Lower total cost of ownership
Replace CAPEX-heavy hardware with elastic, software workflows you pay for as you use them.
Software-defined media transformation for live broadcast
The award-winning platform behind the world's most demanding live video workflows.
tx darwin is a next generation media processing framework designed for critical tier-1 content creation and transformation. It combines the focus, quality and engineering requirements of broadcast with the flexibility and approach of modern software applications to deliver a completely modular platform that is event driven and incredibly customisable.
Rather than a fixed appliance, tx darwin is a modular platform. Its building blocks combine into ready-made reference solutions for the broadcast problems Tier 1 operators face most often, from protecting live channels to distributing content to hundreds of affiliates, while staying flexible enough to adapt as your workflows change.
What tx darwin delivers
Broadcast-grade quality, preserved
Compressed-domain processing keeps quality and latency intact, without unnecessary decode and re-encode.
Automation and integration at scale
API-first and infrastructure-as-code native, so tx darwin fits cleanly into the orchestration and monitoring stack you already run.
One platform, less sprawl
A single modular platform for switching, transformation, monitoring and control, replacing rack after rack of dedicated hardware.
Faster time to air
Launch and change channels and services in software, not procurement cycles.
Why tx darwin?
Compressed-domain, no compromise
Compressed domain first, only decode and re-encode when you need to
CPU-efficient: many services run per server, not per rack
A content buffer masks sudden input loss for seamless resilience
Trusted for mission-critical delivery of the world's biggest live events
Modular, API-first architecture
Independent modules combine into reference solutions, not rigid appliances
Every capability exposed through API, for deep integration
Deploys and scales through infrastructure as code
Deep integrations with third-party control, monitoring and orchestration platforms
Product Principles
Modular
Independent, reusable building blocks that combine into reference solutions, without reworking the whole system.
Integration-led
Every capability exposed through API, connecting cleanly to third-party systems.
Built for Scale
tx darwin can be deployed programmatically with API and IaC best practices for repeatable, automated provisioning.
Transparency
Performance and issues surfaced openly, so problems are visible early, not discovered downstream.
Compressed-domain efficiency
Processing designed to avoid unnecessary decode and re-encode, preserving quality and compute.
Design and support
Expert design backed by expert 24x7 support, purpose-built for Tier 1 broadcast.
Built for Tier-1 Broadcasters
National and regional broadcasters
Modernising playout, MCR and affiliate distribution, with regional switching and content replacement powered by ESAM and SCTE-224, without ripping out what already works.
Streaming and OTT operators
Flexible, scalable workflows to launch and grow live services, backed by a software-native master control room with any-to-any codec transformation across AVC, HEVC, JPEG XS and NDI, all without legacy hardware.
Sports rights holders
Protecting and maximising the value of premium live content, with lightweight, on-demand origination for live sports and events.
MSPs and platform partners
Multi-tenant, elastic operations serving many customers and channels from a single platform, with unrestricted SCTE-35 creation and adaptation for every platform.
Consumer Multiview
Scalable, server-side multiview, built inside your own platform.
Playout Protection
Seamless, compressed-domain switching that keeps channels on air.
Intuitive interface
tx darwin is built and configured visually, not just through config files. Drag modules from the palette onto a view, a canvas where you arrange and connect the building blocks of a solution, and watch it come together in real time.
The backplane carries content and information between modules, while the event bus shares events and statistics between modules, integrations and logic blocks, so every part of the platform stays in sync.
Save your build as a blueprint, a templated configuration you or Techex can maintain and redeploy, so a solution that works once can be repeated reliably across sites and estates.
Detailed Monitoring
tx darwin surfaces performance metrics and issues openly, so problems are visible early rather than discovered downstream. Every module, integration and logic block reports into a shared event bus, giving operations teams a single, correlated view of what's happening across the platform.
Control and monitoring scale to thousands of edge endpoints from one place, with the highest grade of monitoring built in as standard, not bolted on. Deep integrations with third-party control, monitoring and orchestration platforms mean tx darwin fits into the stack you already run, rather than asking you to replace it.
How is tx darwin built?
tx darwin is built from three simple concepts.
Modules are the building blocks that do the work of transforming content, from a TS multiplexer to an AVC encoder to a switch. Logic blocks let you define automated reactions to events across your platform, from triggering a switch to raising an alert. Integrations connect tx darwin outward, to the control systems, decision servers and monitoring platforms you already run.
Bringing these together allows customers to tackle a diverse set of complex problems in a way that works best with their internal operations and platforms. At Techex, we tackle the complete problem, always designing with the outcome in mind.
Product Features
- Software-based media transformation for hybrid and cloud workflows
- Live video transcoding and adaptation across a wide range of compression standards
- Software-based seamless switching, with TS stream adaptation
- SCTE insertion and standardisation
- Graphics insertion and watermarking support
- Support for both Transport Stream and uncompressed domain processing
- Multi-protocol support for secure, protected transport
- Highest-grade monitoring, with performance and issues surfaced openly
- Control and management for thousands of edge endpoints
- Wide-ranging partner integrations and interoperability with best-of-breed technologies
- Deploys and scales through infrastructure as code, for automated provisioning
- API-first architecture, with every capability exposed for deep integration
- Catalogue: a Techex-hosted repository giving customers access to modules and integrations
- Blueprints: templated configurations, built and maintained by Techex or the customer, for fast, repeatable deployment
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