Device Driver & interface Library

The Mediator platform provides content management and media management to unify workflow between business systems and third party infrastructure, sub systems and devices. This library is constantly updated with progressive support for the latest devices and standards.

Video Servers

Device Type Notes

360 Systems Imageserver

Serial

Pharos VDCP driver

Accom 6000

Serial

Pharos VDCP driver

Avid Pinnacle Servers

Serial

Pharos VDCP driver and API

Grass Valley K2

IP/Serial

Play functions of the AMP protocol over IP or VDCP

Grass Valley M series

Serial

Uses K2 AMP protocol or VDCP, and FTP for file transfers

Grass Valley Profile

Serial

Pharos VDCP driver

Grass Valley Profile XP

Serial

Uses K2 AMP protocol or VDCP

Harris

Nexio

Leitch VR

Serial

Pharos VDCP driver

Omneon MediaDeck

IP

Play functions of the Omneon API or VDCP

Omneon Spectrum

IP

Play functions of the Omneon API or VDCP

Quantel

IP

Quantel Corba Interface

Near line storage

Device Type Notes

HP SAN

IP

FTP and Samba shares for file operations

Isilon IQ & X-Series Clustered Storage

IP

Uses FTP or CIFS file management

Omneon MediaGrid

IP

Uses Omneon API for file operations

Data Movers

Device Type Notes

Front Porch DIVArchive

IP

 

Xen Data Video Edition & MX Series

IP

 

Archive

Device Type Notes

Sony Petasite

Serial

 

StorageTek

IP

 

KVM

Device Type Notes

DNF

Serial

 

Extron

Serial

 

ISIS

Serial

 

Rose

Serial

 

Sigma

Serial

 

Routers

Device Type Notes

ETL

Serial

Control of the ETL Low Band router

Grass Valley ESLAN

IP

Pharos implementation of ESLAN

Grass Valley ESSwitch

Serial

Pharos implementation of ESSwitch

Lawo

IP

Control of the Lawo Audio router. DSP control and alarms

Leitch

Serial

Controls all Leitch routers including Platinum

NTP 625

IP

Supports NTP routers using the 625 Ethernet protocol

N-Vision

IP

Supports N-Vison routers with the native Ethernet protocol

Philips

Serial

BTS/Phillips systems via Jupiter VM3000

Pro-bel general remote

Serial

Supports all pro-bel control using protocol ref SW P-08

Pro-bel general switcher

Serial

Supports all pro-bel routers using protocol ef SW-P-02

Evertz EQX

Serial

Uses existing Quartz driver

Quartz ASCII

Serial

Small quartz routers without an external control system

Quartz SC1000

Serial

 

Utah SC2/SC3

Serial

Controls Utah routers via SC2 or SC3 control system

Broadcast Graphics, Master control and Mixers

Device Type Notes

Eyeheight

Serial

Requires Eyeheight dongle

First Person Media - IBS Animate IP Adobe Flash based Broadcast graphics

Miranda Imagestore

IP

Control of Imagestore IS2

Miranda Intuition

IP

Uses same driver as the Miranda Imagestore

Miranda Xchannel

IP

Include playout control for channel in a box integration

Orad 3D Play

IP

 

Pixel Power Clarity

IP

 

Pixel Power Promo

IP

 

Publitronic Delta

IP

 
Publitronic Nexus IP Include playout control for channel in a box integration

Quartz QMC master control

 

Modular Products

Device Type Notes

Axon Synapse range

IP

Control of Axon frames and cards

Evertz 7700-7800 series

IP

Control of Evertz modular over SNMP

Grass Valley GekoFlex

IP

Controls GekoFlex and Chameleon

Snell and Wilcox

Serial

RollCall and RollNet drivers available

Vistek

Serial

Requires Dartnet adaptor

Subtitles

Device Type Notes

Screen Polistream

IP

 

Cavena STC

IP

 

Satellite Devices

Device Type Notes

Alteia Protocol

Serial

As used by Alteia, Tandberg and NDS satellite receivers.

Andrew APC 300

Serial

APC 300 Disk Positioner

RC1000A

Serial

Provided control of the Research Concepts Dish Positioner

Multiviewer and UMD's

Device Type Notes

Barco Hydra

IP

Support for the Hydra protocol, including UMDs

Barco NBMS

IP

Control of the latest generation of Barco multiviewer

Evertz VIP

IP

Support for Evertz VIP over SNMP

Miranda Kalido Alto IP  
Miranda Kalido-X IP  

TSL TallyMan

Serial

Implementation of the TallyMan Protocol

Zandar

Serial

Controls Zandar DX series multi screen viewer

Scheduling interfaces

Device Type Notes

Harris BSS & D-Series

Pharos PXF

Converts to Pharos PXF

Harris Vision

Pharos PXF

Converts to Pharos PXF

IBIS

Pharos PXF

 

MediaGeniX WhatsOn

Pharos PXF

 

Perfecta

Pharos PXF

Exports to Pharos PXF

Pheonix7 Zeus

Pharos PXF

 

Pilat IBMS

Pharos PXF

 

Starfish

Pharos PXF

Exports to Pharos PXF

Tape and Optical media

Device Type Notes

Denon Minidisk

Serial

Control using the Denon Minidisk protocol

Rimage Amigo II /2000i

Drop folder

File transcoding, menu generation, on-disk printing

Sony E-VTR IP  
Sony Flexicart Serial  

Sony VTR

Serial

Sony VTR protocol

Other devices and generic interfaces

Device Type Notes

Barcode Printers

Serial/ USB

Print barcodes from metadata inside Mediator

Barcode Scanners

HTTP/USB

Web request direct to mediator or PC-based driver

Dawcom Camera

Serial

Up, down, left, right, zoom in/out and focus control

Drake Intercom

IP

Driver for the Drake 3000 intercom

Pharos GPI Driver

GPI

Set and receive to GPI enabled devices

Pharos SNMP

IP

Get, set and trap functions of SNMP on capable devices.

 

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