Globosat, 网, 和 Elemental Team to Stream Olympics in Brazil

里约热内卢—For all the bad news coming out of the Olympics here in 里约热内卢, from empty seats to green pool water to swimmers who may or may not have been robbed, it was a relief to spend some time there focusing on an unqualified success: Globosat 和网的成功, cutting-edge delivery of the games to subscribers on 60 OTT channels (in addition to broadcast 和 pay TV) 和 via the SporTV Rio 2016 app. 两家公司都严重依赖基本技术解决方案，以帮助推动他们的产品.

Globosat is one of the biggest pay TV providers in Latin America, 和 is the leading multi-channel video provider in Brazil, 达到5000万观众, 17.其中200万人每天观看它的服务. 为了奥运会, Globosat doubled its number of SporTV HD channels to 16, 哪一个提供了93%的现场活动, with the remaining 7% delivered on the other 44 IP channels, 罗伯托·普里莫说, 全球卫星公司的首席技术官. Globosat is also producing the worldwide signal for the Olympics.

That's a significant change in approach from the one the BBC took for the 2012 London games, where the broadcaster offered viewing on only 24 channels, because it didn't want to lose viewers to the web, Primo said at a press event in 里约热内卢 on Wednesday. Another difference is that Globosat is providing the original Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) feed with ambient noise 和 graphics but no narration in addition to the st和ard broadcast feed with commentary.

One of the control rooms in Globosat's broadcast facility in 里约热内卢 (Photo by Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen)

来自里约热内卢的广播中心, Globsat receives signals from the international broadcast center located on the grounds of one of the Olympic venues. 在那里, Elemental 生活 software encodes the content for live OTT delivery, 和 Elemental Server processes 和 outputs the content for 视频点播 services. Elemental's software-defined video architecture supports HD-SDI today, 和 Globosat plans to use it to support future deployment of SMPTE-2022-6 (SDI over IP) to transport media signals over IP.

DVB传送, a Globosat engineer said the broadcaster used adaptive bitrate streaming with bitrates from 9Mbps to 15 mbps for HD, 4K的24Mbps HEVC. For OTT delivery, the bitrates range from 64Kbps to 2.5 mbps.

在新闻发布会上, Elemental CEO 和 co-founder Sam Blackman said that Globosat added four more channels just two weeks before the games began, a last-minute upscale that wouldn't have been possible with hardware-based, 而不是基于软件的, 解决方案.

Users of the SporTV Rio 2016 app on the Apple TV can access an on-screen mosaic of all 16 channels for a visual browsing experience, 和 they can also receive notifications letting them know when major events are beginning or exciting finishes are in play. The app offers similar experiences on mobile phones, tablets, 和 other connected devices.

为了开幕式, SporTV 4K got the source feed from Globosat partner NBC, which was in turn getting signals from the OBS 和 NHK, which provided an 8K signal that was downconverted to 4K 和 sent to an Elemental encoder for playout.

网, a leading pay TV 和 broadb和 provider in Brazil, is delivering the Olympics to hybrid DVB/IP set-top boxes. 网是America Movii的一部分, 它也拥有巴西航空公司, which is taking 40 raw channels from Globosat 和 transcoding them to multi-bitrate services using Elemental 生活 VM instances, then packaging them using Elemental Delta 和 delivering the streams using the 网 CDN. 网 is also using Lambda from Amazon Web Services (which owns Elemental) to insert static images into broadcast channels when there is no live event on that channel.

This just scratches the surface of Globosat's 和网's workflows; watch for an in-depth feature in an upcoming issue of 流媒体 magazine that will dig deeper into the making of what 网 marketing 和 products director Marcio Carvalho called "the most connected games in history."

乌拉圭的Antel选择Elemental

Elemental made more news this week with today's announcement that 乌拉圭's state-owned Administración Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Antel) has selected the company's video processing to power its new TIER III Datacenter in Montevideo, 乌拉圭. Antel已经部署了Elemental的Delta, 生活, 和 Server 解决方案 for its delivery of the Olympics via the VeraTV 奥特服务. It's using Elemental Delta for CDN origination 和 live, 视频点播, 时移服务, 和Elemental Conductor来管理工作流.