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Managing 50+ media formats across multiple broadcast platforms shouldn't break your workflow

Dalet's customers demand real-time ingest, encoding, and distribution. When format incompatibility stalls the pipeline, broadcasts miss air, and revenue suffers.
18 years of partnership
4 platforms powered
200+ connected partners

The business reality

For news organizations: A single encoding failure during breaking news can delay air by minutes. In live news, minutes cost audience and ad revenue.

For sports and OTT: Multi-platform delivery means the same content needs to work on broadcast, web, mobile, and streaming services—each with different codec requirements. Managing that manually is unsustainable.

For content owners and leagues: Production costs balloon when you're reworking media because it won't ingest or transcode cleanly. Format incompatibility becomes a hidden tax on every content piece.

Dalet needed a technology partner that could handle this complexity reliably, across all their products, while keeping pace with industry evolution.

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The solution

What Dalet built

Dalet unified their entire product portfolio—Pyramid, AmberFin, Galaxy five, and Brio—on a single, centralized codec foundation. Instead of building multiple codec libraries, Dalet integrated MainConcept's encoder, decoder, and transcoding SDKs across their platforms.

Instead of building or maintaining multiple codec libraries, Dalet integrated MainConcept's encoder, decoder, and transcoding SDKs across their platforms.

Business impact

  • Faster feature rollout: weeks instead of months

  • Reduced deployment friction: no custom integration work per format

  • Quality consistency: predictable output across broadcast, streaming, archive

  • Operational resilience: fewer encoding failures, more reliable on-air delivery

How it works

The Foundation

MainConcept's SDK components sit inside Dalet's application servers. They handle all media encoding, decoding, muxing, and demuxing—the core operations that move content through Dalet's workflow engine.

In Practice

Dalet Pyramid ingests raw camera feeds in native formats, transcodes to intermediate and delivery formats in real time, and orchestrates distribution to linear playout and OTT platforms. MainConcept decoders handle input formats; encoders prepare output for each distribution channel.

Why it Matters

Dalet doesn't build codecs. They build workflows. By outsourcing codec expertise to MainConcept, Dalet's engineering stays focused on what they do best: workflow orchestration, user experience, and integration with broadcast infrastructure.

The Partnership

Dalet and MainConcept have worked together since 2008, almost two decades of shared development, support, and innovation. That longevity isn't accidental; it reflects a partnership built on mutual investment in broadcast standards.

The Codec Library

MainConcept maintains the largest, most current library of broadcast and professional codecs in the industry. That's not marketing speak, it's why Dalet chose them, and why they keep choosing them.

  • Broadcast standards: MPEG-2, AVC, HEVC, VVC
  • Professional camcorder formats: Sony XAVC, XDCAM, DVCAM; Panasonic P2, DVCPRO HD
  • Modern delivery: ABR formats (HLS, DASH, CMAF)
"MainConcept has proven to be a trusted partner for Dalet since 2008. Their codec library is one of the largest in the market, with an excellent balance between speed and quality. MainConcept remains at the forefront of the industry's latest codec needs, which is critical for our customers as the media format landscape keeps evolving."
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Matthieu FasaniDirector of Product Management

What's next?

The Evolution Continues

The broadcast industry doesn't stand still. HDR adoption is accelerating. Cloud-native workflows are replacing legacy on-premises infrastructure. ABR delivery formats keep evolving. Customers expect Dalet to support all of it.

MainConcept stays ahead by continuously developing new codecs and updating existing ones to match industry specifications. Dalet's commitment is to keep their platforms current with these innovations.

For Your Organization

If your broadcast, sports, or OTT operation faces similar challenges – format fragmentation, deployment slowness, encoding bottlenecks – the approach Dalet took is replicable. Centralize your codec infrastructure. Partner with experts who dedicate engineering to codec development and standards compliance. Build your workflows on that foundation.

See how MainConcept solves format management at scale for broadcasters like Dalet.