Metus Ingest

Metus Ingest is the most cost effective all in one tool for capturing, transcoding and streaming in the world

Metus Ingest is the result of over a decade of experience with software based multimedia encoding, coupled with state-of-the-art design. It is a capture, streaming and transcoding software designed to be useful for a wide variety of purposes, in a wide variety of industries, without compromising from professional quality and performance. Hundreds of existing and happy users from across the world, ranging from education to corporate to broadcast to military is living proof of the success of the design concept.

Wide Variety of Inputs

Analogue composite, component, HDMI and HD/SDI inputs are supported via a variety of market leading capture card manufacturers, including Blackmagic Design, Viewcast, Deltacast using low level SDK for stability and performance. Plus, you can use your favourite Directshow capture card or webcam. Plus, you can use DVB-S cards from Dektec to capture and stream directly from satellite.

Wide Format Support

Our continuously expanding set of supported video and audio formats include:

• Video file wrappers: ProRes 422, MPG, M2P, AVI, F4V, MOV, MP4, MPEG TS, WMV, P2
• Video essences: MPEG2, DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50,DVCPROHD, uncompressed, H.264, AVC, AVC-Intra, VC-1
• Audio file wrappers: WAV, M4A
• Audio essences: PCM, AAC, WMA
• Streaming: WMV in mms; H264 or MPEG-2 as TS in RTP, RTMP, UDP

Efficient Use of Resources

Metus Ingest is a Windows software optimized from ground up to make the most of any PC hardware it’s installed on. Being a native 64bit software, it’s able to benefit from 64bit computing advantages on Windows7. Consequently, it’s possible to get the kind of performance out of Metus Ingest, that was previously thought to be only available from dedicated high end video capture servers. Metus Ingest can capture up to 4 channels of full HD video or 8 channels of SD MPEG2 or MXF video. Further, being able to support the latest hardware acceleration provided by new graphics chipsets, it can capture or stream up to 4 channels of full HD H264 video, whereas other software could barely do one (please check for the necessary hardware config).

One Tool to Meet All Workflows

Metus fits into whatever workflow you have. Metus Ingest has many modes of operation. You can simply make a crash capture and record a live event in your studio. You can print back to tape a video file in the same manner. You can program a schedule into your input channels, including events to control popular video routers (including Harris, Kramer, Blackmagic, Quartz, Jupiter and Snell) and have NxM operation (N input channels captured or streamed into Y Metus channels) according to your schedule. You can, if you are capturing from DVB or IP sources that have EPG, even extract the EPG and create a schedule from that.

Production Asset Management

What to do with the recorded media without letting users buried under a ton of files? Metus Ingest has the answer. Files can be automatically named according to user defined naming templates. Files can be split automatically according to duration or size. Once the local media storage space starts filling up, Metus Ingest can be setup with media management rules to automatically move files to another location, or delete files starting from oldest.

Management and Ease of Use

Metus Ingest is very easy to use as a stand alone product. Every control and window required for manual operation is in the same screen, and all possible configurations can be saved into user profiles and project files. As a result, user training is completed with a minimum of effort. This does not mean however, that Metus Ingest does not have the features to be deployed and managed in sophisticated multi channel deployments (professional only). All actions are logged, and critical operations can be password protected.

Advanced Media Handling Options

These are some of the advanced features we provide, that make a great product stand out from the rest of the crowd:

• Rescaling (aspect ratio and resolution change) from input signal/file to output file/stream
• Multi audio capture and streaming from SDI or TS source
• Audio channel remapping
• Closed caption from input to file or stream
• LTC/VITC burn in to file, and detecting timecode breaks
• Logo/text/time overlay to file
• Record to network location with local caching
• EPG extraction from TS

Uncompromising Performance

Metus Ingest retains the maximum quality out of the input signal, whether you are capturing uncompressed video or web quality H264, using advanced image pre-filtering algorithms. Metus Ingest is frame accurate. Files captured or transcoded from from the same source always have the same length, down to the last frame. Metus Ingest allows capture without frame loss. Once you hit that red button, you immediately start to capture or stream. No arming period, no preparation time, no lost or dropped video frames. If you split a recording, no frames will be lost at the split point. And most importantly, Metus Ingest is proven to be stable under continuous operation. Once you have tested your configuration of profiles against your hardware, you can be sure that it’s going to keep on working. No fuss, no complaints, just quiet 7x24 stable competence. That’s how Metus Ingest has made its way into the studios and ingest rooms of big broadcasters, into mission control rooms and media monitoring centers, into military test sites and the like.