Open Broadcast Systems describes adding support for transporting and decoding more than 16 audio channels (e.g., 32 channels) within an ST 2110 IP workflow, addressing the legacy SDI-derived 16-channel limit common in many encoder/decoder designs. The post argues that many existing ST 2110 implementations retain embedded hardware constraints (DSP/CPU/FPGA resource limits), forcing workarounds like duplicating video feeds to carry additional languages. Open Broadcast Systems states its software-based low-latency encoders/decoders can handle higher channel counts without the extra video-feed approach.
This is a classic “IP workflow, SDI thinking” trap: ST 2110 removes the physical constraints, but product architectures often reintroduce them. For streaming operators and broadcasters scaling languages, alternate mixes, accessibility tracks, and commentary feeds, duplicating video just to move more audio is an expensive anti-pattern—more encode instances, more capacity, more points of failure, and trickier sync. The bigger narrative (and meme): the competitive edge in 2110-era facilities increasingly shifts to software-defined processing that can flex with payload complexity, not fixed-function boxes optimized for yesterday’s limits.
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