Ideal Systems selected by Football Malaysia LLP for live soccer on iflix
Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership (FMLLP), owners of the Malaysian Football League (MFL), have announced that they have signed up Ideal Systems for three years live production of the Malaysian Football League (MFL) for leading OTT operator iflix.
FMLLP, which is owned by the 24 member clubs of the Malaysia Football League, commenced live production with Ideal in February and will continue to November 2020. FMLLP has five Malaysian football entities under its jurisdiction, including Liga Super, the Liga Premier, The Piala Malaysia, the FA and the Sumbangsih cups.
The deal will see Ideal Systems provide live production services including, encoding and transmission of live matches from venues, IP based broadcast grade Multi camera production, distribution of matches to various 3rd parties such as Media Prima, RTM and TM UnifiTV, encoding of all matches to the iflix platform, operating the technical and monitoring facility for all matches, live ingest, editing, asset management, publishing facilities, and provide a remote production facility for live commentary, graphics and ad insertions. The partnership also covers the Malaysia Cup knockout competition, which will now be known as the Unifi Malaysia Cup, representing a total of about 100 matches a year.
iflix is a top tier subscription video on demand (SVOD) OTT service provider. From its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia it serves as a digital hosting and distribution platform offering premium OTT services to more than 6.5 million subscribers in 25 countries across Asia, Middle East, and Africa. iflix has collaborated with FMLLP and Ideal Systems to live stream every Liga Super, Piala Malaysia, and marquee Piala FA matches exclusively for football fans in Malaysia on the new Football Malaysia on iflix channel.
“We are using cutting edge IP technology for our Ideal-Live services which lead to major performance benefits and cost efficacies for FMLLP and iflix, even the Football Clubs will benefit with increased profitability and a tighter relationship with their fanbase. We are using the latest technology with new IP production platform which incorporates graphics, timers, slow-motion, instant replay, and commentary utilizing IT and IP based solutions. Our use of these new IP technologies dramatically streamlines production workflows by allowing the use of smaller and quick setup Multi-Camera Production teams together with new unmanned broadcast grade remote camera systems covering the entire field and backhauling from the stadiums across Malaysia with the latest Dejero IP encoders are able to transmit by bonding 4G cellular, public internet and satellite over IP to contribute signals to any location throughout the world. With this technology we are able to transmit any match from venue to any distribution point around the world either to any on premise broadcaster or directly to a cloud-based service or a CDN if desired. This allows FMLLP to quickly scale and provides the flexibility to distribute rights and carriage around the world,” said Fintan McKiernan, CEO of Ideal Systems in South East Asia.
“We chose IDEAL Systems because they offered practical solutions to our specific requirements and were not afraid to suggest – and implement – innovative technologies to bring the football closer to the viewer. We keep throwing new challenges their way, and IDEAL have managed each new situation by creating innovative, near ingenious, solutions, as well as being reliable and consistent in the regular ‘must-have’ deliverables.”