Best Playout Software

Browse video playout software. Broadcast playout software is used to combine multiple media assets together, such as live and pre-recorded footage, graphics and subtitles. This is then distributed across OTT, linear channels or social media. In conventional broadcast systems this is achieved via various hardware components, each with a particular role in the production chain, but now many vendors offer cloud or software solutions which visualize this process. Cloud playout allows broadcasters to effectively run and access a channel from anywhere in the world.

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TV Channel in a Box

By Playbox Neo
Turnkey playout server solution for broadcasting a single or multi TV channel
World’s best-selling Playout and Channel branding product suite. Powerful, flexible and cost effective, PlayBox Neo has integrated solutions for playout, graphics, news, automation, asset management and disaster recovery. PlayBox Neo Channel-in-a-Box is a turnkey…
  • Turnkey playout server solution
  • Single or multi TV channels
  • HD or UHD
  • Output to SDI or IP
  • Automated content streaming
  • Any kind of TV channel
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Cloudport

By amagi
Cloud-based Automation and Playout Platform for TV and Streaming Channels
Amagi CLOUDPORT allows you to manage and deliver rich content on automated playout channels. It leverages the latest cloud technology to bring you extensive functionality and reliability, so you can increase revenue while reducing…
  • Spin up and down channels
  • Manages workflow complexity
  • Future-proof and versatile
  • Pay-as-you-go model
  • Comprehensive playout
  • Comprehensive asset search
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Cosmos

By PlayBox Technology
The Next-Generation Cloud Playout for IP & MPEG compliant transport
The distributive virtualised architecture of the playout engine from Cosmos provides a fast and trusted cloud playout platform enabling broadcasters and service providers to spin up both OTT and traditional TV channels in a…
  • Playout from the Cloud
  • IP & MPEG compliant transport
  • Supports AES67 and SMPTE
  • Scalable from one to many
  • Private or public cloud
  • Built for broadcasters
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TVU Channel

By TVU Networks
The 24/7 Channel solution created with the world’s biggest broadcasters available for everyone
The easiest way to manage and launch your 24/7 live digital channel for live broadcasting over the air, on cable, OTT, apps, social media, and websites. Launch from your laptop in minutes. Intuitive. Cloud…
  • Browser-based playout solution
  • Intuitive calendar view
  • Monetize your 24/7 channel
  • Schedule graphic overlays
  • Easy for one person to operate
  • Secure remote operation
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Freedocast Playout

By Freedocast
Cost-effective cloud-based playout solution
Create Professional Channels with your content for distribution. Full Control & Monitoring over the web. Combine Live events with recorded content to provide seamless experience. Personalize your broadcast by Adding Logos, tickers and animations….
  • Run your own 24x7 channel
  • Upload, store & manage content
  • Create & manage playlists
  • Live and scheduled playlists
  • Add graphics & branding
  • Cloud-based playout
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Nimbus

By BitCentral
Cloud-based playout software used for professional linear TV channel playout
Veset Nimbus is cloud-based playout software used for professional linear TV channel playout. Nimbus plays live and pre-recorded video, audio, graphics and captioning. Launch new channels, migrate existing channels, start an event-driven pop-up channel,…
  • 100% cloud-based
  • Web playlist scheduling
  • Automated ingest
  • Simultaneous live sources
  • Powerful MAM functionality
  • Web-based WYSIWYG graphics
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LTN Lift

By LTN
Elevates the value of primary linear content to create new channels for various digital platform
LTN® Lift is a playout solution that provides news- and sports-producing channels automated versioning capabilities to reach cross-platform audiences more easily. Lift elevates the value of primary linear content to create new channels for…
  • Create additional new channels
  • Leverage your premium content
  • Reach new audiences
  • Playout and SCTE workflows
  • Automated asset creation
  • Live source management
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coralPlay

By Coralbay
New generation of playout software
coralPlay is a new generation of playout software that has been designed from the outset to work in the cloud but that can also be run on standard PCs, should the customer prefer to…
  • Designed for the cloud
  • Scale from one to many channels
  • Launch within seconds
  • Supports multiple frame rates
  • Control for both NTSC and PAL
  • Automation control interface
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Imagine Communications

By Imagine Communications
Software-based solutions to operate a single playout environment
The days of a single over-the-air channel are long behind us. Media companies are under constant pressure to spin up new channels for multiple platforms — and fast-track time to revenue. Efficiently reaching a…
  • Scalable, reliable playout
  • Hybrid SDI/IP or all IP
  • Reach viewers on any platform
  • Scales easily
  • End-to-end content management
  • Software-based solutions
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GV Playout X

By Grass Valley
Flexible, scalable, cloud-first playout solution
The proliferation of channels and platforms together with competition from social media makes differentiating your brand more challenging than ever. To be successful, commercial opportunities need to be maximized and playout needs to provide…
  • Quick deployment of channels
  • Truly elastic playout
  • Automatic scaling
  • Robust and comprehensive I/O
  • Zero compromise resiliency
  • Broadcast-grade feature set
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Veset Nimbus

By Veset
Enterprise cloud playout for advanced channel management
A range of all-in-one channel creation tools from live stream and file ingest, scheduling, EPG, content management, SCTE35, multiple live switching and complex graphics, to playout and encoding….
  • Leverage benefits of cloud
  • Launch channels on the fly
  • Manage from anywhere
  • Monetise your channels
  • Integrate with other solutions
  • 24/7 support
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Brightcove Cloud Playout

By Brightcove
With Cloud Playout, it’s easy to deliver video anytime you want
Video content that’s just sitting on a server somewhere is a wasted asset. It has to be played and it has to be viewed if it’s going to help you engage audiences, sell products,…
  • Cue ads with SCTE35 markers
  • Get around ad blockers
  • Manage content all in one place
  • Simple drag-and-drop interface
  • Broadcast-quality playlists
  • Reach viewers on any device
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evertz.io Stream

By Evertz.io
evertz.io Stream is a flexible pay monthly channel streaming service
evertz.io Stream is an advanced streaming and playout service designed to meet the needs of both Over-The-Top (OTT) and Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) streaming applications – with audio, captioning and branding options, and the capability to…
  • Fully featured playlist control
  • 4K UHD with HDR
  • Live event support
  • Real time analysis
  • 99.97% airtime availability
  • Cloud-native
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Qibb Playout

By Qibb
Easily deliver content – multiformat and multiplatform
Create a full-featured cloud-based channel playout and automation to launch and manage numerous pop-up channels in record time. It is also designed for easy multiformat and multiplatform content delivery to destinations such as social…
  • Cloud-based playout automation
  • Broadcast-grade functions
  • Scale to your needs
  • Single sign-on
  • Cost and usage dashboards
  • Playlist sync
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CLOUD.X

By Planetcast
Plan, stream and monitor your media content
Planetcast, a renowned Media Technology Services provider in India and South Asia, offers advanced Cloud Playout services through its versatile product, CLOUD.X which can handle current and future needs of media broadcasters and content…
  • Plan, stream and monitor
  • Cloud-based playout solution
  • Run your channel 24x7
  • SD and HD channels
  • Easy to operate and hassle-free
  • Create multiple linear channel
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ELIA Air

By SGT Group
Channel in a box – TV Playout
ELIA is the very latest generation of Channel in a Box, a cost effective TV playout solution offering playout automation, ingest, branding and media asset management features, along with a video server for disaster…
  • Fully IP and software only
  • Installed on a virtual machine
  • Private or public cloud
  • Fast and easy to set up
  • SD/HD video server
  • Branding templates
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Evrideo

By Evrideo
Distribute VOD assets to multiple platforms around the world
Evrideo offers an end-to-end, SaaS broadcast platform that replaces the traditional control room. Using Evrideo, you can create, manage and deliver TV channels (OTT, cable, and satellite) to TV operators, digital platforms (web and…
  • Multi or single channel
  • OTT & VOD distribution
  • Real-time programming
  • Allows full remote operation
  • End-to-end cloud based playout
  • Automated scheduling
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What is Playout?

Playout the process in which source signals are ingested and then outputted or distributed to an external network. There are different levels of complexity with playout systems, depending on the amount of source signals being received, the varying degree of playout functionality and the scale of distribution. Playout systems are traditionally located in the MCR or Master Control Room, this is a central room where all signals are ingested and outputted.

Why use a Playout solution

If you are looking to start and run a TV, OTT or even a YouTube channel you may want to look at playout solution options. A playout system will allow you to ingest multiple video and audio feeds (live and non-live) into one dashboard, these feeds can then be arrange to form scheduled programming, for example you may wish to run a 24/7 shopping channel that has multiple pre-recorded and live segments as well as advert breaks. Some playout systems may also have video editing functionality, graphic insertion and monetisation options. Without a proper playout solution in place it would be extremely difficult to organise and schedule your overall TV programming.

Playout software

Playout was, and often still is, run on hardware servers located on-premises within the MCR, but this is now changing due to the increasing use of playout software or cloud playout systems. This offers a lot more flexibility to production teams and reduces the upfront CAPEX cost of installing and managing a playout system. Playout software also means that it has now become a lot more accessible to smaller broadcasters, production companies, OTT providers or anyone who is looking to start and run their own TV channel.

Playout software vs cloud playout

It is important to make the distinction between playout software and cloud-native systems. Software (like any other software package) is generally installed locally on a PC, laptop or server. This generally means that playout software intrinsically has limitations in terms of accessibility. Cloud-native playout systems on the other hand are built and run on AWS or Google Cloud servers, this means they can be accessed anywhere at any time and are more suited towards remote or distributed production. But it is also worth bearing in mind that playout software can also (sometimes) be loaded onto an AWS server, meaning that teams can access the software from any computer with an internet connection. Depending on your requirements, it’s worth researching whether the system is software-based or cloud-native.