Matrox Video highlights ability to streamline live production workflows

With more than an eye on the IP broadcast future, Matrox Video’s latest releases are designed to ease the transition to new broadcast workflows.

Monarch EDGE has been one of the big beasts of the Matrox jungle for a while now, a high-performance, low-latency IP-based encoder and decoder pair that supports 4K and multi-HD workflows. At NAB, Matrox Video is showing how its low-latency SRT encode and decode capabilities, including the latest ancillary data transport features for remote production and contribution workflows, help keep latency from creeping upwards in live productions.

This sort of technology is critical for the success of IP workflows, and in that spirit the company is also making plenty of noise about Matrox ORIGIN, which it launched a couple of years ago now. Matrox ORIGIN is a media aware framework that runs on standard IT equipment, enabling users to build software-defined broadcast infrastructure—whether on-premises or in the public cloud. It replaces bespoke broadcast hardware interconnected with clocked, synchronous protocols like ST 2110 or SDI with software media services operating in a distributed COTS environment that is interconnected with an uncompressed fabric—all running asynchronously. 

Elsewhere, the latest in the series of Matrox ConvertIP ST 2110 and IPMX bridging solutions, Matrox ConvertIP SDM, is an Intel Smart Display Module (SDM) that supports ST 2110 and IPMX inputs, delivering zero-latency 4K video over IP while ensuring compatibility across diverse systems. This is exactly the sort of critical device that enables integration between HDMI and SDI for flexible and future-ready AV deployments. 

Another relatively new device worth talking about is Matrox Vion, a robust IP video gateway that supports multi-channel encoding, decoding, and transcoding across ST 2110, IPMX, SRT, and NDI formats. At NAB, the company is demoing Vion’s ability to transcode between NDI, SRT, ST 2110/IPMX, and JPEG XS, which is a lot to handle but admirably demonstrates its versatility in handling multiple streams simultaneously. 

The company also has the world’s first NMOS-aware, open standards-based ST 2110/IPMX IP KVM extender on show. The Matrox Avio 2 delivers superior image quality and performance with support for up to 4K resolution, while providing ultra-low latency, secure remote access, and seamless integration across diverse systems. The booth demo here shows how Avio 2 natively shares KVMA signals with other ST 2110 devices and integrates seamlessly via NMOS.