Pipeline
System Setup
Capture with concurrent edit or transcode:
For systems that are capturing with concurrent edit or
transcode operations you will need to calculate the
overall read/write speed requirements based on the
write processes of Pipeline streams and read processes
for the edit and transcode operations. To guarantee
error free operations you must use Pipeline’s data
buffering feature utilizing an internal or direct attached
non-shared storage RAID array for data buffering that
meets the desired read/write performance requirement
(see Disk Buffering section below). The Pipeline’s media
storage location (NAS, direct attached shared storage
or shared network folder) must also meet these
minimum read/write performance requirements. When
using NAS, direct attached shared storage or shared
network folder, be sure to verify that your system has
the communications bandwidth for writing all Pipeline
media data to the media storage location in real-time.
Capture writing to NAS or shared network folder:
For systems that are capturing media that is being
written to a NAS or shared network folder, it is required
to use the Pipeline data buffering feature (see Disk
Buffering section below). Data Buffering requires a
separate data buffer RAID array to guarantee error free
write operations of Pipeline media streams. Calculating
the disk buffer RAID array read/write performance
requirements using 2X the required Pipeline stream’s
write requirements. This is needed to support a write
and a read operation on the data buffer array for each
Pipeline stream. The Pipeline’s media storage location
(NAS, direct attached shared storage or shared network
folder) must meet the minimum write performance
requirements. When using NAS or shared network
folder, be sure to verify that your system has the
communications bandwidth for writing all Pipeline
media data to the media storage location in real-time.
Four (4) channel Pipeline HD with direct attached data buffer RAID
Caution:
Capturing video is a very disk intensive operation. It is extremely important that you create a system that has
adequate disk performance for writing and reading real-time video files. In addition to the information provided in this
guide make sure that the disk system used for Pipeline operations are defragmented often and that any disk sleep/
stand-by power settings are disabled. Fragmented drives or drives in sleep/stand-by states can dramatically decrease
performance and may cause capture or play out operations to fail.
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