1–4 • Introduction
TES9 Software User Manual (Iss. 04)
Transmit Computer to TES9 ENCODER LINK
The link between the transmit computer and encoder is a combination of LAN and serial
connections.
The LAN system is Ethernet 100baseT using TCP/IP, with up to eight data connections.
In addition to the eight possible LAN connections, there can be up to 4 serial feeds connected to
the encoder. Three of these are RS-232 operating at speeds up to 115,200 baud. The fourth serial
feed is a 33.6K bps modem connection.
TES9 ENCODER
The TES9 can be loaded with up to a total of sixteen software modules. It can encode up to eight
different input data streams into VANC lines of each PROGRAM 1 and PROGRAM 2 video
signals. The software modules in the encoder determine the format of VANC data that is inserted.
The software modules currently available for the encoder, and described in this manual, are:
• Transparent
• Closed Captioning (with optional Redistribution Control feature)
• Constant Data
• OP-47 Bridge
TES9 RECEIVER
The TES9 receiver is identical to the TES9 encoder, but has been configured by the user (with
TES9Set) to operate as a receiver. In this mode, it extracts the data from the VANC data area of
the SMPTE 292M signal, and sends it to the receive computer via LAN and serial connections.
TES9 RECEIVER to RECEIVE Computer Link
The link between the TES9 receiver and the receive computer can be any combination of LAN
and serial connections, as discussed above for the Transmit Computer to TES9 Encoder link.
RECEIVE Computer
The receive computer processes the extracted VANC data. The program that processes the data
can be either a Ross Video application program or a user-provided program. The term “computer”
is used here to represent any type of device that can accept data from the TES9; for example, in
the case of captioning data, this might be an MPEG video encoder.
Note
— In this section of the manual, the term 'encoder' is used to refer to a TES9 which
is being used to insert data into the video signal, and 'receiver' is used to refer to a TES9
which is extracting data from the video signal. In general, however, the TES9 is often
referred to as an encoder, regardless of its current function; it can, in fact, be used to insert
and receive data simultaneously
