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SDE-6S-ASI

User Manual

Description:

Front panel connectors and indicators:

POWER LED:

This will be Green if unit is powered. Off when there is no power.

POWER

DESCRIPTION

Green

Unit is powered on and the power supply is functioning properly.

Off

Unit power is disconnected/switched off, or the power input fuse is blown/the power supply has failed

Table 1: Front Panel LED Indicators - POWER

INPUT LED:

This input LED will be Green when all the inputs that are configured through the webpage and they are

working. If even one input is not connected when it should be then the LED will be red. The analog Audio inputs

are not part of this input Status LED condition.

STATUS LED / SOFTWARE STATUS LED:

This LED will be Green when software is running in Normal mode.

DVI TEST OUT:

Multi-Channel output suitable for preview and monitoring of the ASI output.

STATUS

INPUT

DESCRIPTION

Green

Normal Operation

Green

Blinking Green-Yellow

EAS Video Switch Over Activated

Green

Red-Off-Red-Off

Video Input or ASI Input Signal Loss Detected for an Off-Air Service

Table 2: Front Panel LED Indicators – Normal Broadcast Operations

STATUS

INPUT

DESCRIPTION

Blinking Green

System Booting / Starting-Up

Blinking Red-Yellow or Red-Green

High Temperature Warning

Red

High Temperature Error System has shut down

Red

Invalid or Failed SFP Device Detected in IP-1 Socket

Red

Yellow

Invalid or Failed SFP Device Detected in Socket IP-2, 3 or 4

Red

Off

Failure Detected in System Hardware, BIST or Boot-up

Table 3: Front Panel LED Indicators – System Integrity and Status

Summary of Contents for SDE-6S-ASI

Page 1: ...bject to change without notice Trademarks are the property of their respective owner MPEG 2 SD Encoder Multiplexer SDE 6S ASI 6xSD SDI 6xNTSC 2xASI 1xIP 16 Audio Inputs and SCTE 35 Control Status Date Document No Issue No Author FINAL July 17 2014 651233400A 1 KK Stock No 6365 USER MANUAL Stock No 6365 USER MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...Laboratories Inc One Jake Brown Road Old Bridge NJ 08857 Document Number 651233400A Printed in the United States of America All product names trade names or corporate names mentioned in this document are acknowledged to be the proprietary property of the registered owners This product incorporates copyright protection technology that is protected by U S patents and other intellectual property righ...

Page 3: ...3 3 POWER UP 13 SECTION 4 COMMUNICATING WITH THE UNIT 14 SECTION 5 CONFIGURING THE UNIT 15 5 1 ACCESSING THE UNIT VIA A WEB BROWSER 15 5 2 MAIN STATUS SCREEN 16 5 3 MAIN VIDEO SCREEN 18 5 4 MAIN AUDIO SCREEN 20 5 5 MAIN SCTE 35 SCREEN 22 5 6 MAIN EAS SCREEN 24 5 7 MAIN TS MAP SCREEN 26 5 8 MAIN TS CONFIG SCREEN 27 5 9 MAIN IP TAB 29 5 10 MAIN OUTPUT TAB 30 5 11 NETWORK SCREEN 32 5 12 ADMIN HTML HI...

Page 4: ...V SYSTEM INSTALLER This reminder is provided to call the CATV System Installer s attention to Article 820 40 of the NEC that provides guidelines for proper grounding and in particular specifies that the cable ground shall be connected to the grounding system of the building as close to the point of cable entry as practical The STOP sign symbol is intended to alert you to the presence of REQUIRED o...

Page 5: ...he antenna near overhead power lines or other electric light or power circuits or where it can fall into such power lines or circuits When installing the antenna take extreme care to avoid touching such power lines or circuits as contact with them can be fatal Do not overload wall outlets or extension cords as this can result in a risk of fire or electrical shock Never insert objects of any kind i...

Page 6: ...encoding capability audio programs that are already encoded and present on the SDI inputs may be multiplexed with the respective output pass through without utilizing the baseband audio analog encoding resource The encoder also supports Closed Captioning EIA 608 and EIA 708 and Emergency Alert System EAS A front panel DVI port is available for real time monitoring of active programs during operati...

Page 7: ...TATUS LED This LED will be Green when software is running in Normal mode DVI TEST OUT Multi Channel output suitable for preview and monitoring of the ASI output STATUS INPUT DESCRIPTION Green Green Normal Operation Green Blinking Green Yellow EAS Video Switch Over Activated Green Red Off Red Off Video Input or ASI Input Signal Loss Detected for an Off Air Service Table 2 Front Panel LED Indicators...

Page 8: ...od Waiting for power cycle Yellow Off Firmware load or validation failure detected during Normal Firmware Update Sequence Waiting for power cycle Blinking Green Off Firmware Update Completed Waiting for power cycle Yellow Yellow License File and or Product Authorization Code has been Loaded and Validated Yellow Yellow License File and or Product Authorization Code has been Loaded and Validated Yel...

Page 9: ...orts embedded audio and EIA 708 Closed Captioning SCTE 35 CONTACT CLOSURE CC TERMINAL BLOCK INPUTS A dry contact between respective pins enables SCTE 35 LEFT RIGHT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 SCTE 1 SCTE 2 SCTE 3 SCTE 4 SCTE 5 SCTE 6 Table 1 SCTE 35 CC ALARM RELAY TERMINAL BLOCK OUTPUT These are normally closed contacts after the encoder has completely booted up A failure state creates an open cond...

Page 10: ... R BOTTOM 10 Ground Ground Ground Ground Table 3 Audio Terminal Block Inputs LEFT RIGHT CONTACT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 AUDIO 9 10 Audio 9 L Audio 9 L Audio 9 R Audio 9 R Ground Audio 10 L Audio 10 L Audio 10 R Audio 10 R Ground AUDIO 11 12 Audio 11 L Audio 11 L Audio 11 R Audio 11 R Ground Audio 12 L Audio 12 L Audio 12 R Audio 12 R Ground AUDIO 13 14 Audio 13 L Audio 13 L Audio 13 R Audio 13 R Grou...

Page 11: ...n pushed and held for about 10 seconds the power LED will blink once to confirm reset operation The encoder defaults to the original IP address Usernames and Passwords as shipped from the Factory shown below IP address 172 16 70 1 Username Admin case sensitive Password pass case sensitive VENTILATION FAN POWER SWITCH FUSE IEC POWER PLUG IEC 14 power inlet plug rated 110 230 VAC 1 2 0 6A 60 50 Hz e...

Page 12: ... multicast unicast MPTS output General Dimensions W x D x H 19 0 x 16 0 x 3 5 inches 483 x 406 x 89 mm 2RU Power Stock 6365 Stock 6365 48 110 230VAC 60 50Hz Fuse 3 0A 250V SloBlo 48VDC Fuse 2 0A 250V SloBlo Power Dissipation 100W MAX Weight 17 lbs 3 6 kg Operating Temperature 32 to 122 F 0 to 50 C Storage Temperature 13 to 158 F 25 to 70 C Operating Humidity 0 to 95 RH 35 C max non condensing Stor...

Page 13: ...ch 483 mm rack EIA 310 D IEC 60297 and DIN 41494 SC48D To install the encoder secure the unit s front panel to the rack by inserting four 4 machine screws with cup washers through the four 4 mounting holes in the front panel 3 3 Power up 110 230 VAC Encoders Stk 6365 Connect the line cord to a 110 230 VAC 60 50 Hz outlet Please note that the IEC power connector on the rear panel of the unit is equ...

Page 14: ...Internet Protocol TCP IP e A dialog box entitled Internet Protocol TCP IP Properties will appear Select the Use the following IP address option and enter the following addresses IP address 172 16 70 2 Subnet mask 255 255 255 0 No need to enter a value for the Default Gateway Click OK to close the dialog box Now your computer is ready to communicate with the unit OR The following steps explain how ...

Page 15: ...ration of the unit is achieved via a series of web pages as described in the Sections below The following read only information is displayed in a page header in blue color on top of each web page ESN unit s Serial number Headend name a user defined field to make identification easier Temperature temperature of unit s chipset Uptime time elapsed since last time the unit was turned on Location a use...

Page 16: ...anual 5 2 Main Status Screen The Main Status screen Figure 5 2 is a read only screen and displays Input PID and Output information of each of the six 6 programs in the transport stream Figure 5 2 Main Status Screen 2 1 3 4 ...

Page 17: ...tion Section 5 XX P1 Program 1 indicates the PMT PID 48 Transport Stream ID 1 set in the TS Config section the TS Short Name set in the TS Config section the Major and Minor Channel numbers 3 1 set in the TS Config section See Section 5 8 for details on configuring the TS Config Bitrate indicates the bitrate of the input program In the section entitled Output under blue header the following parame...

Page 18: ... The Main Video screen Figure 5 3 is a user configurable screen where the following input source parameters can be configured Some parameters are read only and are not configurable Figure 5 3 Main Video Screen 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...

Page 19: ... The factory default value is 15 i e 1 I frame for every 14 non I frames The range is 1 to 120 Video Bit Rate Control Indicates the ability to change incoming streams from VBR Variable Bit Rate to Stat MUX Stat MUX is setting an upper limit on the outgoing stream bandwidth and fitting all 6 programs into that bandwidth Video Bitrate Target This sets the upper limit target video bitrate for the out...

Page 20: ...nual 5 4 Main Audio Screen The Main Audio screen Figure 5 4 is a user configurable screen and includes the following sub tabs Encoded Audio and Programs Figure 5 4 Main Audio Screen 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...

Page 21: ...pression to be applied to signals that will be used as direct audio feeds into a TV tuner or other receive devices The factory default value is None Dolby DRC RF Mode allows the user to select the type of Dynamic Range Compression to be applied to signals that will be used for retransmission on an RF carrier and then fed into TV tuner or other receive devices at the end of the line The factory def...

Page 22: ...n the Main TS Config screen See Section 5 3 for details Encoded Video Channel Displays the video input assigned to the program number in Section 5 3 Video Input Source Displays the video input source assigned to the program number in Section 5 3 Encoded Audio Program 1 4 Any one of 16 audio programs can be assigned here This is set in the Main Audio screen SCTE 35 Displays the SCTE number 1 to 6 c...

Page 23: ...t bit information Stop Trigger The stop trigger can be set to support a specific ad insertion program A Indicates a stop or end of a splice Please refer to the specific ad insertion program for the start bit information Pre roll seconds User configurable time to set before the start of the ad to be played SCTE 35 PID Set the PID value of the outgoing SCTE 35 stream PROGRAMS Virtual Channel Number ...

Page 24: ...SI User Manual 5 6 Main EAS Screen The Main EAS screen Figure 5 6 is a user configurable screen where parameters associated with the Emergency Alert System can be set Figure 5 6 Main EAS Screen 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...

Page 25: ...short name for the channel This set In the Main TS Config screen Encoded Video Channel Displays the video input assigned to the program number in Section 5 3 Video Input Source Displays the video input source as selected in Section 5 3 2 Encoded Audio Program 1 4 Any one of 16 audio programs can be assigned here This is set in the Main Audio screen SCTE 35 Displays the SCTE number 1 to 6 configure...

Page 26: ...ch program Figure 5 7 Main TS Map Screen Input indicates the list of the programs selected by the user that are included in the TS It includes the Input program number video source and audio source Output allows the user to remove programs from the transport stream Displays PID Program Short Name and Major Minor channel information see Section 5 8 for setting the display fields 1 2 1 2 ...

Page 27: ...Bitrate overall Modulation Mode Out of Band signaling Outgoing PID value Program Number Short program Name and Major and Minor Channel number Figure 5 8 Main TS Config Screen MULTIPLEXED MPTS OUTPUT CONFIGURATION TS ID user must enter the identification number for the output TS The range is 1 to 65535 The TS ID assigned must be unique 1 1 1 2 3 4 2 3 4 5 6 ...

Page 28: ... Table provides information on each program present in the transport stream such as program number and the list of the elementary streams audio video or data Short Name user may enter the short name of the channel Up to 7 alphanumeric characters are allowed Major Channel user may enter the major channel number for the output program The range is 1 to 99 for Terrestrial and 1 to 999 for Cable Minor...

Page 29: ...pectively Time to Live is an upper limit on the time that an IP packet can exist in an IP network The value is set by the sender of the packet and reduced by every host on the route to packet s final destination If the Time to Live reaches zero before the packet arrives at its final destination then the packet is discarded The purpose of this field is to avoid an undeliverable packet from circulat...

Page 30: ...30 SDE 6S ASI User Manual 5 10 Main Output Tab The Main Output screen Figure 5 10 is a user configurable screen where the following parameters are displayed or configured Figure 5 10 Output Screen 1 ...

Page 31: ...n 5 9 Remember to click on the SAVE button to apply the new values configurations The Destination IP Address must be present before streaming occurs otherwise the session is aborted For Multicast applications the IP address must be in the range of 224 0 0 0 through 239 255 255 255 For Unicast applications the IP address must be outside the range mentioned above 1 ...

Page 32: ... 5 11 Network Screen The Network screen Figure 5 11 is a user configurable screen where the following parameters are displayed or configured Figure 5 11 Network Screen 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 23 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 22 ...

Page 33: ...Unit Name a user defined field to make identification easier Location a user defined field to make identification easier Login Timeout Minutes indicates the period of time before the unit logs itself out if there is no activity on the web screens Range is 5 15 30 or 60 minutes SFP 1 IP Address Displays the control port IP address See Section 5 12 for details SFP 1 Subnet Mask Displays Subnet Mask ...

Page 34: ... and Password values for the unit you must be logged in to the unit as Admin to access a hidden screen shown in Figure 5 12 by typing the URL of the unit followed by a forward slash and Admin html for example http 172 16 70 1 Admin html Figure 5 12 Admin html Screen 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 18 21 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 17 19 20 22 ...

Page 35: ... assigned to the Control Port of the unit It allows the user to determine which subnet the Control Port IP address belongs to The factory default Subnet Mask is 255 255 255 0 SFP 1 Default Gateway is the gateway address assigned to the Control Port It allows the user to access the unit from another network via the web interface The factory default Gateway is 172 16 70 254 SFP 4 IP Address is the s...

Page 36: ...r see of Section 5 12 for details Figure 5 13 Time Screen In the section entitled Time Adjustments the local time zone on Coordinated Universal Time UTC can be set In the section entitled Daylight Saving Time the user can apply the Daylight Savings settings either manually or automatically using the DST Adjustment option In the section entitled NTP Server the user can enter the IP address of the N...

Page 37: ...om SD Card Installs the configuration file when placed loaded on to a SD card not supplied installed in slot located on the encoder s rear panel The upgrade process takes about 15 minutes During this time the user may continuously click on the Event Log tab to view upgrading feedback The Event Log will show System Update Complete when done The encoder now requires a reboot that can be accomplished...

Page 38: ...ead and write screen where the following parameters can be displayed or configured The data in Event Log can be forwarded to a SysLog database see of section 5 12 for details The lines are color coded as follows Red font error message Blue font information message Green font confirmation or feedback message 20 21 22 ...

Page 39: ...y any person other than Blonder Tongue Service Department 9 Any modification of the product by any person other than Blonder Tongue Service Department 10 Fire flood war civil disturbance industrial action acts of God or any other causes beyond the reasonable control of Blonder Tongue 11 Any defect caused by lightning strike or power surges 12 Shipping costs to return products to Blonder Tongue for...

Page 40: ...ITIVE DIRECT OR SPECIAL DAMAGES BASED UPON BREACH OF WARRANTY BREACH OF CONTRACT NEGLIGENCE STRICT TORT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM THE SALE USE INSTALLATION OR FAILURE OF ANY PRODUCT ACQUIRED BY BUYER FROM BT All claims for shortages defects and non conforming goods must be made by the customer in writing within five 5 days of receipt of me...

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