[SatNews] Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) has announced that Virgin Media has deployed Harmonic's ProMedia™ Suite for a trial of the new Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) protocol. Using Harmonic's ProMedia Live real-time transcoder and ProMedia Package stream packager in its innovations research headend facility in London, Virgin Media can deliver more efficient and cost-effective high-quality broadcasts to TVs, PCs, tablets, smartphones, STBs, and other IP-connected devices. A live demo of the MPEG-DASH workflow will be showcased at the Harmonic stand S10 located in Hall 10.1 at ANGA COM 2013, June 4-6, in Cologne, Germany.

Harmonic's ProMedia Live transcodes MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC H.264 content to multiple high-quality adaptive bit-rate streams optimized for the Virgin Media MPEG-DASH service. In addition, ProMedia Live efficiently handles metadata information such as language, captions, and ad signaling upon input and output. ProMedia Live is integrated with Harmonic's ProMedia Package, streamlining encapsulation and encryption processes. Completely software-based, the flexible, high-performance solution can scale to support hundreds of simultaneous streams, simplifying the deployment of the multiscreen services.