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Page 1: ...CSI Digital xCoder User Manual March 12 2015...

Page 2: ...lution for HD and SD signals xCoder supports a very wide variety of input and output formats xCoder can encode from uncompressed sources or transcode from compressed sources The delivery format can be...

Page 3: ...e individual programs in a MPTS For example a MPTS with 4 programs in it can be split into 4 separate SPTS MPEG2 TS steams which can be processed and or passthrough the xCoder platform 2 Media Process...

Page 4: ...and settings are grouped together in user named configuration profiles You can create as many configuration profiles as you wish in the Configuration page These profiles can then be assigned to indiv...

Page 5: ...oder User Manual Aug 18 2014 Management Page The Management page has 3 tabs Network System and Update The System tab in this release is a re boot switch for user convenience if operating from a remote...

Page 6: ...rmal for some systems NTP external reference is recommended for most installations This can be an internet available NTP reference server provided by a variety of organizations worldwide or a private...

Page 7: ...ng main controls Start to turn on the Splitter Function Stop to stop the Splitter Function Restart to restart a Splitter channel Status to open detail real time stream information on running splitter...

Page 8: ...and loopback address supported PMT Passthrough or Rewrite Passthrough mode simply keeps the PAT PMT structure of the incoming stream and the outgoing SPTS has just 1 element in the PMT Rewrite create...

Page 9: ...Splitter MPTS places each program in the order of the Input Streams incoming MPTS PAT PMT table To send the output SPTS to an internal component such as the MPE or Mux use the loop back lo output with...

Page 10: ...to enter a name for your new profile in the dialog box These files are saved with extension cfg To clear settings to default values select the Defaults button You can also choose previously saved conf...

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Page 12: ...able RTCP time stamps if available from the source RTP Audio Only This mode is available for MPEG2 TS input and output via ASI or IP If the incoming signal has audio and video elements then the video...

Page 13: ...dimensions for User Override setting Input format Progressive or Interlaced frame format selection Input framerate Select the input format frame rate For IP or ASI inputs if the input resolution and f...

Page 14: ...stream Parameters are detected in the input stream and packets are corrected based on COP v3 FEC standard Buffer Delay Typical value to use is 1500 msec Larger values can be used if the input has hig...

Page 15: ...locations that the input signal will be cropped to If cropping is used it is recommended to crop to pixel boundary positions divisible by 16 to align on macroblock boundaries of the compressed video s...

Page 16: ...be included on the input section of the user interface as shown here To setup an input ATSC VSB source first xCoder must scan the ATSC Terrestrial Frequency range for available channels During the sca...

Page 17: ...te input option then the Composite Input configuration will be included on the input section of the user interface as shown here For each composite CVBS input several options are available Capture Dev...

Page 18: ...f the picture Hue The default setting is 0 Allowed settings are 127 to 128 Increase or decrease the value will shift the color values within the spectrum of defined colors Use this for course color co...

Page 19: ...t delay through the encoder less than 200 msec but has somewhat lower video quality compared to the normal mode For best video quality the regular H 264 or MPEG2 mode should be used There are 6 H 264...

Page 20: ...Quality This setting typically only available on demo versions of the product Customer can set video codec quality setting The lower the setting the more channels per chassis can be achieved The high...

Page 21: ...iety of content TV_5B_LIGHT similar to the GEN setting but has a slower transition on sharp loudness changes TV_5B_HEAVY Stronger reduction to loudness changes but results in less dynamic sound TV_5B_...

Page 22: ...le source for the overlay This can be a JPG PNG BMP or other format image file After choosing the image file select upload which uploads the image to the xCoder system After the image has been uploade...

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Page 24: ...s progressive 60 to 59 94 converts any 60 fps progressive to 59 94 fps progressive 2x input increase the frame rate by factor of 2 compared to the input frame rate Not available for input frame rates...

Page 25: ...deo signaling However lower values may be needed for some networks with high jitter downstream of the encoder for example IP network connections add jitter so a lower value may be needed PID Remapping...

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Page 27: ...ntax must be in the form rtmp IP directory where IP can be a URL or IP address and directory structure can be any directory or subdirectory string RTMP stream naming There are 2 stream naming formats...

Page 28: ...rement to from 0 to 99 and then rollover back to 0 o Manual The rollover count can be specified Depending on the value and segment size the Rollover time will be calculated and shown in the UI see bel...

Page 29: ...of the base web server directory use the following ftp 192 168 1 50 apple_cdn 2 http posting to http post the streams enter a valid web server location in the form of http URL_of_web_server directory...

Page 30: ...order to determine authentication requirements Example Akamai requires HTTP Digest authentication so to publish to Akamai you must selected Digest authentication and enter the appropriate username an...

Page 31: ...reaming servers e g Wowza o SDP and SMIL files can be optionally ftp or http posted to a remote machine by using the File Transfer Option at the bottom of the streaming page For RTPmode each stream sd...

Page 32: ...multirate TS output mode each stream can archived segmented and uploaded to a remote machine or CDN This allows to segment and archive a live stream and provide it to a CDN or other archive system for...

Page 33: ...ate xCoder can also change the frame rate per stream however most multistream protocols servers and end devices do not support this mode It is recommended to keep the frame rate of all streams in a st...

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Page 35: ...ey management server Scrambling Mode Enable scrambling by selecting a scrambling mode Currently dynamic key mode with a live ECMG server is the only supported mode Scramble RTCP If enabled data on the...

Page 36: ...orrect value Super CAS ID Select Super CAS ID matching ECMG configuration Please consult your ECMG provider for the correct value TEK Rekey Interval Specify how often the TEK short term encryption key...

Page 37: ...Server Client URL URL path for the Client server access Resource ID Unique ID for each channel Maximum Segments 0 will used fixed scrambling key A value greater than 0 will encrypt the number of segm...

Page 38: ...is key is provided by BuyDRM to uniquely identify the BuyDRM customer Please obtain the appropriate key from BuyDRM Key ID GUID This ID identifies a unique key It can be set to any desired non zero va...

Page 39: ...lution frame rate video bitrate audio bitrate INPUT Denotes the composite signal status for the channel A composite signal is being properly recognized by the capture card and can therefore be capture...

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Page 41: ...in a single line of text The scroll can be set at different speeds and vertical positions on the screen There are approximately 10 seconds of delay from the moment the user selects to start the scrol...

Page 42: ...Page 41 xCoder User Manual Aug 18 2014 The text overlay settings can be modified for each channel...

Page 43: ...graphics and 0 being all video 0 100 range is supported Scroll speed is relative to the frame rate of the content Three speeds are available Vertical Offset from the bottom of the screen is provided...

Page 44: ...refore if you need a specific language that is not included with your system make a request to your anywave support To use other languages simply insert the different characters in the text and select...

Page 45: ...treams from the pull down Channels will graph the video bit rate for each channel Individual channels can be enabled for graphing with the checkboxes NOTE If a multi rate stream is being run for a cha...

Page 46: ...termine any interoperability issues with other devices High Priority messages can be filtered to show only these In some cases to help in support issues it is valuable to send these logs to CSI Digita...

Page 47: ...following main controls Enable Mux select this check box to enable the mux feature Start to turn on the Mux Function Stop to stop the Mux Function Save Configuration save the configuration of the Mux...

Page 48: ...T Video and Audio PIDS and unique Program Number o When using the MPE Encoder Transcoder to create SPTS that are inputs for the Mux you have the option to create unique PIDS per stream The MPE Encoder...

Page 49: ...input should have Program 2 etc Unicast IP input to the Mux use IP address 0 0 0 0 To configure the Mux to receive IP SPTS from the MPE encoder decoder use the loop back IP address 127 0 0 1 for the o...

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