Packet Ship Products
Packet Ship's products are a collection of Linux software components which allow integrators and operators to build high-performance digital video applications. Together, they create an end-to-end solution for management, distribution and playback of high-quality digital media. Download our Media Delivery Platform White Paper for a full overview of our current and forthcoming product lines, and how they integrate together.
Packet Ship Streamline
Packet Ship Streamline is a scalable, standards-based video server for playout to embedded devices or PC clients. Using industry-standard RTSP and MPEG-2 Transport Streams allows immediate integration with common IPTV set-top-boxes, including Amino and Exterity, Philips NetX and also PC-based clients using VLC. The Packet Ship Streamline architecture provides full visual 'trickplay' functionality, and a high degree of scalability, from small standalone servers for vertical applications such as hospitality and healthcare, to resilient clusters delivering large-scale consumer VOD applications.
Packet Ship Gridline
Packet Ship Gridline provides a central content management system allowing creation of complex hierarchical structures of any type of content, optimised for large media files. It then allows efficient, resilient distribution and caching of the content to multiple sites, and/or to large numbers of consumers. Using a combination of unicast, multicast and peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers ensures reliable delivery whatever the network topology, whilst reducing the central bandwidth overhead to the minimum. The Packet Ship Gridline Player is a downloadable client application which enables background delivery and local caching of large media files on the desktop, enabling delivery of very high quality video over existing broadband infrastructure.
Packet Ship Sightline
Packet Ship Sightline is a large-scale digital signage display controller, providing central control of large numbers of digital signage displays, including TV power and volume, analogue and IPTV channel switching, video-on-demand and textual and graphic overlays. The displays can be grouped into arbitrarily complex structures and a system of presets and scheduled events is also provided. The Sightline Display controller currently supports Philips NetX cards; support for other client devices types can easily be added.