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What Quality Check systems can be used with Cinegy Air to detect if a file has dropped frames thus preventing a channel from freezing?
Posted by Oleh Muliarchuk on 25 August 2023 11:10

Cinegy has integration with an observation tool based on Grafana:
https://open.cinegy.com/posts/2017-02-28-techcon2017-logging-and-analytics/#cloud-connectivity-to-avoid-customer-rollout-complexity
https://open.cinegy.com/posts/2021-11-23-whatisnew-in-cinegyair21-9/#srt-telemetry-statistics

To observe signals and detect different issues you might use Cinegy Multiviewer.
Cinegy Multiviewer is detecting events like frozen frames and is making notifications to different destinations e.g. Cinegy Telemetry (based on Grafana) server:
https://open.cinegy.com/products/multiviewer/24.2/multiviewer/user-manual/installation-and-configuration/alarms-settings/#video-still-alert-settings
https://open.cinegy.com/products/multiviewer/24.2/multiviewer/user-manual/installation-and-configuration/notification-settings/#telemetry-notifications

Also, the detection of dropped frames might be supported using API to drop frames detection as described here:
https://open.cinegy.com/posts/2021-02-17-major-changes-in-cinegyair21-2/#real-time-engine-telemetry-metrics

If media files are MXF files, you can analyze them using Cinegy Player PRO.
Also, if you are using Proxy on Cinegy Air, the Proxy indicator will be red when the file becomes proxied (usually it happens much earlier than the item went on Air)

There are many various media validation tools, some of them are online as:
https://www.aconvert.com/analyze.html

Free of charge:
https://github.com/svt/media-analyzer:
FFProbe as a part of FFMpeg -
https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html

and the commercial as:
https://www.jongbel.com/manual-analysis/media-analyzer/
https://www.interrasystems.com/analyzers.php

And, finally, there are systems like Baton that do QC on files:
https://www.vidispine.com/platform/vidinet/media-services/baton-qc-by-interra

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