The company will be demonstrating its full range of solutions for Ultra HD (4K) and HEVC (H.265) compression, personalized TV Anytime services, and its new Envivio Guru™ network management system. Envivio Guru (formerly 4Manager™) offers enhanced user interfaces and operational improvements to facilitate network setup, management and control.

IBC is Europe’s largest video industry exhibition, taking place in Amsterdam September 13-17, and Envivio’s demonstrations at the show will highlight how its software-based approach can offer better video quality while optimizing bandwidth efficiency for traditional broadcast or cloud/connected TV services. Visitors to the Envivio booth at IBC will be able to experience a range of advanced solutions, including:

• 4K video encoded in HEVC format with Envivio Muse™ transcoding software
• HEVC vs. AVC vs. MPEG-2: real-time encoding comparisons of the same video encoded in three codecs, enabling significant bitrate savings while preserving video quality
• Real-world any-screen connected TV and mobile video services offered by European customers in Belgium and Spain
• TV Anytime (nPVR, Catch-up, Start-over and VOD) plus blackout, ad insertion, subtitling and just-in-time packaging powered by the Envivio Halo™ network media processor
• Processing and workflow management interfaces and the Envivio 4CasterTM G4 Intel-based server appliance

Envivio CTO Jean-Pierre Henot will also present a paper titled, “High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC): The Next Big Thing?” at the IBC conference on Sunday, September 15 during a panel session, “High Efficiency Video Coding—Will It Do Enough?” from 8:30-10:30 a.m. in the Emerald Room at the RAI. More than 300 content and service providers around the globe have selected Envivio software-based video delivery solutions to power their TV and any-screen services.