ADENA Hack: How to let your audience members choose KS-CC1 subtitle languages on their own devices?

Our closed captions and translation station KS-CC1 can work with 3 languages at the same time: 1 captioned language, i.e. the speaker’s language, and 2 languages chosen from the list of supported translation languages. The station provides a number of ways to display these languages: in an RTMP stream, through the HDMI output together with the connected video source or without it, as pure text, or even as a recorded .srt and .txt file. 

But there is one more option which makes the devices an even better fit for inclusion of multilingual local audiences. The KS-CC1 can generate a QR code which leads to its web subtitles page. On this page, users can select which of the 3 selected languages they want to see the subtitles for. The page is adapted for mobile devices, but can be opened through computer browsers too. By default, the link is ‘IP address of the KS-CC1/subtitle/#/’. You can change this link in the Administrator web page of the station in ‘Live Transcription’ -> ‘Live Caption preview’. Here is an example:

Scanning the code will open a page that looks like this:

You can change the appearance of this page and which language is displayed in the top-right part of the page.

Thus, with the KS-CC1 it is simple to provide a way for your audience to follow the event in their own language.

Would you like to know more about the KS-CC1 or other AREC solutions? Let us know at www.a-dena.com, we are always ready to help.

ADENA Hack: How to record videos on a USB drive with AREC without changing the file system?

All AREC Media Stations can save videos on USB drives. To be used for storage, the drives must first be formatted through the station’s “Administrator” web interface. The station changes the drive’s file system to “Ext4”, which is a typical file system for Linux OS. However, it is not natively supported by Windows or MacOS. This means that you cannot use the same drive interchangeably between an AREC station and a standard computer without changing the file system and consequently erasing all files on this drive. Changing the file system is not necessary if you plan to export the videos, but it requires the video to be saved on a storage beforehand since exporting simply copies the recorded file. Currently, the LS-US2 Media Station is the only one that can record directly on USB drives without changing their file system.

LS-US2

KS-CC1

To use this feature, go to the station’s “Administrator” web page, navigate to “Video” -> “Recording”, and enable the “Record to USB” option. KS-CC1, although not technically a Media Station, also has this feature and it can be enabled in the same way through its “Administrator” page. With the “Record to USB” mode enabled, the station can save files directly on USB drives as long as the drives are using an accepted file system, such as FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, Ext3, or Ext4, and have sufficient space. Please note that when “Record to USB” is enabled, the station will not save individual video sources and the files will only be stored on the USB drive. If you need individual video sources, or you need copies of the recording, you will have to use other storage modes.

If you want to learn more about the other storage options available on AREC and how to set them up, check out our free ADENAcademy training course, specifically Level B, Lesson 7: “Storing and backing up recorded videos with AREC”. For further information about AREC devices, please contact us at www.a-dena.com and we will be happy to answer you.

ISE 2023 Summary

Dear ADENA Partners, ISE 2023 successfully concluded and we would like to go through the highlights for those of you who were not able to attend.

We demonstrated several new technologies this time:

• LS-410 - an upcoming 4-channel model Media Station that supports Dante Audio, NDI-HX, SRT, and USB audio/video sources.

• ARECare hardware units - three base models with different I/O that support point-to-point video conferencing with annotations, recording, streaming, and automatic backup.

• SDVoE Transceivers - for matrix, video wall, and digital signage uses with support of up to 4K@60fps and minimal latency over great distances due to SDVoE technology.

• KS-CC1 Closed Captions Station - compact recording and streaming solution with simultaneous captions and translation into two additional languages.

Apart from these new products, we also showcased the DS-4CU Speaker Tracking Station with a Televic Confidea microphone system, AREC IR auto-tracking cameras CI-T21H and CI-T10, a number of Media Stations - KL-3T, LS-860, LS-110, LS-US2 - and a variety of RADA products, such as the A-BR01 HDMI-to-USB bridge with flawless image transmission, wireless microphone system RADA Duo, as well as conferencing cameras A-VC01 VersaCam and A-TC02 OnyxCam.

We will demonstrate our new products in an upcoming webinar on the 16th of March. Click here to sign up and watch the presentation live on our YouTube channel. And if you would like to have a private demonstration of any of these or other products, simply fill out the contact form here.