Less bandwidth with Wireless Technology’s Hydra 265 Transcoder

First published at ITS America - June 5, 2019

Wireless Technology claims that its Hydra 265 Transcoder encodes a video stream into an H.265 video stream using less bandwidth.

Once the stream is received back at the head end – if your current software supports H.265 – you’re good to go, said the company. If not, it can be transcoded back into H.264 or MPEG-4 by using another Hydra 265 to transcode the streams to support a client’s software.

The Hydra 265 does this without affecting the image quality and with very low bandwidth the quality will increase substantially. Hydra 265 can be used to encode up to four 1080HD H.264/H.265 streams, eight 720p H.264/H.265 streams or sixteen SD H.264/H.265 streams and the same number on the back end if decoding is needed. It can also encode up to eight MPEG4 SD streams.

The types of video that it takes in are RTP/RTSP in MPEG-4, H.264 or H.265 and it outputs RTP/RTSP, in MPEG-4, MJPEG, H.264 or H.265 formats.

Its small physical size means that it can be added easily to any rack or cabinet. Once installed in the cabinet, it is simply plugged into the switch that is handling the video data streams.

The company said that WTI provides a simple-to-use control software that designates which IP addresses the client would like the Hydra 265 to transcode into the H.265 compressed format.

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