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Vivace ENCODER - PRODUCT CONFIGURATIONS 

 

ACT-ENC-8SD-IP – 8 Channel SD Encoder with IP output 

 

 

ACT-ENC-8SD-AS – 8 Channel SD Encoder with ASI output

 

 

 

ACT-ENC-4CVBS+4SDI-AS – 8 Channel SD Encoder with 4 SDI + 4 CVBS and ASI output

 

 

 

 

Summary of Contents for MPEG2

Page 1: ...Powered by Vivace MPEG2 Encoder with Stat Mux User Manual August 3 2018 Anywave Vivace MPEG2 Encoder User Manual V1 9 ...

Page 2: ...ansport Options 8 5 5 Advanced Parameter Options 10 5 5 1 Advanced Video Options 10 5 5 2 SDI source options 12 5 5 3 Advanced Audio Options 12 5 5 4 SDI source option 13 5 5 5 Advanced Transport Options 13 5 6 SPLITTER optional component on certain models 14 6 CONTROL MENU 18 7 EAS 21 8 OUTPUT MUX 22 8 1 PSIP input into the MUX 23 8 2 Output Mux Settings 23 9 Management Page 24 9 1 UPDATE TAB 26 ...

Page 3: ... The diagrams in Appendix A show the various signal connections for each model available Refer to your specific model diagram Vivace is setup for simple plug and play operation Simply power up the unit plug in your input signals and Vivace will auto detect the signal and encode it A web based user interface is provided for changing video audio and other settings for the encoder In order to access ...

Page 4: ...udio inputs are encoded into a single ATSC compliant MPEG2 Multiplexed Transport Stream The output interface depending on Vivace model is ASI or IP or both Vivace is controlled from a web based interface Each Vivace is shipped with factory settings on the Ethernet ports Please refer to the Vivace Setup Guide shipped with each unit which describes how to initially setup your encoder ...

Page 5: ...e connector 75 Ohm Stereo Audio Input 3 5 mm 10 dBV default models Optional 4dBu hardware feature available at time of ordering This includes XLR female to 3 5 mm connection cables Digital SDI Inputs HD SDI and SD SDI inputs SMPTE 259M C and SMPTE 292M 75 Ohm BNC Ethernet Interfaces 10 100 1000Mbps baseT ASI input or output DVB ASI 75 Ohm BNC For Initial Setup Only see setup guide VGA and USB 2 in...

Page 6: ...is to change channel settings such as bit rate and resolution Control Menu select this to start or stop individual channels on the encoder and monitor picture thumbnail and other statistics of running channel Output Mux select this to configure and start or stop the MPEG2 MPTS mux Monitor Provides graphical feedback of bitrate of channels running Log Encoder detailed log messages Management Provid...

Page 7: ...have to associate the physical interface with the channel number Once you make your changes to the parameters you wish you must select the save button The configuration changes do not take effect until you start or restart a channel on the Control page A warning is shown on screen when changes are made but not saved However if you ignore that warning and navigate to a different menu then any chang...

Page 8: ... amounts o For SD NTSC sources the setting will result in 15 fps and the setting will result in 7 5 fps o For HD 1920x1080i the setting will result in 15 fps and the setting will result in 7 5 fps o For HD 1280x720p the setting will result in 30 fps and the setting will result in 15 fps o Output Format This is the output frame structure for the channel De Interlaced this setting will de interlace ...

Page 9: ...based on the Total Mux Rate minus the Audio Bitrate minus the Transport Packet overhead Transport overhead includes packetization into MPEG TS format for ATSC compliance and associated synchronization packets such as PCRs With StatMux Transport Options Min Rate Allocation This is the target minimum bitrate bandwidth in bits per second bps for the channel Max Rate Allocation This is the target maxi...

Page 10: ...41 0x42 You may change these PIDs to other values but they must be unique ID values for all channels The user interface will warn you if you choose a value that is not unique based on all channel configurations The warning will occur when you attempt to save a channel configuration with such a conflict A dialog box will appear example below In this case a channel PID was in conflict with the same ...

Page 11: ...wed settings are 0 1 or 2 In general the higher setting will result in increased compression and the video quality is improved for a given bit rate GOP Length The distance in frames between Intra frames Typical value is 30 or 60 In general the higher values provided better compression Closed Captions When On captions are included in the encoder output if the CVBS or SDI source signal has caption i...

Page 12: ...ng is different then the video will be cropped and then scaled to the requested output resolution setting Therefore you do not need to crop to an exact output resolution the correct scaling will be applied The Top and Bottom Parameters are in pixel units measured from the top of the incoming Frame The Left and Right Parameters are in pixel units measured from the left of the incoming Frame Croppin...

Page 13: ...crease or decrease the value will increase or decrease the color intensity 5 5 2 SDI source options If the encoder model you have includes SDI inputs these options are also available Field Order top field or bottom field first for SDI inputs Default is top field first Line 21 CC data rate adjustment for the closed caption data rate for SDI inputs with line 21 cc data Output format interlaced or pr...

Page 14: ...pair for input audio signal 5 5 5 Advanced Transport Options PAT The Program Association Table of a MPEG TS Default value is 80 milliseconds This defines the repetition rate of a PAT table in the MPEG TS Higher value reduces the overhead of the PAT component on the overall MPEG TS bandwidth hence providing slightly more room for audio and video signaling PMT The Program Map Table of a MPEG TS Defa...

Page 15: ...figuration save the configuration of the Splitter settings This is best done when the splitter is not running If you change configuration of the Splitter while running a dialog box will appear asking if you want to save these new settings If yes the splitter channels which have had configurations changed will be stopped and restarted at that time Defaults If selected the user will be prompted to s...

Page 16: ...t to a different IP port as a SPTS multicast unicast and loopback address supported In order for the Encoder to use the splitter output the splitter must be configured to use eth0 or loopback with address 127 0 0 1 and port 8000 8100 8200 etc PMT Passthrough or Rewrite Passthrough mode simply keeps the PAT PMT structure of the incoming stream and the outgoing SPTS has just 1 element in the PMT Rew...

Page 17: ...Encoder User Manual 16 16 37 Powered by Step 2 Select Discover Button and if an MPTS is found the stream information is shown Step 3 Define output settings for each SPTS Then select Save Configuration Step 4 Start the splitter and monitor real status ...

Page 18: ...wave Communication Technologies Vivace MPEG2 Encoder User Manual 17 17 37 Powered by Configuration Notes The Splitter MPTS places each program in the order of the Input Streams incoming MPTS PAT PMT table ...

Page 19: ...CTIVE System Uptime load and memory load provide machine level status information You can start or stop any individual channel with the channel start and stop buttons Each channel is listed as a row in a table The columns of the table are the following Channel Each channel represents a pair of physical connectors for audio and video signals The channel numbers correspond to the labels on the captu...

Page 20: ...rt Status The channel high level status is shown as these status STOPPED Channel is not encoding RUNNING Channel is encoding Detailed Status information is available with the Status button When you select this a variety of channel input and output signaling information is shown and updated in real time Log The channel specific log information is shown in a pop up dialogue window An example control...

Page 21: ...ver is monitored and displayed on this page The value includes user and system process load Memory Load is also shown These values should nominally stay at 95 or less After a Power Failure or other event the encoder will start up automatically and relaunch all channels as they were configured before the power event ...

Page 22: ...ol page 3 Check that the EAS channel is running on the control panel the input signal should be green The status information will show an active video and audio signal encoding just like other channels Some EAS generators have test modes We recommend testing your Anywave encoder with your EAS generator signal to be sure all connections and setup are correct When an EAS alert occurs the Anywave enc...

Page 23: ... stream composed of any of the running encoder channels The MPTS signal is the output of the encoder which can be ASI or IP output or both To enable the mux select the check box enable mux This does not start the mux If this is the first time you are setting up the mux it is recommend to select defaults This will fill out the parameters like what is shown here ...

Page 24: ...utput Mux Settings The output mux can be on ASI or IP Select which interface to use If IP set output address and port To select ASI and IP simultaneous output select ethernet and ASI as shown here The output mux bitrate can be set The UI will check that the rate is large enough to include all chosen channels including PSIP if selected and warn the user if it needs to be increase The default mux ra...

Page 25: ... Vivace MPEG2 Encoder User Manual 24 24 37 Powered by 9 Management Page The Management page has 3 tabs Network System and Update The System tab in this release is a re boot switch for user convenience if operating from a remote facility ...

Page 26: ...or pinged This could be due to the target IP not returning ping which may be normal for some systems NTP external reference is recommended for most installations This can be an internet available NTP reference server provided by a variety of organizations worldwide or a private NTP reference on your LAN NTP provides a mechanism to lock the clock reference used for video audio time stamps and syste...

Page 27: ...le must be created and provided by Anywave The specific hardware and software features of your product must be determined With this information Anywave will generate an update software release file with extension upd that matches your system Once the upd file is available the following steps are required 1 Move the upd file to a machine in which you will access the web interface any PC with a web ...

Page 28: ...on Technologies Vivace MPEG2 Encoder User Manual 27 27 37 Powered by 3 Navigate to the Management Page From there navigate to the Update page 4 Select the Choose File and select the upd file provided on your local machine ...

Page 29: ...nds the update should be complete and you will see a success message similar to the example below If the update was not successful you will see an error message and the previous version of the software will not be replaced 6 After a successful update navigate to the Control Splitter and Mux pages and restart any channels ...

Page 30: ...ivace MPEG2 Encoder User Manual 29 29 37 Powered by Error Message s If the update file does not match the hardware or software license for the machine then an error message is displayed and the update fails old version will not be changed ...

Page 31: ...VBS video stereo audio Digital SD SDI or HD SDI Digital Compressed DVB ASI or IP MPEG2 TS EAS Analog CVBS stereo audio Outputs Digital MPEG2 TS output IP or DVB ASI All interfaces are labeled on actual units Please refer to specific delivered unit labeling and associated documentation with your unit for connection diagrams Analog audio inputs have 2 interface options 1 Stereo Audio Input 3 5 mm 10...

Page 32: ... Communication Technologies Vivace MPEG2 Encoder User Manual 31 31 37 Powered by Example Model Configurations Year 2015 8 Channel Analog SD Encoder with ASI output and EAS 9 Channel SD Encoder with ASI output ...

Page 33: ...ogies Vivace MPEG2 Encoder User Manual 32 32 37 Powered by Year 2014 Models ACT ENC 4SD AS 4 Channel SD Encoder with ASI output ACT ENC 6SD IP 6 Channel SD Encoder with IP output ACT ENC 6SD AS 6 Channel SD Encoder with ASI output ...

Page 34: ...er User Manual 33 33 37 Powered by 11 Vivace ENCODER PRODUCT CONFIGURATIONS ACT ENC 8SD IP 8 Channel SD Encoder with IP output ACT ENC 8SD AS 8 Channel SD Encoder with ASI output ACT ENC 4CVBS 4SDI AS 8 Channel SD Encoder with 4 SDI 4 CVBS and ASI output ...

Page 35: ...n Technologies Vivace MPEG2 Encoder User Manual 34 34 37 Powered by ACT ENC 1HD_3SD IP 1 HD 3 SD Encoder with IP output ACT ENC 1HD_3SD AS 1 HD 3SD Encoder with ASI output ACT ENC 2HD IP 2 Channel HD Encoder with IP output ...

Page 36: ...Anywave Communication Technologies Vivace MPEG2 Encoder User Manual 35 35 37 Powered by ACT ENC 2HD AS 2 Channel HD Encoder with ASI output 10 Channel IP ...

Page 37: ...Anywave Communication Technologies Vivace MPEG2 Encoder User Manual 36 36 37 Powered by ...

Page 38: ...n Technologies Vivace MPEG2 Encoder User Manual 37 37 37 Powered by ACT ENC 2SD IP 2 Channel SD Encoder with IP output ACT ENC 2SD AS 2 Channel SD Encoder with ASI output ACT ENC 4SD IP 4 Channel SD Encoder with IP output ...

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