The VB7880 Objective QoE content extractor performs objective video and audio measurements of MPEG-2, H.264 and HEVC streams and offers remote video-wall capability. The VB7880 content extractor offers thumbnail and metadata extraction for up to 100 TV multicast streams concurrently via GigE interfaces. The VB7880 content extractor is ideal for visual at-a-glance monitoring in the NOC, VOC, head-end or remotely via any standard web browser.

The VB7880 is typically placed before scrambling insertion in the head-end and the extracted metadata and decoded imagery is fed to the VideoBRIDGE Controller. Disruption of descrambling services is one of the main causes for service production disruptions in the head-end, and for the first time cost-effective monitoring of scrambling is available. Further applications are in middleware scenarios for generating channel mosaics or for extracting channel metadata such as picture resolution, video bandwidth or wide screen signalling information.