Signal monitoring and delivery products:
every feed watched 24/7
Point Media Tech's signal monitoring and delivery line is five systems: LiveQC live quality monitoring, Kaster View, Caster internet transport, Encoder, and File Transcoder. AI watches every live feed 24/7 and detects, alerts on, and acts on faults across acquisition, encoding, and transport, so master control can locate a problem before viewers report it.
15+AI-detected fault categories
<1sFault detection and alerting latency
<1sCaster internet transport latency
5Core quality & delivery products
Illustrative: Kaster View monitors many feeds at once, with live black-frame and loudness alarms
One black screen
brings a queue of complaints
Signal faults directly damage viewer trust, advertiser confidence, and the channel brand, and manual monitoring cannot match the speed and coverage that multi-channel, multi-platform distribution needs.
Point Media Tech's approach is automated monitoring at acquisition, encoding, and transport, so operators handle only the flagged faults.
Manual monitoring leaves blind spots
Overnight, holidays, and peak multi-channel loads make complete manual coverage nearly impossible.
Satellite hardware is expensive
Remote live production still relies on satellite gear that's slow to deploy and hard to budget — unfit for frequent on-location broadcasts.
Multi-platform feed quality is hard to track
SDI, IP, HLS, RTMP, and NDI coexist across distribution, making source quality impossible to monitor consistently.
- Acquisition
- Encoding
- Transport
- Distribution
- Playback
Live monitoring + internet transport + broadcast encoding
Point Media Tech runs quality monitoring, signal transport, and encoding on one signal model. Each stage has a dedicated Point product, and every hop from source to destination stays inside one monitoring view.
AI monitoring
LiveQC detects 15+ fault categories with computer vision, Kaster View keeps every channel on a single screen, and alerts arrive within seconds, easing the load of 24/7 operator watch.
Low-latency internet transport
Caster uses SRT and WebRTC to carry broadcast-grade signals over the public internet with under a second of latency. Compared with satellite, an IP path deploys faster and suits frequent remote and on-location feeds.
High-efficiency broadcast encoding
Encoder combines H.265/H.264 with GPU acceleration to hold broadcast picture quality at lower bitrates, supporting 4K and concurrent multi-channel workloads to cut bandwidth cost.
LiveQCMonitoring
Kaster ViewTransport
CasterEncoding
Encoder
Five core products in the monitoring and delivery line
- Real-time signal QC & alertingReal-time alerts for black frames, audio loss and more
- Web multiviewer with alarm responseBrowser monitoring wall; every alarm handled on one card
- Low-latency public-net transportReliable low-latency transport over the public internet
- Broadcast-grade encodingLow-latency broadcast-grade video encoding
- Parallel file transcodingHigh-throughput parallel file transcoding
Cable operator: reliable OTT delivery to hotels nationwide
A Taiwanese cable operator uses a three-tier architecture of Point Media Tech's Transcoder, HLS Packager, and Cache Server to deliver more than a hundred cable channels to hotel set-top boxes across Taiwan, with channel changes under one second. New property onboarding dropped from weeks to two working days.
99.97%System availability
100+Live channels
60%Fewer NOC staff hours
2dNew property onboarding time
Frequently asked questions.
What products are in the signal monitoring and delivery line?
Point Media Tech's signal monitoring and delivery line has five products covering live monitoring, internet transport, and encoding and transcoding. They are LiveQC, Kaster View, Caster, Encoder, and File Transcoder.
Which on-shift workload does automated signal monitoring reduce?
Point Media Tech's signal monitoring and delivery line hands multi-channel live watch to the system, so operators handle only flagged faults. Overnight, on holidays, and during multi-channel peaks, every channel sits on one Kaster View screen and faults arrive as pushed alerts.
Is there a real deployment of the monitoring and delivery line?
Yes, a Taiwanese cable operator delivers cable channels to hotel set-top boxes nationwide on Point Media Tech's Transcoder, HLS Packager, and Cache Server architecture. It runs at 99.97% availability with channel changes under 1 second, new hotels live in 2 working days, and 60% less machine-room staffing; see the hotel IPTV case study.
Where are monitoring points placed in the signal chain?
Point Media Tech's signal monitoring and delivery line places monitoring points at acquisition, encoding, and transport. Because the products share one signal model, an alert can say whether a fault is in encoding or transport, without waiting for viewers to report it.
Which transport protocols and codecs does the line use?
Point Media Tech's signal monitoring and delivery line uses SRT and WebRTC for internet transport and H.264/H.265 for broadcast encoding. It supports 4K and concurrent multi-channel workloads; full protocol and format lists are in the Caster and Encoder spec tables; Encoder and File Transcoder also have whitepapers.
Your signal deserves
monitoring at every hop
Point Media Tech's technical consultants review the monitoring gaps across acquisition, encoding, and transport, and propose a monitoring and transport architecture that fits your playout environment.
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