Last week Encoder specialist Envivio announced its third generation 4Caster M2 mobile TV encoding system and when it showed it at the 3GSM show this week it said that it had integrated the system with three different content protection systems from Irdeto, Nagravision and Medialive, and says it already supports both of the standards for DRM on mobile TV.
The company also said that partnering with GlobeCast it has cut a deal with Orange for MPEG 4 TV broadcasts to its mobile TV subscribers in France, mostly on the new 250 kbps unicast system which Orange calls High definition mobile TV, which can be picked up by handsets over any network from GPRS to HSDPA.
Envivio claims it has the largest number of mobile video head-end deployments, with over 2,000 encoders sold to over 100 Tier 1 and Tier 2 operators.
The new 4Caster M2 device outputs eight simultaneous profiles, that is different resolutions and file formats, and the system now has its own statistical multiplexing support.
On the DRM front M2 can support either the DVB-H 18Crypt standard for broadcast encryption or the DVB Open Security Framework, which are both being pushed as standards in the mobile TV space, although the OSF appears to be the most highly favored. The M2 system also supports DVB SimulCrypt, which is a process for when a system offers two separate DRMs in parallel.