IPTV but make it SNG @ Chanel NY

2025-12-01

The goal here was to transport multiple video feeds across multiple New York City buildings for the Chanel "Métiers d'Art" show.

This needed to be high quality, low latency and robust, as most places were only accessible once before the actual show and VIPs arrived.

The gear used in this setup is visible in this picture:

I have two big servers, with powerful CPU, dual power supply, etc. Each of these servers can do 8 SDI encode and 8 SDI decode, for a total of 16 encode and decode simultaneously.

In this case, I had only a couple of feeds, so I was using a single server and used the second one as a backup / redundancy link. This was placed in the CCU room, taking PGM, multiview, etc., encoding it and sending it to AWS MediaConnect using Zixi.

I also have 8 NUCs able to do 1 SDI encode and 1 SDI decode simultaneously. I used 1 NUC per TV, connected to AWS MediaConnect using Zixi.

With this combo i was able to send any video feed to any display in any building.

You can see on this map that I had to cover multiple displays in multiple buildings across NYC.

You can see here how the NUC was simply dropped at the back of the TV, making it really invisible for the client. Just internet on the RJ45 and SDI out to HDMI to the TV.

For this final result:

This is the beauty of the software encoders/decoders from OBE: same quality, different form factors, flawless feed.

For this event, we encoded each feed at 20Mbps 4:2:2 10bit CBR over internet.

This project would not have been possible without the exceptional support and expertise of several key partners:

• Plani and Walter Films for their continuous help and support.
• OBE for their awesome software and continuous support.