Kairos is an open-source industrial strength media platform and API based upon the groundbreaking precept that the media is the platform, not the technology. Kairos eases the workflow associated with organizing and monetizing content, saving money, time and manpower. Think of it as a tool belt that wraps around your files. Any given video can do more with Kairos involved – even decide to become something other than a video, like an audio-only version or a screenshot image.
Architected to encode large amounts of audio and video simultaneously to multiple output formats, Kairos automates building an extensive and flexible multimedia catalog around the source masters. Input files are automatically ingested from a "magic folder" on the local computer, transcoded to multiple formats, uploaded to remote clouds and CDNs and integrated into any number of existing applications across multiple platforms (e.g. television, mobile devices, web sites).
Additionally, metadata is synchronized across the files, stored in a database with more sophisticated information about the library and offered through extensive web APIs. Kairos elegantly maintains, parses and sorts multimedia content according to file properties and metadata tags.
In today's rapidly changing media market, the best way to survive and grow your business profits is the ability to manage, shape-shift and deliver your content catalogue to the consumers in the way THEY want. The only solution is to create once, play everywhere; edit once, edit everywhere. The answer is Kairos: an open source media management, content conversion and content delivery system.
Kairos Elements and Processes
- CONTENT INGESTION - master file source ingestion: (save, sync, capture from multiple entry points)
- POND STORAGE - local and remote distributed storage: (sync to multiple ponds, multiple clouds, CDNs, servers,)
- TRANSCODE and REBATCH - derivative file creation and management: (add new formats on the fly, transcode inplace)
- FILES SYNC - distribute files and maintain source/derivatives relationships across entire system: (MySQL, catalog view, naming conventions)
- METADATA SYNC - extract and syndicate Metadata from source master to derivatives and MySQL: (Edit once, Edit everywher)
- COMMUNICATION SYNC - create automation, flow, system logs, human notifications: (reduce human workflow, process management, and complexity)
- ADMIN - Dashboard Web Interface / Searchable Catalog Views / Tools and Controls: for Transcoding, Rebatch, Metadata editing/translating, File Sync, Output Syndication, Access Control
- INTEGRATE - unlock barriers in market fragmentation, workflow, and infastructure: (Paywalls, Platforms, Applications, Modules, Feeds,)
- ACCESS CONTROL - add additional levels of security, backup and redundancy: (User Permissions, User Sessions, User Submissions)
- PLAYBACK - Format, Quality, Size, Delivery Methods, Players, Devices, User Level: (create once play everywhere)
- UNIFY AND CONVERGE - Workflow and system operations: Visualization of Catalog, File Locations, File Access, User Permission, Analytics, Statistics, Accounting
