Multi-Format STB Quick Start
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Chapter 1
Getting Started
Topics in this chapter
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Start Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Overview
This document describes the VBrick Multi-Format Set Top Box. It's called "multi-format"
because it plays most of the video codecs commonly in use today.
It plays live or stored
streams—it records streams in VEMS Server Mode only.
It delivers both Standard
Definition and High Definition output at resolutions up to 1080p30. These pages explain
how to connect and configure the Multi-Format set top box. There is no software installation
required—simply connect and configure the device as explained in this document and you
are done. The Multi-Format STB decodes and plays the streams shown in Table 1. These
streams can be sourced from VBrick encoding appliances or from VBrick VOD-W (MPEG),
VOD-WM (Windows Media), VOD-D (Darwin), and DME (Distributed Media Engine)
VOD servers.
Figure 1.
Multi-Format Set Top Box (front)
Creating STB Users
In a VEMS Mystro environment, each STB must be associated with a VEMS user and each
VEMS STB user must be unique. In large-scale deployments with hundreds of boxes, creating
these users is a time-consuming and error-prone manual process. The STB Users Utility is a
program that automates this process and automatically creates users and assigns them to each
STB in your environment. For an explanation of how to install and use this utility, see the
"STB Users Utility" topic in the
Portal Server Admin Guide
.
Table 1.
Supported Stream Formats
Format
Description
H.264
RTSP Interleaved, RTSP (Transport Stream and RTP)
Windows Media
HTTP and RTSPU (ASF Format)
MPEG-2
Multicast, Unicast (Transport Stream)
MPEG-4
RTSP, RTSP Interleaved (RTP)