Monarch HDX Streaming and Recording Appliances Allow Broadcasters to Deliver Captioned Video Streams for Their Live Online Programming

Matrox Monarch HDX™ streaming and recording appliance now supports closed captioning for online playback and accessibility.
MONTREAL — February 16, 2017 — Adding to the Matrox® Monarch HDX’s already robust feature set, Matrox today announced the integration of closed captioning (CC) capture and streaming support into the Monarch HDX™ streaming and recording appliance, offering broadcasters greater options to transmit accessible video—from broadcast to digital signals—to all online viewers.
Ideal for broadcasters who require the integration of CC while streaming and/or recording, Monarch HDX retrieves captioning data from the SDI VANC or line 21, then embeds the data within the H.264 essence as CEA-608. This caption-enhanced content can be streamed (RTMP) to media servers such as Wowza™ or content delivery networks (CDNs) including YouTube Live or Ustream, or recorded as MOV/MP4 files, and then be decoded by players such as Telestream® Switch™.