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EN8 – H.264 8CH HD Encoder / Manual 

ez-Caster EN8 – HDMI-IP H.264 Encoder Manual 

Revision Number: 1.1.0 
Distribution Date: January. 2017

 

 
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Summary of Contents for ez-Caster EN8

Page 1: ...ez Caster EN8 H 264 8CH HD Video over IP Encoder User Manual ez Caster EN8 8CH HD Video over IP Encoder H 264 HD Encoder ...

Page 2: ...s use This publication may contain technical issues inaccurate information or typos These will be revised in revised edition if there is any No part of this publication is subject to be reproduced stored in retrieval system or transmitted in any forms or any means without the prior consent by Lumantek Trademarks HD ENCODULATOR TM SD ENCODULATOR TM LUMANTEK Logo Mega CruiserTM ORIXTM X CruiserTM DT...

Page 3: ...se check cable overload before connecting the system to the power supply Avoid wearing metal accessories Rings Earrings connecting system to the power source Avoid operating on wet floors Make sure power extension cables floors and instruments are grounded and in a safe operating condition Please discharge static electricity by touching grounding metals before starting hardware installation The gr...

Page 4: ...ction 2 Specification 3 Product Description 3 1 Product Parts Name 3 2 Components 4 Product Operation 4 1 Status LED 4 2 NMS Control Appendix 1 Input and Output Resolutions Appendix 2 GOP Structure Appendix 3 Audio codec rate 5 6 7 7 8 9 9 10 19 20 20 ...

Page 5: ...8CH H 264 Video IP Encoder H 264 8CH HD Encoder 5 ez Caster EN8 is 8 channels H 264 HD Encoder It consists of HDMI inputs and IP output it supports H 264 Video compression and MPEG 1 Layer2 MPEG 2 AAC MPEG 4 AAC for Audio compression 1 Introduction ...

Page 6: ...ucture setting refer to Appendix B Normal mode Low latency mode configuration CPB Delay 300ms 500ms 1000ms configuration Audio Encoder MPEG1 Layer II Stereo Encoder Output bit rate 64 96 112 128 160 192 224 256 320 384 Kbps Encoding sample rates 48KHz MPEG2 AAC MPEG4 AAC Output bit rate 48 512 Kbps Audio sample rate 48KHz TS over IP Output Ethernet 1000Base T Connector RJ 45 Streaming Protocol MPE...

Page 7: ...5 Ch6 Ch7 Ch8 State LED ALARM LED light up when problem occurs NMS LAN port for device control 10BaseT 100BaseTX half full duplex SERVICE Port for firmware update USB2 0 PWR LED POWER LED PWR A PWR B ez Caster EN8 Main frame Rear PWR A PWR B Redundancy power CH1 HDMI Input 1 CH2 HDMI Input 2 CH3 HDMI Input 3 CH4 HDMI Input 4 CH5 HDMI Input 5 CH6 HDMI Input 6 CH7 HDMI Input 7 CH8 HDMI Input 8 ...

Page 8: ...EN8 H 264 8CH HD Encoder Manual 3 2 Components This product is composed of followings ez Caster EN8 Main Frame AC Power Cord 220V AC Power Cord ez Caster EN8 Main Frame AC power cord 8 ...

Page 9: ...us of CH1 and CH2 CH 3 4 LED indicates LAN active Status of CH3 and CH4 CH 5 6 LED indicates LAN active Status of CH5 and CH6 CH 7 8 LED indicates LAN active Status of CH7 and CH8 ALARM indicates internal error Note it will flash during firmware upgrade 9 Normal Status LED is GREEN and RED indicate Alarm ...

Page 10: ...s Display EN8 model number and firmware version EN8 NMS IP configuration Source setting for UDP when it Streaming Check message of EN8 only work when it is connected through COM Destination for Streaming IP information Encoder information Encoder status wait ready play Encoder setting button PID setting button Execute NMS software to connect the device and change the setting Further information an...

Page 11: ...et NMS IP Using COM port to connect and then set NMS IP Afterward use Ethernet port in order to connect COM port CDM v2 12 06 WHQL Certified exe must be installed COM port USB connection Connect Lan cable to NMS PC and EN8 have to be in same Network Click Ethernet TAB A Enter the NMS IP Address B and port C for EN8 Click Connect D button to connect default settings of NMS IP Address is 192 168 10 ...

Page 12: ...on in the NMS Setting section Enter setting value of EN8 NMS socket and press Apply 1 EN8 does not support DHCP so be careful not to collide IP addresses 2 Default NMS socket value showing on the Picture Host setting EN8 streaming socket Press Setting in the Host Setting section Press Apply after entering Streaming socket information of EN8 ...

Page 13: ...s Host setting therefore it can not be change in this section B Source port for each channel Refer to Destination setting for setting issue of streaming source Destination Setting Set for each channel s IP and Port value for destination of streaming data Click the encoder button of the channel you want to set ...

Page 14: ... IP differently or set the Port for a different value 4 Encoder setting for each channel After changing the Encoder setting on the NMS it takes 10 seconds for the EN8 to be actually applied Therefore we recommend user to set all other settings and NMS change in the end IP related settings are applied immediately A Basic information A Model B Encoder firmware version C Detected Input ...

Page 15: ...on the output resolution will follow default resolution The default values are set according to the following rules a If previously set Output Resolution was the resolution that can be output from the current input resolution It will be automatically set as output resolution b If previously set Output Resolution was not resolution that can be output from current input resolution It will be automat...

Page 16: ...e bit rate of TS B Video rate ES standard C Audio rate ES standard Please refer to Appendix C for configurable Audio codec A B C must be satisfied B and C are ES standard whereas A is TS standard Therefore A should be set a little bit more value for the margin ...

Page 17: ...r Mode Setting Set the delay mode between the Encoder input and output Normal mode default mode Delay is controlled by CPB Delay Refer to CPB Delay Setting Low Delay Mode there are few constrains but this mode is minimum latency E GOP setting ...

Page 18: ...e of 2 If GOP Structure is IBrBBP then the GOP Size should be a multiple of 4 When GOP Adaptive is 2 GOP Structure can only select IBrBBP and the actual output GOP size of the stream is maintained at a value of 3 from the input value When GOP Adaptive is 3 GOP Structure can only select IBrBBP and the actual output GOP size of the stream is maintained at a value of 3 from the input value Default va...

Page 19: ...EN8 H 264 8CH HD Encoder Manual APPENDIX A Supported input and output resolutions 59 94 29 29 97 23 23 98 ...

Page 20: ...he picture quality C Audio Codec and Rate I Frame Construction of a single complete image without using prediction The best quality picture but the largest capacity file size P Frame Use Forward Prediction Contains the data of the part where the change occurred in previous I frame or P frame if referred I Frame or P Frame data is lost then this P frame data is lost too The image quality is lower t...

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