Introduction

The GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server provides the ability to build a non-K2 Summit based production system on COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) IT hardware and storage. Users can now purchase a commodity hardware solution and add the baseband HD-SDI support via an on-board video card, or the HD/UHD network adapter card for IP ingests and playouts. The GV I/O server may also be configured as a standalone device with local storage, or a shared storage client with K2 Summit SAN system or GV AMS Pro - Advanced Media Storage system.

The GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server supports production requiring cost effective Ingest and Replay in a fast paced News or Sports workflow. In addition, it supports studio and web production, live audience studio shows, and any operation that requires multi-channel ingests and playbacks in the editing and production system.

The GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server has up to four Recorder and Player channels that support SD, 720p, and 1080i video formats. This latest release introduces the UHD GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server that supports up to 2160p (XAVC-I Class 300) video format with 2 Recorders and 1 Player via SMPTE 2110 IP channels. As an alternative to K2 Summit systems, the GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server utilizes Dell PowerEdge R640 servers with an AJA^® Corvid 88 card for SDI connections to support channel ingests and playback, or the Mellanox ConnectX^®-5 10/25 GigE network adapter card that supports IP ingests and SMPTE 2110 playouts. The 1G/10G network adapters are also provided for Control, and shared storage connections. The GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server also supports common SD and HD codecs without additional licenses.

The GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server includes the NVIDIA^® Quadro P2000 video card to support proxy file acceleration for the video and 8 audio pairs for the audio. While the UHD GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server includes the Matrox^® M264 video card, which can encode proxy for high-resolution files up to 2160p video format. With GV I/O generating proxy files automatically for ingest channels, fast editing and playback-to-air can easily be done on the fly in any production environment.