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VIDEO GRABBER

VGR-1000

User Manual

v. 1.19 (FW 1.29)

Summary of Contents for VGR-1000

Page 1: ...VIDEO GRABBER VGR 1000 User Manual v 1 19 FW 1 29...

Page 2: ...18 4 2 Configuration page 19 4 2 1 Output 20 4 2 2 Network 29 4 2 3 NTP 36 4 2 4 Administration 38 4 2 5 EDID related functions 38 4 3 Preview Page 39 5 SNMP 41 5 1 Introduction 41 5 2 Accessing the...

Page 3: ...subsection 8 61 5 5 9 confEdid subsection 9 62 5 5 10 confAnalogVideo subsection 10 62 5 5 11 confUpdate subsection 11 63 6 Firmware upgrade 64 6 1 Introduction 64 6 2 microSD card USB pendrive 64 6...

Page 4: ...device can be configured using web based configuration panel using an internet browser or via SNMP Video Grabber has been designed in such a way that the source signal is not altered in any way nothin...

Page 5: ...for firmware update and diagnostics 3 Reset Used for resetting the device 4 OLED screen Displays Video Grabber s runtime information 2 2 Back panel Figure 2 Back panel of the Video Grabber No Name Des...

Page 6: ...k is active DOWN link is inactive 3 IP address set on the second network interface LAN2 along with the link status UP link is active DOWN link is inactive 4 Currently used Output settings displayed in...

Page 7: ...uter to the display To achieve that task it has to be connected between those two devices see figure below It is advised to turn off all equipment involved in cable connections display recorded comput...

Page 8: ...ly when higher resolutions are in use Video Grabber does not convert the signal from analogue to digital and vice versa so if analogue signal is provided on the Video Input then analogue signal will b...

Page 9: ...024 x 768 XGA 60Hz 1280 x 720 HD 720 60Hz 1280 x 800 WXGA 60Hz 1280 x 1024 SXGA 60Hz 1600 x 900 60Hz 1680 x 1050 WSXGA 60Hz 1920 x 1080 HD 1080 60Hz 1920 x 1200 WUXGA 60Hz 2048 x 2048 60Hz DVI D Dual...

Page 10: ...an now be connected to power source Video Grabber has two power inputs PWR1 and PWR2 but requires only one power supply to work properly The dual power input design gives user an option of ensuring po...

Page 11: ...ation one can use a web browser5 In the address field please type http video grabber ip address where video grabber ip address is an IP Address which is displayed on the screen in front of the device...

Page 12: ...interface It provides information current operational parameters of the Video Grabber device This page can be divided into 4 main sections 1 Device information 2 Device status 3 NTP status 4 Analog re...

Page 13: ...nce last restart 3 Total uptime sum of all uptimes since the device was produced 4 Serial number unique number that identifies Video Grabber 5 Unique ID identifier of the main chip 6 Software version...

Page 14: ...rt a MAC address media access control address of LAN2 port b Link status status of the LAN2 port If the link is active then maximum transmission speed is shown If the link is not active then the statu...

Page 15: ...ed b Not accessible remote file system is not mounted 10 DVI status of the DVI digital signal a Not Locked no DVI signal detected b Locked DVI signal detected In this case additionally detected resolu...

Page 16: ...ured on the Video Grabber device along with their basic parameters and state 1 Mode single character peer mode indicator The list of possible modes is as follows a server has been chosen and is used a...

Page 17: ...distance maximum error of the clock offset estimate due to all causes as long as the source remains reachable 7 root dispersion maximum error relative to the current system peer 8 reference ID the int...

Page 18: ...ay since authentication involves extra computing authentication delay setting is used to compensate it Currently calculated automatically if needed 4 1 4 Analog resolution table Analog resolution tabl...

Page 19: ...ur main sections 1 Output settings related to the output format of the captured video signal 2 Network settings related to network configuration incl remote shares locations 3 NTP settings related to...

Page 20: ...le networks from both LAN ports captured video signal in the form of images Available formats BMP PNG JPEG JPEG2000 H 264 LLE 2 NFS Network File System Video Grabber will save captured video signal in...

Page 21: ...itional option to choose the output format Currently there are six output formats available 1 BMP Bitmap Image file 2 PNG Portable Network Graphics file 3 JPEG lossy image file 4 JPEG2000 newer versio...

Page 22: ...ues 4 IDR period I Frame period determines the frequency at which I Frame frame that contains a full picture will be generated e g 200 means that I Frame will be generated after every 200 P Frames whi...

Page 23: ...BR Variable Bit Rate amount of data sent will vary depending on the amount of activity on the captured screen Quality of the Video Grabber s output stream is determined by the value of the QP paramete...

Page 24: ...th limiter Selected Not selected 8 Bandwidth limit Bandwidth limit in kbps for the Bandwidth limiter If this level is exceeded then codec will drop frames to keep the bandwidth below the set limit Int...

Page 25: ...ated monitor 7 Select Custom edid 8 Click Save settings button 4 2 1 6 Stat frame period Video Grabber broadcasts an UDP frame containing the following status information Time marker in seconds Time m...

Page 26: ...al at a rate of 120 frames per minute 2FPS and then saves those frames as PNG images on an NFS share Figure 20 Sample configuration of Video Grabber saving PNG images on NFS share For this configurati...

Page 27: ...m 264 or rtsp 192 168 6 2 stream 264 Video parameters that refer to LOSSLESS are not used when user connects to H 264 stream Example 5 Video Grabber captures the video signal at a rate of 600 frames p...

Page 28: ...s Figure 24 Sample configuration of Video Grabber set to stream captured video signal LOSSLESS To connect to the configured LOSSLESS stream user would have to use one of the RTSP connection strings In...

Page 29: ...the Configuration page user can configure settings related to Video Grabber s network interfaces LAN1 and LAN2 along with access details to NFS and SMB shares should they be used 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 6 9 10...

Page 30: ...8 1 44 Valid IPv4 address Prohibited ranges 127 xxx xxx xxx 0 xxx xxx xxx 224 xxx xxx xxx 2 Subnet Mask Subnet mask for the LAN1 in the xxx xxx xxx xxx format Example 255 255 255 0 Valid IPv4 netmask...

Page 31: ...Server_IP share Example 192 168 5 1 pub Valid NFS share 4 UID User ID used within the share s filesystem that allows read write access to the share Example 5 Integer 0 2147483647 5 GID Group ID used...

Page 32: ...escription Example 1 YEAR Year value from the timestamp 2018 2 MONTH Month value from the timestamp 09 3 DAY Day value from the timestamp 21 4 HOUR Hour value 24 hour format from the timestamp 12 5 YY...

Page 33: ...SMB password Password for the user defined above Example testpassword string Settings for SMB2 No Name Description Allowed values 14 SMB location SMB share location in the following format Server_IP s...

Page 34: ...that are using it will lose network connectivity while in standard setup one network connection failure affects only one Video Grabber 2 With limited amount of network connections comes limited bandwi...

Page 35: ...rently not supported 4 2 2 6 Device description User can assign a text description to the Video Grabber device Such description will then be shown on the Video Grabber s OLED screen See 2 3 p 6 No Nam...

Page 36: ...n NTP server is reachable and at each poll interval a burst of eight packets will be sent instead of one Improves timekeeping quality When selected then burst option is enabled for NTP server 1 Select...

Page 37: ...hen iburst option is enabled for NTP server 2 Selected Not selected 9 minpoll Minimum poll interval for NTP messages in seconds to the power of two e g value 4 16s value 5 32s value 10 1024s Integer m...

Page 38: ...64 for details on Video Grabber firmware update procedure 4 2 5 EDID related functions The last section on the Configuration page is related to EDID Extended Display Identification Data 1 2 3 4 5 Fig...

Page 39: ...the device This is a diagnostic function and when used it will stop the output of the captured signal to the network interfaces Additionally when VGA signal is captured this page allows some adjustmen...

Page 40: ...nt buttons user can type in the value Integer 0 9999 6 Vertical back porch Vertical back porch in lines It is adjusted when user enables Override video settings and when VGA signal is captured Instead...

Page 41: ...t the same time defines its place within the hierarchy The OID has a form of string of numbers that has the following structure VIDEO GRABBER SECTION SUBSECTION OBJECTNUMBER 0 Video Grabber supports S...

Page 42: ...Address OID Example To check the serial number of the Video Grabber that has IP 192 168 5 2 one would use the following command snmpget v3 l authPriv u ro_user a MD5 A e6uqOn1Uro0eZRsHx70cULWQ6upjGP x...

Page 43: ...plied until a writeSettings object is not set to the value 4321 This additional step is required so that user can apply numerous changes to the configuration at once Example To set the codecH264Qp par...

Page 44: ...only String Name of the product e g Video Grabber for DVI version of Video Grabber Video GrabberDP for DisplayPort version 3 hwVersion read only String Hardware version 4 swVersion read only String S...

Page 45: ...th information related to the captured video signal 4 staNtp contains objects with information related to time synchronization NTP 5 staRtsp contains objects with information related to RTSP stream 5...

Page 46: ...Pcb read only Integer PCB temperature in C 5 healthPower1 read only Integer Power 1 status 0 down 1 up 6 healthPower2 read only Integer Power 2 status 0 down 1 up 7 lastResetReason read only string Re...

Page 47: ...cy of video signal in Hz 5 videoSignal VertFreq read only Integer Vertical frequency of video signal in Hz 6 videoSignal Clock read only integer Video clock frequency in Hz 7 videoSignal Modeline read...

Page 48: ...of cFPS VIDEO CODEC OBJECTNUMBER Name Access Type Description 15 videoCodec BytesIn read only Counter Number of bytes on codec input raw stream 16 videoCodec BytesOut read only Counter Number of bytes...

Page 49: ...cess Type Description 1 ntpPeerTable Table NTP peers table While it is possible to read objects organized in tables using snmpget command it is rather impractical to do so as each item from within the...

Page 50: ...d only String IP address of the local NTP client 5 StaNtpStratum read only Integer Stratum of the remote NTP server 6 staNtpPoll read only Integer Frequency of server polling in seconds 7 staNtpReach...

Page 51: ...ructed in the following way VIDEO GRABBER SECTION SUBSECTION OBJECTNUMBER 1 3 6 1 4 1 46236 1 2 5 1 0 The entries in the rtspSessionTable have the following format OBJECTNUMBER Name Access Type Descri...

Page 52: ...7 confSmb SMB settings 8 confNtp NTP settings 9 confEdid EDID related functions 10 confAnalogVideo analog video settings 11 confUpdate configuration update related settings 5 5 1 confVersion subsectio...

Page 53: ...Type to RTSP snmpset v3 l authPriv u rw_user a MD5 A uXTxzFQOscIZR1qcMAOSEwxf2HDeD6 x DES X LlUzFSpOVmBrem3VOFYfqd42VB1vve 192 168 5 2 1 3 6 1 4 1 46236 1 3 2 1 0 s RTSP Then to set outputFPS to 10FPS...

Page 54: ...the H264 encoder From 0 to 51 Higher QP means lower quality and lower bitrate Used only if codecH264Mode is set to 0 Example To configure the H264 compression on the Video Grabber with IP address 192...

Page 55: ...ls are considered identical Min 0 Max 31 6 codecLlBwLimit Enable read write Enum Bandwidth limiter 0 disabled 1 enabled 7 codecLlBwLimit WarnLevel read write Integer Bandwidth limit warning level in k...

Page 56: ...splayNtpInfo read write enum Show NTP info on the Video Grabbers OLED screen 0 disabled 1 enabled Example To show NTP info on the Video Grabber s OLED given that Video Grabber s IP address is 192 168...

Page 57: ...ace 3 lan1 NetmaskAddress read write String Netmask for the LAN1 Ethernet interface 4 lan1 GatewayAddress read write String Gateway IP address for the LAN1 Ethernet interface LAN 2 OBJECTNUMBER Name A...

Page 58: ...xf2HDeD6 x DES X LlUzFSpOVmBrem3VOFYfqd42VB1vve 192 168 5 2 1 3 6 1 4 1 46236 1 3 5 2 0 s 172 16 5 2 Then change the netmask on LAN1 interface to 255 0 0 0 snmpset v3 l authPriv u rw_user a MD5 A uXTx...

Page 59: ...following format serverIP share e g 192 168 5 1 pub 2 nfs1 Uid read write Integer User id used within filesystem 3 nfs1 Gid read write Integer Group id used within filesystem NFS2 OBJECTNUMBER Name Ac...

Page 60: ...e following format serverIP share e g 192 168 5 1 pub 2 smb1 User read write String Username to be used to mount the share 3 smb1 Pass read write String Password for the User SMB2 OBJECTNUMBER Name Ac...

Page 61: ...ead create Enum State of NTP peer entry 1 active 2 not in service 3 not ready 4 create and go 5 create and wait 6 destroy 2 ntpAddressType read create Enum Type of IP address of the LAN interface 0 un...

Page 62: ...ion 10 In the following tables only OBJECTNUMBER part of the identifier OID is listed OBJECTNUMBER Name Access Type Description 1 videoSignalAnalog CustomModeTable Table Table with analog custom mode...

Page 63: ...1 to trigger device reboot Resets to 0 after reboot 5 resetToDefaults read write Integer Write 1 to reset all settings to default values Resets to 0 after reset Example To force update of the Video G...

Page 64: ...USB pendrive 1 Copy the file to the media It is imperative that the file has the correct name hlcode dnl and that the file is located in root directory 2 Connect the media to the Video Grabber whose...

Page 65: ...file is located in root directory 2 Make sure that there is network connectivity between Video Grabber LAN1 and the TFTP server 3 Switch Video Grabber into firmware upgrade mode There are 3 ways to do...

Page 66: ...tory of the microSD card create an empty file factory_reset bin 3 Insert the card into the microSD slot 4 Video Grabber should automatically reset its settings to factory defaults 5 When done Video Gr...

Page 67: ...standards produced by VESA and contains information needed to properly interpret the captured video signal The format is as follows 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Figure 33 Analog resolution table on the...

Page 68: ...s where zero is 1970 01 01 00 00 00 0000 UTC Unsigned int 4 UPTIME_SEC Video grabber uptime in seconds Unsigned char 1 LAN1_STAT LAN1 link status 0 link down 1 10Mb s 2 100Mb s 3 1000Mb s Unsigned cha...

Page 69: ...Unsigned short 2 VID_CRC 16 bit CRC crc16 ccitt of this video frame Unsigned int 4 VID_SEC Time marker in seconds where zero is 1970 01 01 00 00 00 0000 UTC Unsigned int 4 VID_USEC Time marker in mic...

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