As a follow-up to yesterday’s post I had considered writing a bit of a primer on how SCTE-35 and SCTE-104 work and how they are typically deployed in the broadcast workflow. However then the following article just happened to appear in my news feed and it’s far more comprehensive than what I would have written…. Read More
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SCTE-35 and SCTE-104 VANC Processing
One of the things we’ve been spending a lot of time on recently is related to Ad Insertion for broadcasters. This includes providing the appropriate metadata in streams to denote when advertisements should begin and end, as well as information describing which advertisements should be inserted. This largely delves into the realm of the SCTE-35… Read More
Massive Capture for Mac OSX Now Available
Kernel Labs is happy to announce the release of Massive Capture, our new Mac OSX capturing application. Massive Capture is a software application which allows users the ability to capture video content from multiple video sources simultaneously, by intelligently controlling multiple attached HDPVR capture devices. The application itself is built on top of our current… Read More
NAB 2016 Conference
Kernel Labs will be attending the National Association of Broadcasters Show 2015 conference, Apr 16-21 2016 in Las Vegas. If you’d like to meet the Kernel Labs staff then you can reach us via the Contact page. We’d be thrilled to chat with you.
CableExplorer – Evaluation Software
For those of you who are Digital TV enthusiasts, and have access to a Silicondust HDHomeRun prime cable receiver, we’ve been developing an ‘explorer’ tool for sometime. The software works with OS-X only, although Linux and Windows would be easy enough for us to deliver in the future. We’ve just published a free eval version,… Read More
New Linux Drivers and SDK’s Now Available
Here at Kernel Labs we have been working hard over the last couple of months to bring some new additions to our product range. We have recently released new Linux drivers and SDK’s for a variety of popular capturing devices. For more information on the Linux drivers, click on the links below .. AVerMedia CE330B… Read More
Elgato Game Capture HD 60 Pro Teardown
Devin pointed out a new PCIe HD compression card the other day, the $200 Elgato Game Capture HD 60 Pro PCIe card. Amazon Link Video capture, video encoders, compressors, that’s our bread and butter here at Kernel Labs, needless to say we ordered the unit and promptly took it apart – for your viewing pleasure!… Read More
HVR-955q Linux Driver Performance
Over the years we have assembled a variety of tools for evaluting tuner performance. Most of these are internal home-grown command line utilities and scripts which perform some superset of comparable end-user applications, with a particular emphasis on automation and logging statistics that regular users typically wouldn’t need. We use these tools for a variety… Read More
MythTV and Hauppauge Colossus
While Kernel Labs has been shipping a driver for the Hauppauge Colossus for a couple of years now, we have generally been focused entirely on the use cases that commercial parties care about, and these tend to be things like gStreamer, ffmpeg, and VLC. However in the last few days I finally got around to… Read More
VLC Output Thread Performance Profiling
Over the last couple of years I did a number of projects where the client approached me with a question along the lines of: “Why do I get severe video stuttering and dropped frames in VLC when trying to play stream XYZ?” In some cases it was an issue specific to some feature (such as… Read More