Norway’s NRK Achieves Greater Efficiency With Interra Systems’ BATON File-Based QC Solution

The Latest Version Delivers Significant Improvements in User Interface and Performance

---(27 Mar 2025)

The Latest Version Delivers Significant Improvements in User Interface and Performance

CUPERTINO, Calif. — March 27, 2025 — Interra Systems, a leading provider of end-to-end quality assurance solutions for the digital media industry, announced that Norway’s public service broadcaster, NRK, is using BATON — Interra Systems’ AI/ML-enabled QC platform for audio and video — for checking finished edited programs and analyzing file sets that the company transcodes and publishes. NRK is a longtime user of BATON, and over the years, it has seen the solution evolve to accommodate customer feedback.

“We have been using BATON successfully for many years. These days, we use BATON internally to check the high-res files of finished edited programs, and we’ve been using it externally for several years, to analyze the ABR MP4 file sets that we transcode and publish to our origin partner, and further, to our web service,” said Kjell Ove Nordlien, Senior Engineer from the Technology Division of the Production Systems Department of NRK. “Our engineering team depends on BATON a great deal for our video quality.”

BATON automates QC processes, supporting high standards for quality and compliance. NRK has deployed the most recent version of the solution, which includes framework updates, enhanced video quality checks for 4K files, support for RDD59 specifications, direct analysis of image sequence formats, optimized MXF file verification, advanced diagnostic tools for system health monitoring, and improved API. The technology stack operates on Python 3.x with a Postgres database and the Django web framework, resulting in a more responsive interface, increased scalability, and optimized resource management. It also features enhanced performance for UHD content QC, optimized IMF analysis, support for Sony 360 RA analysis, improved cloud support, advanced video and audio quality checks, comprehensive Dolby Atmos support, and expanded format support.

“NRK is a highly respected broadcaster in Europe; it was an early adopter of BATON among the preeminent members of the European Broadcasting Union. Over the years, we have seen NRK broaden its use of BATON,” said Ashish Basu, executive vice president of global sales and business development at Interra Systems. “We invest a lot of research and development effort into BATON based on customer feedback. NRK’s expanded BATON usage is a result of that customer orientation.”

Interra Systems will display the BATON QC platform, along with its full suite of compliance and content monitoring solutions, at the 2025 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 6-9, in booth W1921.

More information about Interra Systems solutions can be found at www.interrasystems.com.

NRK’s web service can be found at tv.nrk.no.

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About Interra Systems
Celebrating 25 years of excellence in 2025, Interra Systems is a global leader in end-to-end quality assurance for the evolving media industry. The company is a one-stop shop for broadcasters, streaming service providers, and other media companies as they work to ensure quality, accuracy, and compliance at every stage of their IP and OTT workflows. Interra Systems’ advanced video analysis, automated QC, captioning, and end-to-end monitoring tools have become essential for some of the world’s top media companies.

Interra Systems' award-winning portfolio includes the enterprise-class BATON automated QC system; BATON Captions with live captioning and ML scoring capabilities; ORION content monitoring platforms for 24/7 quality assurance; and VEGA media analyzers for in-depth video inspection, debugging, and standards compliance.

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