At IBC 2018, Verizon Digital Media Services plans to showcase its Smartplay technology, including the new Time Control Feature.
The technology delivers content 40 percent closer to real time and can encode up to 60 frames per second. It also offers catch-up TV services, and allows broadcasters to time shift content across time zones and segment content within each session from a single URL.
The addition of a simple URL parameter to the playback URL enables control over the delay and time behind live for each user session created. Since Smartplay technology is server-side, no platform-specific, player-specific development is required, which accelerates upgrade and expansion of player-side projects. Additionally, broadcasters and content providers only need to add a playback URL and Smartplay does the rest.
The Time Control is included within the Verizon Digital Media Services platform, which integrates with other video streaming and content delivery network services already available on the platform.