AGNOSTIC MEDIA -- TECHNOLOGY -- AGNOSTIC MEDIA FRAMEWORKS™
Agnostic Media has developed a robust set of frameworks which provide an industry-leading level of support for digital asset management, metadata, workflow adaptation, transcoding, digital distribution and digital rights management.
These frameworks define a next-generation media services platform named the Agnostic Media Frameworks™.
Their modular architecture provides for rapid development of media management applications, and the seamless integration of new technology features such as media codecs, DRM technologies, or metadata schema.
Our flagship product, DMMP (Distributed Media Management Platform™), is built upon the Agnostic Media Frameworks™, as well as PIAS (Photo Information Archival Service™) and MADS (Music Archiving and Distribution Service™).
Agnostic Media also offers web services for third-party developers who wish to integrate Agnostic Media Frameworks™ into their applications via a standards-based SOAP/XML API.
Asset Management Frameworks:
Metadata Framework
- supports media-independent metadata
- provides dynamic XML schema management
- can integrate with any well-defined metadata schema
- provides for integration with external asset management systems
- provides support for metadata transcoding
Asset Management Framework
- storage management for all media types (video, audio, image, document)
- provides version control functionality: check-in, check-out, version history
- multiple representations of asset relationships (hierarchical, categorized, filtered views)
- models producer/consumer relationships between assets (source asset, asset, encoded asset)
- supports inter-asset relationships for linking related assets to core asset (thumbnails, cover art, liner notes, etc.)
Media Processing Frameworks:
Workflow Framework
- provides job/order management
- offers system for initiating, tracking asynchronous processing
- integrates with billing systems for tracking usage, quota, etc.
- provides abstractions for preset processing settings (encoding settings, delivery methods, etc.)
- profile-based model for managing groups of processing settings
- provides load-balanced processing model for distribution of jobs across processing servers
- provides self-healing job management where jobs are automatically redirected to the next available processing server upon error
- supports geographic distribution of jobs across multiple management servers; allows for processing to be close to storage resources
Ingestion Framework
- provides support for ingestion of digital content into storage management system
- supports metadata parsing upon ingestion of media
- integrates with hardware for automated ingestion of media (CD jukebox, video digitization, etc.)
Distribution Framework
- provides digital distribution support for archived and encoded assets
- supports export of metadata upon digital distribution
- provides ability to dynamically support new distribution technologies with minimal change to existing applications
- integrates with custom distribution technologies, as well as automated hardware for physical distribution (CD/DVD burners)
Transcoding Framework
- supports format conversions for audio, video, images, document formats
- supports all industry-standard video and audio encoding formats (Windows Media, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AAC, APE, Flac, etc.)
- supports transcoding of high-definition video content
- provides full image processing and format conversion capabilities
- integrates with software and hardware-assisted transcoding solutions
- provides ability to dynamically support new transcoding technologies with minimal change to existing applications
- integrates with custom software or hardware-assisted transcoding technologies
Rights Management Frameworks:
Rights Management Framework
- integrates with Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies for secure distribution of digital media
- integrates with audio and video watermarking technologies
- supports granular user and customer access control
- provides approval processing functionality
- supports territorial distribution rights
Security Framework
- integrated with licensing server for serial number protection and remote product authentication
- supports role-based authentication as part of access control
Application Frameworks:
Web UI Framework
- provides support for developing ASP.NET Web applications which use Agnostic Media Frameworks™
- delivered as set of ASP.NET server controls for data visualization
- application-development framework for navigation, filtering, user preferences
- provides managed user database for authentication
Web Service Framework
- provides support for developing .NET Web services which use Agnostic Media Frameworks™
Win32 Services Framework
- provides support for developing .NET Win32 services which use Agnostic Media Frameworks™