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ImmediaTV

MVN-IP360 openGear® Encoder

ITV-IP360c Standalone Encoder

ITV-IP360d Standalone Encoder

User Manual

Version 2.4

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Page 1: ...ImmediaTV MVN IP360 openGear Encoder ITV IP360c Standalone Encoder ITV IP360d Standalone Encoder User Manual Version 2 4...

Page 2: ...the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U S and other countries Flash is the registered trademark of Adobe in the US and other countries All other product names and any registered and unregi...

Page 3: ...TV Corporation 2005 De La Cruz Boulevard Suite 150 Santa Clara CA 95050 USA Telephone 1 408 496 1256 E mail Technical Support support immediatv com E mail General Information sales immediatv com Websi...

Page 4: ...witches 15 Back Panel 15 Front Panel Indicators 17 Front Panel Default Switch 17 ITV IP360d Indicators and Switches 19 Back Panel 19 Front Panel Indicators 21 The Presets Menu 22 The Config Menu 23 Th...

Page 5: ...tus 65 Output Status 69 Admin Tab 72 Admin General Tab 72 Admin Firmware Tab 73 Admin Config Files Tab 75 User Saved Configurations 75 Pre defined Templates 77 Clear Current Configuration Button 78 Ad...

Page 6: ...gs FCC Notice This device complies with Subpart B of Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions This device may not cause harmful interference This device must accep...

Page 7: ...grounded The unit must be connected to a grounded outlet to comply with product safety standards The grounded socket outlet shall be installed near the equipment and shall be easily accessible Do not...

Page 8: ...8 For USA and Canada The cord set must be UL approved and CSA certified The attachment plug must be an earth grounding type with a NEMA 5 15P 15A 125V plug and an EN60320 IEC320 receptacle...

Page 9: ...channels of MPEG 1 Layer II or AAC LC Video Inputs support for composite SD SDI HD SDI and 3G SDI Audio Inputs support for balanced or unbalanced analog audio and SDI embedded digital audio Outputs 2...

Page 10: ...th auto detection capability SDI video inputs support SD SDI HD SDI and 3G SDI with auto detection capability Analog unbalanced audio stereo inputs SDI embedded audio support The following outputs are...

Page 11: ...00 Mb s Ethernet ports on standard RJ 45 connectors There also two unused BNC ports The unbalanced audio I O panel includes four RCA connectors and the balanced audio I O panel includes four terminal...

Page 12: ...cators exist in the front of the board These are visible when the frame front door is opened The indicator layout is depicted below The LED indicators are as follows Status LED indicates the overall s...

Page 13: ...ng ETH1 and ETH2 LEDs these indicate the status of the corresponding Ethernet connection o Off no link o On link OK no activity o Blinking link OK port is transmitting and or receiving packets Status...

Page 14: ...nd hold this switch and push the card back into the frame while still holding the switch You can release the switch once the Status LED turns orange This action causes the card to revert to the factor...

Page 15: ...are depicted in the next page Both panels include two software configurable Composite SDI video inputs on standard BNC connectors two streaming 100 1000 Mb s Ethernet ports on standard RJ 45 connector...

Page 16: ...put video is HD SDI o LED flashing about 4 times per second input video is 3G SDI 1080p60 Each of the Gigabit Ethernet ports has two indicator LEDs with the following states Green LED o Off No link o...

Page 17: ...K o Green power OK o Off no power or insufficient voltage CH1 CH2 VID these behave exactly the same as the corresponding back panel video input indicators CH1 CH2 ENC these LEDs flash if the correspon...

Page 18: ...ing ports may be also automatically changed if they are in the same subnet as the control IP address above If you press and hold this switch when the unit is powered off and then power up the unit whi...

Page 19: ...page Both panels include two software configurable Composite SDI video inputs on standard BNC connectors two ASI output ports on standard BNC connectors two streaming 100 1000 Mb s Ethernet ports on...

Page 20: ...e per second input video is SD o LED flashing about twice per second input video is HD SDI o LED flashing about 4 times per second input video is 3G SDI 1080p60 Unbalanced Audio Version L AUD1 R ASI1...

Page 21: ...t panel with an LCD display and buttons Presets Config Status ITV IP360d Encoder Control IP 192 168 001 030 Operation of the panel is as follows The device powers up as soon as the power cable is conn...

Page 22: ...tton allows for quickly inspecting the status and alarms in the device Navigation buttons to the right of the LCD screen The center green button is the Enter button used to accept selections There are...

Page 23: ...ayed Port IP address configuration can be changed Clear the current unit configuration all parameters back to defaults Reboot the unit Control Port Ethernet 1 Ethernet 2 The Status Menu The Status but...

Page 24: ...ted The three products are referred to as the IP360 encoder The following tabs are available Product this tab provides general information on the unit including firmware version uptime temperatures an...

Page 25: ...25 Statistics Panel Configuration Panel Reflected in the front Status LED...

Page 26: ...at is Major Version Minor Version Build Number Serial Number This is the serial number of this particular IP360 unit Hardware Version This indicates the board version number Balanced audio support is...

Page 27: ...rature in degrees centigrade of the air intake of the unit measured at the front edge of the unit Internal Temperature Temperature in degrees centigrade at the back of the unit MDP Core Temperature Te...

Page 28: ...Link Loss If set to Yes the unit will raise an alarm if this Ethernet interface loses link The Card State indicator in Dashboard and the front Status LED will both be red If set to No the unit will s...

Page 29: ...lex mode Note that the port will still perform auto negotiation but it will only advertise this mode Notes o If the IP360 streaming Ethernet interfaces are connected to a 10 Mb s switch hub or network...

Page 30: ...s also possible to configure DNS in the Control Tab DNS Servers configured in the Control Tab have priority over servers configured here Network Statistics Tab The Network Statistics Tab is subdivided...

Page 31: ...ED 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 2 Status This indicator is the port overrun st...

Page 32: ...or ITV IP360c unit to dual channel by returning it to ImmediaTV If an encoder channel is not installed both its configuration and statistics windows will be empty as shown below Encoder Configuration...

Page 33: ...mposite and the video standard for composite signals The following points should be considered when using video input auto detection The available output scaling options are limited since some options...

Page 34: ...ameter choices made Basic Tab General Configuration Name All IP360 encoders and outputs can be assigned a user defined name Use any descriptive name suitable for your application or accept the default...

Page 35: ...whether or not the encoder will auto configure based on the detected video input signal o Manual Selection The input signal must be correctly selected using the Input Resolution Input Source and Fiel...

Page 36: ...o match your source For all input resolutions the supported options always include 59 94 for NTSC based systems and 50 for PAL based systems 4 Some resolutions have support for additional frame rates...

Page 37: ...the same incoming frame rate o SD inputs can be horizontally cropped to 704 pixels or horizontally scaled to 640 pixels o SD inputs can be horizontally scaled to 640 or 528 pixels and converted to pro...

Page 38: ...o this selection Video Bit Rate This field is shown only if the encoder is set to CBR mode and the Bit Rate Selection control is set to Video Bit Rate It determines the video elementary stream bit rat...

Page 39: ...is set to auto detect the video input and it detects a composite signal the audio selection will fall back to analog audio regardless of the Audio Source settings When SDI Embedded Audio is selected a...

Page 40: ...epicted below If the Output Protocol in the Encoder Output Tab is set to RTMP this field is forced to AAC LC and becomes not editable The reason is that the RTMP protocol has no support for MPEG 1 Lay...

Page 41: ...only supports 48 kHz audio sample rate Encoder Advanced Configuration Tab The appearance of the Encoder Advanced Configuration Tab is a function of the choices made in the Error Reference source not...

Page 42: ...file and Main Profile will be better than Baseline Profile Whether the quality difference is noticeable will depend on the resolution bit rate and specific video content Aspect Ratio The H 264 bitstre...

Page 43: ...not be selectable this section will appear as follows Advanced Tab VBI Ancillary Data Insertion The IP360 can extract the following data types from the video input and insert them in the compressed vi...

Page 44: ...es are supported and automatically detected Note that if Video Input Settings is set to Auto Detected the encoder will comply with the CC Source if possible but may fall back to another setting depend...

Page 45: ...m The options are o Line 20 WSS Line 23 WSS This option causes the encoder to synthesize AFD information from WSS It is available only if the input resolution is SD or if the video input settings are...

Page 46: ...D signal it will fall back to SMPTE 2016 3 VANC Conversely if it is set to SMPTE 2016 3 VANC and it detects a composite signal it will fall back to Line 20 23 WSS and automatically use the correct lin...

Page 47: ...onfiguration sections in the Encoder Basic Configuration Tab and the installed rear I O panel A sample of the Audio Parameters section is depicted below Analog Audio Parameters PMT Information Audio E...

Page 48: ...to the video by the amount configured PMT Information The PMT Information section has the following parameters Audio Type determines the audio type in the PMT audio descriptor This setting has no actu...

Page 49: ...lementary stream This setting does not affect the actual audio encoding Copyright Controls the state of the Copyright flag in the audio elementary stream This setting does not affect the actual audio...

Page 50: ...ered in decimal Transport Stream ID Enter the desired Transport Stream ID for this encoder channel Values in this field can be entered both in hexadecimal prefixed by 0x or in decimal Generate SDT Thi...

Page 51: ...wn list and a new parameter will become available as show below Custom Service Type Enter the service type This field accepts both hexadecimal prefixed by 0x and decimal values The valid range is from...

Page 52: ...icated on both Ethernet streaming ports Note that for the ITV IP360c UDP IP Streaming on the control port is not supported HTTP Live Streaming the output of the encoder is directed to a web server whi...

Page 53: ...ration parameters become available The configuration parameters are as follows UDP Port selects the UDP port to transmit to Valid values are between 1 and 65535 Note that in traditional IP networks UD...

Page 54: ...Some legacy equipment may exhibit performance problems if this bit is not set This is not an issue with current network equipment HTTP Live Streaming HTTP Live Streaming is a protocol designed to deli...

Page 55: ...STB Location 1 IP STB Location 2 IP STB Location N Web Server IP STB Location N Web Server FTP SFTP HTTP Internet Internet Encoder MVN EN460 FTP SFTP HTTP Internet Internet Encoder MVN EN460 IP STB Lo...

Page 56: ...name to be used when uploading the files to the server Password Enter the password corresponding to the user name to be used when uploading the files Server Path Enter the absolute server path for the...

Page 57: ...es iPads iPods etc work well with 3 segments Extra Server Compatibility Check this box if the encoder has problems renaming files in the server This is typically required for Windows FTP servers Linux...

Page 58: ...erated by the IP360 In local server mode the access URLs for the content are http xxx xxx xxx xxx HLS encoder1 m3u8 http xxx xxx xxx xxx HLS encoder2 m3u8 where xxx xxx xxx xxx is the IP Address of th...

Page 59: ...ins the connection Since HTTP runs on top of the TCP protocol it is possible for the IP360 to deliver content over the Internet using this mode However it has the following limitations The IP360 has t...

Page 60: ...yback on a web page please review the Playing Video on a Web Page section later in this document RTMP The IP360 can operate as an RTMP client and publish a real time live bitstream to an RTMP server R...

Page 61: ...to configure at least one DNS server DNS servers may be configured in the Network Configuration DNS Tab In the ITV IP360c DNS servers can also be configured in the Control Port Configuration Tab or o...

Page 62: ...me as the Primary Network Interface described above Backup App Enter the application name in the backup server If this field is left blank the value entered for Primary App is used Backup Server URL T...

Page 63: ...while the encoder is running RTMP at high bit rates may cause service interruptions to the RTMP stream If you need to update the firmware we recommend that you do so during a maintenance window Some C...

Page 64: ...Output tabs are direct equivalents of their configuration counterparts They present the current value of each of the configuration parameters When the Apply Cancel buttons are grayed out the contents...

Page 65: ...nal the encoder is detecting This detection is independent of the video input settings and is intended to aid the operator in making the correct selection If a video signal is detected the text in thi...

Page 66: ...tion messages or it is receiving EIA 708 messages without a caption field Note that it is possible for the encoder to be receiving closed caption data that is empty without actual captions These will...

Page 67: ...dded audio is present in the selected Group Combination o Not Present The SDI input has no lock it is not possible to determine whether embedded audio is present or not o Not Present Embedded audio is...

Page 68: ...p pair If SCTE 35 injection is enabled in the Advanced Tab VBI Ancillary Data Insertion the following additional indicators are displayed SCTE 35 Packets Injected shows a count of how many SCTE 35 pac...

Page 69: ...stopped responding to ARP The IP Output is using an old cached MAC address The Dashboard Card State will be yellow but packets are being transmitted o Disabled The UDP Output has been disabled by unc...

Page 70: ...low where the server is not responding incorrect IP address If Direct HTTP Streaming is selected in the Encoder Output Tab the following indicators are shown IP Output Rate This indicator reports the...

Page 71: ...nected The encoder is running but it is unable to connect to the RTMP server Possible reasons are The encoder cannot contact the server The RTMP parameters are incorrect The server was specified as a...

Page 72: ...of pre set configurations as well These are managed in this tab Event Log The IP360 contains a non volatile event log It can be inspected and downloaded from this tab The Admin Statistics tabs are sim...

Page 73: ...age if it detects a corrupted firmware image Finally the push buttons on the front of the unit allow for a forced override to the factory image as described in the Front Switches section IP360 firmwar...

Page 74: ...y chooses a location that will not overwrite the currently running image Boot Location This field indicates which image will be used in the next boot If an image is successfully uploaded through Dashb...

Page 75: ...re it for different scenarios or for saving configuration checkpoints as a complex configuration is built Since configurations can be exported they can be archived outside the unit as well Finally the...

Page 76: ...corresponding file is downloaded to your computer This feature is provided to allow configuration backups If you save a configuration to your computer and later wish to restore it to the IP360 use th...

Page 77: ...gures Encoder 1 to take an SD SDI input on Video 1 and send over UDP IP multicast to Ethernet 1 and 2 simultaneously In a dual channel encoder the second channel will be stopped 720p to Eth 1 and 2 Mu...

Page 78: ...The severity of the event The IP360 defines three severity levels o Error These are events that affect the operation of the device For example an encoder losing video input An error will impact servi...

Page 79: ...an available NTP server Select This Configure If your frame 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 l...

Page 80: ...iew 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 Warning or Error This setting does...

Page 81: ...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 82: ...the encoder and the decoders 3 The Technical Support information from the encoder itself This is downloaded from the Support tab Select the Support Tab and click on the Save button next to Support In...

Page 83: ...leave one of the ports disconnected The unit will automatically and dynamically select the control port as follows If only one port has link that port will be used for control If both ports have link...

Page 84: ...dress Note that DNS is only used for RTMP output This field can be left at 0 0 0 0 if RTMP is not used If you wish to configure more than one DNS server you can enter them in the Network Configuration...

Page 85: ...a built in SNMP agent with support for SNMP V1 and V2C It will respond to SNMP transactions only on the control port for security reasons This tab includes the parameters for the SNMP configuration Ch...

Page 86: ...red here is returned for SNMP queries to that variable System Location this configures the value for the MIB II System variable System Location Whatever value entered here is returned for SNMP queries...

Page 87: ...must be installed in the web browser The Open Source VideoLAN player includes appropriate plugins that will work with the bitstream coming from the IP360 The VideoLAN player can be downloaded from ht...

Page 88: ...ideoLAN plugin has been installed to provide playback services For the ITV IP360c Direct HTTP Streaming and HTTP Live Streaming pages are also available from the control port To get started simply poi...

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Page 90: ...ween the client and the encoder supports multicast This will typically be the case if the encoder and the client are in the same subnetwork but may not work across routers unless they have multicast s...

Page 91: ...servers will not be listed in this page as the IP360 has no way of knowing the actual link to these channels Clicking on the link will cause the content to play For Apple devices iPods iPads iPhones...

Page 92: ...HTTP Streaming and HTTP Live Streaming work over the Internet in some situations it may be desirable to do so for example to allow for remote monitoring ImmediaTV believes it is safe to connect the I...

Page 93: ...ection on the openGear and SNMP v2 protocols supported on that port The Control Ports should only be connected to protected management networks Web Browser Support The web pages generated by the IP360...

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