Root 6 Limited

The twenty-one-month project will develop a system to automate the packaging of videobased media to meet the format and content requirements and standards of different broadcasters and on-line media distribution channels around the world. Media packaging is the essential way to provide access to programmes anytime, anywhere and on any device. Different br...

Awaiting Public Project Summary

The methods by which television programmes and movies are made are constantly changing. Also the methods by which we watch them - at home on TV, in Cinemas, on the move, on mobile phones, on tablet devices, or via 'play again' services such as the BBC iPlayer which are also evolving. All of this now requires many digital file formats. It is necessary to c...

The VSV Pipeline Project aims to develop a resolution-independent format, Vector Streaming Video (VSV), as an alternative to sampled (pixel-based) images and as an alternative to compression for full motion digital media, together with a processing pipeline that can be used to convert large volumes of digital media into different formats. The VSV video te...

Awaiting Public Project Summary

Content Safari is a project to research and develop methods for automating cataloguing, search, retrieval, workflow management, transcoding and rights protection of visual media held in libraries and archives. The aim is to produce a flexible, intelligent and affordable system that makes it possible for media rights owners (at any point along the chain fr...