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Introduction
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This document describes Spycer, the innovative data and content control software developed by the Rohde & Schwarz DVS GmbH (in short
’DVS’). With the software you can easily maintain transparency and
control over video and audio data and their corresponding metadata.
Accompanied by a conclusive rights management, browsing, searching and viewing of video and audio material can be done without any
difficulty. Several management tools supplement the usage of Spycer
comprising, for example, a renaming function, an integrated highspeed copying process, a sophisticated defragmentation of image sequences as well as the new P2 and XDCAM workflows.
All the above said can be achieved on the respective computer system
locally with one Spycer alone, but the real benefit comes when several
Spycer applications operate combined in a network. Then they form the
SpycerNet, a scalable distributed content management network for
data search and retrieval. For example, the instant a Spycer application
detects new clips on its local storage (the watched folders) they and
their metadata are made available to all other Spycer applications present in the network immediately. Furthermore, to perform management
tasks such as a defragmentation or a copying, your Spycer may be controlled by other Spycer applications or you may control others available
in the SpycerNet. Of course, all these behaviors can be fully configured
via a rights management.
Spycer can be run on a standard computer system and does not require
any special DVS hardware. On several DVS video systems, such as
CLIPSTER or the Pronto family, it is already integrated in the respective
DVS software and accessible the same way as the other software modules.
There are several different variants of Spycer available, from Spycer Basic providing a limited feature set to Spycer for DVS-SAN able to access
storages in the StorNext file system (SNFS). For further information
about the different variants please refer to section “Program Variants of
Spycer” on page 1-6.
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