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User Instructions

H.264 HD Multimedia System

Z3-DME-01 Digital Media Encoder & Streamer

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Z3-DME-01

DOC-USR-0018-09

Manual Version 1.06.26a

Software Version 1.06.26

February 9, 2015

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Page 1: ...uary 9 2015 Before attempting to connect or operate this product please read these instructions carefully and save the manual for future use This document contains proprietary and confidential 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 authorized representative of Z3 ...

Page 2: ...ed Screen Shots added section 4 1 formatting KA 1 06 26 02 06 15 Updated features in Section 4 0 Modified Section 6 4 6 5 6 10 7 0 8 2 2 8 3 and 9 1 Updated Screen Shots RC 1 06 26a 02 09 15 Added SDI Closed Caption to supported features in Section 4 0 6 10 RC Note This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules T...

Page 3: ... Finding the Z3 DME 01 on the Network using ZFinder 10 6 4 Opening a VLC Client to Receive the Encoded Stream 14 6 5 Streaming RTP 15 6 6 Using DHCP 17 6 7 Dynamically Changing Bit Rate Frame Rate 19 6 8 Tuning for Latency 19 6 9 Streaming RTMP 20 6 10 Encoding Closed Caption Data 23 7 0 RUNNING DECODE ON THE Z3 DME 01 25 7 1 Connect the Decoder 25 7 2 Set up the Decoder Board to Work with the Enc...

Page 4: ...mple of Z3 Video Streaming to VLC RTP 16 Figure 16 Using DHCP 17 Figure 17 Saving Use DHCP 17 Figure 18 New IP Address in ZFinder 18 Figure 19 Web GUI Using New IP Address 18 Figure 20 Tuning for Latency 19 Figure 21 Configuring for RTMP Encode 20 Figure 22 Getting to the Wowza Test Player 21 Figure 23 Viewing Z3 DME 01 Content in Wowza 22 Figure 24 Connections for Closed Caption Extraction 23 Fig...

Page 5: ...t HD video integrated system peripherals and production qualified codecs The Z3 DME 01 offers multi format multi channel HD video up to 1080p30 The Z3 DME 01 features HD performance compact size and low latency while still having less power consumption than a PC based encoder platform 2 0 QUICK START GUIDE 2 1 If you have Received a System from Z3 with the Software Preloaded To start working with ...

Page 6: ..._______________________________________________ Z3 Technology LLC 100 N 8th St STE 250 Lincoln NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 3 0 INCLUDED PARTS LIST Z3 DME 01 Power Supply BNC to BNC Cable DB 9 Serial Cable RCA to RCA Cable Figure 1 Parts Included with the Z3 DME 01 ...

Page 7: ...RTMP or MPEG 2 Transport Stream Supports fractional resolutions and frame rates Video Frame Rate 50Hz or 60Hz Supports extraction of closed caption data from composite input or SDI input SD Card interface for local storage and firmware updates Web based configuration software for user friendly configuration and control RS 232 serial port for optional technical configuration and control Operating T...

Page 8: ... NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 5 0 OPERATING CONTROLS FRONT VIEW REAR VIEW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 Power Switch 2 Ready Status Light 3 Source Status Lights 4 SD Card Slot 5 RS 232 Port 6 ASI SDI Out 7 SD HD SDI In 8 Composite In 9 Analog Audio In R 10 Analog Audio In L 11 Ethernet 12 12V Power In Figure 2 Z3 DME 01 Front View Figure 3 Z3 DME 01 Rear View ...

Page 9: ... Source 1 Select an HD source with HDMI non HDCP output in Z3 s testing the Brite View BV 5005HD is used Power on the HD Source Connect an HDMI cable from the HD Source to a monitor Set the HD Source to 1080p30 or 1080i output Select and begin playback of the content If you see playback on the monitor you ve confirmed the source works Now move the HDMI cable from the monitor to HDMI In on the HDMI...

Page 10: ...o decode the output stream 4 Connect the 12V power supply to 12VDC see Figure 4 5 Power on the Z3 DME 01 6 Wait around one minute for the Status LED to light up 6 3 Finding the Z3 DME 01 on the Network using ZFinder 7 Verify your Windows PC is connected to the same network the Z3 DME 01 is connected to 8 Run the ZFinder PC Utility on your Windows PC The ZFinder window appears ZFinder then complete...

Page 11: ...vice Open Device and Flash LEDs boxes to activate 10 By clicking Edit Device you can change the Name IP Address Netmask and Gateway address of the Z3 DME 01 You can also flash the LEDs on the Z3 DME 01 board by clicking Flash LEDs this is useful if there are multiple Z3 DME 01s connected Click on Open Device An internet browser window is opened default browser used if Firefox and the Web GUI appea...

Page 12: ... modify the settings for the encode that you want to do Verify Video Source is SDI and Output Interface is ASI Ethernet CBR Change Output Format to MPEG 2 TS and confirm Dest IP Address is 225 1 2 3 and Dest Port is 8888 3 Verify Output Format is MPEG 2 TS 5 Set Dest Port to 8888 2 Confirm Output Interface is set to ASI Ethernet 1 Verify Video Source is SDI 4 Confirm Dest IP Address is 225 1 2 3 F...

Page 13: ...may have already started If it has click on Stop Encoder The status should then change to Stopped Then click on Start Encoder Once you do this the status will change If the encoder had not started already simply click on the Start Encoder button and observe the status change 2 Status changes to Stopped 3 Click Start Encoder 1 If necessary click Stop Encoder Figure 10 Z3 DME 01 Web Menu Start Stop ...

Page 14: ...NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 6 4 Opening a VLC Client to Receive the Encoded Stream 13 Run VLC on your PC version used in testing at Z3 3 0 0 14 Select Media Open Network Stream In the box type udp 225 1 2 3 8888 15 Press Enter 16 You should now see video streaming from VLC Figure 11 VLC Open Network Screen Figure 12 Example of Z3 Video Streaming to VLC UDP TS ...

Page 15: ...n Stop Encoder to stop the current encoding session 18 Change Output Interface from ASI Ethernet CBR to Ethernet VBR This is necessary because RTP is a variable bit rate format and is not supported over ASI 19 Change Output Format from MPEG 2 TS to RTP Note Do not select MPEG TS over RTP 20 Click Start Encoder to start the encoding session Once you finish your settings should look something like t...

Page 16: ...e Open Media box type rtsp 192 168 0 65 name mp4 where 192 168 0 65 is the IP address of the Z3 DME 01 and name is z3 1 for unicast streaming and z3 1m for multicast streaming For example for the settings in Figure 13 since 225 1 2 3 is a multicast address the value would be rtsp 192 168 0 65 z3 1m mp4 23 Click Play You should then see RTP video streaming on VLC Figure 14 Entering RTSP URL into VL...

Page 17: ... acquire an IP address at boot up To use it complete the following 24 Click the Use DHCP check box in the Web GUI Once it is checked you will see that the values of Local IP Address Local Netmask and Default Gateway will gray out 25 Click on Save User Wait for the Saved All to User message to appear 1 Check use DHCP 2 Values gray out Figure 16 Using DHCP 1 Click Load User 2 Wait for Saved all to U...

Page 18: ...01 Wait about one minute for the ready LED to turn on 28 Click Refresh on ZFinder The Z3 DME 01 should appear with a new IP address based on what it received through DHCP 29 As you did previously select the Z3 DME 01 row and then click Open Device A browser will then appear with the GUI this time using the new IP address 1 Click Refresh 2 New IP Address appears Figure 18 New IP Address in ZFinder ...

Page 19: ... has to work with The higher this value the more buffering it has to work with and the more time it has to smooth things out for challenging content However a higher value also causes latency to increase accordingly To minimize latency this value should be set to the lowest possible value The lowest value Z3 recommends is 150 The figure below shows the suggested values for Video Burst Size for thr...

Page 20: ...C on your network for details on configuring Wowza please see APPENDIX A Configuring the Wowza Server for RTMP 3 In the Encoder Web GUI set Output Interface to Ethernet VBR 4 Set Output Format to RTMP This will cause Dest IP Address and Dest Path to appear 5 In Dest IP Address type the IP address of the PC with the Wowza server in this example it is 10 1 10 251 6 In Dest Path type live 1080 7 Set ...

Page 21: ...owza server and open a web browser in this example FireFox is used Type in the URL of the Wowza server with the port 8888 in this example 10 1 10 251 8088 This will bring up the Wowza home page Log in with your user name and password 10 At the top you will see 4 options Home Server Applications and Help Click on Applications and select live Click on Test Players located in the top right hand corne...

Page 22: ...3 0702 11 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 DME 01 and click Start You should then see the content streamed from the DME 01 1 Select Adobe RTMP tab 2 Type 1080 for Stream name 3 Click Start 4 Audio and Video start to appear Figure 23 Viewing Z3 DME 01 Content in Wowza ...

Page 23: ...s automatically occurs any time composite input with closed caption data included is used To utilize this feature complete the following 1 Connect a composite input with closed caption data to the composite connector note A BNC to RCA adapter may be necessary Also connect the audio if available 2 Configure the Encoder to use composite input 1 Connect composite with CC data 2 Connect analog audio F...

Page 24: ...e 14 4 In VLC select Subtitle Sub Track Closed Caption 1 This configures VLC to use the extracted closed caption data that the encoder has extracted and encoded You should then see the subtitles on the screen 5 Extraction of closed caption through SDI input is also possible In that case SDI In of the DME 01 is used The procedure for seeing the closed caption data through VLC is the same as shown a...

Page 25: ...the Ethernet to a hub or router connected to the control PC and the streaming source 3 Connect the 12V power to the Z3 DME 01 4 Power on the Decoder Z3 DME 01 7 2 Set up the Decoder Board to Work with the Encoder Board 5 If you are using another Z3 DME 01 as the encoding source you need to make sure that the encoding Z3 DME 01 and decoding Z3 DME 01 have different IP addresses If you are using DHC...

Page 26: ... USA 1 402 323 0702 7 3 Configure the Encoder 6 Going back to the Encoder system change the settings to match those in the figure below Here a multicast address is used You can also try streaming unicast to the IP address of the Decoder system Using multicast allows you to also open VLC and view the stream from there Figure 28 Example Encoder Settings for End to End Streaming ...

Page 27: ...Configure the Decoder 7 Now go to the Decoder system controls The first thing you want to do is switch to Decoder mode This can be done by changing Operating Mode in the lower right corner 8 Once you do this the description at the top right will change from Z3 DME 01 Encoder to Z3 DME 01 Decoder Select Decoder Figure 29 Z3 DME 01 Operating Mode Selector Figure 30 Z3 DME 01 Decoder Configuration Me...

Page 28: ... Interface is set to SDI 12 Click the MVE Flag if a DME 01 MVE 02 MVE 20 or an MVPR 01 is being used as the Encoder you can click this button to allow faster decode Your settings should look like the following 13 Click Start Decoder 14 If you haven t already go back to the Encoder system and click Start 15 After a few seconds you should see video on the monitor 16 You can also view the content usi...

Page 29: ...tings If you have a specific configuration you d like to preserve you can save it so that when the Z3 DME 01 is powered off and back on it automatically uses those settings This can be done with the following steps 1 Once you make a change you want to save click on Save User at the bottom of the menu When you reboot the DME 01 you should see that decode will automatically start with those settings...

Page 30: ...e screen In this screen click on Browse 4 From here select the name of the img file to update with and click Open Note If using a MFR img to update from version A to version B example you will need to follow steps to set up the IP MAC address again as it resets it to factory defaults Please contact Z3 Technology for documentation on how to update this In general it is recommended that the UPD img ...

Page 31: ... 5 Specify your SD card as the location to write to Note This will cause wherever you specify to be overwritten There is no recovery once you hit Write Device 6 When ZWriter is finished eject the SD card from your computer 7 Place the SD card in the socket on the Z3 DME 01 8 Power on the system and wait a few minutes It is also possible to view the update occurring via an optional serial interface...

Page 32: ...ion window will appear after the password is successfully registered Type admin for the User Name and the password you have just entered in Password and click Ok 4 Exit the browser and restart it or create another browser window In the new browser enter the IP address of the Z3 DME 01 When you do so the same authentication window that appeared in step 3 will appear Enter admin and the password as ...

Page 33: ...mpled at 48KHz Use the Analog 32KHz or Analog 44 1KHz to sample at other frequencies Audio Codec AAC LC ADTS AAC LC LATM PCM AC 3 Passthru MPEG 1 Layer 2 None The codec to use for audio Audio Bit Rate 32 64 96 128 192 256 320 384 The bit rate for audio in kbps Video Resolution WQVGA 1080i or follow input The encode resolution Note 1 Note There is no conversion of progressive to interlaced in the Z...

Page 34: ...the value the smoother the encode but also the higher the latency Video Codec H 264 MPEG 2 The codec to use for video encoding Frame Decimation None 1 2 1 3 1 4 Used to reduce the frame rate For example selecting 1 2 frame decimation for 30fps input would cause a bitstream encoded at 15fps Output Interface Ethernet VBR ASI ASI Ethernet CBR Selects where bitstream is output Ethernet ASI or both Not...

Page 35: ...ecked Use DHCP Checkbox On Off On Use DHCP to get IP address at boot up see Using DHCP Stop Button Stop current encode session Start Button Start encode session Status Idle Stopped Running Current status of the encoder Load Factory Default Settings Button Press to load the default values installed at the factory Load User Settings Button Press to load settings previously saved by the user Save Use...

Page 36: ...Available options depend on what was licensed MVE Flag Yes No Set this flag if the streaming source is another Z3 DME 01 the Z3 MVPR 01 the Z3 MVE 20 or the Z3 MVE 02 Output Interface SDI Only SDI output is supported Video Frame Rate 50Hz 60Hz Use to select between NTSC and PAL monitors for example Local IP Address 192 168 X XX 192 168 0 65 Sets the IP address of the Z3 DME 01 Disregarded if Use D...

Page 37: ...o work with the Z3 DME 01 RTMP streaming 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 s Guide 10 1 10 251 2 Click on Server in the top band of options On the left column click on Performance Tuning and then Java Settings Click Edit and then change Java Heap Size to ...

Page 38: ... 1 402 323 0702 3 Click on Applications in the top band of options On the left column click on live and then Incoming Security Click Edit and then make sure RTMP Publishing and RTSP Publishing are both set to Open and Client Restrictions are set to No client restrictions Then click Save The Wowza server is now configured to work with the Z3 DME 01 Figure 39 Wowza Security Settings ...

Page 39: ... from the Z3 DME 01 serial interface required for this see Z3 Technology for more details Are all firewalls on the network turned off Try connecting the PC directly to the board without any routers etc Problem Do not see video in VLC UDP Does the IP address set in Dest Address equal the IP address of the PC running VLC Does the port number in Dest Port equal the value entered in the URL for VLC Do...

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