Vectorscope
Inspect chroma distribution and directional balance alongside the live frame.
SPICA Media Operations Dashboard / Live Media NOC
WORKING PROTOTYPE
Live media operations. One coherent view.
Monitor channels, inspect adaptive streams, diagnose signal behavior, coordinate head-ends and manage incidents from one native operations console.
C++23Native application core
HLSLive playback + ABR inspection
6-UPConfigurable multichannel view
2 OSmacOS + Linux paths
Working product evidence—not a web mockup.
Every product image on this page comes from the running application. Product boundaries and unfinished production work are stated explicitly.
Monitor
See the service before the subscriber reports it.
The live wall compresses many channels into one operational view. Operators can move from confidence monitoring into a channel-specific workspace without losing the wider service context.
- 01
Live channel wall
Watch multiple services together and keep bitrate, resolution and health state visible without opening every channel individually.
- 02
HLS playback + ABR control
Inspect the active master, choose a rendition and select the required audio track while the live service remains in view.
- 03
Operational telemetry
Correlate current playback with uptime, bitrate range, status history and transport context around a channel event.
Diagnose
Put technical evidence beside the picture.
The channel workspace combines decoded video, stream metadata, selectable ABR and audio tracks, technical scopes and health history. The operator can investigate the service as one time-aligned event.
Histogram
Review luma distribution and clipping indicators without leaving the channel workspace.
Bar + LineTime
Expose bar, sync and line-timing context for operational troubleshooting.
Chroma AM/PM noise
Surface approximate chrominance noise indicators next to playback and stream health.
MEASUREMENT BOUNDARYOperational indicators are not automatically compliance instruments.
Histogram, vectorscope, Bar/LineTime and chroma-noise views support troubleshooting. Formal regulatory or contractual measurements require a calibrated signal path, documented reference levels and validation.
Operate
Connect the channel event to the place and the work.
Monitoring becomes operational when a channel can be related to its head-end, assigned service set and incident record. The dashboard keeps those workflows inside the same product context.
HEAD-END OPERATIONS
Provision with operational context.
Review location and state, inspect active tickets and manage the channel set assigned to a head-end.
INCIDENT WORKFLOW
Turn evidence into accountable work.
Create and track incidents with head-end, priority, severity and contact context attached to the operational record.
Architecture
A native console over a C++ operations stack.
The console connects media decoding, desktop visualization, REST services, persistent operational state and log ingestion. Those layers form the basis for an integrated media NOC product.
- 01MEDIA
FFmpeg playback core
Opens live HLS media, resolves renditions and audio tracks, and supplies decoded frames and stream evidence to the operator view.
- 02NATIVE UI
SDL2 + ImGui + ImPlot
Renders the desktop console, channel wall, technical scopes and historical charts in a compact native application.
- 03CONTROL
Crow REST services
Connects channels, head-ends, tickets and operational actions through a C++ service boundary.
- 04STATE
MongoDB operations data
Persists the channel, location, ticket and telemetry context consumed by the dashboard workflows.
- 05INGEST
Resilient log collection
A separate C++ ingestion path normalizes operational records with retry, backoff and update semantics.
Engineering readiness
Real capability. Clear production boundary.
The archive demonstrates a broad working product surface. A production deployment should preserve that capability while tightening security, configuration, data governance and measurement claims.
IMPLEMENTED AND VERIFIED
Implemented foundation
- Native C++23 application structure for macOS and Linux targets
- Real-time HLS playback with rendition and audio selection
- Multichannel live view with per-service bitrate and resolution context
- Channel-level diagnostics, telemetry history and health presentation
- Head-end inventory, channel assignment and support-ticket workflows
- Crow and MongoDB service layers represented in the source
BEFORE PRODUCTION DEPLOYMENT
Hardening track
- Move JWT authentication into the primary request path and add role policy
- Restrict CORS, validate every mutation and add rate and audit controls
- Externalize endpoints, credentials and environment-specific paths
- Replace placeholder geography and sample commercial data with governed sources
- Calibrate signal measurements before using them for compliance decisions
- Consolidate builds, packaging, observability and unattended recovery
SPICA media ecosystem
The operations layer around contribution and delivery.
This console complements the media path already documented across CDN++, HLS2SRT and SPICA's creator-owned BossTV evidence.
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