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Each of the ASI Input Port indicators can have the following values: 
 

 

 

RX Locked

: The port is locked to an input signal. 

 

 

RX Disabled: 

The port is disabled.   

 

 

RX Unlocked: 

The port is in receive mode, and it is not locked to any signal.  

Dashboard Card State and the Status LED will be red if there is a connection to this port.  

Summary of Contents for ITV-XC440c

Page 1: ...ImmediaTV MVN XC440 openGear Broadcast Transcoder ITV XC440c Standalone Broadcast Transcoder User Manual Version 1 0...

Page 2: ...ther countries Dolby Digital Plus decoder technology on this product is manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories Dolby and the double D symbol are registered trademarks of Dolby Laboratories...

Page 3: ...mmediaTV 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 Website htt...

Page 4: ...tors 14 Front Switches 15 DIP Switches 16 ITV XC440c Indicators and Switches 17 Back Panel 17 Front Panel Indicators 18 Front Panel Default Switch 19 MVN XC440 ITV XC440c Operation and Management 21 P...

Page 5: ...nections 62 Connections Configuration Tab 62 Source Selection 63 Destination Selection 65 Establishing the Connection 67 The Current Connections Table 67 Connection Statistics Tab 68 Admin 70 Admin Ge...

Page 6: ...CC 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 accept an...

Page 7: ...ounded 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 co...

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: ...rt the full ASI line rate of 213 Mb s 2 Ethernet ports with 100 1000 Mb s support capable of transmitting and receiving at line rate Up to 8 simultaneous transmit and receive streams per Ethernet port...

Page 10: ...puts per Ethernet port for a maximum of 16 IP outputs Additionally any of the inputs can be routed to one of 4 transcoder instances for processing In general terms configuring the MVN XC440 is a three...

Page 11: ...ords program and service interchangeably Redundancy Options The IP inputs in the MVN XC440 can be configured to support transport stream redundancy This means that the unit can be configured with a pr...

Page 12: ...ss port combination if configured for automatic redundancy The automatic switch timeout can be set to a value between 2 and 45 seconds This level of redundancy is available for all IP input ports and...

Page 13: ...ernet ports on standard RJ 45 connectors Each of the ASI input ports has a green indicator LED with the following states LED off ASI port is disabled LED flashing once every 3 seconds the ASI port is...

Page 14: ...Power OK LED indicates that the power received from the frame is OK o Green power OK o Off no power or insufficient voltage check the frame power status ASIRX 1 and ASIRX 2 LEDs these behave exactly...

Page 15: ...P Switch This switch is used to recover the board in the unlikely case of a corrupted or broken firmware update In most cases the MVN XC440 will detect the error and automatically fall back into the f...

Page 16: ...ches These are for ImmediaTV internal use only and their settings must not be modified If any changes are made to the DIP Switch settings the MVN XC440 will stop operating The correct settings for the...

Page 17: ...I O panel is depicted below It includes 2 ASI inputs and 2 ASI outputs on standard BNC connectors two streaming 100 1000 Mb s Ethernet ports on standard RJ 45 connectors and two control 10 100 1000 M...

Page 18: ...is currently transmitting and or receiving Front Panel Indicators A similar set of indicators exist in the front panel of the unit The layout is depicted below PWR STAT IN2 OUT2 XC2 CTL2 ETH2 ASI XC1...

Page 19: ...or a small screwdriver to press this switch If the switch is pressed during normal operation the control port IP address mask and gateway are restored to the following factory default settings IP Addr...

Page 20: ...firmware As before the STAT LED will temporarily change color to acknowledge the command When it changes color you can release the switch You can use this feature in the unlikely event of a corrupted...

Page 21: ...utputs this tab is used to configure monitor the ASI Output ports IP Inputs this tab is used to configure monitor the IP Input ports The configuration panel provides the facilities to create manage an...

Page 22: ...22 Statistics Panel Configuration Panel Reflected in the front Status LED...

Page 23: ...sion currently running The format is Major Version Minor Version Build Number Serial Number This is the serial number of this particular MVN XC440 card Hardware Version This indicates the board versio...

Page 24: ...card has been running since it was last rebooted Ambient Temperature Temperature in degrees centigrade of the air intake of the card measured at the front edge of the card Internal Temperature Temper...

Page 25: ...lan to connect that port to a network IP Address Enter the desired IP address for this Ethernet port Please note that the MVN XC440 uses a block of 4 IP addresses for internal communication these addr...

Page 26: ...plex Force the port to 100Mb s Full Duplex mode Note that the port will still perform auto negotiation but it will only advertise this mode o 1Gb s Full Duplex restrict the operation to 1Gb s Full Dup...

Page 27: ...shboard Card State will be red and the Status LED 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...

Page 28: ...nformation about the programs found in that transport stream ASI Inputs Configuration The Configuration tab is divided into two areas The ASI Inputs table which displays an overview of the ports It co...

Page 29: ...are o Port Name All MVN XC440 inputs and outputs can be assigned a user defined port name This name is used to identify the port later when making connections Use any descriptive name suitable for yo...

Page 30: ...in the previous step Header Information The top header indicates the Transport Stream ID TSID For each program an individual header is provided showing the Program Number and the PMT PID Program Name...

Page 31: ...owing values RX Locked The port is locked to an input signal RX Disabled The port is disabled RX Unlocked The port is in receive mode and it is not locked to any signal Dashboard Card State and the St...

Page 32: ...Port Name Edit Button Clicking on this button allows reconfiguration of the port The ASI Port Configuration screen appears with the settings for the selected port Click on the Edit button next to the...

Page 33: ...tream of the transcoder from table changes o Generate SDT If you check this box a Service Description Table SDT will be generated Service Names will come from the connected programs If this box is che...

Page 34: ...changes made in the Configuration Parameters to be implemented any connections marked for deletion to be removed and any new connection entered in the Add Connection area to be established Clicking o...

Page 35: ...e Status LED in the front of the board will also be red To correct this problem either externally reduce the input bit rate or increase the ASI output bit rate or configure the port in Automatic mode...

Page 36: ...ed Number of MPEG 2 Transport Packets per UDP datagram between 1 and 7 no support for IP fragmentation Addressing support unicast multicast and broadcast Configurable source IP address filtering Confi...

Page 37: ...ream input as a whole regardless of the redundancy options Redundancy Control allows selection of the redundancy mode Addressing Parameters allow selection of the network stream to be received Establi...

Page 38: ...ut for fault finding Most users will leave the stream enabled Stream Name All MVN XC440 inputs and outputs can be assigned a user defined name This name is used to identify the port later when making...

Page 39: ...redundancy flips are done by selecting an existing IP Input port for configuration This operation is described in the Active IP Inputs Table section Addressing Parameters The Addressing parameters al...

Page 40: ...broadcast address Note that this is extremely rare in practice Source If desired the MVN XC440 can filter packets by source IP address This is useful when the network includes a primary and a backup...

Page 41: ...s for Source but left the Source Address field as 0 0 0 0 Error X X X X is NOT a multicast address you selected multicast reception and entered an address that is not multicast Multicast addresses go...

Page 42: ...s the measured bit rate of the input transport stream This does not include UDP and IP overhead UDP Port The active reception UDP port i e the UDP port currently being used by the input Reception Addr...

Page 43: ...cket rate in packets second This field is useful for debugging if you have a non zero IP Packet Rate but a zero TS Bit Rate this indicates that the packets being received by the MVN XC440 do not conta...

Page 44: ...SDT the Service Name is displayed here If the transport stream contains a Virtual Channel Table VCT used in terrestrial ATSC broadcasts this field will show the major and minor channel numbers and th...

Page 45: ...he following values OK The IP Input is receiving a valid transport stream No Lock The IP Input is not receiving a valid transport stream If there is a connection to this input Dashboard Card State and...

Page 46: ...and deleted Before any ports are created the Configuration Tab appears as depicted below To create an IP Output stream first select the desired Ethernet port in the Add Stream drop down box Once that...

Page 47: ...abled or disabled If it is disabled no packet transmission takes place This feature is provided for testing purposes i e temporarily disable an output for fault finding Most users will leave the strea...

Page 48: ...e following options o Disabled NULL packets are disabled and will not be transmitted This will cause the stream to be somewhat VBR even if the transcoder is set to CBR mode o Enabled Automatic Rate Th...

Page 49: ...uration of the Time To Live TTL byte in the IP header Valid values are between 0 and 255 If not explicitly configured it defaults to 128 This field controls how many hops the packet can traverse befor...

Page 50: ...These are listed below 2 Errors related to the connection if you are configuring one These will be described in the Connections section The following configuration related errors are flagged Error UDP...

Page 51: ...clude UDP and IP overhead UDP Port The configured value of this parameter Destination Address The configured value of this parameter Stream Name The configured stream name Edit Port If you click on th...

Page 52: ...tocol The MVN XC440 uses a custom MAC address management algorithm designed specifically for MPEG operation When an IP Output port with a unicast destination address is created the MVN XC440 immediate...

Page 53: ...utput is operating normally either streaming or ready to stream No Response The IP Output is configured for unicast operation but it does not have a destination MAC address Dashboard Card State and th...

Page 54: ...dit button to configure a specific transcoder session When the button is clicked the transcoder configuration area is displayed This area is divided into three parts The Transcoder Configuration secti...

Page 55: ...Part 10 or MPEG 2 The MVN XC440 only supports two MPEG 2 sessions Not all parameters described below are available for MPEG 2 Video Rate Mode selects between CBR Constant Bit Rate and VBR Variable Bit...

Page 56: ...the input audio to AAC LC3 If MPEG 1 Layer II or AAC LC is selected the Audio Bit Rate field is displayed where the desired audio bit rate can be entered For MPEG 1 Layer II this is a drop down menu w...

Page 57: ...advanced codec HD digital television service used for H 264 HD Interlace Mode this control selects the output interlace mode It has the following options o Auto automatically set the interlace mode o...

Page 58: ...aseline use Baseline Profile Successive B Frames this parameter selects the number of successive B Frames in the GOP Reference Frames this parameter selects the number of reference frames when encodin...

Page 59: ...e transcoder session they will be shown in the Established Connections area Individual connections can be removed by checking the box in front of them Transcoder Add Connections Connections to the tra...

Page 60: ...picted below The possible indicator status values are OK The transcoder session is operating normally it has a valid input and is transcoding that input Waiting for Input The transcoder session is con...

Page 61: ...are invalid Contact ImmediaTV Customer Support if you get this status Dashboard Card State and the Status LED will be red Idle The transcoder session is disabled by setting Transcoder State to Stoppe...

Page 62: ...d input output connections in the MVN XC440 As indicated in the figure the Connections configuration area is divided into two parts a source selection and a destination selection Source Selection Dest...

Page 63: ...rt drop down list The options are o Ethernet 1 UDP IP Input streams from Ethernet Port 1 o Ethernet 2 UDP IP Input streams from Ethernet Port 2 o Transcoder Transcoded programs o ASI Input Streams fro...

Page 64: ...t the desired program in the transport stream If the port is already actively receiving a transport stream this list will be pre populated with the programs found in that transport stream Moreover if...

Page 65: ...ram number can be entered in the Program Number field Destination Selection The Destination Selection operates in the same fashion as the Source Selection It is again a three step process where a port...

Page 66: ...umber will be automatically selected by the MVN XC440 If possible the MVN XC440 will use the same program number as the Source Program The program number will be changed only if there are already othe...

Page 67: ...The following columns are available in this table Source Port Source Name these columns have the current source for the connection Source Port indicates the type of port and Source Name indicates the...

Page 68: ...nsport stream is being received by it if it is an output it means that it is either transmitting or ready to transmit Warning The stream is configured but may not be running The situations where this...

Page 69: ...oversubscribed ASI or IP outputs ASI Outputs with Automatic Rate will be in this state if they do not have data to transmit Transcoders can also be in this state if they encounter an error A sample o...

Page 70: ...f pre set configurations as well These are managed in this tab Test Packet Generator Manages the Test Packet Generator License Keys Contains the current licensing state of the MVN XC440 and allows for...

Page 71: ...mage 1 and Image 2 can be updated at will Since the card offers two upgrade images it is always possible to fall back to the previous image if there are any problems with the current one The card will...

Page 72: ...field will indicate No Image Upload Location This field contains the location where the image upload will go The MVN XC440 automatically chooses a location that will not overwrite the currently runni...

Page 73: ...figuration persistency the MVN XC440 also offers the ability to save up to 5 complete configurations load them and even export them This can be used to quickly configure it for different scenarios or...

Page 74: ...click on this button the corresponding configuration and its description are deleted Config Save Button If you click on this button the current card configuration is saved on the corresponding slot po...

Page 75: ...ssociated on Ethernet 1 using multicast reception addresses routes the first program from each input to a transcoder transcodes it to H 264 and routes the resulting programs to two IP Outputs on Ether...

Page 76: ...ll IP Outputs are deleted All Connections are removed All Transcoders are reset to their default configuration and disabled The Test Packet Generator is disabled The button does not affect the followi...

Page 77: ...by clicking on the corresponding box in the Remove column The Add Connection area This allows for a new connection to be added to this port This control is available for all ports and is described in...

Page 78: ...iaTV You will receive a license key that enables that feature for a specific period of running time license time does not count when the card is off The Admin License Keys Tab includes a License Statu...

Page 79: ...haracters but it is invalid Double check what you entered Serial number mismatch this key is for serial xxxxxxxxxxxx MVN XC440 license keys are specific to a card You entered a valid license key but i...

Page 80: ...the event The MVN XC440 does not have a battery backed real time clock It depends on the frame controller to obtain the current date and time and the frame controller depends on an external Network T...

Page 81: ...cal order oldest entry to newest Log View 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 I...

Page 82: ...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 83: ...connected devices being used as well as the connection network IP or ASI between the gateway and any other devices 3 The Technical Support information from the gateway itself This is downloaded from...

Page 84: ...n 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 lin...

Page 85: ...er the desired control port subnet mask Default Gateway This field is only shown if IP Configuration is set to Static IP Enter the desired control port default gateway NTP Server If you want the unit...

Page 86: ...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 87: ...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 88: ...pport must be installed in the web browser The Open Source VideoLAN player includes appropriate plugins that will work with the bitstream coming from the MVN XC440 The VideoLAN player can be downloade...

Page 89: ...transcoder and the client are in the same subnetwork but may not work across routers unless they have multicast support enabled and will definitely not work across the Internet To get started simply p...

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Page 91: ...een Note that if the stream has multiple programs only the first one will be played Moreover if the stream has more than one audio service only the first audio will be played Web Browser Support The w...

Page 92: ...92 Other browsers and operating systems may work as long as the VideoLAN plugin is installed You may need to authorize the plugin to run the first time you access the page...

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