we announced our arrival in the cloud, and this year we have achieved complete flexibility to work on-prem, hybrid or in the cloud, and we have developed our management tools to control on-pram and cloud operations simultaneously. We know the world is changing fast - and we are focused on providing the workflow tools our customers need to thrive in this extraordinary era of technological development.”

Focus on the future

Capella’s modern transcoding engine, Cambria FTC, is unbeatable for efficiency, maintainability, and support. Encoding/transcoding is a crowded field, but no other company has Capella’s combination of experience, performance, and flexibility. Our increasing use of rich metadata will enable users to increase the life-long value of their media. The best way to manage the current extraordinary rate of change is to be flexible. So we integrate with and automate almost every kind of workflow. Above all, our approach is modular and scalable. We are ready to adapt quickly to meet future demands.

About Capella

Capella has innovated in high-quality adaptive transcoding for live streaming and VOD since 2009. Its modern, flexible transcoding engine, Cambria FT, adapts to customers’ requirements, is modular and scalable, and tightly integrates with multiple cloud platforms. It runs either in the cloud, on-prem, or hybrid, with intelligent load balancing, storage distribution and fully optimized workflows, whatever the configuration