ALMosaic  Mosaic generator for IPTV
Deliver IPTV with mosaic channels.
Monitor your head-end.

The Allegro ALMosaic real-time mosaic generator is an IP in/out audio/video device capable of building a user-configurable mosaic. It can be used for channel browsing, or for monitoring. Typical uses include:

• add mosaic channels to your EPG. You may for instance create thematic mosaic channels, where consumers can view all sports channels, kids channels or info channels on a single mosaic page and select the one to switch to.
  
• in your professional head-ends, monitor the IPTV feeds you deliver to consumer networks and check that every video and audio feed is live.

The device ingests up to 20 MPEG-2 or H.264 video input feeds on IP and displays them as video thumbnails assembled into one single video output. The 20 thumbnail sizes and positions can be set independently over a user-defined background picture and the scene can be manually or automatically updated. The composited scene is delivered in SPTS/UDP/IP, encoded in MPEG-2 or H.264 up to HD resolution and multiplexed with the thumbnails' associated audio feeds. ALMosaic supports audio pass-through and audio re-encoding, displays dynamic audio bargraphs and issues SNMP alarms for audio silence, video freeze, etc.

Several ALMosaic servers can be cascaded to deliver an unlimited number of channels on a single video page.

The device is packaged in a single rack unit (19” x 1RU). It is easily administered by SNMP and supports redundancy with N+P flexible schemes and network teaming.

Mosaic Generator	ALMosaic
Targets	Channel browsing Monitoring
Inputs	Audio/video: up to 20 MPEG-2 or H.264 SPTS/UDP/IP, MPTS/UDP/IP
Preprocessing	Audio: downmix, level change, resampling
Compositing	Up to 20 video feeds (MPEG-2 or H.264 input) Different picture sizes in the same scene User configurable picture sizes and positions User configurable background picture Scene update (manual or automatic)
Video outputs	MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)
Output resolution	Up to HD
Audio outputs	Up to 20 audio streams MPEG-1 Layer II, AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1/v2 (implicit, explicit), AC-3 (pass-through), e-AC-3 (DD+, pass-through)
Transport	SPTS/UDP/IP
Management	Full SNMP administration
Monitoring	Dynamic audio bargraphs SNMP alarms for black or frozen video, audio silence, no audio or video PID
Redundancy	N+P ready, flexible, manager-free Network teaming: AFT, SFT
Size	1 RU x 19"