Dear Friends and Partners,
We are thrilled to announce that WDR, the second largest public broadcaster in Europe, chose aixtream software for their internet streaming and DVB multiplexing. Learn more about this success story and get insight into how you can manage to reduce cost and complexity by implementing aixtream.
Customer success story – WDR has successfully implemented aixtream to process their internet streaming and DVB multiplexing on the same system.
The German public broadcaster WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne) is providing a wide-ranging selection of different radio programs in various formats to the German audience. In 2020 it wanted to find a way to perform all internet streaming (Icecast and HLS) and DVB multiplexing on as few individual systems as possible to reduce costs and complexity of logistics. It also wanted to simplify the workflow and operation to reuse the same signal for as many outputs as possible. WDR finished implementation of aixtream software in September 2021. Since then, they have been handling their internet streaming and DVB multiplexing workflow with aixtream servers. They are now streaming 36 different programs with aixtream software, including: 1LIVE, WDR2, WDR3, WDR4, WDR5, WDR COSMO, Selektor, Die Maus, WDR Event, WDR VERA. All their programs are available in multiple formats and quality levels. In total each program is streamed in at least 5 formats and qualities. HLS streams are available in 3 quality levels (using adaptive bitrate to adjust to the listener’s circumstances), while Icecast streams are available in at least 2 quality levels.
aixtream application – OTT Radio streaming
OTT (over-the-top) audio streaming was one of aixtream’s first use cases and so it has become one of the premier solutions for this application. Our audio software solutions contain everything you need to get your internet radio program in all desired formats to all kinds of end points, whether smartphones, kitchen radios or internet browsers. AAC, Ogg and mp3 are supported and even the all-new xHE AAC (see next section for details). We are also especially proud of our certification by nacamar and Akamai. This way we can ensure that our OTT radio web streaming fulfills all possible requirements and is utterly reliable. It includes intuitive and comprehensive connection setup and planning, detailed monitoring options and extensive streaming management.
aixtream technology – Ferncast offers the newest xHE AAC technology
One of the newest developments by the Fraunhofer Institute: Extended High-Efficiency AAC is the most developed audio codec algorithm yet. It achieves great audio quality even at bitrates as low as 16kbp/s and manages both speech and music equally well. This can save you up to 70% of your bandwidth while delivering similar or better results than before.
advanced aixtream features – aixtream has an inbuilt media player for listening in to your active connections directly via your computer.
Monitoring active audio calls and connections is very important in running a professional audio streaming setup, but it is not always feasible to give operators constant physical access to the pro audio codecs and streaming devices to check the audio signals via headphones. This is where aixtream’s listen-in feature comes into play. You can open aixtream’s media player in your web browser to check on the audio signals of active connections at any time using the audio hardware of your accessing device (computer, smartphone, or others). Thanks to monitoring PIPEs this can even be done for multiple streams at once.
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