NVIDIA Holoscan for Media is now ready to be used in live production, taking advantage of the best of both networking and GPU technologies.
Holoscan for Media is a software-defined, AI-enabled platform that enables live video pipelines to run on the same infrastructure as AI. It delivers applications from established and emerging vendors across the ecosystem on repurposable, NVIDIA-accelerated commercially available off-the-shelf hardware.
Production robustness
The platform inherently accommodates all types of IP media protocols, including uncompressed ST 2110, to effectively supplant or integrate with traditional SDI setups, delivering necessary quality, sync, and timing across the network.
NVIDIA performed rigorous density and compliance assessments to guarantee the necessary performance and dependability for high-pressure production environments. Incorporating ST 2022-7 redundancy on top of hardware failover, the platform now uses Red Hat OpenShift 4.14 for production deployments as well as NVIDIA Network Operator 24.7. This enhances stability during high-traffic conditions while maintaining ST 2110 compliance and optimal performance.
Every networking interface can handle up to 35 uncompressed 1080p60 streams or eight 4k 60fps streams with 100 Gb/s networking infrastructure. It is also ready for 200 Gb/s networking.
The platform also offers precise hardware monitoring and alert management, enabling you to give industry-standard references to monitoring applications.
The updated deployment guide features enhanced automation through new scripts, enabling the automatic setup of red/blue networks on network adapters and the installation of open-source services for block storage and load balancing.
Several partners are using the platform to offer products such as vision mixers, multi-viewers, encoders/decoders/transcoders, playout servers, camera, and media controllers, as well as live graphics and AI-driven captioning solutions.
Seamless developer experience
With an improved developer experience, anyone can now develop using a single workstation.
Our local developer guide has been updated, enabling you to run a full Holoscan for Media environment to build and test applications. An extended set of reference applications is now available:
- Helm dashboard container: Deploy applications with a simple graphical interface.
- NMOS Controller and Registry containers: Test automatic discovery and dynamic media connection while developing, with a new open-source companion library to integrate an NMOS Node seamlessly in any application.
- Media Gateway container: Provides a multi-capable application for ingress/egress of ST 2110 with NMOS support without having to learn each of these protocols and also GPU-accelerated compressed media streaming capabilities through GStreamer. It is built on top of NVIDIA DeepStream SDK and full source code is also provided for the Media Gateway plugins.
- New code sample: Demonstrate live GPU inference using any AI model within Media Gateway. Provided on request.
- Integration code samples: Demonstrate direct integration of the foundational Rivermax SDK, CUDA, Vulkan, and Video Codec SDKs, while highlighting the flexibility of the platform and supported SDK. Also provided on request.
Holoscan for Media in action
NVIDIA is showcasing live demonstrations of Holoscan for Media on the Sony, Monks, and Dell booths at IBC 2024, including the latest improvements and partner applications.
For more information about the core technologies of the platform as well as how applications are deployed and connected, see the NVIDIA Holoscan for Media developer page.
