Bridge Tech Adds Android Monitoring App

Bridge Technologies has launched PocketProbe for Android to complement the iOS version of its remote monitoring app. It's designed for analysis of HLS, Smoothstream, RTMP and MPEG-DASH streams with at-a-glance displays and multiple overlays.PocketProbe contains the same OTT Engine found in Bridgetech's VB1, VB2 and 10G VB3 series digital media monitoring probes. Status of bitrates used and profile changes is displayed in real time.The app is available in two versions. The free application is designed to validate five HLS streams in round-robin mode, provide analysis and manifest consistency alarms, play back media in the various profile bit-rates, and graphically display the actual chunk download patterns and bit-rates. The full version adds the ability to validate HDS, SmoothStream, RTMP and MPEG-DASH manifest files and store 25 streams with all profiles.