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VBrick v4.3 MPEG-2 Appliance
Admin Guide

March 9, 2009

4410-0216-0002

VB4000-5000-6000 Series
Network Video Appliances

Summary of Contents for VBRICK APPLIANCE VB4000

Page 1: ...VBrick v4 3 MPEG 2 Appliance Admin Guide March 9 2009 4410 0216 0002 VB4000 5000 6000 Series Network Video Appliances...

Page 2: ...requency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is like...

Page 3: ...Management 13 Configuration Network IPv6 14 Configuration Billboard 14 Using the Billboard 15 Billboard FTP 15 Billboard URLs 16 Billboard File Types 16 Creating a Billboard 17 Configuration Decoder...

Page 4: ...Encoder Audio 59 Configuration Decoder 59 4 Status Status System Information 61 Status Network Status 63 Status Network Status Codec 63 Status Network Status Routing 65 Status Network Status Network T...

Page 5: ...ords 91 Maintenance Usernames Passwords Change Usernames Passwords 91 Maintenance Usernames Passwords Change SNMPv3 Passwords 93 7 Maintenance Mode Overview 95 Maintenance Mode Features 96 Maintenance...

Page 6: ...vi Contents Configuration FTP File Transfer Transfers 113 VBStar Status 114...

Page 7: ...Use the Search box to find specific information Simply enter one or more words in the box and press Enter The search results will return pages that have all of the words you entered highlighted in yel...

Page 8: ...or download VBrick product documentation Font Conventions Arial bold is used to describe dialog boxes and menu choices for example Start All Programs VBrick Courier fixed width font is used for script...

Page 9: ...devices are video only no audio The VBSSM MP2 MPEG 2 and VBSSM MP4 MPEG 4 encoders are ideal for security and surveillance applications where full motion high quality video is required in a cost effec...

Page 10: ...er Recorder functionality may be different in mixed model appliances depending on how the slots are populated In other words the behavior of the device in a given slot may change depending on what com...

Page 11: ...Introduction VBrick MPEG 2 Appliance Admin Guide 3 Figure 1 Archiver Recorder Functionality...

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Page 13: ...one or more of the following components Note that the screens you see in IWS will vary depending on the model and how the appliance is configured 1 A main controller card with the following 10 100Base...

Page 14: ...management connectivity via IWS or CLI In general MPEG 2 video quality improves when video rate is increased Significant video quality improvements are noticeable when moving between 1 2 and 5 megabit...

Page 15: ...e calculation mode default operation The maximum MPEG 2 transport rate of 17 megabits per second should be used judiciously When using the hard drive especially for recording keep other device functio...

Page 16: ...4300 13 0 13 0 13 No 0 4300 11 0 11 0 0 No 11 4300 9 9 9 9 9 No 0 4300 8 8 8 8 0 No 8 5300 17 17 0 No 0 5300 13 13 13 No 0 5300 14 14 0 No 14 Note All values are shown in Mbps A rate of 0 indicates o...

Page 17: ...VBrick will start in limited run mode after two minutes using its default IP Address of 172 17 5 5 After 15 minutes it will automatically reset and again attempt to acquire an address The LCD screen o...

Page 18: ...bps and or Half Duplex If auto negotiation fails the VBrick defaults to 10Mbit half duplex and attempts parallel detection an alternative way to sense speed Status parameters are available on the netw...

Page 19: ...video playback on Vista PCs may be suboptimal with small MTU sizes Primary Server IP Address This is the primary server used for DNS Secondary Server IP Address This is the secondary server used for...

Page 20: ...2 announcements In this mode RIP will perform classless routing based upon subnet mask RIP Version 2 Multicast Configures the VBrick to listen to RIP version 2 announcements that are sent in multicas...

Page 21: ...nit number range 0 2147483647 is used to identify each VBrick in a group Management SAP Used by VBDirectory or MCS to detect the unit for the purpose of remote management The following parameters appl...

Page 22: ...kept inside the VBrick as part of the file system or can be located on a remote HTTP server Each page of the billboard is built using an HTML page with text and graphics created using the HTML tags su...

Page 23: ...local file with the prefix file or point to remote server with the prefix http The default billboard is assumed to be a file located within the VBrick file system file BB01 VB_1 HTM If the billboard U...

Page 24: ...case sensitive to enter in the Billboard URL box is file BB01 VB_1 HTM Example 2 A multi page billboard is placed in BB01 It requires four image files one for each page The billboard pages are named...

Page 25: ...signal and the television On higher grade monitors the effect is significantly reduced Font Sizes It is recommended that font size 5 be used on the billboard The VBrick has two types of video output...

Page 26: ...sus 25 frames per second at 50Hz Note Changing and applying this parameter will cause the VBrick to reset Logo Display Lets you display the VBrick logo on the decoder output monitor VBrick provides a...

Page 27: ...ameter is of interest when the user selects automatic A value of 8191 indicates the PID has not yet been established Output Mode The audio output mode can be one of five possible setting as shown belo...

Page 28: ...oders There are no encoder settings for source specific multicast there are decoder settings see below Receive Address Mode and Source IP Address for MPEG 2 decoders only Output Level Hardware depende...

Page 29: ...unicast from the encoder The Source IP Address is not used Program Name Select from the list of MPEG 2 program names being multicast on the network The Source IP Address is displayed but is read only...

Page 30: ...tination During exceptionally long periods of delay a large quantity of video packets will be buffered in the network When the situation that caused the delay is resolved the buffered frames will be b...

Page 31: ...ords assigned or those that contain no keyword will be available to this Decoder The Encoder s Category is established on the Configuration Encoder SAP menu screen of IWS Note also the wildcard charac...

Page 32: ...yellow green blue and violet Default is 0 Adding hue reduces the saturation Note that the Picture in Picture display will override the display of Closed Caption text Transport Rate This option allows...

Page 33: ...at identifies the data stream associated with that packet It is possible that a non VBrick decoder may only accept audio streams with a certain PID setting If so then this feature allows compatibility...

Page 34: ...Hz Video Aspect Ratio Aspect ratio is the ratio of the width of the image to the height of the image Standard TV images generally use an aspect ratio of 4 3 DVD players and some camera can produce 16...

Page 35: ...ium When set to medium the closed captioning field will update every 20 seconds Fast When set to fast the closed captioning field will update every 5 seconds Inserted CC Text Sets the text that is ins...

Page 36: ...ences between the black and white levels of the signal Saturation 0 to 127 Default 66 The saturation is the spectral purity or intensity of a color Hue Range is 128 to 127 Default 0 The hue is the att...

Page 37: ...ctions Encoder Time default GMT Time Local Time Note Within the GOP header of the video stream is a Time Stamp in hours minutes and seconds If the receiving application uses this time stamp it is desi...

Page 38: ...Encoder PLX EEProm Revision is 1 the settings are from 3 to 48 dB and mute The default setting is 0 dB A setting of 3 is equivalent to full volume and 60 effectively mutes the encoder audio If the EE...

Page 39: ...vision is 1 this parameter can be set to Stereo and Mute The default setting is Stereo If the EEProm Revision is 2 or higher the parameter can be set to Stereo Mono left to stereo or Mute Default Ster...

Page 40: ...tion IPv4 or IPv6 address depending on what is selected above of the network device that will be receiving the encoded video You can enter a source specific multicast address 232 8 but it will have no...

Page 41: ...r It is also beneficial but not necessary for the Packet Payload Size to be a multiple of 188 Note that when you adjust the Packet Payload Size and video Bit Rate on the encoder the decoder video may...

Page 42: ...rick appliances to other VBrick appliances and VBrick applications such as the Portal Server and StreamPlayerPlus They are used to identify streams present in the network Join Own Multicast Some netwo...

Page 43: ...st Name set in IWS in the Network Ethernet section and will be identified as such on the network see the StreamPlayer software example below B or b If the unit is a VBStar this is the Base Name of the...

Page 44: ...vailable to a client with an IP address 172 22 3 4 but not to a client with an IP Address 172 16 3 4 There is no admin interface to this feature on the Portal Server you can use this filtering in addi...

Page 45: ...sary parameters Note SAP information appears in the Program Guide field displayed in other VBrick products such as StreamPlayer and StreamPlayer Plus Conferencing Setup This option enables disables th...

Page 46: ...de Allows the choice of what is displayed when the conference ends Display either Picture in Picture with the local encoder view or a Blank Screen Local Ringer IR If Enabled the ringer may be enabled...

Page 47: ...tor In this case it will continuously attempt to automatically initiate a Passthrough connection to the remote destination Operational State Describes the current status of a Passthrough connection in...

Page 48: ...DTR controls passed through end to end All control handling is local DTR Control Force Off Force On or Automatic If automatic the control will be On when Passthrough is active See note above Operatio...

Page 49: ...ost name Slot1 MetaData If Meta Data is enabled on the Encoder Video page the appliance captures incoming data from the serial port and inserts it into the stream as metadata In a typical application...

Page 50: ...S Control Force Off Force On or Automatic If automatic the control will be on when Passthrough is active DTR and RTS are not available for COM2 Under no conditions are RTS or DTR controls passed throu...

Page 51: ...on this window System Date Time Set system date and time in mm dd yyyy hh mm format Current Operational Mode Indicates the current operational mode of the VBrick The following modes are supported Note...

Page 52: ...as defined in the encoder decoder and pump screens with fixed SAP transmission and timeouts If variable is selected the entire VBrick will use SAP timing as defined in RFC 2974 For most applications F...

Page 53: ...is first detected an alarm active trap is emitted Alarms are considered active until the condition cleared and the alarm clear trap is emitted Note VBrick supports SNMPv3 in addition to SNMP v1 v2 SN...

Page 54: ...s cleared 3 There is loss of video input on slot2 Encoder 4 The loss of video input on slot2 Encoder failure has cleared 5 The box has started up in Run mode 6 The box has started up in Diagnostics mo...

Page 55: ...sable Telnet FTP IWS and SNMP the only way to manage and re enable these parameters is to connect a PC to the VBrick with a serial cable and use the Command Line Interface CLI You should never disable...

Page 56: ...ts This is typically done in a centralized location using router firewall technology which is more successful and cost effective than resolving the issue at each host Configuration System Logging Cert...

Page 57: ...og Trap Log Remote If Enabled sends trap event notices to a remote host General Config Log Local If Enabled displays configuration changes in the local log General Config Log Remote If Enabled sends c...

Page 58: ...eo on Demand features of the VoD server sending the SAP If disabled the user will not see Video on Demand SAPs in the Program Guide SAP IP Address The IP Address for Video on Demand SAPs Default value...

Page 59: ...n functions within the VBrick appliance There are a total of four possible input events COM1 Pin8 Low COM1 Pin8 High COM1 Pin7 Low COM1 Pin7 High and ten possible input events using the IR Remote each...

Page 60: ...VBrick via FTP and manage script files Requires a valid user name and password Event Enable Allows the user to Enable Disable Event Triggering for each input event Event Stable Time Allows the user to...

Page 61: ...ecorderOperationStart 2 start recording end of a group wait 5000 wait for 5000 milliseconds end of a group vbrickSlot1EncoderNetworkTransmitEnable 2 set enable slot 1 encoder transmit vbrickSlot1Encod...

Page 62: ...k checks for a script URL and will run the script immediately regardless of the VBEXECUTE tag value Sample Script The auto config script file config xml is an xml file with the following syntax It can...

Page 63: ...MPEG 2 Configuration VBrick MPEG 2 Appliance Admin Guide 55 vbrickHDRecorderControlBatchEnable 1 vbrickHDRecorderControlApplySet 2 VBRICK...

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Page 65: ...from the incoming 270 Mbps data stream These audio channels are embedded into the SDI video stream and occupy space in the horizontal and vertical blanking interval These four channels are extracted...

Page 66: ...ace is only available on xxx1 xxx2 equipped units see Status User Information for part number Several additional configuration parameters are available with SDI models For SDI equipped units everythin...

Page 67: ...low Configuration Decoder The SDI decoder does not display any additional fields in IWS If an SDI board is present connecting to the output will produce SDI out of the appliance including Composite S...

Page 68: ...60 2009 VBrick Systems Inc Note The MPEG 2 SDI decoder outputs audio via SDI and analog audio at the same time SDI audio is sent in SDI audio channels 1 2 it is also sent in SDI audio channels 3 4...

Page 69: ...er to reset all statistic counters Topics in this chapter Status System Information 61 Status Network Status 63 Status Decoder Status 66 Status Encoder Status 68 Status Hard Drive Status 70 Status FTP...

Page 70: ...iagnostics Limited Run Mode Limited operational mode not selectable Normally occurs if a hardware problem exists within the VBrick but it can still partially operate Overloaded Mode Limited operationa...

Page 71: ...Failed Couldn t retrieve a DHCP parameter needed requested Failed Invalid Boot File Invalid boot file specified Indicates a severe condition Failed Invalid Retrieved IP address assigned by the server...

Page 72: ...Addr Conferencing State This setting indicates the unicast call state of the encoder Free Available for a conference Busy The VBrick is currently engaged in a conference Disabled The conference featur...

Page 73: ...he appliance transmitting one of the extra video streams received on this interface Orphan Count Orphans are packet fragments received that do not have corresponding head PDUs Destination Network Defi...

Page 74: ...ecoder Status MPEG 2 Decoder Status This menu lets you view vital Decoder statistics As you Refresh the Source IP Address and Bytes Transferred fields are updated If you see decoder sync lost sync cou...

Page 75: ...l Run Start Channel Change Wait On Both Audio Channels Change Wait On Audio 1 Channel Change Wait On Audio 2 Channel Change Video Drain Command Wait On Video Drain Restart Video And Audio Illegal Wait...

Page 76: ...om a particular video stream Note If multiple devices in the same unit i e decoder or hard disk are tuned to the same stream the Unexpected Fragments count on Slot1 is used exclusively to report stati...

Page 77: ...hat your video cable is good Verify that the Configuration Encoder Video Video Input Type is properly set to Composite or S Video to match your source connection Verify that Configuration Encoder Vide...

Page 78: ...the hard drive Video File Count Number of files on the hard drive Read Errors The count of reported block read failures Write Errors The count of reported block write failures Open Errors The count of...

Page 79: ...of the stream being pumped Pump Duration The duration in seconds of the stream being pumped Current File Name of the file currently being transferred Transmit State Displays whether the pump is trans...

Page 80: ...buffer has been filled to capacity Non Video Packet The number of non video packets received Unexpected Fragments The number of mis ordered packets received Each appliance maintains a statistical repo...

Page 81: ...e of the file being recorded set to 0 if recording is not in progress File in Progress Name of the file currently being recorded Last Completed File Name of the last file recorded FTP Status Transfer...

Page 82: ...ick These events may occur during normal operation and include reports of successful and unsuccessful attempts to access video sources by the local decoder and access to the local encoder using RTSP S...

Page 83: ...s unexpected behaviors detected by the VBrick software Normally this log is used by VBrick Customer Support to help debug possible system malfunctions Status User Information Status User Information M...

Page 84: ...he slots in the appliance User Information Version As displayed Part Number As displayed Box Serial Number As displayed Customer Class As displayed if any Manufacturing Date As displayed Board Assembl...

Page 85: ...MPEG 2 Appliance Admin Guide 77 User Information Version As displayed Board Assembly Number As displayed Lot Number As displayed if any Main Board Serial Number As displayed This Board Serial Number...

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Page 87: ...admin admin or operator operator case sensitive 2 Go to the Configuration System screen 3 Click Begin Edit 4 Set Configured Operational Mode as required 5 Click Apply Changes 6 The VBrick will then au...

Page 88: ...s the Time To Live TTL field in the IP header to allow intermediate nodes to be discovered via Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP Intermediate hops are discovered by launching probe packets with a...

Page 89: ...teway and round trip time of each probe If the probe answers are received from different gateways the address of each responding system will be shown If there is no response within a 5 second timeout...

Page 90: ...o deployment The transmit encoder generates the pattern and the receive decoder checks the pattern Statistics indicating good packets and identifying bad packets are provided in the receive appliance...

Page 91: ...o test the hardware integrity of the VBrick appliance board by running the test one or more times or by setting the test for continuous operation or for a certain number of test loops This test is not...

Page 92: ...c Diagnostics Decoder Color Bars The Decoder Color Bar test is a simple test that generates color bars at the video decoder and outputs them in the place of video It can be used to test basic decoder...

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Page 95: ...evice Information The device information menu allows the user to set various system information These parameters are often used in SNMP managed networks System Description Company name model and seria...

Page 96: ...en powered up Note The Device Information table creates a date and time stamp for every power or reset event When SNTP is enabled the unit must reboot to synchronize time with the SNTP server time If...

Page 97: ...view this file offline you must download the style sheet see click here on the screen to the same directory as the saved file Do not change the name of the style sheet It should always be saved as cf...

Page 98: ...s from an xml file to the VBrick On a successful write all parameters will be saved to Flash and the appliance will reboot Only administrator level users and above have Write privileges Note The VBric...

Page 99: ...to locate the error s manually by clicking through the IWS pages in Edit mode and looking for error messages highlighted in red T To create a configuration file 1 Read the configuration from the VBri...

Page 100: ...cial characters Confirm Confirm new password entry Note Appliance will then inform the user and perform a reboot Promiscuous Mode This mode is used in conjunction with VBrick supplied ActiveX controls...

Page 101: ...traffic with secure DES encryption It also provides a user based security model rather than a community based model VBrick s implementation allows you to use both v1 v2 and v3 For the highest security...

Page 102: ...exceed 20 characters May include any combination of alphanumeric characters but only the following special characters See Table 5 for defaults Authentication Protocol Select protocol MD5 or SHA Privac...

Page 103: ...ode can also be used as a means of downloading new firmware If your appliance enters maintenance mode during or after a firmware download you can simply rerun the download and reset the appliance to r...

Page 104: ...changes and then applies them it is necessary to manually save and reboot the appliance Command Line Interface CLI in Maintenance Mode does not support the Global Editing Commands be en and sh Mainten...

Page 105: ...rating system failed to load or the flash is corrupted Code 20 Critical system files are missing or corrupted Code 30 The Hardware Watchdog has failed Code 50 Invalid Flash parameters found defaults u...

Page 106: ...edit the IP address Where yy yy yy yy is the new IP address c nt 3 zz zz zz z z To edit the Sub Net Mask Where zz zz zz zz is the new subnet mask associated with the Ethernet interface c nt 4 vv vv vv...

Page 107: ...tional lectures corporate messages sales training and technical information can be encoded and recorded and the video sent all in one step for on demand viewing from any location on site or off Live c...

Page 108: ...tion explains in detail how the MPEG 2 encoder works when functioning as a recorder see VBStar Record on page 105 For an explanation of how the MPEG 2 encoder works when functioning as an archiver see...

Page 109: ...tch mode the Batch Base File Name is usually entered as the Pump File Name the batch files will be played from the lowest numbered through the highest number If a batch file name is entered with a par...

Page 110: ...is not enabled any file FTP d to the disk will be pumped on reception Some special cases of operation following an FTP onto the hard drive If both Batch Mode is enabled and Continuous Enable is Contin...

Page 111: ...VBStar VBrick MPEG 2 Appliance Admin Guide 103 Configuration Pump Announce SAP See MPEG 2 Configuration Encoder Announce SAP on page 34...

Page 112: ...4 2009 VBrick Systems Inc Configuration Pump Operation This screen shows you the status of your Pump and allows you to manually Start Stop and Pause the current Pump Use the Refresh to update the stat...

Page 113: ...an index number from 1 99 to support the option of batch mode The restriction on the root filename exists even if batch mode is not enabled to allow a switch to batch mode without requiring a change t...

Page 114: ...reached recording will record over the files previously recorded starting from the first file As one file is being recorded the next index file is deleted to get ready to receive data from 1 to 999 F...

Page 115: ...being transferred Recorder Schedule Files will be recorded at a scheduled time IR Enable Enables or disables only the Record and Send buttons on the Infrared handheld remote control device The master...

Page 116: ...reen does not appear and whatever video is being received by the designated decoder is recorded Dedicated Indicates that the settings are read from the VBStar settings on the Configuration Recorder Ne...

Page 117: ...poll option set and instruct it not to transmit its stream unless the encoding VBrick has the selected receive IP Address Receive Port The receive port designates what local IP port is assigned to li...

Page 118: ...disk when running Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows NT Due to a limitation in Windows NT Internet Explorer FTP is not invoked Recorder State Displays the state of the recorder Values can be Fail...

Page 119: ...s of the video source If unicast this is the same as the sender s source IP address Recorder File Name File name to be recorded File Start Time Starting time of the recording Data Recorded Reports the...

Page 120: ...ick Appliance A non VBrick appliance setting allows a destination server to select its own path name based on account user name and password In this case the Directory setting may be used to specify a...

Page 121: ...ameters in the Configuration FTP File Transfer Servers screen of IWS FTP Status Directory This object allows a manager to switch to a different directory within the FTP server after login Optional ent...

Page 122: ...nder sending to VBrick and non VBrick appliances in the previous IWS screen File Name of the File from the hard drive Batch The batch filename of an individually indexed batch file If a whole batch is...

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