The Open Broadcast Encoder is intended for use in professional environments as a replacement to hardware encoders for realtime encoding and the creation of Video-on-Demand content.

Useful Pages

Corporate

http://www.ob-encoder.com

Technical wiki (featuring guides, STB compliance etc)

http://obe.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Broadcast_Encoder_Wiki

Community

#obe on Freenode IRC. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#obe

http://ob-encoder.ning.com

Open Broadcast Encoder Realtime 0.1 Beta

OBE-RT is now ready for long-term testing in an IPTV lab or production environment. The 0.1 branch will be focused towards IPTV applications. Future releases will focus on ASI output as well as low-latency contribution applications.

Features:

• HD/SD SDI input with Decklink cards.
• 8/10 bit AVC encoding using the x264 encoder
• MP2/AC-3/E-AC3/AAC (AAC is experimental) audio encoding
• VANC support (includes CEA-708 captions and AFD)
• WSS to AFD conversion
• Line blanking (Line 21 for NTSC and Line 23 for PAL)
• 3DTV frame packing
• Full control of the TS mux parameters
• UDP/RTP output with unicast and multicast output support
• And much more

See https://github.com/kierank/broadcastencoder/wiki for more information about proposed features.

Open Broadcast Encoder VoD 0.21

VBR and CBR Transport Stream Muxing, full control of settings (e.g. PIDs, languages)

• DVB/CableLabs compliant VoD content muxing
• High quality AVC encoding powered by the x264 encoder, including support for 10-bit and 4:2:2 input with high speed colourspace conversion
• Input support from a huge range of formats through ffmpeg
• Support for AC-3, MP2 and AAC (LATM and ADTS) audio.
• SCC caption file input. ATSC/Echostar captions supported
• Support for soft pulldown
• DVB 3D and CableLabs 3D support
• DVB AU_Information support

See the wiki for more information about analyzers and STB tests.