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Playout
content scheduling and stream encoding
x-dream-Fabrik PLAYOUT is made to monetize your archive content through live programming. This includes individual media assets as well as series, seasons and episodes. PLAYOUT is the combination of linear program scheduling, the actual playout and program monitoring.
Playout is made to monetize your content via live programming
Playout is the combination of linear program scheduling, the actual playout and monitoring the program.
Sources for scheduling and playout are video assets and live streams & signals as well as logos for overlays and graphics & text for lower thirds. The playout creates live streams & signals as well as EPGs. Depending on the encoding engine used SCTE 35 triggers can be added for downstream ad insertion.
PLAYOUT consists from the x-dream-Fabrik modules Upload, Archive, Schedule, Playout and Monitor. It can be combined with all source modules like Record, Ingest, File Exchange, with the post-production product PRODUCE, with the media management product Archive, and with the output products like PUBLISH and DELIVER.
Playout Empowers you to manage and deliver your own TV channel
Schedule & PLAYOUT enables monetizing your archive content. This can be individual media assets as well as series, seasons and episodes. But live sources can be made part of the program as well. Thus, PLAYOUT addresses all types of program: FAST channels, regional broadcasters, special interest group programs, business TV and more.
- PLAYLISTS FOR EFFICIENCY
Playlists are the basis for the program scheduling on a 24/7 time grid. They are used for easy reuse of content sequences at a different time or day and for loop channels. Playlists can contain video assets, live sources or placeholders of defined duration. The placeholders are used, for instance, to define an advertisement block that is booked shortly before the actual playout or for program elements that are not available yet at scheduling time. Every playlist item can have its individual timed logo insertion and lower third overlay.
- MULTI-WEEK 24h PROGRAM SCHEDULE
The Schedule is created from playlists, individual video assets or live sources. Placeholders are filled in either manually or automatically with program content, advertisement or promotional content. Multiple channels can be scheduled by one system and one or multiple operators.
- EVENT SCHEDULING
For event productions we use playlists with placeholders as templates for the program structure. Via a dialogue, the timing, sources and overlays for the event job are defined very efficiently. That way flexibility and constant quality goals are easily achieved.
- PLAYOUT OPERATIONS
The actual playout can happen fully automatically but an human operator has always the full control on the program. That way he can react to program changes or changing live source conditions. One or multiple programs can be managed from one system and by one or multiple operators.
- DELIVERY OF VIDEO SIGNALS or STREAMS
For the actual playout, different engines are available - each with a special strength. All of them are creating streams for IP delivery. Some can produce classical video signals. For broadcaster we go with SDI, NDI or SMPTE 2010 signals for live sources & output and have a fully redundant environment. For network operators, we use RTMP, SRT and UDP streams as live source, create ABR streams incl. SCTE 35 triggers and run again fully redundant. But for price sensitive customers, we can go with a simple, non redundant solution that outputs an RTMP stream.
- PROGRAM MONITORING
A built-in multiviewer shows the return signal of the program from the CDN or satellite downlink multicast. In addition, it can play other stations' programs.
our target customers
Broadcaster
- Regional TV
- Special interest channels
- Event channels, e.g. sports, news, entertainment
Media Groups
- Event channels, e.g. sports, music, society
- Special interest channels
- Business TV
Network Operator
- FAST channels
- Special interest channels
Use Cases
- Event channels, e.g. sports, news, entertainment
- Regional TV channels
- FAST channels
- Special interest channels
Scheduling Features
- Playlist creation based on video essences, live sources and placeholders
- 24/7 schedule creation or event job creation
- Logo insertion, timed
- Lower third overlay, timed
Playout Operations Features
- Skip & Jump
- Replace content
- Trimm content
- Overlay selection
Available Playout Engines
- FFPlayout
- AWS Elemental Live
- Capella Cambria Live
- Squared Paper Busby
Supported File Formats
- any, PLAYOUT is fully format and video standard agnostic
Available Delivery Methods
- RTMP
- SRT
- WebRTC
- SMPTE 2110
Licensing and Deployment Models
x-dream-Fabrik is available as perpetual, rental, SaaS or fully managed solution license. Independent from the choosen licensing it can be deployed on-premises datacentres, public datacentres, private clouds or public clouds.
For perpetual and rental licensing please make contact to receive a quotation.
SaaS Pricing
The SaaS pricing model of SCHEDULE & PLAYOUT is composed from the following elements:
One-Time fee
- account creation fee = 100.00 €
setting up your account - configuration fee = 100.00 €
provisioning and configuring your processing pipeline according to your needs
monthly fees
- monthly platform availability fee = 1.500.00 €
keeping your environment available independently from any usage, incl. 1 system user - monthly system users fee = 50.00 €
additional named system users to operate the your business processes - monthly contributor users fee = 10.00 €
additional named contributor users to take part in your business processes from outside
usage fees
- data transfer by volume
typical data transfer pricing model for varying usage- pay as you use (1) = 0.05 €/GByte
- with commitment* (2) = 0.04 €/GByte
*minimum 1000 GByte/month
- data transfer by bitrate
alternative pricing model for constant usage models- with commitment* (3) = 40.00 €/100 Mbps
*minimum 100 Mbps
- with commitment* (3) = 40.00 €/100 Mbps
- data storage by volume
typical data transfer pricing model for varying usage- pay as you use (4) = 0.25 €/GByte
- with commitment* (5) = 0.20 €/GByte
*minimum 1000 GByte
- essence +& metadata packaging + delivery
For reforming the audio, video, picuture, subtitle essences according to target needs additional modules are required.
Metadata is reformed to target needs and packaged with essence files according to target specifications.- pay as you use (6) = 1.00 €/asset & target
- with commitment* (7) = 0.50 €/asset & target
*minimum 100 assets
1) In and out-bound data transfer will be measured and invoiced by end of each month.
2) In and out-bound data transfer will be measured. Agreed volume will be invoiced monthly in advance. Additional data transfer will be invoiced by end of each month. Price for additional data transfer is 0.05 €/GByte.
3) In and out-bound data transfer will be measured. When utilizing the agreed bitrate maximum the calculated fee will be invoiced monthly in advance. When utilizing a higher bitrate for more than 5% of the time the additional transfer bitrate will be invoiced by end of each month. Price for additional transfer bitrate is 50.00 €/100 Mbps.
4) Data storage volume will be measured and invoiced by end of each month.
5) Data storage volume will be measured. Agreed volume will be invoiced monthly in advance. Additional data storage volume will be invoiced by end of each month. Price for additional data storage volume is 0.25 €/GByte.
6) Every asset delivery will be measured and invoiced by end of each month.
7) Asset volume will be measured. Agreed volume will be invoiced monthly in advance. Additional asset volume will be invoiced by end of each month. Price for additional asset volume is 1.00 €/asset & target.
For Transcoding and Quality Control prices please see Chained Process Pricing.
XDF Playout and Publish interview IBC2024
XDF Playout and Publish interview IBC 2025
x-dream-Fabrik is a pre-integrated, pre-configured and managed end-to-end solution for the media industry. Thanks to its unique UI and microservices architecture it covers the complete business process from content production to post-production, asset management, story creation to playout, publishing, sales and distribution. x-dream-Fabrik is a ready-to-go platform with a clear licensing model. It runs on-premises, in public or private clouds or hybrid.
