Media eXchange Layer – Today and Tomorrow
As momentum around MXL builds, Russell Trafford-Jones, industry engagement manager at Techex, explores its potential to enable seamless live media exchange across software-based infrastructures.
Cloud workflows for live video are no longer experiments; they are workhorses, constantly refined for technical and financial efficiency.
File-based supply chains were first to embrace this shift, but cost, connectivity and business drivers have converged to make live cloud production and 24×7 linear workflows ready for adoption.
Yet this progress has come despite a capability gap which breaks an underlying principle, key to television’s success for the past century: the ability to choose best-of-breed solutions without compromise.
SDI solved that problem for hardware. Standardised in the late 80s, it carried uncompressed video over a simple cable, but its real power came from ubiquity, which enabled decades of growth and innovation.
the ability to choose best-of-breed solutions without compromise
Author's summary: Exploring MXL's potential for seamless media exchange.