The TAG Multiviewer empowers users to design and manage highly customizable mosaic layouts for real-time monitoring of multiple video and audio channels. The intuitive drag-and-drop system allows channels-filtered by criteria such as label, service, device, or group-to be easily arranged within the mosaic. Users can further personalize their layouts by setting unique names, choosing background colors or images, and leveraging tags for efficient filtering and organization, even in large-scale environments.

Each tile within a layout can be configured and customized with up to eight Under UMDs, tally, audio, text and more, providing clear visual indicators and status information for each channel. The interface supports advanced features such as dynamic UMD updating, on-screen alarm displays, and flexible background customization via color picker or image upload. Once configured, layouts can be quickly assigned to outputs, ensuring that operators have a tailored, actionable view of their monitored streams.

Technical Overview:
In addition to its intuitive layout management and customization features, the TAG Multiviewer delivers robust technical performance designed for demanding broadcast and streaming environments. Each MCM instance supports up to 16 independent mosaic outputs per server, with every mosaic capable of displaying up to 100 input sources (tiles) simultaneously. Operators can fully customize the size and arrangement of each tile-including side-by-side split-screen views-and assign up to 32 independent audio pairs per mosaic transport stream output. Each tile supports up to 16 audio tracks and 8 Under Monitor Displays (UMDs), with tally integration via TSL protocol or the TAG API, and dynamic UMD updating for operational flexibility. Mosaic backgrounds can be set using either video or image files, and output resolutions range from SD and HD to UHD, with simultaneous support for uncompressed, compressed (TS), and HLS outputs-including both unicast and multicast delivery.

The system is engineered for ultra-low latency, real-time monitoring, and headless operation, ensuring seamless integration into automated workflows. Advanced features include on-screen clocks, count up/down timers, streamed JPEG thumbnails for each input, and specialized display modes such as Carousel and Penalty Box for dynamic monitoring scenarios. Custom tile layouts can be configured and assigned to outputs through the Layouts Configuration interface, which supports powerful filtering by tags, groups, and channel attributes for efficient management at scale. These capabilities make the TAG Multiviewer a scalable, responsive, and highly customizable monitoring platform, ideal for complex, mission-critical operations.

Zero Friction® is TAG’s unique licensing model designed to provide users maximum flexibility and long-term value. With Zero Friction®, every license unlocks the entire TAG platform- across all workflows, stream types, and functionalities. This means operators, engineers, and administrators can use the same license for probing, monitoring, multiviewing, decryption, recording, QC and more without being limited by function-specific entitlements.

Licenses can be dynamically assigned in real-time, adapting to changing operational needs across teams, locations, or events. Whether scaling up for a live sports broadcast, shifting resources for cloud distribution, or enabling new QC features, Zero Friction® ensures that customers can instantly take advantage of TAG’s full functionality without additional procurement cycles.

This model not only lowers operating costs by maximizing utilization of existing licenses, but also eliminates technology debt by guaranteeing that all new TAG features are available the moment they are released. The result is a future-proof operation that can scale seamlessly while ensuring operators always have access to the industry’s most advanced monitoring and multiviewing capabilities.

Operator Console is TAG’s intuitive control panel designed for day-to-day operations. Instead of requiring access to system configuration, operators can directly interact with a visual mirror of the live mosaic via a touch-supporting interface. This allows them to switch predefined layouts, choose feeds per tile, listen to source audio, control appearance of alarms and trigger display changes instantly- without accessing the underlying configuration.

By separating operational control from system setup, Operator Console reduces the chance of human error while enabling operators to act quickly in live environments. Teams gain an accessible, easy-to-use tool that streamlines workflows, keeps focus on content, and eliminates unnecessary complexity.

The result is more efficient daily operations, reduced training needs, and a safer way to manage live monitoring environments. With Operator Console, TAG gives operators the power to manage multiviews dynamically and confidently, while engineering teams retain control over core configurations.

Penalty Box is TAG’s dynamic error-focused view. Instead of displaying every monitored stream, it automatically pulls only those that exceed thresholds you define – such as video freezes, audio drops, or metadata mismatches – into a dedicated multiview.

This ensures operators immediately see the problem streams, without wasting time scanning through dozens or hundreds of healthy ones. Penalty Box continuously updates in real time, so once an error is resolved, the stream disappears from the view, keeping focus sharp and uncluttered.

By concentrating only on streams in error, Penalty Box reduces the number of “eyes on glass” required, minimizes CPU and screen usage, and accelerates root-cause identification. The result is leaner operations, faster response times, and lower costs – all while maintaining the same level of quality and reliability.

TAG Bridge is the communication layer between TAG systems that eliminates redundant processing and network strain. Once a source is ingested by one Multichannel Management (MCM) instance, Bridge creates optimized signal proxies that can be shared with other TAG locations or teams. This means video, audio, and metadata only need to be decoded once, then distributed efficiently to any mosaic, anywhere.

Key benefits include:

• Optimized bandwidth use: delivers display-ready, visually lossless resolutions (up to UHD) based on mosaic layout and tile size.
• Reduced compute load: removes the need to decode and process the same stream in multiple places.
• Flexible deployment: supports on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud workflows.
• Dynamic scaling: adjusts stream delivery with low-latency scaling and compression.
• Simplified orchestration: separates input and output processes for efficient control via TAG’s Media Control System (MCS).

By freeing up inputs and avoiding duplicate stream ingestion, Bridge lowers operational costs while giving distributed teams seamless access to the same content. Whether for global monitoring centers or hybrid cloud setups, TAG Bridge ensures sources can be viewed anywhere, anytime- without exhausting network and compute resources.

Technical Overview

TAG Bridge functions as an interconnect layer between TAG systems, designed to distribute pre-scaled and pre-processed content across multiple geographic or operational locations without duplicating stream ingestion or decoding. It transfers video, audio, and metadata as compressed IP signals optimized for low latency and bandwidth efficiency.

Each Bridge connection encapsulates decoded content into lightweight, visually lossless proxy streams that are dynamically resized based on mosaic tile dimensions and resolution requirements. The Bridge output supports up to UHD (2160p) per tile, with adjustable encoding profiles to balance quality and network load.

Bridge operates over UDP, RTP, and SRT transport layers, supporting both unicast and multicast delivery models. It preserves all associated SCTE, HDR, and audio metadata across the transmission path, ensuring that downstream TAG instances receive complete analytical context without the need for reprocessing.

At the system level, Bridge is managed via TAG’s Media Control System (MCS) and API 5.0, which handle stream registration, bandwidth allocation, and endpoint authorization. The feature integrates directly with Adaptive Monitoring, allowing remote TAG systems to share active-decoding resources and escalate probe levels based on event thresholds.

Bridge is fully compatible with hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, allowing workflows to span across on-premises, AWS, Azure, or private data centers, while maintaining synchronization through time-stamped metadata and network timing protocols (PTP / NTP).

This architecture allows distributed teams to visualize identical multiview mosaics or subsets of the same content, all without redundant stream acquisition or decoding overhead. TAG Bridge therefore acts as the transport backbone for multi-site operations – connecting monitoring, visualization, and analytics environments into one unified media network.

QC Station extends TAG’s Realtime Media Platform with advanced, scope-like video quality tools directly inside the multiviewer. Operators and engineers can see real-time metrics alongside the live video itself, including ETR, video, audio, SCTE, subtitles, and more. In addition, QC Station offers deep color analysis with vectorscopes, waveforms, luminance and chrominance monitoring, HDR validation, and audio channel checks.

Unlike threshold-based alarms, QC Station provides continuous visibility of metrics, enabling faster troubleshooting and deeper analysis of high-value streams. By consolidating QC into the same environment as monitoring & multiviewing, it removes the need for additional tools, reducing both operational cost and technical complexity.

QC Station helps media companies protect revenue by ensuring content integrity and compliance with industry standards. Engineers gain precision tools for detecting artifacts and misalignments, while operators benefit from immediate visibility in their daily workflows. The result: faster issue resolution, consistent quality at scale, and streamlined operations.

Technical Overview

QC Station extends TAG’s probing architecture by embedding engineering-grade measurement tools directly within the live multiviewer. It operates on decoded video, audio, and metadata streams, providing per-frame and per-field analysis that adheres to industry measurement standards.

At the video level, QC Station supports luminance and chrominance scopes including waveform, RGB parade, and vectorscope, along with live histogram and gamut visualization. Measurements are sampled at native frame rate and bit depth (8–10 bit), allowing operators to validate brightness levels, color balance, and saturation in real time. The system flags deviations such as over-range values (IRE > 100), color space violations, and gamut clipping across Rec.709, Rec.2020, and DCI-P3 color spaces.

Audio analysis includes true-peak, short-term, and integrated loudness readings compliant with ITU-R BS.1770-4 and EBU R128. Each channel is individually monitored for silence, phase errors, and level imbalance. Waveform overlays allow correlation between audio and video timing, providing immediate insight into sync accuracy and A/V drift.

For metadata, QC Station can display SCTE-35/104, HDR metadata, and subtitles/caption timing, ensuring all ancillary data remains synchronized with picture and sound. It can also detect mismatched HDR flags or incorrect transfer functions (e.g., PQ/HLG), crucial for HDR/SDR consistency.

QC Station outputs detailed metrics via API 5.0, Redis, and SNMP, enabling integration with Grafana, Kibana, and DataMiner dashboards for historical trend visualization. Thresholds for every parameter – video luminance, color saturation, audio loudness, or subtitle timing – can be configured dynamically through MCS.

By consolidating scopes, analyzers, and compliance monitors into a single software environment, QC Station eliminates the need for external hardware QC devices. This integration provides precise engineering insight directly in the operator view, reducing tool fragmentation and ensuring technical compliance across the broadcast flow.

TAG’s HDR & SDR Color Analysis equips broadcasters and content providers with advanced QC capabilities designed for today’s multi-format video environments. Supporting all major HDR standards – HLG, PQ, HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision – alongside SDR, the platform validates that every signal is delivered with the correct color space, brightness, and metadata.

Operators can deploy waveform monitors, vectorscopes, and histograms directly within the multiviewer to analyze luminance, chrominance, and color fidelity in real time. These tools reveal issues such as highlight clipping, crushed blacks, or incorrect color saturation, ensuring consistent quality across all distribution paths.

For hybrid workflows, TAG allows side-by-side HDR/SDR comparison, providing immediate visibility into tone mapping and down-conversion accuracy. Embedded test patterns and format-aware switching further simplify setup and calibration.

By integrating these QC functions within TAG’s software environment, users eliminate reliance on external scopes and manual measurements – reducing operational complexity while preserving creative intent and protecting the viewer experience.

Technical Overview

TAG’s HDR & SDR Color Analysis engine operates within the Realtime Media Platform, continuously validating both static and dynamic HDR formats across broadcast and OTT delivery chains. The system measures luminance, chrominance, saturation, and gamma transfer functions frame-by-frame, using internal waveform and vectorscope modules that maintain 8- to 10-bit precision.

Color management validation extends across Rec.709, Rec.2020, and DCI-P3 color spaces, with automatic detection of incorrect EOTF assignments or range mismatches between source and output. The platform logs and verifies AFD and HDR metadata (including MaxCLL, MaxFALL, and mastering display data) in ST 2110, ST 2022-2, and OTT formats such as HLS, DASH, and MSS.

All parameters are monitored in real time through TAG’s unified probing layer, which performs over 500 simultaneous checks on video, audio, and metadata. Detected inconsistencies are flagged in the multiviewer interface and can be exported via API 5.0, Redis, Kafka, or SNMP for integration with Grafana, Kibana, or DataMiner dashboards.

This architecture ensures pixel-accurate HDR/SDR verification without external devices, providing an automated, standards-compliant framework for color consistency and quality assurance across any workflow or format.