Stretch your archive
from 3 to 9 months.

Stretch TV recording archive to from 3 to 9 months

ShowSqueeze all your TV recordings to triple your storage.

With ShowSqueeze, SnapStream's built-in transcoding engine, you can triple your storage capacity overnight. Enable ShowSqueeze rules to reformat all, or just some, of your TV recordings to H.264 or WMV from SnapStream's native recording format, MPEG-2. All it takes is a quick conversion to shrink each file down to one-third of its original size! Turn on automated ShowSqueezing to help save space and as a result, extend the shelf life of recordings in your TV archive. Just set it, forget it and watch the MBs melt away. If only losing lbs was so effortless.

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Why convert to WMV or H.264?

SnapStream's ShowSqueeze feature can transcode to a variety of video codecs, but the most desirable ones are H.264 (also known as AVC), WMV 7 and WMV 9 (Windows Media Video). These compressed formats are the golden standard when it comes to Internet streaming because they offer similar video quality at smaller sizes. In fact, H.264 packs the same exact quality at half the bitrate of MPEG-2. H.264 is king for the iPhone and iPad, and anything high defintion, such as Blu-ray discs. H.264 is universally playable in QuickTime, which is freely available for both Mac and Windows. WMV 9, compatible for HD-DVDs as well, naturally plays in Windows Media Player, which is also freely available for Windows or Mac.

Smart post-processing rules.

Brand new to SnapStream 5.4, set up all kinds of advanced post-processing rules at the job level. When a recording finishes, what do you want to happen? Perhaps you want two copies made, one in WMV 7 and one in H.264. Great. Now, where do you want those saved? Just specify a folder destination. For example, all shows categorized as news will save in the folder called "news." With folder permissions on top of that, you can take it a step further and route specific types of recordings to specific users or groups. Major workflow boost! The friendly drag-and-drop rule builder gives you complete control and flexibility with setting these preferences on the fly. And the nice thing is, you only need to configure it once. Then let ShowSqueeze take care of the rest. Automagic.

Crunch file sizes to free up space.

Let's say you have a 3TB SnapStream SD recording all of your TV content at best quality. Under this profile, you'd be able to keep over 43 days worth of footage if you were ingesting content 24/7. Put another way, you'd be able to store 1,047 hours of TV programming. Hey that's decent, but you can do at least three times better!

ShowSqueeze all of your TV shows to WMV or H.264 at best quality, and boom—your archive depth will instantly triple in size. Now you can store 3,017 hours (or 125 days of 24/7 recording) instead of just 1,047. The margin of increase comes out to 1,970 more hours! And if you record or transcode to lower bitrates than best quality (i.e. better, good or fair), then you'll be able to stretch the archive even longer over time.

Transcoding to a smaller video size like H.264

MPEG-2
(original)

Video Quality	Better (default SD)
File Size	2,240 MB
Resolution	720x480
Bit-rate	5 Mb/s

ShowSqueezed to H.264

Fair	Better	Best
246 MB	641 MB	1,140 MB
352x240	640x480	720x480
.4 Mb/s	1 Mb/s	2.5 Mb/s

ShowSqueezed to WMV

Fair	Better	Best
306 MB	757 MB	1,002 MB
352x240	480x360	640x480
.65 Mb/s	1.7 Mb/s	2.3 Mb/s

Example applications for automatic ShowSqueeze

Police Departments

Police departments are usually required to keep a media archive dating back at least three months, but any PIO would rather preserve content for as long as possible. Advanced ShowSqueeze rules can be configured to maintain a three-times-larger video stockpile, stored at lower resolutions.

iPads and iPhones

It's easy to share SnapStream TV content on iPads and iPhones with ShowSqueeze. Set it up to transcode whichever recordings you'd like to H.264, which is the Apple-optimized streaming standard for mobile devices.

TV broadcasters

TV stations generally maintain airchecks for one year, for billing purposes and accuracy monitoring. Recorded 24/7, this video can take up immense disk space. With ShowSqueeze rules, TV stations can transcode files to reduce their size and triple the average recording's shelf life in SnapStream.

Need to transcode a lot of video?
There's a node for that.

The ShowSqueeze engine is seamlessly built into SnapStream to turn out your average order of transcoding tasks on a daily basis. But depending on your bandwidth limits and workflow pace, you could benefit from having a dedicated SnapStream ShowSqueeze Node to delegate the workload. For instance, if you're looking to drastically clear out hard drive space or e-mail TV clips at a high rate, a turbo boost of ShowSqueeze power would serve you well. Plus, the ShowSqueeze Node takes advantage of SnapStream's clustering technology, so you can transcode any number of shows, from any recording schedule, to any number of formats. As a fully integrated transcoder, ShowSqueeze also preserves the native search meta data, something a third-party solution cannot do.

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