Digital Rapids Upgrades Multiscreen Software

Digital Rapids is now shipping version 3.8 of its Stream software for the company's StreamZ, StreamZHD and Flux ingest, encoding and streaming solutions.Advances in the new version include H.264, MPEG-2 and DVCPro encoding enhancements, including 4K Ultra HD H.264 encoding support; expanded support for automated multiscreen advertising insertion workflows; and predefined project files for transforming content for Netflix delivery.Additional new features include enhanced MXF compatibility including support for uncompressed YUV video; improved MOV file format handling; expanded support for up to 64 audio tracks in transport streams; live 5.1-to-stereo and stereo-to-mono audio down-mixing; and enhancements to the optional HLS encoding and segmenting module.