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The Soft Top Box Player allows you to display virtually any live video stream or file full screen on a computer monitor or on any TV under your remote web page control. The STB also automatically downloads and plays your HD video files and plays the most recent file, one file, or all files.

TV Station Remote Broadcasting
With a STB in your studio and a DVME (or other live video source) at a remote location, your live video will appear on the STB automatically, making live remote broadcasting a snap. When you start a live stream, your video will just automatically appear on the STB without user action.  The STB supports live RTMP for H264/Flash video, live HTTP/MMS for live WM, and even live local multicast.

Video Signage
Just upload your video files to your server or ours.  The STB will download these files, including High Definition video, and play the video in a repeating loop. Configure STB to play the most recent file only, or to play all files. Remove a file from the STB by deleting if from the server. Ideal for kiosk displays, lobbies and similar.

Use STB Anywhere
Insert a cellular modem in your computer (or use our display computer or yours) -- the STB will play your live video and your file-based vides as you command. .

Soft Top BoxYour Hardware Or Ours
The STB runs on a Windows computer. Most modern computers don't have an analog composite video output, which is fine if you intend to display on computer monitors. But for TV stations and video-centric applications, you may want to avoid the cost and complexity of using a "scan converter" just to produce composite video. For this we offer our Decoder Computer -- a small, tabletop computer with Windows 7 and the STB installed and ready-to-go. The Decoder Computer gives you VGA & composite video output, along with analog (mini-jack) stereo audio. We also offer more powerful Digital Engine computer for high rate HD video.

Web Control
The STB works by staying in contact with our STB control server, where you can log in to tell your STBs what to do. The web control page allows you to:
  • Set the live video URL to display your live RTMP, WM video
  • Display any built-in sample live videos (e.g. NASA-TV, CSPAN, etc.)
  • Display any other compatible live video
  • Display any web page
  • Download specific video files
  • Download all video files on a server and synchronize them (files on STB mirror the files on your server)
  • Play the most recent downloaded video file, repeating
  • Play all downloaded video files, repeating
  • Display a scrolling text banner under your video

Applications
  • Live broadcasting from remote location to studio
  • School lobby
  • Corporate lobby
  • Retail display
  • Airport kiosks
  • Doctor offices
  • Any Video signage location, virtually anywhere