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Ethernet Port 1

Ethernet Port 2

Ethernet Port 1

Ethernet Port 2

The indicators can have the following values:

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OK: The IP Input is receiving a valid transport stream.

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No Lock: The IP Input is not receiving a valid transport stream. If there is a connection
to this input, Dashboard Card State and the Status LED will be red.

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Disabled: The IP Input has been disabled (by setting Enable to No).

Summary of Contents for BBG-1090-TRX-MPEG

Page 1: ...Cobalt Digital Inc BBG 1090 TRX MPEG Multi Standard Modular Broadcast Transcoder Product Manual Version 1 1 BBG 1090 TRX MPEG OM Version 1 1...

Page 2: ...be construed as commitment by Cobalt Digital Inc Cobalt Digital Inc assumes no responsibility or liability for errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this manual Trademarks is a registered tradema...

Page 3: ...on within the equipment manual indicates a potentially hazardous situation which if not avoided may result in minor or moderate injury It may also be used to alert against unsafe practices Notice The...

Page 4: ...age of this manual All Cobalt Digital Inc products are covered by a generous 5 year warranty and will be repaired without charge for materials or labor within this period See the Warranty and Repair P...

Page 5: ...tics Tab 23 ASI Input Ports 24 ASI Inputs Configuration Tab 24 ASI Inputs Configuration 24 ASI Inputs Program Info Tab 26 ASI Inputs Statistics Tab 27 ASI Output Ports 28 ASI Output Ports Configuratio...

Page 6: ...ions Table 63 Connection Statistics Tab 64 Admin 66 Admin General Tab 66 Admin Firmware Tab 67 Admin Config Files Tab 69 User Saved Configurations 70 Pre defined Templates 71 Clear Current Configurati...

Page 7: ...apparatus complies with Canadian ICES 003 Issue 4 Cet appareil num rique de la classe A est conforme la norme NMB 003 du Canada This device complies with EN 55022 standards This device complies with...

Page 8: ...nd connection All power cords must be disconnected before servicing Power Cords The plug on the power supply cords is considered to be the equipment disconnect device and must be approved for the coun...

Page 9: ...s Internal MPTS Multi Program Transport Stream multiplexing and demultiplexing P SI parsing and generation ATSC table parsing MPTS to SPTS Splitting support Typical application scenarios for the unit...

Page 10: ...a three step process Step 1 Configure the input Step 2 Configure a transcoding instance if desired As part of this step a connection between the input and the transcoding instance can be established S...

Page 11: ...words program and service interchangeably Redundancy Options The IP inputs in the unit can be configured to support transport stream redundancy This means that the unit can be configured with a prima...

Page 12: ...p address port combination if configured for automatic redundancy The automatic switch timeout can be set to a value between 2 and 45 seconds This level of redundancy is available for all IP input por...

Page 13: ...rack mount tray that holds up to three units Back Panel The rear I O panel is depicted below It includes 2 ASI inputs and 2 ASI outputs on standard BNC connectors two streaming 100 1000 Mb s Ethernet...

Page 14: ...al Each of the ASI output ports has a green indicator LED with the following states LED off ASI port is disabled LED flashing multiple times per second ASI port is transmitting packets Each of the Gig...

Page 15: ...the ASI output rear I O panel indicators ASI 3 corresponds to ASITX 1 and ASI 4 corresponds to ASITX 2 XC 1 and XC 2 LEDs these LEDs flash if the unit is transcoding XC 1 corresponds to transcoder ins...

Page 16: ...is powered off and then power up the unit while holding the switch the following actions will be performed The control IP address mask and gateway are reset to the factory defaults as described above...

Page 17: ...ASI Outputs this tab is used to configure monitor the ASI Output ports IP Inputs this tab is used to configure monitor the IP Input ports The configuration panel provides the facilities to create man...

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Page 19: ...Tab The Product Tab contains basic information about the unit The following information is available Build Date Date the firmware image was built Supplier Cobalt Digital Incorporated Product BBG 1090...

Page 20: ...ng the card has been running since it was last rebooted Ambient Temperature Temperature in degrees centigrade of the air intake of the card measured at the front edge of the card Internal Temperature...

Page 21: ...do not plan to connect that port to a network IP Address Enter the desired IP address for this Ethernet port Please note that the unit uses a block of 4 IP addresses for internal communication these a...

Page 22: ...Force the port to 100Mb s Full Duplex mode Note that the port will still perform auto negotiation but it will only advertise this mode o 1Gb s Full Duplex restrict the operation to 1Gb s Full Duplex m...

Page 23: ...shboard Card State will be red and the Status LED in the front of the board will also be red If Alarm on Link Loss is set to No this indicator will still be red but the alarm will not propagate Port 1...

Page 24: ...ormation about the programs found in that transport stream ASI Inputs Configuration The Configuration tab is divided into two areas The ASI Inputs table which displays an overview of the ports It cont...

Page 25: ...ided into three sections The port configuration parameters For ASI Inputs the parameters are o Port Name All inputs and outputs can be assigned a user defined port name This name is used to identify t...

Page 26: ...MT PID Transport Stream ID Element PIDs The following elements are present ASI Input Select which input to display The selection uses the port names configured in the previous step Header Information...

Page 27: ...depicted below Each of the ASI Input Port indicators can have the following values RX Locked The port is locked to an input signal RX Disabled The port is disabled RX Unlocked The port is in receive...

Page 28: ...bit rate in bits second Port Name This reports the configured Port Name Edit Button Clicking on this button allows reconfiguration of the port The ASI Port Configuration screen appears with the setti...

Page 29: ...ft checked Only uncheck it if you want to isolate the devices downstream of the transcoder from table changes o Generate SDT If you check this box a Service Description Table SDT will be generated Ser...

Page 30: ...changes made in the Configuration Parameters to be implemented any connections marked for deletion to be removed and any new connection entered in the Add Connection area to be established Clicking o...

Page 31: ...e Status LED in the front of the board will also be red To correct this problem either externally reduce the input bit rate or increase the ASI output bit rate or configure the port in Automatic mode...

Page 32: ...tected Number of MPEG 2 Transport Packets per UDP datagram between 1 and 7 no support for IP fragmentation Addressing support unicast multicast and broadcast Configurable source IP address filtering C...

Page 33: ...ream input as a whole regardless of the redundancy options Redundancy Control allows selection of the redundancy mode Addressing Parameters allow selection of the network stream to be received Establi...

Page 34: ...or fault finding Most users will leave the stream enabled Stream Name All BBG 1090 TRX MPEG inputs and outputs can be assigned a user defined name This name is used to identify the port later when mak...

Page 35: ...redundancy flips are done by selecting an existing IP Input port for configuration This operation is described in the Active IP Inputs Table section Addressing Parameters The Addressing parameters al...

Page 36: ...ast address either the all hosts broadcast address of 255 255 255 255 or a subnet broadcast address Note that this is extremely rare in practice Source If desired the BBG 1090 TRX MPEG can filter pack...

Page 37: ...Apply button to make it active If there are no errors the port will be created and the configuration area disappears If any errors are detected they will be displayed at the top of the Apply button T...

Page 38: ...table provides a summary of the configuration and status of the input stream An example of this table in the Basic view is depicted below The Basic view includes the following Enabled The configured...

Page 39: ...nced view is selected additional fields appear in the table as depicted below The Advanced view includes all items in the Basic view plus the following Backup Mode The configured value of this paramet...

Page 40: ...ble the Program Name is displayed If the transport stream contains a Service Description Table SDT the Service Name is displayed here If the transport stream contains a Virtual Channel Table VCT used...

Page 41: ...he following values OK The IP Input is receiving a valid transport stream No Lock The IP Input is not receiving a valid transport stream If there is a connection to this input Dashboard Card State and...

Page 42: ...ured and deleted Before any ports are created the Configuration Tab appears as depicted below To create an IP Output stream first select the desired Ethernet port in the Add Stream drop down box Once...

Page 43: ...rs are as follows Enabled This allows the output stream to be enabled or disabled If it is disabled no packet transmission takes place This feature is provided for testing purposes i e temporarily dis...

Page 44: ...O IEC 13818 1 but some systems support it o If you are not sure about what kind of decoder will be receiving the stream enable NULL packets This control offers the following options o Disabled NULL pa...

Page 45: ...vice TOS byte in the IP header also known as the Differentiated Services DS field Valid values are between 0 and 255 Configuring this is only useful if the downstream router is configured to honor the...

Page 46: ...rrors the port will be created and the configuration area disappears If any errors are detected they will be displayed at the top of the Apply button Two types of errors can be reported 1 Errors relat...

Page 47: ...ng Enabled The configured value of this parameter TS Bit Rate b s This column provides the current bit rate of the output transport stream This does not include UDP and IP overhead UDP Port The config...

Page 48: ...e default gateway These MAC addresses are obtained using the ARP protocol The BBG 1090 TRX MPEG uses a custom MAC address management algorithm designed specifically for MPEG operation When an IP Outpu...

Page 49: ...utput is operating normally either streaming or ready to stream No Response The IP Output is configured for unicast operation but it does not have a destination MAC address Dashboard Card State and th...

Page 50: ...on to configure a specific transcoder session When the button is clicked the transcoder configuration area is displayed This area is divided into three parts The Transcoder Configuration section which...

Page 51: ...on selects the output compression standard of the transcoding session The options are H 264 MPEG 4 Part 10 or MPEG 2 The BBG 1090 TRX MPEG only supports two MPEG 2 sessions Not all parameters describe...

Page 52: ...higher than the input resolution Audio Compression The following selections are available o Input Pass Through do not transcode the audio pass it unmodified to the output o MPEG 1 Layer II transcode...

Page 53: ...EG to choose the appropriate service type depending on the compression standard and bit rate Otherwise the following types can be selected digital television service used for MPEG 2 SD MPEG 2 HD digit...

Page 54: ...ctual output frame rate will be the integer division of the input frame rate closest to the value entered Profile this selects the H 264 Profile The options are o Default automatically choose the prof...

Page 55: ...is set to MPEG 2 the following parameters are not available MBAFF Profile Successive B Frames Reference Frames GOP Type Transcoder Established Connections If there are any connections already establis...

Page 56: ...ed If there are no errors the transcoder configuration area closes If any errors are detected the configuration area remains open and an error message is displayed by the Apply button The possible err...

Page 57: ...if the input stream is corrupted encrypted or has an unsupported compression type This status may also be briefly displayed when the transcoder is starting Check the input to see if it is decodable Co...

Page 58: ...put output connections in the BBG 1090 TRX MPEG As indicated in the figure the Connections configuration area is divided into two parts a source selection and a destination selection Source Selection...

Page 59: ...rt drop down list The options are o Ethernet 1 UDP IP Input streams from Ethernet Port 1 o Ethernet 2 UDP IP Input streams from Ethernet Port 2 o Transcoder Transcoded programs o ASI Input Streams fro...

Page 60: ...t the desired program in the transport stream If the port is already actively receiving a transport stream this list will be pre populated with the programs found in that transport stream Moreover if...

Page 61: ...program number can be entered in the Program Number field Destination Selection The Destination Selection operates in the same fashion as the Source Selection It is again a three step process where a...

Page 62: ...m number will be automatically selected by the BBG 1090 If possible the card will use the same program number as the Source Program The program number will be changed only if there are already other c...

Page 63: ...low The following columns are available in this table Source Port Source Name these columns have the current source for the connection Source Port indicates the type of port and Source Name indicates...

Page 64: ...nsport stream is being received by it if it is an output it means that it is either transmitting or ready to transmit Warning The stream is configured but may not be running The situations where this...

Page 65: ...oversubscribed ASI or IP outputs ASI Outputs with Automatic Rate will be in this state if they do not have data to transmit Transcoders can also be in this state if they encounter an error A sample o...

Page 66: ...e set configurations as well These are managed in this tab Test Packet Generator Manages the Test Packet Generator License Keys Contains the current licensing state of the BBG 1090 TRX MPEG and allows...

Page 67: ...ems or failed updates Image 1 and Image 2 can be updated at will Since the card offers two upgrade images it is always possible to fall back to the previous image if there are any problems with the cu...

Page 68: ...date information for the corresponding firmware images If no image is present this field will indicate No Image Upload Location This field contains the location where the image upload will go The BBG...

Page 69: ...power cycled it will come back in the same configuration In addition to automatic configuration persistency the BBG 1090 TRX MPEG also offers the ability to save up to 5 complete configurations load...

Page 70: ...s The Status Message Area will indicate the result of the operation Config Delete Button If you click on this button the corresponding configuration and its description are deleted Config Save Button...

Page 71: ...to Devices Pre defined Templates The BBG 1090 TRX MPEG offers 5 pre defined configuration templates as indicated below To load a template just click on the Load button next to it The pre defined templ...

Page 72: ...ation Button The Clear Current Configuration button clears all the configured ports and streams as follows All ASI Ports are disabled All IP Inputs are deleted All IP Outputs are deleted All Connectio...

Page 73: ...ng areas TPG Configuration Parameters described in this section The Established Connections table This indicates all the current connections from the port Connections can be removed by clicking on the...

Page 74: ...m value is 213 000 000 bps Admin License Keys Tab The BBG 1090 TRX MPEG has a number of optional licensable features The Admin License Keys Tab is used to manage these features Using this tab you can...

Page 75: ...Key button If the key is accepted you will see the message License Key Installed OK as illustrated above If there are any problems you will see an error message in the same location The following are...

Page 76: ...s o Info These are informational events All configuration actions are logged with this severity When an error is cleared for example an ASI Input regains lock the event is logged with this severity as...

Page 77: ...me controller has access to the Internet you can point it to one of the public NTP servers for your region You can find more details on this link http psp2 ntp org bin view Servers WebHome The full Ad...

Page 78: ...order oldest entry to newest Log View The user interface can display the last 10 events You can choose to see the last 10 events of any kind by selecting All or you can restrict the view only to Info...

Page 79: ...g Display If you click on this button it clears all log views This is useful to quickly identify any new events after the unit has been set up Note that this action does not clear the logs stored in n...

Page 80: ...es being used as well as the connection network IP or ASI between the gateway and any other devices 3 The Technical Support information from the gateway itself This is downloaded from the Support tab...

Page 81: ...ainer support must be installed in the web browser The Open Source VideoLAN player includes appropriate plugins that will work with the bitstream coming from the BBG 1090 TRX MPEG The VideoLAN player...

Page 82: ...upport enabled and will definitely not work across the Internet To get started simply point a web browser to the IP address of the desired BBG 1090 TRX MPEG Ethernet port http transcoder_ip The BBG 10...

Page 83: ...0 TRX MPEG are known to work with the VideoLAN plugin versions 2 0 1 to 2 1 3 and the following web browsers Windows Internet Explorer versions 9 0 2 9 0 29 Mozilla Firefox versions 7 0 31 0 Google Ch...

Page 84: ...duct registration form In the event of a warrantable defect the purchaser shall notify Cobalt with a description of the problem and Cobalt shall provide the purchaser with a Return Material Authorizat...

Page 85: ...nfo cobaltdigital com E MAIL Sales Information Sales cobaltdigital com Cobalt Digital Inc 2406 East University Avenue Urbana IL 61802 USA POSTAL SERVICE Visit us at the Cobalt Digital Inc website http...

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