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The transition to IP using SMPTE 2110 has been broadly successful in a studio environment but interoperability in the live and near live domain still has work to go. A recent innovation from the BBC could provide the answer.
The Time-Addressable Media Store (TAMS) API developed by BBC R&D is a new way of working with content in the cloud. It’s an open specification that fuses object storage, segmented media and time-based indexing, expressed via a simple HTTP API. It is intended to lay the foundations for a multi-vendor ecosystem of tools and algorithms operating concurrently on shared content all via a common interface. In effect, blending the best of live and file-based working.
The open-source API specification was launched to the industry at IBC2023 which is where AWS sourced it as the basis for a proof-of-concept Cloud-Native Agile Production (CNAP) workflow, demonstrated at IBC2024.
AWS was particularly interested in the potential of TAMS to streamline the process of fast-turnaround editing in the cloud in an open, modular way...
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