Interra Systems and Envivio Integrate QC and Transcoding Solutions for On-Demand Workflows

Interra Systems and Envivio Integrate QC and Transcoding Solutions for On-Demand Workflows Interra Baton File-based QC and Envivio Muse On-Demand Transcoder optimize quality of VOD assets

Cupertino and South San Francisco CALIF., Aug 28, 2012

Interra Systems and Envivio (NASDAQ: ENVI) today announced the integration of the Interra Baton file-based quality check (QC) solution with the recently introduced Envivio Muse On-Demand 3.50 and 4Balancer software. This collaboration helps to ensure high quality VOD asset creation in the right formats for various playout devices in todays multi-screen environment, facilitating service expansion and the monetization of VOD on any screen.

Todays consumers increasingly expect content anytime, anywhere, and prefer entertainment to fit in their schedule. Service providers need to ensure the best possible quality for their VOD assets in order to gain a competitive edge. Baton not only offers broad format support and quality checks; its content verification is also very reliable and accurate. This integration provides our content and service provider customers with an outstanding solution for transcoding and QC, said Boris Felts, vice president of product marketing at Envivio.

Content ingested into the VOD environment needs to meet quality and regulatory specifications. In addition, content transcoded for different devices including TVs, PCs, tablets, gaming systems and smartphones needs to meet the playout specification for the various output formats. The combination of Envivios Muse On-Demand encoding and the Interra Baton file-based QC solution ensure content quality, formats and standards compliance for the ever-changing video ecosystem.

Envivio is a market leader in video compression, and we are very pleased to be associated with the Muse On-Demand solutions. Baton has helped more that 20+ technologies in the ecosystem leverage file-based QC in their solutions asset management systems, archive solutions, transcoders, and more. We look forward to collaborating with Envivio in deploying solutions that provide outstanding quality for VOD services, said Ashish Basu, VP global sales and business development at Interra Systems.

Envivios new Muse On-Demand is a software-based universal transcoder that delivers best-in-class video quality, speed and bandwidth efficiency, while significantly reducing costs and accelerating time-to-market. 4Balancer, combined with Muse On-Demand, enables simultaneous processing of assets across a pool of up to 50 encoders, improving system utilization. More than 300 content and service providers around the world have deployed Envivio live and on-demand solutions for their TV and multi-screen services.

Interras Baton is the industry leading, enterprise-class file-based QC for SD, HD, and mixed workflows. More than 350 Broadcasters, Post-Production houses, IPTV, Satellite, and Archiving companies trust Baton QC in production. Baton delivers better formats support, more comprehensive quality checks, more efficient verification, and enterprise scalability than any other QC offering available today.

About Envivio

Envivio (NASDAQ: ENVI) is a leader in solutions for multi-screen video processing and delivery. Envivio solutions remove the boundaries of traditional television and make the worlds video content universally enjoyable by all viewers, on any device, across any network, at any time. Now in its second decade of developing market-leading video convergence solutions, Envivio powers services for more than 300 content and service provider customers around the world, including eight of the top 10 mobile operators, nine of the top 10 broadband providers and three of the top four US cable operators. Envivio is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and has offices worldwide including France, England, China, Singapore and Japan. Visit www.envivio.com for more information.

About Interra

Interra Systems is a software products and services provider for Digital Media industry. Interras Digital Media solutions are led by Baton, a File-based QC or Automated Content Verification solution which ensures media Content Readiness, by Vega, a family of Audio/Video analyzers for standards compliant media content creation and distribution, and by Orion, real-time media content monitoring software. Interra is headquartered in Cupertino, CA. http://www.interrasystems.com

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