XentauriX este o platforma de control si administrare ce incorporeza tehnologia CVOD (Continuous Video on Demand) dezvoltata de firma artec technologies cu care se pot realiza proiecte complexe si interactive de Streaming Media pentru Business and Web-TV, Divertisment, Cinema-on-Demand, TeleLearning. Cu procedura CVOD se obtine contopirea conceptelor de Livestreaming si Video-on-Demand (VOD). Caracteristicile principale sunt:

XentauriX provides completely new perspectives within the area of Web-TV. Even during a live transmission, all transmitted contents are immediately accessible via Video-on-Demand (VOD). The user determines the point in time at which he wishes to view the contents, either live or with time displacement. Program highlights can be individually targeted for call up; each and every section of the contents can be repeated. This feature can be commercially marketed as a Pay-per-View function. Costs for time-extensive VOD editing are omitted; archiving is done automatically. On-site time on web pages is increased by this interactivity, yet the system enables a more balanced use of circuit and system capacities through CVOD.

Through the continuous recording of TV broadcasts, XentauriX offers a unique possibility to access television programs which will no longer be transmitted or repeated. Accordingly, a market for TV providers emerges which – taking into consideration licensing rights – is inestimable. Previously transmitted TV programs can be viewed via the Internet at any time and from any location.

Broadcast and Web-TV complement each other ideally.
Pay TV becomes more viable, for viewers are especially willing to pay for expert or specialized information. Business and hotel TV assume completely new dimensions. Complementary to Web-TV streaming and archiving, XentauriX is appropriate for all kinds of live web transmissions and events such as concerts, seminars, entertainment etc. By the redistribution of network load (see below) both the carrier and the direct service provider enjoy an immense advantage.

Redistribution of network load
With XentauriX the load levels of data networks are better distributed. If a viewer knows that it is not absolutely essential for him to be present for a live transmission because he can view it any time via time shifting, load levels become much more evenly distributed. This technology thus helps ensure that peak-time overload resulting in network collapse will no longer occur. For this very reason, NASA has decided to transmit exclusively via VOD.

Increased on-site time and more frequent visits
The possibility to call up previously transmitted content and combine that with payer functions such as stop, pause, fast-forward and rewind offers to the user completely new interactivity and increases on-site occupancy for the provider. In particular, highlights of concerts subject matter, which can be repeated individually, give Pay TV an excellent marketing foundation. The category "Erotic" alone will benefit from this technology enormously.

Business with XentauriX Data and Competency Centers for Carrier and Backbone providers.
In XentauriX Data and Competency Centers, TV, live events, feature films, etc. are centrally streamed, stored, administered, invoiced and forwarded via XentauriX server systems to customers and interested persons. The Data Center attains a key position in streaming. All essential hard- and software is supplied by one source for customers with either regular or sporadic events.

Business with sporadic events
Transmission of entertainment such as concerts, sport events, public festivals, video auctions. Funding is obtained via advertising, direct invoicing or club membership fees

Business with regular events
Transmissions from vacation sites, discotheques, video shopping, plenary sessions of parliaments such as the Lower House of the German Federal Parliament and local parliaments, soap operas

Business with Live Video Internet Games
Completely new game variations are made possible here by the combination of live video and VOD, for example in role playing or interaction among players in the course of a game. XentauriX is ideally applicable here, as the participants can view elapsed game segments at any time and are always informed about its current status.

Business with a 'virtual gatekeeper'
Through the standardization of the transmission CODECs, central video-surveillance centers can be created with remote object-surveillance. From such a center, for example, parking lot/garage gates or entrances can be observed and operated after business hours or on weekends. This eliminates additional personnel costs for gatekeepers or security guards – a true cost saving.