Civolution teams with SeaChange for VOD watermarking



TV technology provider SeaChange International and content security specialist Civolution have combined to offer video watermarking for premium VOD on cable services.


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.


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.