Civolution teams with SeaChange for VOD watermarking
â¨â¨TV technology provider SeaChange International and content security specialist Civolution have combined to offer video watermarking for premium VOD on cable services.â¨
The two companies have announced an integration and distribution deal to offer NexGuard forensic watermarking for video-on-demand services, which they say is critical for cable operators looking to launch offer access to early window content.â¨
Civolution said the NexGuard application for cable VOD includes a content pre-processing phase to ensure ease of integration, scalability and utmost performance upon streaming in MPEG-2 or H.264. The solution is designed to be compatible with any VOD streaming server and all CAS and DRM encryption systems. The watermark embedding is performed on a per-VOD transaction basis upon streaming the content to the viewer by SeaChange or third party VOD servers.Â