Analog Way, a leading designer and manufacturer of image processing systems, announces availability of its next generation of Linux-based media servers: the Picturall Mark II series. “Entirely engineered around a new, extremely robust and powerful professional hardware platform, the new Picturall Mark II series delivers outstanding performance for supporting large-scale events and installations from a single server unit while offering ease of use and rock-solid reliability at affordable prices,” states the release.
The new line replaces the current Picturall media servers and includes four products: Picturall Pro Mark II, Picturall Quad Mark II, Picturall Quad Compact Mark II and Picturall Twin Compact Mark II.
The Picturall Mark II series is designed to drive up to sixteen 4K@60Hz LED videowall controllers or video projectors from a single server unit with power to play back media up to 16K@60Hz or uncompressed image sequences up to 8K@60Hz. It was created for video playback at fixed installations, museums, broadcast, houses of worship, video rentals and live events.
“The Picturall Mark II media servers have been designed with high-grade hardware components to provide a robust, heavy-duty platform and deliver optimized uptimes and durability for any mission-critical applications,” the announcement states. The Picturall Mark II media servers are based on the Linux software engine by Picturall with 15 years of R&D and field experience. The Picturall Mark II media servers feature redundant, hot-swappable power supplies designed to achieve high fault-tolerance capability.
The Picturall Mark II media servers can receive up to six low-latency input cards to capture either up to 24x 1080p@60Hz or 6x 4K@60Hz sources. A selection of input interfaces is available supporting one or more channels of 3G-SDI, HDMI 1.4 or HDMI 2.0. The Picturall Mark II media servers can also receive several network video streams and are compatible with NDI live video streaming. They can also display HTML-based web content with full Java script support.
The Picturall Mark II media servers come standard with read-intensive professional drives for demanding 24/7 environments. Several storage options are available to store hours of high-quality uncompressed video content. The Picturall Mark II media servers also offer high network bandwidth with two standard 10Gb/s Ethernet connectors for faster transmission of massive media files and for more networked video streams.
The Picturall Mark II media servers offer synchronized multi-channel audio playback and support real-time audio de-embedding and routing from HDMI or SDI sources, network streams and web sources. The Picturall Mark II media servers feature several optional audio interfaces and are also compatible with a wide variety of third-party multi-channel USB audio interfaces.
The Picturall Mark II media servers feature Art-Net interface and Ethernet control via a standard TCP/IP socket connection supported by all major third-party control systems. They can be also entirely configured and operated by the Picturall Commander user interface.
Learn more about the Picturall Mark II range at www.analogway.com.
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