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Manual Part No. MAN-SAEGS-005

December 18, 2013

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Summary of Contents for Electra 9200

Page 1: ...Electra 9200 Standalone Encoder RELEASE 01 Getting Started Guide Rev A...

Page 2: ...romptly return the System with a dated receipt to the seller for a full refund 2 LICENSE Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement including payment we hereby grant you a nonexclusive nont...

Page 3: ...fend and hold us harmless from any and all claims arising therefrom or relating thereto In addition if the Products or Software are identified as export controlled items under the Export Laws you repr...

Page 4: ...given procedure but which if followed might make the procedure or its subsequent steps easier smoother or more efficient In addition to these symbols this guide may use the following text conventions...

Page 5: ...er Requirements 7 Displaying SAG 8 Navigating with SAG 8 Installing Platform Firmware 11 License Requirements 12 Setting Up the Device 12 What s Next 12 Chapter 3 Electra 9200 Encoding Tutorial 13 Wor...

Page 6: ...audio encoding adapters Multiple output types IP and ASI The encoders support a range of use cases including conversion between SD and HD formats conversion for IPTV or cable time shifting This guide...

Page 7: ...iew and reset management port IP address backup and restore of service configuration Administration of the device including setting device name device clock communication with other servers global def...

Page 8: ...m displays a SAG page similar to Figure 2 1 on page 8 Navigating with SAG When you browse to an encoder device SAG displays information about that device Navigation tabs to move between task pages Con...

Page 9: ...LED status Reboot Reboots the device Rebuild PSI Rebuilds PSI tables for all services on the device You can set the PSI to rebuild automatically in the Administration Global Settings General NOTE Whe...

Page 10: ...I These settings apply to any 576i service when the output aspect ratio setting for the video stream is set to take the aspect ratio from VI or WSS Licensing View the feature licensing installed on th...

Page 11: ...the device running SAG The firmware file is named with the version number and has a tgz file extension and checksum For example a sample file name could be i_09 18 00 74tgz 712ca616 3 Load the new ve...

Page 12: ...nse Alarms are remitted when you apply a valid license for the feature or when you disable or delete the affected stream For more information about licensing see the online help and the release notes...

Page 13: ...lowing from the inputs The Logical Outputs shows the encoded services that are being output The Physical Outputs shows the output ports and sockets that carry the output services Figure 3 1 The Config...

Page 14: ...DI 1 and choose Add New Add a Baseband Video and a Baseband Embedded Audio Figure 3 2 Adding streams to Logical Inputs When you add the audio you indicate the group and pair that carry the audio If yo...

Page 15: ...rt Stream SAG creates the TS and Program Figure 3 3 Dragging the input service to the output 2 Enter a descriptive name for the program and click OK For this example we ll leave all the default proper...

Page 16: ...r removed For this example we will only look at the main panel The values here are set by default To process the incoming video you might need to change some of these settings The most important setti...

Page 17: ...at the main panel The values are set by default To process the incoming audio you might need to change some of these settings The most important settings to consider are in the Encoding section Since...

Page 18: ...s and manage PSI table generation you look at the services in the Logical Outputs panel while in Table View You change the view at the top of the panel as shown in Figure 3 4 1 Change to Table View an...

Page 19: ...t ports as shown in Figure 3 5 Note that TS 1 is not assigned to a physical output yet Figure 3 5 Physical Outputs Creating an IP Socket The Electra 9200 uses GbE ports 3 and 4 for output In this exam...

Page 20: ...k For information about the settings you can make see the online help for this configuration page 3 Now add a socket Right click GbE Port 3 again and select Add New Set the IP Type to Unicast or Multi...

Page 21: ...A Configuring an Encoder with SDI Input and IP or ASI Output Figure 3 6 GbE port with socket 4 Drag and drop TS 1 to the new socket Notice that the TS 1 entry now includes an IP address in its name t...

Page 22: ...uring an ASI Port Sending the output TS to an ASI port is very similar to sending it to an IP socket However the ASI card needs no configuration and the Ports 1 2 entry is already available under the...

Page 23: ...rebuild the PSI automatically in the SAG Administration Global Settings General page It is enabled by default If you do not have the device configured to automatically rebuild PSI go to the device tas...

Page 24: ...to an A V encoder card The tutorial showed minimal configuration for a video stream and an audio stream It showed how to assign the output TS to an IP socket and to an ASI port To encode a video progr...

Page 25: ...one pool must belong to the same transport stream 1 In the Configuration page create a transport stream with two programs as shown in Figure 4 1 Each program contains a video stream these are the str...

Page 26: ...processing for this stream If set to CBR the stream is always assigned the nominal bitrate Min Video Bitrate Mbps The minimum bitrate used for the stream in the pool The Min Video Bitrate cannot be h...

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