Matrox Maevex 6100 4K Quad Encoder Card

MSRP: Confidential

Describe your product's design and / or technological innovation.

Today’s communications are being re-shaped by the rapid adoption of networked technologies. Traditional AV content distribution, once available only via baseband signalling, now leverages ever-expanding IP networks to push and pull content, making it easier than ever to meet the growing demand for increased capacity and any-to-any connectivity.

The Matrox Maevex 6100 quad encoder card delivers industry-leading multi-channel 4K/UHD and Full HD capture, encode, and stream AV-over-IP. Built on H.264, the world’s most common codec, this plug-and-play solution fits seamlessly into existing infrastructures and interoperates with any device on the network, ensuring high-density content distribution and system scalability.

Included Matrox PowerStream Plus software provides complete reach and control of all streams and applications through a simple-to-use interface. The PowerStream Plus API—available upon request—offers integrators and developers command-level access to include Maevex functionality in new or existing applications. The complete range of Maevex-associated software development tools and comprehensive libraries allow OEMS, integrators, and developers to deploy intuitive, ready-to-use software or build custom interfaces and applications based on project needs.

Matrox Maevex 6100 is a 3/4 length PCI Express® 3.0 x8 card with 4 Mini HDMI (type C) inputs that allow the capture of up to four 4096x2160@30Hz sources. Offering RTSP, RTP and MPEG2.TS streaming support with an onboard RJ45 network connector (RTMP support to soon follow), the Maevex 6100 can encode a multitude of H.264 streams at the same or varying bitrates. Capable of simultaneous streaming and/or recording to shared network drives or network attached storage, the Maevex 6100 features programmable start time, recording duration, maximum file length, and file frequency.

Describe the benefits that your product provides to the integrator.

The Matrox Maevex 6100 quad encoder card delivers industry-leading multi-channel 4K/UHD and Full HD capture, encoding, streaming, and recording from a single card. Combine multiple cards to support high-density encoding of up to 68 channels of 4K capture and real-time encoding and streaming within a single system.

The universal H.264 codec lets you encode on multiple channels at low-bitrates for excellent quality and minimal network bandwidth consumption—even at 4K; you can then decode network contents using any device. Reduces the cost per stream by offering easy-to-implement scalability, small form-factor design, and minimal power consumption.

Easily tailor your operations by integrating PowerStream Plus features into existing applications or creating new software applications with the modifiable Maevex PowerStream Plus API and provided source code examples. Parallel processing capabilities let you conduct different tasks simultaneously within an AV-over-IP environment. The Maevex 6100 card delivers an unlimited number of streams through third-party technology like streaming media servers, content delivery networks (CDNs), and others, thereby guaranteeing complete control over your network installation.

Describe the benefits that your product provides to the end user.

The flexible communication and powerful reach offered by the Maevex 6100 card—and included Matrox PowerStream Plus™ management software—make this cutting-edge technology ideal for use in enterprise, government, education, digital signage or anywhere AV-over-IP is required.

Matrox is the first in the world to drive quad inputs and four or more streams simultaneously from a single PCIe card. With the Maevex 6100 card, users benefit from multiple channels of 4K/UHD and Full HD capture, plus real-time encode, stream, and record capabilities. Matrox’s powerful advanced hybrid streaming (AHS) features provide multiple picture-in-picture (PIP) and picture-by-picture (PBP) composite options, multi-protocol and multi-bitrate streaming, and more.

Built on H.264, the world’s most common codec, this plug-and-play solution fits seamlessly into existing infrastructures and interoperates with any device on the network, ensuring high-density content distribution and system scalability.

With simultaneous streaming, processing, and recording on all channels, Maevex 6100 allows for transmission of live or recorded content to and from multiple video-on-demand platforms. The H.264 universal codec lets you encode on multiple channels at low-bitrates for excellent quality and minimal network bandwidth consumption—even at 4K; you can then decode network contents using any device. Customizable settings on each independent channel provide powerful scaling and deinterlacing to ensure only pristine graphics and video are encoded.

Manage content, access hardware, and monitor all streams from any location on the network via robust Matrox PowerStream Plus software. Installed on the network, PowerStream Plus renders Maevex cards and appliances entirely configurable, manageable, and updateable via on-demand access to any network-connected computer. Simplify workflow with auto discovery of any Maevex unit on the subnet, and easy manual addition for units outside the subnet.

This new technology promises the unprecedented quality you expect, without the need for a dedicated distribution network; use the infrastructure you have and expand its capabilities.

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