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Managing the Device Feeds

Using EdgeVision Player to Monitor your Feeds

You can then confirm what appears in the View panel by checking the alarms in the Host
Browser, specifically the

Video freeze

alarm. Once you have confirmed what is happening,

you can begin to take the corrective steps.

About the EdgeVision Player

EdgeVision Player allows monitoring of feeds from a single or multiple EdgeVision units. On
startup, EdgeVision Player will list the available feeds from the units connected to the
currently selected EdgeVision device, although you can use the

Add host

command on the

File

menu to add other devices.

EdgeVision Player’s layout is divided into three main areas:

Note:

If you have a firewall active on the PC that is running EdgeVision Player, it may

prevent the streams from being displayed.

See also

For more information about:

• launching EdgeVision Player, see

page 7

• viewing the Input feeds, see

"Assigning Feeds to the Monitors", on page 9

• viewing single or multiple feeds, see

"Selecting the Number of Feeds to Display", on

page 17

• modifying the audio playback and how the video appears in the monitors,

see

"Configuring the Audio/Video Display", on page 18

Host browser

Layout Selector

Set-top box focus selector

Monitor border

Players/Monitors

Set-topbox remote control

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Страница 1: ...User Guide Version 1 20 M928 9900 103 8 November 2012 ...

Страница 2: ...ing for any purpose unless specifically authorized in writing by Miranda Technologies Inc A Miranda Technologies Inc manual may have been revised to reflect changes made to the product during its manufacturing life Thus different versions of a manual may exist for any given product Care should be taken to ensure that one obtains the proper manual version for a specific product serial number Inform...

Страница 3: ...eeds from Other Units 10 Assigning a Feed to a Monitor with the Mouse 11 Assigning a Feed to a Monitor with the Assign Button 12 Assigning a Feed to a Monitor with the Shortcut Menu 13 Loading all Feeds 13 Stopping and Restarting a Feed 14 Changing the Audio Focus in a Multi View Display 15 Changing Channels with the Remote and Focus Buttons 16 Selecting the Number of Feeds to Display 17 Configuri...

Страница 4: ...v toc Alarms in EdgeVision Player 27 Reading Feed Input Alarms 28 Reading Video Alarms 29 Audio Alarms 30 Reading Streaming Alarms 37 Reading Test Alarms 39 Reading Device Health Alarms 40 Contact Us 43 ...

Страница 5: ...full screen Rather than only displaying the video EdgeVision Player also describes the behind the scenes aspects of the video feed EdgeVision Player displays technical information about the feed including any alarms or flags to direct your attention to possible conflicts or errors in the transmission Installation and Network Requirements You can access the EdgeVision unit from a PC using a standar...

Страница 6: ...cumented or documented incorrectly please let us know by sending an e mail to support miranda com Hardware and Software Overview Miranda s EdgeVision allows television service providers and broadcasters to monitor their signals from the perspective of how they reach viewers at home With its advanced video audio streaming and extensive signal probing functions EdgeVision connects to set top boxes S...

Страница 7: ...pdate which includes Java Web Start can be downloaded by following the Useful Downloads link on the EdgeVision unit Startup page and should be installed on PCs prior to operating EdgeVision You can connect to the EdgeVision unit from any PC on their network The first step is to obtain the host name or IP address of the EdgeVision unit Once you connect to an EdgeVision s IP address you can use a We...

Страница 8: ...About the EdgeVision System Hardware and Software Overview 4 On Windows 7 platforms it is recommended to use the Java 1 6 update 20 runtime environment Notes Continued ...

Страница 9: ... Feeds Once you install the EdgeVision unit s into your network of broadcast feeds you can use EdgeVision Player to monitor these feeds to ensure that they are broadcasting properly A typical scenario you receive a call that the video is frozen on channel 225 in the Montreal West area You would launch EdgeVision Player on the unit that monitors that region drag the Input that connects to that feed...

Страница 10: ...although you can use the Add host command on the File menu to add other devices EdgeVision Player s layout is divided into three main areas Note If you have a firewall active on the PC that is running EdgeVision Player it may prevent the streams from being displayed See also For more information about launching EdgeVision Player see page 7 viewing the Input feeds see Assigning Feeds to the Monitor...

Страница 11: ...t only does it display its current operational status but it also allows you to configure its network and device properties These device properties also appear in EdgeVision Player and EdgeVision Configurator To launch EdgeVision Player 1 Launch the EdgeVision page in a Web browser using the device s IP address The EdgeVision home page appears 2 Click EdgeVision Player Your Web browser begins the ...

Страница 12: ...1 Opening EdgeVision window Mozilla Firefox version 8 0 depicted Once EdgeVision Player is downloaded a splash page appears Figure 2 2 EdgeVision Player splash page EdgeVision Player appears displaying the devices located at the selected IP address along with the feeds being monitored ...

Страница 13: ...ill end and the new feed will appear These feeds are made available to EdgeVision Player using EdgeVision Configurator see the EdgeVision Installation Guide Once the feeds are assigned to the monitors the under monitor area will display the name of the selected feed One of the feeds will be selected by default and indicated by the buttons above the remote you may hear the audio feed from that stre...

Страница 14: ...ing user configured settings as well as context data surrounding the stream request Accessing Feeds from Other Units Once a unit is discovered the details of that unit will be added to the Host Browser panel in EdgeVision Player window EdgeVision Player settings are persistent The next time you launch EdgeVision Player the EdgeVision hosts will continue to be displayed To access feeds from other u...

Страница 15: ... Browser Assigning a Feed to a Monitor with the Mouse To assign a feed to a monitor with the mouse 1 In EdgeVision Player on the Host Browser select the input you would like to stream under the appropriate device 2 Drag the selected input onto the desired monitor REQUIREMENT Before beginning this procedure make sure EdgeVision Player is open see page 7 ...

Страница 16: ... open see page 7 IMPORTANT How does EdgeVision populate the Load stream list How EdgeVision Player determines which feed is streamed by default is described in the EdgeVision Installation Guide in the Configuring Feed Inputs section of the Configuring Feeds and Alarms chapter How EdgeVision determines which feeds to feature in the Load stream list is a matter of EdgeVision Configurator pushing the...

Страница 17: ...n EdgeVision Player on the Host Browser select the input you would like to stream from the appropriate EdgeVision device 2 Right click the input point to Load stream in player and then click the desired monitor selection Loading all Feeds REQUIREMENT Before beginning this procedure make sure EdgeVision Player is open see page 7 REQUIREMENT Before beginning this procedure make sure EdgeVision Playe...

Страница 18: ...to stream 2 Right click the device and select Load all streams All available streams on this device appear in the monitors in EdgeVision Player Stopping and Restarting a Feed To stop and restart a feed 1 Right click the monitor for which you wish to stop the stream and select Stop streaming REQUIREMENT Before beginning this procedure make sure EdgeVision Player is open see page 7 ...

Страница 19: ...While you can view multiple video feeds in a multi view display Multi Player or Multi View you can listen to only one audio feed at a time In the bottom right of each feed display is the Current Status area which indicates which feed display is currently selected Only the feed that is currently selected will play the audio feed Note If the stream is already stopped the Stop streaming command will ...

Страница 20: ... with the Remote and Focus Buttons Although EdgeVision Player can display the video from up to four feeds at a time you can use the Feed buttons to change the control and audio focus When you select a feed on which to focus the audio for that feed will be played and a graphic representation of a remote for the company that is broadcasting that feed appears on the right side of the window This remo...

Страница 21: ...ts allow you to view up to four different feeds focus on a single feed and adjust the amount of information being displayed in the EdgeVision Player window You can click any of these buttons and it will affect the feed monitor dependingontheservicesofferedby the set top box In this example Feed 2 is the focus which mean you can hear theaudiofeedfromthetop right monitor You can also affect that fee...

Страница 22: ... The stereo audio feed that goes with the video can be measured and displayed in EdgeVision Player as a pair of audio meters There are a variety of ways that these audio meters can be displayed which transmit different types of information Four types of display options Icon Layout Definition Multi Player All four feeds appear in the EdgeVision Player window with their audio meters displayed The Ho...

Страница 23: ... analog audio signal level in Peak Programme Meter units for the United Kingdom UK Analog Peak Meter EBU PPM displays the analog audio signal level in Peak Programme Meter units for the European Broadcasting Union EBU VU Meter displays the audio signal level in Volume Units VU 4 To display the number of times the audio meters exceed the maximum levels select the Show Overload Counter checkbox This...

Страница 24: ...high definition television and European digital television 1 78 1 To switch the aspect ratios for a feed in a monitor right click anywhere in the monitor and select the ratio you want to use If you select Automatic EdgeVision Player will select the aspect ratio that fits the current display best Reviewing Video Audio Streaming Performance EdgeVision Player provides the ability to review the perfor...

Страница 25: ...isplayed to be able to access the Statistics command To view the audio statistics right click the audiometer for the stream you wish to view The Stream Statistics dialog box for the video or audio stream you selected appears 2 Click OK when done The statistical values being tracked are as follows These fields apply to video and audio statistics depending on what you selected to display Streaming P...

Страница 26: ...rocessing rate Displays the maximum number of frames per second that can be processed If the number of frames per second is too close to the actual frame rate this can mean that the system specifications of the client PC may be too low Size source Displays the resolution height x width of the original video signal being transmitted Size target Displays the resolution height x width of the received...

Страница 27: ...About Reading Alarms 23 Alarms in EdgeVision Player 27 About Reading Alarms EdgeVision Player lists both status and text alarms in its System folder on the left pane Figure 3 1 Status alarm example upper arrow Text alarm example lower arrow ...

Страница 28: ...Alarms subsumed within a folder are alarms associated with the physical or logical entity this folder represents For example there may be a folder named EdgeVision 1 in which there is a sub folder named Health Within this Health folder there will be a list of alarms related to the health strictly for this particular EdgeVision device Note Status alarms can be grouped together to form virtual alarm...

Страница 29: ...ee Figure 3 2 on page 25 The acknowledged status if red indicates that the alarm needs to be acknowledged Likewise if the acknowledged status is green this alarm does not require acknowledgement at this time see Figure 3 2 on page 25 Status alarm color legend current status Color Status Description Green Normal The device service or signal being monitored is operating within allowable parameters Y...

Страница 30: ...m s current status is green Resetting a server side latch for an overall virtual alarm simultaneously resets the latches on all associated sub alarms Resetting a client side latch for an overall virtual alarm has no effect on the latches of associated sub alarms these must be reset one by one To reset an alarm s latch status On the left pane in the System folder right click the alarm you wish to r...

Страница 31: ...r operators can see that the error is still present but that someone is working on it A Recurring Acknowledgement Scenario The following is an example of a recurring alarm acknowledgment scenario 1 As in the previous scenario the alarm is acknowledged and the acknowledgment state reverts to green 2 If the problem is not fixed before the acknowledgment period expires the acknowledgment state revert...

Страница 32: ...arms Audio Input status found in Input Audio Codec status found in Input Streaming Enable SDI out found in Input SDI output Fan A B status found in Health Optional power supply B status found in Health Temperature front found in Health Temperature front status found in Health Temperature rear found in Health Temperature rear status found in Health In this example if you expect a Video Test pattern...

Страница 33: ... System folder They allow you to monitor the presence of errors in video quality format and streaming rate Figure 3 3 Regular Video alarms Figure 3 4 EIA 608 Closed Captioning alarms You can enable or disable these alarms on the left pane see Alarms in EdgeVision Player on page 27 or by using EdgeVision Configurator ...

Страница 34: ...ion Detects if the image compression is appearing as video errors or when bandwidth is not enough to encode fine detail 2 Found in the Video Alarms section for the Input 2 There are limitations on EdgeVision s ability to detect the presence of macroblocking on signals that have been subjected to horizontal scaling For more information see the EdgeVision Installation Guide Video luma too high Detec...

Страница 35: ...urator Audio alarms Alarm Type Description General audio feed alarms Out of phase Detects if the left and right channels are no longer aligned resulting in phase cancellation Found in the Audio Audio section for the Input Mono error Detects if the audio signal is in Mono mode using a single channel Found in the Audio Audio section for the Input Silence alarms All silent Detects if the audio feed h...

Страница 36: ... feed has been interrupted on the right surround channel Found in the Audio Audio section for the Input Overload alarms Overall audio overload Detects if there is an overall excess of audio signal from all channels Found in the Audio Audio section for the Input Overload left Detects if there is an excess of audio signal from the left channel Found in the Audio Audio section for the Input Overload ...

Страница 37: ... Dialnorm is different from the Expected Dialnorm Last3 loudness error Active when the Last Integrated text value is outside the range bounded by the upper and lower deviation The alarm clears when the Last Integrated text value is within the range bounded by the upper and lower deviation Last dialnorm expected dialnorm Active if the Last Dialnorm is different from the Expected Dialnorm Integrated...

Страница 38: ...oudness Possible values are EBU A 85 Custom EBU and Custom A 85 Momentary Momentary loudness uses a sliding rectangular time window of length 0 4 s The measurement is not gated Momentary max Maximum momentary loudness value within the current segment Short term Short term loudness uses a sliding rectangular time window of length 3 s The measurement is not gated Status Indicates if the loudness pro...

Страница 39: ... are 32 40 48 56 64 80 96 112 128 160 192 224 256 320 384 448 512 576 640 kbps Service type Type of service 1 Possible choices are Main audio service complete main CM Main audio service music and effects ME Associated service visually impaired VI Associated service hearing impaired HI Associated service dialogue D Associated service commentary C Associated service emergency E Associated service vo...

Страница 40: ...Right Subwoofer 3 1 Left Center Right Subwoofer 2 2 Left Right Surround Left Surround Right 3 2 Left Center Right Surround Left Surround Right Dialnorm Measured dialnorm value average loudness value on current segment Range 1 to 31 dB Preferred downmix mode Preferred downmix mode recommended by audio source Possible options Left total Right total Left only Right only Not indicated LFE presence Ind...

Страница 41: ... EdgeVision Configurator streaming alarms will display the changes in the signal as necessary Figure 3 5 EdgeVision Streaming alarms Encoder related Audio info frame alarms Alarm Type Description Info frame valid Indicate if the audio source contains a valid info frame info frame is carried as part of HDMI audio Channel allocation Indicates channel lineup as reported through metadata Possible choi...

Страница 42: ...Device Feed and Stream Alarms Reading Streaming Alarms 38 Figure 3 6 EdgeVision Streaming alarms Video related Figure 3 7 EdgeVision Streaming alarms Audio related ...

Страница 43: ...ent height width display resolution for the High Low video stream Bitrate Displays the number of bits that are processed per unit of time measured in kilobytes per second to stream the video signal Frame rate Displays the number of complete screens or frames drawn per second measured in frames per second Video related alarms Low resolution stream see Figure 3 6 on page 38 Resolution Displays the c...

Страница 44: ...on Fan A B status Displays the current operational status of the cooling fans A B inside the EdgeVision device Power supply A status Displays the current operational status of the primary A power supplies Optional power supply B status Displays the current operational status of the secondary B power supplies Frame revision Displays the version number of the chassis that contains the hardware for t...

Страница 45: ...EdgeVision User Guide 41 You can also see these alarms and others in the EdgeVision Admin application see the EdgeVision Installation Guide for more information ...

Страница 46: ...Device Feed and Stream Alarms Reading Device Health Alarms 42 ...

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