Cambria FTC Packager is designed to package without reencoding in order to maximize throughput.
Cambria FTC Packager can generate various ABR output with compressed multiCambria FTC Packager can generate various ABR output with compressed multi-bitrate source files. Cambria FTC Packager can accept various ad signals and convert it into SCTEmarkers which will be embedded into the output ABR stream. The SCTEmarkers inside of the output ABR stream can be handled by a manifest manipulation service such as Yospace in order to stitch ad contents into the ABR stream.
Comparison between Cambria FTC and Cambria FTC Packager
A sister product Cambria FTC is designed to generate ABR stream from a single input source by scaling and encoding to generate all bitrate layers. On the other hand, Cambria FTC Packager is designed to package without reencoding in order to maximize throughput.
Supported input and output format
- Input: TS/MP4 file on local drive/S3 bucket
- Output: HLS, DASH, CMAF to local drive/S3 bucket
Requirements of the input stream
- GoP boundary of the input stream needs to be matched to each segment boundary
- If ad insertion feature is used, GoP boundary also needs to be matched to the ad splice start and end point.
- In order to meet specific conformance such as DVB, HBBTV, the input stream needs to be compliance with the specs
Cambria Manager, Cambria Cluster and REST API support
- Cambria FTC Packager is API-based Packager, so it does not come with UI. In order to start packaging jobs, a job xml needs to be created and submitted to either of Cambria Manager or Cambria Cluster.
- Once a packaging job is submitted to Cambria Manager or Cambria Cluster, the job will work exactly the same way as the other Cambria FTC’s job. So, the submitted job can be controlled by using Cambria FTC’s RESTAPI.
Supported input ad signal
- ESAM XML (CableLabs ESAM specs)
- SCTE35 marker in TS stream
- SCTE35 marker in MP4 stream (emsg)
Other features
- DRM support (PlayReady/FairPlay/Widevine) using CPIX/CENC
- Subtitle (TTML/WebVTT)
Cambria FTC Packager Basic Workflow
Cambria FTC Packager DRM Workflow
