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Table of Contents

GENERAL & SAFETY INFORMATION

SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS & CAUTION STATEMENTS ......................................................................................................... 4
GENERAL DESCRIPTION & FEATURES ............................................................................................................................... 6
SPECIFICATIONS .................................................................................................................................................................... 7 
FRONT AND REAR PANEL OPERATION .............................................................................................................................. 8

INSTALLATION & SETUP

INSTALLATION & POWER-UP ............................................................................................................................................... 10
COMMUNICATING WITH THE UNIT  ..................................................................................................................................... 11

UNIT CONFIGURATION

ACCESSING THE UNIT VIA WEB BROWSER  .................................................................................................................... 12 
MAIN TAB  ............................................................................................................................................................................... 13

     STATUS SCREEN ..................................................................................................................................................................................13
     VIDEO SCREEN ....................................................................................................................................................................................14
     AUDIO SCREEN ....................................................................................................................................................................................15
     TS CONFIG SCREEN ............................................................................................................................................................................16
     IP SCREEN ............................................................................................................................................................................................18
     QAM SCREEN .......................................................................................................................................................................................19
     OUTPUT SCREEN .................................................................................................................................................................................20
     REFRESH TAB ......................................................................................................................................................................................21

NETWORK TAB  ..................................................................................................................................................................... 21

  

ADMIN TAB  ............................................................................................................................................................................ 22
TIME TAB  ............................................................................................................................................................................... 25
EVENT LOG TAB  ................................................................................................................................................................... 26

 

APPENDIX

A. VIEWING IP OUTPUT ON VLC MEDIA PLAYER  ............................................................................................................ 27

SERVICE & WARRANTY

SERVICE .................................................................................................................................................................................. 30
WARRANTY ............................................................................................................................................................................. 31

Summary of Contents for DSE24A

Page 1: ... Holdings LLC DSE24A Digital Signage MPEG 2 Encoder with QAM Output INSTRUCTION MANUAL Model Item Description DSE24A 1002571A Digital Signage MPEG 2 Encoder with QAM Output DSE24A Rack Panel 1002565A Rack Mount Panel for 2 DSE24A Encoders ...

Page 2: ...l property rights Reverse engineering or disassembly is prohibited Purchase Location Name Purchase Location Telephone Number DSE24A Serial Number Manual Revision Rev C Manual adds support for custom video and transport stream bit rate settings firmware v1 0 1 Rev B Manual adds cross link cable to Installation Setup Unpacking on page 10 Rev A First User Manual for DSE24A Encoder firmware v0 9 0 0 ...

Page 3: ...LATION POWER UP 10 COMMUNICATING WITH THE UNIT 11 UNIT CONFIGURATION ACCESSING THE UNIT VIA WEB BROWSER 12 MAIN TAB 13 STATUS SCREEN 13 VIDEO SCREEN 14 AUDIO SCREEN 15 TS CONFIG SCREEN 16 IP SCREEN 18 QAM SCREEN 19 OUTPUT SCREEN 20 REFRESH TAB 21 NETWORK TAB 21 ADMIN TAB 22 TIME TAB 25 EVENT LOG TAB 26 APPENDIX A VIEWING IP OUTPUT ON VLC MEDIA PLAYER 27 SERVICE WARRANTY SERVICE 30 WARRANTY 31 ...

Page 4: ...able system This will prevent damage to the product due to lightning and power line surges 16 Power Lines An outside antenna system should not be located in the vicinity of over head power lines other electric light or power circuits where it can fall into such power lines or circuits 17 Overloading Do not overload wall outlets extension cords or integral convenience receptacles as this can result...

Page 5: ...nd access is through a GUI based menu via Web browser Distribution is over legacy coaxial networks This provides instant access to an extensive network of digital displays capable of viewing valuable ad based or informational video in a vibrant high definition format FEATURES Receives High Resolution Component Composite VGA or HDMI non HDCP content protection from one video source QAM and IP Outpu...

Page 6: ...andwidth Impedance 75 Ω Return Loss 14 dB typical Signal to Noise Ratio SNR 40 dB typical MER 40 dB typical I Q Phase Error Less than 1 degree I Q Amplitude Imbalance Less than 1 IP Connector s 1x RJ45 Rear panel Standard 100 1000Base T Ethernet TS Bit Rate Variable user selectable UDP RTP Supported user selectable GENERAL Mechanical Dimensions W x D x H 8 66 x 9 15 x 1 96 inches 219 9 x 232 41 x ...

Page 7: ...ED indicates the status of input video and audio as follows Green Both Video and Digital Audio inputs are present Red Either the Video or Digital Audio is not present or internal temperature is too high Note The encoder does not sense analog audio inputs Therefore if the Audio is set for Analog the status indicator will only be valid for video Power LED indicates if the unit is receiving power Gre...

Page 8: ... Component Video input The RCA connector marked Y is also used for Composite Video input CC RCA connector marked CC for Analog NTSC Closed Captioning EIA 608 also known as Line 21 which will then be digitized and inserted in the MPEG 2 Transport Stream of the Component HDMI and VGA inputs ETHERNET 1 GIGE RJ45 connector for 100 1000Base T Ethernet interface for monitoring and configuring the unit T...

Page 9: ... to be mounted in a 1RU You can mount the chassis in a standard EIA 24 inch 610 mm deep enclosed rack Secure the rack chassis front panel to the rack by inserting four machine screws with cup washers through the four mounting holes in the front panel When installing units in a headend rack it is recommended to leave a 1 rack unit space 1 75 high between units to maximize air flow Power Up To power...

Page 10: ...the Properties d A dialog box entitled Local Area Connection Properties will appear In this box double click on the Internet Protocol Version 4 TCP IPv4 e A dialog box entitled Internet Protocol Version 4 TCP IPv4 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 ...

Page 11: ...ve Password pass case sensitive Monitoring and configuration of the unit is achieved via a series of web pages described in following sections The following read only information is displayed in a white page header 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...

Page 12: ...tes the transport stream bitrate see of Main Tab Video section and the TS Bitrate see of Main Tab TS Config section In the section entitled Output under the blue header the following parameters about the output are displayed IP indicates the encapsulation method IP address and the port number to which an output is assigned QAM indicates the RF channel number of the QAM output Unit Configuration Fi...

Page 13: ...iltering coefficient Level 1 filtering of the video will smoothen the sharp edges of the pixels and produce a softer image The softer an image the less number of bits required to encode the image at the quantizer level Video Coding Mode user must select the Video Coding Mode Options Frame and Field Factory Default Frame HDMI Colorspace allows the user to select the color space of HDMI input source...

Page 14: ...also indicates the channel format The unit supports 2 0 L R audio is a dual channel Left Right Dialog Normalization behaves as an audio Automatic Gain Control AGC or Dynamic Range Control DRC It has the ability to take different incoming audio levels and normalize them The ability of the Dialog Normalization depends on the configuration of the Dynamic Range Control The unit allows you to adjust th...

Page 15: ...evels and attenuate high levels iv Music Standard suitable for program content that is mainly made up of music where the sound level is to be normalized reducing the loudness to be consistent with other programs It has a null bandwidth of 10 dB 31 to 21 dB and can add up to 12 dB of boost for low levels and attenuate high levels v Music Light similar to Music Standard but with a null bandwidth of ...

Page 16: ...der gray header Input indicates the program selected by the user It includes the Input video source and audio source PID user must enter the PID value for each stream PID Packet Identifier values are embedded by the content provider in the MPEG 2 stream to identify tables and programming packets Program Number user must enter an output program number The PMT Program Map Table provides information ...

Page 17: ...inal 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 circulating on an IP network perpetually The range is 1 to 255 Factory Default 128 Stuffing Null packets are inserted to ensure that the TS bitrate assigned in of the Main Tab TS Config section remains c...

Page 18: ... 16A 32A 64A 128A and 256A For most applications in the USA the recommended QAM modulation mode is 256B Output QAM Map user must select the desired QAM Map Options are STD IRC and HRC Output QAM Data Rate indicates the maximum data rate depending on the selected QAM mode for example 5 3605 Mbaud for QAM 256B Output QAM Interleaver indicates the interleaver value for the QAM mode QAM Lock State ind...

Page 19: ...PID is 101 102 A Analog indicates that the input audio source is Analog and the elementary stream PID is 102 Bitrates indicates the assigned transport stream bitrate see of the Main Tab Video section for details and the TS Bitrate see of the Main Tab TS Config section for details In the section entitled Output under blue header the following parameters about the output TS are displayed IP displays...

Page 20: ... web screens Options are 5 15 30 or 60 minutes Factory Default 5 minutes Ethernet IP Address for details see of the Admin Tab section Ethernet Subnet Mask for details see of the Admin Tab section Ethernet Default Gateway for details see of the Admin Tab section Unit Configuration Figure 9 Network Tab 1 2 5 3 6 4 7 8 9 10 15 11 16 12 17 Remember to click on the SAVE button to apply the new values c...

Page 21: ...10 characters maximum This login allows the user to make changes to any area of the unit Login is case sensitive Factory Default Admin Current Password is the Administrator s Current Password 10 characters maximum Password is case sensitive and will not be displayed Factory Default pass 1 2 Figure 10 Admin Tab Screen 1 2 4 6 8 11 14 16 18 22 20 3 5 7 9 10 13 15 17 21 19 23 12 ...

Page 22: ...ated file or update an existing file Software Firmware Update Click Choose File to select the firmware update file to be applied by Update Firmware Software When update is initiated an update screen will appear and will display time remaining to complete update When update is complete unit will automatically reboot and return to admin screen Restore Previous Firmware Version returns the encoder to...

Page 23: ...nable disable the unit to forward error messages in red font to syslog Factory Default Disabled Syslog Informational is to enable disable the unit to forward information messages in blue font to syslog Factory Default Disabled Syslog Feedback is to enable disable the unit to forward feedback or confirmation messages in green font to syslog Factory Default Disabled Admin Tab Screen continued 21 22 ...

Page 24: ...lly enter the date and time Figure 11 Time Tab Screen Time Tab Screen The Time Tab Figure 11 is a read and write screen tthat allows the user to set the current date and time for the unit To remain compliant with ATSC and cable standards it is important to have the accurate date and time stamps For this reason it is recommended to use the NTP Server option which allows the unit to automatically ac...

Page 25: ...on for details Log Destination Port see of the Admin Tab section for details Clear Log allows user to clear the records generated during unit s boot up process and operation afterward The records are retained if the unit loses power Lines to Display allows the user to select the number of lines to be displayed The unit supports up to 400 Mb of data or approximately 65 000 lines The range is 1 to 6...

Page 26: ...e of the Main Tab IP section for details and see Communicating with the Unit on page 11 for instructions to change IP address of a computer Step 2 Using the VLC Media Player i Open VLC Media Player ii Select Media Open Network Stream iii Under the Network Protocol field enter the network address using any one of the formats depending on the Encapsulation method selected on the Main IP screen see o...

Page 27: ...ontact methods listed in Step 1 5 After completing Steps 1 through 4 an RMA Number will be assigned to you 6 Securely pack the product in its original undamaged box returning the product without its original packaging in good new condition may cause the incursion of additional fees Pack this box within another shipping container or box Mark the shipping box or container with your RMA Number Place ...

Page 28: ...OR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL INDIRECT INCIDENTAL PUNITIVE 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...

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