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XFly – Version 1.0 – Hardware Technical Reference Manual

EVS Broadcast Equipment – April 2012

Issue 1.0.D

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Specify a name for the team.

Then, click Next.

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Select the adapter to include in this team.

Then, click Next.

13.

Select the IEEE802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation type.

Summary of Contents for XFly

Page 1: ...Technical Reference Hardware April 2012 Portable NAS Storage Platform ...

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Page 3: ...Your comments will help us improve the quality of the user documentation Do not hesitate to send improvement requests or report any error or inaccuracy on this user manual by e mail to doc evs tv REGIONAL CONTACTS The address and phone number of the EVS headquarters are usually mentioned in the Help About menu in the user interface You will find the full list of addresses and phone numbers of loca...

Page 4: ...Issue 1 0 D XFly Version 1 0 Hardware Technical Reference Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment April 2012 II ...

Page 5: ...Rear Panel 3 2 2 3 Rack 4 2 2 4 PC Characteristics 4 2 2 5 Storage Characteristics 4 3 CONFIGURATION 5 3 1 GIGABIT ETHERNET 5 3 2 EVS SERVER CONFIGURATION 5 3 2 1 Network 5 3 2 2 Linx Protocol 5 4 WORKFLOWS 6 4 1 IPDIRECTOR WORKFLOW WITH TRANSFER TO AVID 6 4 2 STREAMING WORKFLOW WITH XFLY STREAMER 9 4 3 BACKUP CLIP FROM EVS SERVER VIA XTRACT 12 4 4 RESTORE ELEMENT TO EVS SERVER VIA XTRACT 14 5 PER...

Page 6: ...l Reference Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment April 2012 IV What s New This manual presents the features of the first version of XFly In the future user manuals the icon will be added on left margin to highlight information on new and updated features ...

Page 7: ...p to 8TB storage with a maximum capacity of 140 hours of HD at 100Mbps This new portable system is designed to offer EVS XT XS server series operators an easy way to back clips and feeds up When live shooting is completed the operator can simply transport the entire production including program feed multi camera angles best shots and highlights in a single storage case When arriving at the booth f...

Page 8: ... 1 OS AND SOFTWARE XFly operates under Windows 7 Pro Embedded X64 XTAccess is automatically installed as well as the following utilities Adobe Reader XML Notepad 2007 and Kasperski Antivirus 2 2 HARDWARE 2 2 1 FRONT PANEL The following elements are on the front panel of XFly one USB port one power switch one power LED one HDD LED ...

Page 9: ... x eSATA port 2 1X DVI D port 3 2 x Ethernet Gigabit ports compatible JumboFrame 9K 4 Mouse connector 5 Keyboard connector 6 4 x USB ports 7 1 x VGA connector 8 3x RS232 port DB9 M and 1X RS422 port DB9 F The port number 2 is configured as RS422 for EVS video server control 9 Audio connectors 10 S PDIF connector 11 Power supply connector ...

Page 10: ... supply So no redundancy is possible 2 2 4 PC CHARACTERISTICS Motherboard Core i5 660 3 3Ghz DRAM 4GB 1GB shared with graphic cart HDD for OS and software is a 30GB SSD flash disk this induces no partition for restore restore files are saved to HDD RAID 20GB Graphic card onboard with dual screen capabilities and 1 DVI D port D digital only Audio card onboard 2 2 5 STORAGE CHARACTERISTICS STORAGE N...

Page 11: ...ections manage Ethernet frame size Original 1500 or Jumbo Frames 9000 bytes of payload MTU which offer better performances around 30 If XFly XTAccess workstations should negotiate jumbo frames with servers all Gigabit Ethernet NICs and switches have to be configured in order to support this frame size 3 2 EVS SERVER CONFIGURATION 3 2 1 NETWORK Once Multicam is launched on the EVS server the Gigabi...

Page 12: ...TOR WORKFLOW WITH TRANSFER TO AVID IP DIRECTOR CONFIGURATION The first step of the configuration is to create 1 XML unit to point to XFly unit An XML unit is a folder located on the network and scanned by the XTAccess application XTAccess is designed to manage clip transfers on the network using the EVS server Gigabit feature The XML job files corresponding to a backup request or a clip export to ...

Page 13: ...fine Path Click on the Browse button to select the folder where the XML files will be sent This folder should be a UNC path to the network locations where the folder exists Note 1 This folder must correspond to the XFly XTAccess XML folder which will effectively manage the transfer Be sure this folder is shared with full access rights Note 2 Only UNC DNS name or IP address path are valid Ex XFLY53...

Page 14: ... complete information about XML unit creation XFLY XTACCESS CONFIGURATION XFly folder structure hosts the AVID Folder structure i e Drive_Letter Avid MediaFiles MXF 1 Drive_Letter Avid MediaFiles MXF 2 These folders must be shared to Everyone with full access rights The shared name will be the name used by IPDirector Target configuration as well as in XTAccess AVID CONFIGURATION STANDALONE MODE As...

Page 15: ...ssue 1 0 D 9 4 2 STREAMING WORKFLOW WITH XFLY STREAMER To start the recording proceed as follows 1 The local XTAccess and its related XML unit is already started and minimized in the task bar 2 Click the shortcut to launch the XFly Streamer software The screen will always appear as follows ...

Page 16: ...he server list click the arrow to display the list of available channels The selected channel is now displayed in the channel area with thumbnails generation to preview the channel 6 Repeat step 5 to select all channels desired 7 Check and if necessary modify the wrapper selected the path to save the file the format string for automatic filenaming and or the maximum duration 8 Then click REC comma...

Page 17: ...Technical Reference Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment April 2012 Issue 1 0 D 11 9 Click STOP command to stop the recording Note As the backup files need to close properly it can however take some time before all jobs are finalized ...

Page 18: ...his pane displays the three families of EVS video servers which can be seen by XTract XT 2 XT 2 XS and XTnano Select one or several server types you want to appear in the backup servers list Select backup servers This pane displays a list of all available XT 2 XT 2 XS and XTnano servers found on the network after a discovery process This list is based on the selection made in Server Visibility At ...

Page 19: ...ator will be copied to the storage unit Browse or type destination folder This pane displays the destination folder server on the network disk and folder on this disk for all files that are going to be backed up You can either enter directly the path to this directory or browse to it using the Browse button Choose File Format Select the format of the backup file among the available formats Please ...

Page 20: ... to the one in the BACKUP window Server Visibility This pane displays the three families of EVS video servers which can be seen by XTract XT 2 XT 2 XS and XTnano Select one or several server types you want to appear in the restore servers list Select Restore Servers The pane displays a list of all available XT 2 XT 2 XS and XTnano servers found on the network after a discovery process This list is...

Page 21: ... Issue 1 0 D 15 At any time you can refresh this list and start a new discovery process by clicking on the Refresh List button Once the list is displayed select all servers to which you want to restore backup files By default the restored files are sent to page 6 on the destination server ...

Page 22: ...ive codec to standard file wrapper such as EVSMXF QT OP1a SMPTE and AVID OPATOM Only one GbE port was configured during these performance tests Important note The XFly system has not been designed to process multiple transcoding jobs at a time In order to sustain multiple realtime transfers as described in the performance diagrams we recommend to launch transcoding jobs separately from realtime co...

Page 23: ...0p formats Only one GBE Ethernet port was configured during these performances tests In order to increase the number of simultaneous jobs the network configuration can be modified by defining 2 different VLANs or by configuring a Teaming LACP 5 2 TEAMING LACP This section describes how to create IEEE802 3ad Team on XFly with On board Network interfaces 1 On the Desktop right click on network and s...

Page 24: ...set the value to 9014 bytes Rem Modify also the second network adapter 6 On the desktop right click on network and select Properties 7 Click on Change adapter settings 8 Right click on the first network adapter then select Properties 9 Click on Configure 10 From the Teaming Tab select Team this adapter with other adapter 1 and then click on New team 2 ...

Page 25: ...al Reference Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment April 2012 Issue 1 0 D 19 11 Specify a name for the team Then click Next 12 Select the adapter to include in this team Then click Next 13 Select the IEEE802 3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation type ...

Page 26: ... 2012 20 Click Next and then Finish 14 Go to 15 Right click on Ethernet Team local area connection and select Properties 16 Select internet Protocol Version 4 TCP IPv4 and click on Properties 17 Complete your IP settings 18 Configure the two ports connected on your Ethernet Switch in IEEE802 3ad ...

Page 27: ...XFly Version 1 0 Hardware Technical Reference Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment April 2012 Issue 1 0 D 21 Notes ...

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