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Loose Coupling for Multipurpose Distribution
Bruce DevlinChief Technical Officer
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Some Words …
• Wrapper• MXF, GXF, QuickTime, AVI
• Codec• Encoder, Transcoder
• Format Conversion• Up conversion, Down conversion, Cross Conversion
• Standards Conversion• Frame rate conversion 50Hz 60Hz, 60Hz 50Hz
• API• Some programming interface like web services, C++, Java
• SOA• Service Oriented Architecture – a methodology
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File Based Workflows
•Why?
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• The best way to explain Loose Coupling is to look at …
Tight coupling …
4
Loose Coupling … what ??
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Start easy … Simple Business Web Page
• Let’s make a web page• It will say “Hello World”• Nicely(ish) styled
.html
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Tightly coupled web page
<html> <head> <title>Tight Coupling</title> <script type="text/javascript">function img(){ document.body.background="smpte.png" };</script> </head> <body onload="img();"> <table border="2"> <tr><td font face="arial bold">Message</td></tr> <tr><td>Hello World</td></tr> </table> </body></html>
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Time passes ...
• Requirements change• Someone invents
– iPhone, gPhone, iPad, gPad, dPad
• Our business grows– Spanish, Italian, French, German, British English etc.
• Our web page must change with our business
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Tightly coupled web page
<html> <head> <title>Tight Coupling</title> <script type="text/javascript">function img(){ document.body.background="smpte.png" };</script> </head> <body onload="img();"> <table border="2"> <tr><td font face="arial bold">Message</td></tr> <tr><td>Hello World</td></tr> </table> </body></html>
Business Rules
Language SensitiveContentLook & Feel
Language Insensitive
Content
Structure
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Tightly coupled web page
• Quick to develop• Quick to deploy• A pain to update• A pain to maintain• A pain to scale
• Tight Coupling makes change expensive!
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Loosely coupled web page
• Structure is defined in HTML• Styling in CSS• Logic in some language• Data in some database
.html
.css
.js.dB
.java
.php
.asp
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Loosely coupled web page
• Change language but don’t touch styling• Change styling but don’t touch structure• Add new content safely• Replicate and scale using existing
IT tools (database replication etc)
.html
.css
.js.dB
.java
.php
.asp
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How loose is loose?
• This stuff ain’t trivial• Explore probabilities of change• Explore consequences of change• Explore costs of change• Explore system stability of change
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Business Layer
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Generic State of the Art Facility
• SD Playout
HD
CDN
Delivery • CDN
• HD Playout
SD
• Multi-rate Web Streaming
• IPTV
• Versioning
• International
• Captioning Accessibility
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MAM, DAM, BPM, frys?
Web Services
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Day #1 – it goes live
• Business Process system• Manages which jobs to run
• Media Management system• Manages where the content is and which transcoder to use
• Transcoder• Has profiles configured for all the deliverables• Receives instructions from above and just works
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Time passes …
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Day #n – it gets fun
• The business enters a new territory• A new language needs to be added• The new Avocado zPad is selling well …• Every asset is needed in a new transcode profile …• Many assets need new language and captions adding …• What needs to change?
• Plan A• Update existing system with a new profile
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Generic State of the Art Facility
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Business Layer
• SD Playout
HD
CDN
Delivery • CDN
• HD Playout
SD
• Multi-rate Web Streaming
• IPTV
• Versioning
• International
• Captioning Accessibility
Business Layer
New format
New profile
New API parameter
New MAM move rule
New MAM process
New BPM rule
$$
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Tight coupling alert !
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Day #n – it gets fun
• The business enters a new territory• A new language needs to be added• The new Avocado zPad is selling well …• Every asset is needed in a new transcode profile …• Many assets need new language and captions adding …• What needs to change?
• Plan B• Throw in a new brand of transcoder
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Generic State of the Art Facility
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Business Layer
• SD Playout
HD
CDN
Delivery • CDN
• HD Playout
SD
• Multi-rate Web Streaming
• IPTV
• Versioning
• International
• Captioning Accessibility
Business Layer
New format
New profile structure
Brand New API
New MAM integration
New MAM process
New BPM rule
$$$
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Even tighter coupling alert !
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Wouldn’t it be nice …
• To have a standard Transcode API• Change friendly – it expects system change over time
• Codec neutral – cheaply add a new codec variant
• Vendor neutral – add a new vendor to the mix cheaply
• Loosely coupled – tries to localise the impacts of change
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AmberFin Proposal to FIMS & VCOForum
• Focussed on …• How a job is described
• What stays constant between jobs
• What changes job by job
• Ignores the compute complexity of the job
• Assumes existence of …• transcode() function via RPC, SOAP, RESTful
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Wake up, it’s Quiz time
• Which of the following are transcodes?• MPEG2 to MPEG4 conversion• Rewrap MXF to QuickTime• IMX50 to Long GOP SD VoD• IMX50 to XDCAM50• Motion Compensated Standards convert from
720x576 @ 50i to 1920x1080 @ 60i
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System diagram view
OtherB
Transcode
API
Work orders
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The Work Order Layer
Business Layer
(Business Process Management paradigm)
Media Asset Management
(Media Logistics Management)
Media Manipulation / Transform
(Media Manipulation Paradigm)
Work orders KPIs
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The Work Order Interface
• Goals• Allow a MAM / business system to make business decisions• Allow a MAM / Automation system to make logistics decisions• Pass those decisions to the Transcoder• Don’t rely on 2 transcoders having the same capabilities• Don’t make it company specific• Orient the API towards the Business System needs
• The API• is an abstract transcode API• provides a Work Order Interface• enables the creation of a SOA Media Manipulation Service
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Transcode()
• transcode( param )
• This section describes param
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AbstractTranscode API
• Transcode Request Structure
Input Specification
Segment List Specification
Transcode Output Override
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Simple Example
<transcodeparameters template=”Default”>
<inputs>
<input id=”asset”><file name=”z:/examples/asset1.mxf” /></input>
</inputs>
<segments style=”in(inclusive),out(exclusive)”>
<segment>
<input>asset</input>
</segment>
</segments>
<output conversion=”MXF Op1a MPEG2”>
<attributes>
<attribute name=“videobitrate” value=“50000000” />
</attibutes>
</output>
</transcodeparameters>
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Simple Splice Example
<inputs>
<input id=”feature”><file name=”z:/examples/feature1.mxf” /></input>
<input id=”trailer”> <file name=”z:/examples/trailer1.mxf” /> </input>
</inputs>
<segments style=”in(inclusive),out(exclusive)”>
<segment>
<input>trailer</input>
</segment>
<segment>
<input>feature</input>
</segment>
</segments>
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Cut and Splice Example
<inputs>
<input id=”asset”><file name=”z:/examples/asset1.mxf” /> </input>
<input id=”black”><file name=”d:/library/black/black.mxf” /> </input>
</inputs>
<segments style=”in(inclusive),out(exclusive)”>
<segment>
<input>asset</input>
<out>00:15:00:00</out>
</segment>
<segment>
<input>black</input>
</segment>
<segment>
<input>asset</input>
<in>00:15:00:00</in>
</segment>
</segments>
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Audio Channel Alignment example
Aligned
Audio Lead (+offset)
Audio Lag (-offset)
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Closed Caption (CC) Streams
<inputs>
<input id=”feature1”>
<file name=”AmberFin:\examples\feature1.mxf”>
<file name=“Feature1English.scc”>
<stream id=”English” />
</file>
<file name=”Feature1Spanish.scc”>
<stream id=”Spanish” />
</file>
</input>
<inputs>
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Closed Caption (CC) Streams
<output conversion=”Windows Media (VC1)”>
<captions type=”SAMI”>
<stream>Spanish</stream>
<stream>English</stream>
</captions>
</output>
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Input Cropping
top
bottomleft
right
4:3
<inputs><input id=”feature1”>
<file name=”AmberFin:\examples\feature1.mxf”> <crop>2,2,1,1</crop>
</file>
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Output Scaling
width
height
<output conversion=”MXF Op1a MPEG2”> <display>
<size width=“320” /><aspectratio>16/9</aspectratio>
</display>
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Output Positioning
voffset
hoffset
width
height
<output conversion=”MXF Op1a MPEG2”> <containersize>240,500</containersize><display>
<size width=“320”><offset hoffset=“100” voffset=“100”>
</display>
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Output Blanking
top
bottom
<output conversion=”MXF Op1a MPEG2”> <containersize>240,500</containersize><display>
<size width=“320”><offset hoffset=“100” voffset=“-100”><border>10,10,10,10</border>
</display>
left right
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Encoding Attributes
<attribute name="Mode" value=""> audio mode<attribute name="BitRate" value=""> in bps<attribute name="Passes" value=""><attribute name="MinimumBitRate" value=""> in bps<attribute name="AverageBitRate" value=""> in bps<attribute name="MaximumBitRate" value=""> in bps<attribute name="GOPLength" value=""><attribute name="AudioBitRate" value=""> in bps<attribute name="AudioSampleRate" value=""> in Hz<attribute name="KeyFrameInterval"> in s <attribute name="BufferSize"> in s
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Watermarking
<output conversion=”MXF Op1a MPEG2”><watermarking
type=“civolution”index=“2”payload=“1379”
/></output>
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But it’s more than just codecs
High Energy video Encodercompressedvideo
1% of incoming bitrate is
“good energy”
99% of incoming bitrate isdiscarded
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Interlace is Evil – why broadcast this?
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Interlace is Evil – when you can broadcast this?
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Loosely coupled APIs allow Business Quality choices
High Energy video Encodercompressedvideo
Interlace pollutes outputs
Use API to select quality based on Business Need
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The Work Order Layer
•Stable, abstracted business oriented communications•Independent of transcoder vendor•Independent of delivery specification
•Transcoder specific comms•One or more transcoders behind interface
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Stay loose!
• This stuff ain’t trivial• Explore probabilities of change• Explore consequences of change• Explore costs of change• Explore system stability of change
• Play “What if …” with the business folk before designing
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Business Layer
• SD Playout
HD
CDN
Delivery • CDN
• HD Playout
SD
• Multi-rate Web Streaming
• IPTV
• Versioning
• International
• Captioning Accessibility
Business Layer
What do I store here?
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What do I store here?
• SD
• HD
• What are you trying to optimise (the caching strategy problem)?• Playout centric
• Edit centric
• Acquisition centric
• Facilities house – bit of everything
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extra
asset
media
asset.mxf
asset_v0.mxf
asset_a0.mxf
asset_a3.mxf
asset_vanc0.mxf
Media is forward referenced from the version file
version file
Loosely coupled essence – AS02, IMF
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Loose Coupling – a joy
•Stable, abstracted business oriented communications•Independent of transcoder vendor•Independent of delivery specification
•Transcoder specific comms•One or more transcoders behind interface
http://www.amwa.tv (FIMS)
http://www.vcoforum.org (profiles)
http://www.smpte.org (IMF)
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Stay loose!
• This stuff ain’t trivial• Explore probabilities of change• Explore consequences of change• Explore costs of change• Explore system stability of change
• Play “What if …” with the business folk before designing
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Stay Loose!
Bruce Devlin
CTO, AmberFin