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DVC Marcom Digital invites you to use your imagination...
Imagine being able to search for and replay videos, at any time, from perhaps
thousands of titles, in the classroom,
instantly
, with no manual intervention
by library staff. Imagine previewing videos and preparing lessons from any PC.
Imagine if you could save notes for later use by yourself or others, along with a
video or as a lesson plan.
Imagine no longer.
• If you can play a DVD, you can use DVC Marcom Digital.
• Now, more than ever, Digital Video Commander puts
you
in command.
How does DVC Marcom Digital work?
In a classroom
1. Using either the Windows Client or a set-top box and remote control, identify
yourself to the system by entering your PIN number.
2. Choose your title or prepared lesson from the menus or search for title, subject
or key words. When using the remote control, key words can be entered from
the number keypad in the same way as SMS on a mobile phone.
3. Once you select a title, it will be available to you immediately. You access it with
DVD-style controls.
4. Once finished, log out to prevent unauthorised use.
Lesson preparation
From a PC, other types of material such as images, PPT presentations and music
can be uploaded to the system, stored against a registered user’s name and
accessed as part of a lesson.
Acquisition and Administration
Titles are added to the system using the Administration Tool. This is a Windows
application that allows the system administrator to assign users to the system,
establish access rules and levels and manage acquisitions.
The DVC Marcom Digital Capture Server allows you to make immediate or timer
recordings from analogue sources such as off-air TV or videotape, controlled by
the Administration Tool. Once a recording has been made it is stored initially on
the Capture Server where it may be edited prior to being transferred to a Storage
Server.
DVC Marcom Digital Features
Digital Video Commander (DVC) is an easy to use system for
acquisition, storage
and distribution
of audiovisual material.
DVC Marcom Digital enables you to
digitise, store, index, access and replay
material in digital MPEG formats. Select MPEG-2 for
DVD quality picture and
sound
and with DVC Marcom Digital you can also use MPEG 1 when digitising
lower-quality material such as VHS tapes, for example.
Users can access material via either a Windows PC client or via a
low-cost set-top
box
and a TV or projector, using a Video Commander remote control.
DVC Marcom Digital is particularly suited to sites such as schools, universities,
hospitals or anywhere a large number of people need
on-demand access
to
audiovisual material.
DVC Marcom Digital is very
expandable
. It is easy to add extra capture channels,
more storage and more set top boxes to the system.
DVC Marcom Digital can
record material
off-air and can also
digitise your
existing library
of analogue material such as videotapes.
DVC Marcom Digital has an inbuilt
subscriber management
system to control
who has access to which material and to keep records of subscriber activity.
DVC Marcom Digital integrates seamlessly with existing analogue Video
Commander systems (it even uses the same remotes and can often use the same
cabling) for a seamless
migration from analogue to digital.
DVC Marcom Digital is an
open-architecture, standards-based system
that
does not rely on proprietary hardware or operating systems.
Because its key components are Linux-based, DVC Marcom Digital is
reliable,
secure
and
requires no regular maintenance.
• Supports MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4,DivX,MP3, and WAV formats.
• Can transcode from other digital formats such as DivX, Quicktime and MPEG4.
• Streams digital video across an Ethernet network.
• Storage capacity starts at 1.6TB and is expandable.
• Multiple analogue and digital capture inputs.
• Multiple TV tuners.
• Material can be viewed on either a PC or a TV/projector with a set top box.
• Can either browse or search for material with on-screen menus.
• Stores extra information (meta data) with each program. This data can be used
to search and categorize material.
