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Z3 Technology, LLC

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100 N. 8th St. STE 250

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Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA

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+1.402.323.0702

2.0

QUICK START GUIDE

2.1

Before Attaching A Camera Block

Before connecting a camera block, a thorough review of section 9.0 is required.

2.2

If You Have Received a System from Z3 with the Software Preloaded

To start working with the encoder, you can go straight to Section 10

.0 “RUNNING THE ENCODER”

. This

section describes how to quickly stream UDP, RTP, RTSP or RTMP as well as record to a Micro-SD card.
Enabling Pro-MPEG Forward Error Correction (FEC), or KLV data are also described.

Please Note:

Actual version numbers for your Z3 product may differ from those pictured in this document.

Summary of Contents for Q603-10

Page 1: ...uture use This document contains proprietary information of Z3 Technology LLC Z3 This document may not be used reproduced disclosed or disseminated to anyone without the prior written approval of an a...

Page 2: ...0702 REVISION HISTORY Version Date Change Note Author 1 0 09 19 2022 Original Document NC 2 0 11 08 22 Including Q603 10H and Q603 SC NC 3 0 12 28 22 Including Encoder ROI NC 4 0 02 23 23 Updated pic...

Page 3: ...CONNECTIONS 15 10 1 KEL Cable Warning 15 10 2 KEL Connection 15 10 3 4K HD Switching Reboot 16 11 0 RUNNING THE ENCODER 17 11 1 Set up the Video Source 17 11 2 Connect the Encoder 17 11 3 Set up the...

Page 4: ...nterlaced Streams 39 12 2 Enable NFS 39 12 3 SRT Support 39 12 4 Saving Current Settings 40 12 5 Advanced Settings Mode 41 12 6 Changing the IP Address via the HTTP based User Interface 45 13 0 SUMMAR...

Page 5: ...xample of Encoded Video Streaming to VLC RTP 24 Figure 17 CH1 Tab RTSP Configuration 25 Figure 18 VLC Open Network Screen for RTSP 26 Figure 19 Example of Encoded Video Streaming to VLC RTSP 27 Figure...

Page 6: ...p to 2160p at 30 fps At this time the Q603 supports both visible and thermal cameras The hardware consists of one Z3 Q603 MOD System on Module card with one Z3 Q603 APP 0x application board and an IO...

Page 7: ...lication board uses the I O expansion capability of the module to implement additional functions not present in the module itself This application board has one HDMI input one micro HDMI output one So...

Page 8: ...pment of high level applications using hardware accelerated video processing Those customers that license the optional source code package can also receive source code for Z3 s applications providing...

Page 9: ...ad of the standard 12 V DC Adapter This module encodes 1 stream of up to 4Kp30 resolution video from a camera to a display For more information on the Q603 10H please view the datasheet located at www...

Page 10: ...ock a thorough review of section 9 0 is required 2 2 If You Have Received a System from Z3 with the Software Preloaded To start working with the encoder you can go straight to Section 10 0 RUNNING THE...

Page 11: ...USA 1 402 323 0702 3 0 PACKAGE CONTENTS 1 x Q603 1 x 12V1A Power Supply 1 x Serial Cable 1 x Null Modem Adapter 4 0 OPERATING CONTROLS 1 Ethernet 1 Gb on Q603 10 5 Micro HDMI Out not enabled behind 2...

Page 12: ...rial RS 485 Micro HDMI Output Enabled Micro SD Card maximum 2TB Audio Interfaces Embedded from HDMI Audio Codecs HE AAC HEv2 AAC AAC LC Supports streaming in MPEG 2 TS RTP RTSP RTMP and TSRTP Simultan...

Page 13: ...t see section 7 2 1 for Encoding HEVC Interlaced Streams Supports non HDCP HDMI content only For example Blu Ray players cannot be used as a video source 6 0 RS 485 Pin Information Pin 1 is noted by a...

Page 14: ...or other material capable of removing heat from the system Note that the aluminum block is a good thermal conductor but is a poor thermal sink The aluminum block is not efficient at radiating the heat...

Page 15: ...lock camera WARNING If a 4K KEL camera is plugged into the HD KEL connector on the Q603 it will destroy the Q603 and the camera This is also true if a HD KEL camera is plugged into the 4K KEL connecto...

Page 16: ...______________ Z3 Technology LLC 100 N 8th St STE 250 Lincoln NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 Figure 8 KEL Connection to Q603 10 10 3 4K HD Switching Reboot Note 2160p Camera Blocks When switching be...

Page 17: ...up the Video Source 1 Select a 4K or HD source with non HDCP HDMI output Power on the 4K or HD Source Connect HDMI to a monitor Set the 4K or HD Source to 2160p 1080p or 1080i output If your source is...

Page 18: ...y None Stop 1 bit Flow Control None 2 If you are running from Linux type sudo minicom s And then configure by doing the following Select Serial Port Setup Ensure the right Serial Device is specified t...

Page 19: ...on your network If you have not downloaded this to your computer you can find it on Z3 s support server 1 Verify your PC is on the same network as your Z3 product 2 Run the ZFinder PC Utility on your...

Page 20: ...an address of 192 168 x y where x y is anything but 0 120 and not conflicting with what is on your current network 11 6 Access the User Interface The following actions can be completed in either the...

Page 21: ...edia player in the pictured example 192 168 0 6 b or to a multicast address An example multicast address would be 225 1 2 3 If you are on a shared network check with your Network Administrator 7 Also...

Page 22: ...VLC media player on your PC 2 Select Media Open Network Stream In the box type udp 192 168 0 6 8600 where 192 168 0 6 matches the values of the computer IP address or multicast address entered for De...

Page 23: ...u 4 Verify Output Resolution to Follow Input 5 Select the codec you would like to use for your encoding Both H 265 HEVC and H 264 AVC are supported In the pictured example Video Codec is set to H265 H...

Page 24: ...r Z3 account 1 Open VLC media player 2 Select Media Open File 3 In the file type dropdown menu select All Files 4 Find and select the SDP file corresponding to the video and audio codec you selected p...

Page 25: ...f the screen of any tab 3 At the CH1 tab verify the Video Source is set to HDMI using the dropdown menu 4 Verify Output Resolution to Follow Input 5 Select the codec you would like to use for your enc...

Page 26: ...aming is being done the user would type in rtsp 192 168 0 120 z3 1 mp4 Note VLC version 2 1 5 or later is needed for RTSP support Note When streaming RTSP via multicast the output address must end in...

Page 27: ...Stop All button in the lower right corner of the screen of any tab 3 At the CH1 Tab set Output Format to RTMP 4 The Dest Address textbox should be formatted as IP_address port application stream_name...

Page 28: ...a Streaming Engine to View RTMP Stream 1 Go to a PC that is on the same network as the Wowza server and open a web browser in this example FireFox is used Type in the URL of the Wowza server with the...

Page 29: ...___________________________________________________ Z3 Technology LLC 100 N 8th St STE 250 Lincoln NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 3 1 Use IP address of Wowza server 1935 2 Select Applications 3 Sele...

Page 30: ...SA 1 402 323 0702 4 You should see the Test Players popup screen Select the Adobe RTMP tab change the Stream name to 1080 should match the directory you are streaming to in the Q603 RPS and click Star...

Page 31: ...low Composite In on the interface board of the Q603 10 4 Return to the user interface 5 If necessary click on the Stop button in the Channel Controls section of the user interface CH1 tab or the Stop...

Page 32: ...rn to your serial terminal enter D and press enter to display dynamic options 5 Enter 1 and press enter to select the Bitrate option 6 Change the bitrate from 4M to 2M and press enter 7 Enter B for th...

Page 33: ..._________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology LLC 100 N 8th St STE 250 Lincoln NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 Figure 26 Drop in Bitrate after Dynami...

Page 34: ...t present you can create a second channel by clicking on the tab 11 19 Record to Micro SD Card The Q603 supports writing encoded video to a storage device connected to the Micro SD card in ts or mp4 f...

Page 35: ...to ensure that all buffered data is completely transferred 10 You can verify your recording by connecting the microSD device to your PC card reader and opening the newly created ts file in VLC media...

Page 36: ...ncoding ROI The Q603 XX allows for the encoding of a Region of Interest ROI in the captured video The encode of only the region of the video you are interested in 1 Click on the Ch1 tab and stop the s...

Page 37: ...eo stream in YYYY MM DD HH MM SS forma Note To use a different timestamp format add strftime characters in the tag For example for time of YYYY MM HH MM SS use ts Y m H M S 11 22 Encoding KLV Stream T...

Page 38: ...08 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology LLC 100 N 8th St STE 250 Lincoln NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 Figure 29 Enabling KLV 1 Change...

Page 39: ...terlaced stream properly Using the following command ffplay vf tinterlace merge rtsp IP ADDRESS OF Z3 DEVICE z3 1 mp4 Within the command the vf tinterlace merge option is what tells ffplay what to do...

Page 40: ...your newly created configuration from the preset dropdown menu at the bottom of the screen 5 As soon as you select a new preset the screen will reload 6 Change your desired settings 7 Once your chang...

Page 41: ...n encode interlaced streams with H 265 HEVC 3 Check Advanced settings on the System Setup tab 4 On the Channel tab you want interlaced support on select Separated from the Video Interlaced Mode drop d...

Page 42: ...________________________________________________ Z3 Technology LLC 100 N 8th St STE 250 Lincoln NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 12 8 SRT Support SRT is supported on the Q603 as a streaming protocol F...

Page 43: ...f the screen 4 As soon as you select your preset the screen will reload 12 8 1 Access Advanced Settings 1 Under Device Setup check the Advanced Settings box 2 Click on the Save button 3 A pop up windo...

Page 44: ...________________ Z3 Technology LLC 100 N 8th St STE 250 Lincoln NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 5 You can return to the use of limited settings by un checking the Advanced Settings box in the System...

Page 45: ...onfiguration so that the manual networking settings are used the next time the system boots up To do this see Section 12 1 2 Select your newly created configuration from the preset dropdown menu at th...

Page 46: ...window pops up reminding the user that for changes to IP Address Netmask Gateway to take effect a reboot is required and asking if a reboot is desired Click Ok and then Ok to the Are you sure window...

Page 47: ...a b c d 8 8 8 8 Used to specify the DNS server for hostname lookup when in static IP mode DNS Server IP 2 e f g h 8 8 4 4 Used to specify the secondary DNS server for hostname lookup when in static I...

Page 48: ...frames per second of encoder Actual FPS Actual frames per second being encoded Key frame FPS of key frames per second for example a value of 0 5 means a key frame is inserted every two seconds Width...

Page 49: ...n Note 1 Video Codec H265 HEVC H264 AVC MJPEG Selects the codec used for compression of the output video stream MJPEG is only available when RTP or RTSP are selected as the Output format Video Profile...

Page 50: ...best results The bitrate range for AACHE and AACHE V2 is 32 64 Kbps Rtp Port RTP Only 0 9999 8700 Destination port for RTP audio Pid UDP TSRTP TSFILE ZIXI Only 0 8191 120 Audio PID for transport strea...

Page 51: ...ame Max File Size TSFILE Aux TS File Only 1024M Sets the file size at which a new ts file is started Video PID UDP TSRTP TSFILE Only 0 8191 221 PID assigned to video in the TS stream PCR PID UDP TSRTP...

Page 52: ...this time KLV Enable True False Enables the capture and insertion of KLV data into the bitstream KLV Pid 0 8191 35 PID assigned to the KLV stream in the TS stream KLV Bitrate 100 1M Expected bit rate...

Page 53: ...iness when there is motion in the video For example if the input is 1080i at 60 fields per second 30 frames per second Frame Rate Divider has the following effect Frame Rate Output fields used frame r...

Page 54: ...will occur Video Bitrate 2K 40M 2M Textbox for entering video bitrate 13 6 Values Appearing at the Bottom of All Tabs Parameter Options default in bold Notes preset encoder any user defined profiles n...

Page 55: ...ing from your encoder the following steps are needed 1 Log in to the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager Home page by typing http localhost 8088 where localhost is the IP address of the server in this User...

Page 56: ...ublishing and RTSP Publishing are both set to Open and Client Restrictions is set to No client restrictions Then click Save The Wowza server is now configured to work with your Z3 encoder Note You can...

Page 57: ...y routers etc Can the PC and target board see each other on the network Try pinging the encoder IP address from the PC Try pinging the PC from the encoder Problem Do not see video in VLC UDP Does the...

Page 58: ...imited Warranty will be void if the label on the hardware bearing the Serial Number is removed tampered with or defaced You can view Z3 Technology s full hardware warranty at https z3technology com su...

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