At ITC 2026, Delta Digital Video demonstrated how its video encoding, decoding, distribution, and rugged mission video technologies work together to move high-quality video from source to display.
The live demonstration brought several DDV products into one workflow, showing how video can be compressed, streamed, decoded, displayed, and made available for downstream processing across flight test, ISR, range, and other mission-critical applications.
Real-Time Video Streaming & Display
At the center of the demo were the Model 5480E Video Encoder and Model 5480D Video Decoder.
A live video source was processed through the 5480E, compressed using H.264, H.265, or JPEG-XS, and transmitted over Ethernet to the 5480D for real-time decoding and display.
Supporting multiple compression standards on the same platform gives system designers flexibility to balance bandwidth, image quality, interoperability, and latency based on the needs of each mission.
The demonstration also showed the processed video alongside the original source, providing a direct look at DDV’s ability to deliver high-quality, low-latency video from source to display.
Video Distribution for Larger Mission Systems
DDV also highlighted its 9600 Series Video Distribution Systems, designed to bring multiple video channels together within a scalable ground or control-room architecture.
These systems support applications where video from multiple sources must be encoded, transported, decoded, routed, and displayed across a network, extending the same standards-based video approach demonstrated with the 5480 Series into larger system configurations.
The Model 9600 and 9610 pair with the 5480E and VEC500 to form a complete encoder-to-distribution path for shipboard combat systems, ground stations, and tactical
operations centers
Rugged Video for Airborne & Mission Platforms
Beyond the ground demonstration, DDV showcased rugged video solutions including the 7825R and 7840R, extending real-time video encoding into airborne, mobile, and SWaP-constrained environments.
These systems are designed for applications where video must move reliably from cameras, sensors, and payloads into mission networks despite demanding platform and environmental requirements.
Together, DDV’s commercial, rackmount, OEM, and rugged products provide multiple ways to build the video architecture around the platform rather than forcing every application into the same configuration.
Extending Mission Video into AI Workflows
The demonstration also highlighted how DDV video can support emerging AI-enabled detection and tracking workflows.
Reliable, low-latency video from DDV encoders can be delivered to downstream AI processing systems for applications such as object detection, tracking, metadata generation, and operator awareness, then passed onward for display and exploitation.
The workflow is straightforward:
Video Source → Encode & Stream → AI Processing → Operator Display
This allows AI and machine-vision capabilities to be integrated into the mission architecture while DDV provides the standards-based video transport connecting the source, network, processing system, and operator.
One Video Architecture, Multiple Mission Requirements
From an airborne camera to a ground station, control room, recorder, exploitation system, or AI processor, mission video may take very different paths.
DDV’s approach provides the encoding, decoding, streaming, and distribution building blocks needed to move that video through each stage while maintaining the image quality, latency, and interoperability required by the application.