AJA Video Systems v1.1 firmware for HELO, now available, streamlines live streaming, encoding and recording content.

HELO is AJA’s affordable and flexible new H.264 streaming and recording stand-alone appliance. HELO brings both SDI and HDMI I/O into a single appliance with the ability to simultaneously stream out to your Content Delivery Network (CDN) as well as encode and record l H.264 files to either SD, SDHC or SDXC cards, USB storage or NIFS or CIFS mounted network based storage simultaneously. HELO is available through AJA’s worldwide reseller network for $1295.

The firmware update now made available extends functionality of the system. HELO v1.1 release highlights include:

•  A recording and streaming scheduler that can be programmed locally through HELO’s web UI by importing ICS files or linking to external calendar providers such  as Google Calendar
• Simultaneous redundant recording of one file to two media destinations
• Increased recording file segment duration of 360 minutes for TS (transport stream) files
• Support for up to 10 RTSP streams
• REST API documentation describing how to automate basic HELO functions
• Automatic power-on start encoding to stream and/or record
• Auto-reconnect and resume after streaming disconnect
• RTP and MPTS over UDP streaming with unicast and multicast support
• Expanded support for Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and appliances
• AWS Elemental Live encoder appliances and AWS Elemental Cloud
• Amino set-top boxes
• Wowza Appliance and Cloud
• StreamShark
• Akamai and Akamai hosted services

Find more about AJA’s HELO following the link.