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Overall the Crestron CaptureLive HD is an efficient and usable solution for capturing

and streaming content such as lectures, and could have been a valid option for

Metropolia but given the budget that was given as well as certain key features not

working as they should; it is deemed incapable of fulfilling the requirements of Metropo-

lia.

4.3 Haivision Viper

The second tested solution was the Haivision Viper. It is marketed as an “all-in-one

capture, stream, record, and VoD appliance”, used in corporate presentations, class-

rooms and medical procedures all over the world. According to the brochure “It is a

compact, integrated platform for capturing, streaming, reviewing, distributing and pub-

lishing rich, multi-stream high-definition content”, that can be used as a standalone

appliance or as a part of the Furnace IP video distribution system, which Metropolia did

not acquire for the purposes of these tests. In combination with the Furnace IP distri-

bution system the Haivision Viper has been highly recommended by several educa-

tional facilities in the United States; North Carolina State University and the University

of Maine being two of many. For the sake of this comparison the Haivision Viper was

used as a standalone device and will be reviewed as such. [24]

The Haivision Viper’s physical dimensions are 108 mm (10.8 cm) in height, 219 mm

(21.9 cm) in width, 267 mm (26.7 cm) in depth and weighs approximately 4.5 kg. It us-

es H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) as its video compression standard with bitrates from 150

kbps to 15 Mbps and latency capacity of less than 100ms (milliseconds) for encoding

only. For audio encoding the compression standards is MPEG-2 AAC-LC lossless us-

ing 2 audio channels per video channel with bitrates from 32 to 448 kbps per audio

pair. The Haivision Vuper houses a 750GB (Gigabyte) SATA (Serial ATA) hard-drive as

storage space, several different ports for the video and audio input, including S-Video,

Composite, 3.5mm Mini and 2 standard RJ45 Ethernet 10/100/1000 ports. [25]

Figure 9 is an image of the Haivision Viper Record & Stream all-in-one device, showing

the devices touch-panel, power button and a front USB-port (proposed in the manual to

be used for software upgrades).