VCD / DVD Authoring and Archiving solutions by Traxvision India

Components:
Encoder Board: 'Vela Argus' Windows based PCI board.
Decoder Board: 'Vela CineView' Windows based PCI board.
Authoring Software: 'Sonic Scenarist' Windows based DVD authoring software.
DVD Pre Mastering: 'Pioneer DVD Writer' IDE interface.
'DLT Drive' SCSI Interface.

Technology today, tomorrow.
Today in the broadcast and cable industry, everyone is talking about the digital transmission due to the advantages over analog transmission. The most accepted format is MPEG for digital transmission. Every video related applications whether based on narrow band or broadband is in MPEG format. It is proven and well accepted that MPEG is future for the video industry.
DVD, which once stood for digital videodisc or digital versatile disc, is the next generation of optical disc storage technology. It's essentially a bigger, faster than CD-R also can hold cinema-like video and audio (Dolby Digital AC3) and computer data. DVD aims to encompass home entertainment, computers, and business information with a single digital format, eventually replacing audio and video CD, videotape, laserdisc, CD-ROM, and video game cartridges.

Advantages of Digitization
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 Digitization eliminates possibility of detoriation due to frequent usage since the masters can be preserved in reliable optical format.
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 Local Area Network allows easy share of the content (files) to different machines.
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 MPEG2 format gives you one time encoding and multiple time usage.
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 As compared to Tape the optical medium (DVDs) take much less space. Except dust proof room, DVD does not require special care.

Features of such DVD-Video are as follows.
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 Over 3 hours of high-quality digital video (a double-sided, dual-layer disc can hold 8 hours of high-quality video, or 30 hours of VHS quality video).
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 Support for wide screen movies on standard or wide screen TVs (4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios).
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 Up to 8 tracks of digital audio (for multiple languages, DVS, etc.), each with as many as 8 channels.
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 Up to 32 subtitle/karaoke tracks.
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 Automatic "seamless" branching of video (for multiple story lines).
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 Up to 9 camera angles (different viewpoints can be selected during playback).
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 Menus for interactive features (for games, quizzes, etc.).
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 Instant search to title, chapter, music track, and time code.
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 The file format and the proposed hardware support the simple duplication process for VHS, UMATIC, and BETACAM.
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 The file format supports for other broadband applications like PPV and IVOD.


Quality of DVD-Video.
DVD has the capability to produce near-studio-quality video and better-than-CD-quality audio. Archived Video format can store 4:2:0 at up to 15 MBPS or 4:2:2 Croma encoded files at around 50 MBPS, which is considered to be the best for broadcast.
DVD includes the option of PCM (pulse code modulation) digital audio with sampling sizes and rates higher than audio CD. Alternatively, audio for most movies is stored as discrete, multi-channel surround sound using Dolby Digital or DTS audio compression similar to the digital surround sound formats used in theaters.
DVD or VCD setup

DVD or VCD setup