SVG Europe Audio has confirmed its first speakers for the upcoming DMF Audio Forum. Taking place live online on Wednesday 24 June from 3pm to 4.30pm (UK time), the event, which is sponsored by Appear and Telos Alliance, will see the panel discuss Dynamic Media Facility (DMF) reference architecture and its media exchange layer (MXL) for live sports audio environments.
Guests will hear and be able to contribute to the conversation as Andy Rayner, CTO at Appear, John Schur, founder of Minnetonka Audio and president of TV Solutions at Telos Alliance, plus Phil Myers, Lawo CTO and Paul Markham, TV, radio and media technologist, get into the details of the topic chaired by SVG Europe’s Roger Charlesworth.
Originally conceived by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the DMF reference architecture provides a blueprint for building flexible, scalable and vendor-agnostic media infrastructure and reframes the broadcast facility as a cluster of interchangeable, software-defined media functions running on general-purpose compute – on-prem, in a data centre, or in the cloud.
MXL technology at the heart of DMF acts as a high-performance shared memory fabric within the DMF processing cluster, creating a communications mesh. Many key audio solution providers are now rushing to announce MXL implementations.
The implications of MXL for live sports audio environments are potentially enormous, offering greater flexibility, cloud native compatibility, and enhanced remote production virtualisation. In this live online session, our panel of experts explores the implications, benefits, and challenges for audio in an MXL-enabled DMF production environment.
Rayner commented: “We see the future of live production processing as being all software based; that is the inevitable destination of this industry technology. Therefore it is important that we create an interoperable toolkit addressing audio as well as video – and real time metadata – in native computing. These initiatives – the vision of the DMF and the low level software ‘media connector’ that is MXL – are giving us a framework in order to get there. I am encouraged by the engagement of key vendors as well as significant end-users in helping drive these initiatives.
“With respect to the technical detail, my key focus is that the components (such as MXL) that we are working on provide the necessary hooks to allow a full end-to-end system to fully function as we will need. A lot of the JT-DMF initiatives currently in-flight are helping address several of these system-level needs,” Rayner concluded.
Telos Alliance’s Schur said: “The Dynamic Media Facility architecture is making us rethink how we create content and distribute media. It’s a unique collaboration of broadcasters and manufacturers with many benefits for both, in efficient resource utilisation, scalable operations, and flexible integrated workflows. Telos Alliance sees tremendous value in DMF and we’ve included it as a key platform in our product roadmaps. We’re looking forward to a lively discussion at the SVG Europe DMF Forum.”
More speakers will be announced soon.
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