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Introduction and Overview
Introduction
Welcome to the user's guide for the MediaPOINTE® HD
Portal plus. The HD Portal plus is one of the easiest
to use, most cost-effective and reliable capture,
recording, streaming and archiving products on the
market today. It can archive important audio, video,
and graphical data while simultaneously transmitting
it anywhere on your network.
This user's guide describes how to set up and use
the HD Portal plus to record and transport graphics,
video and audio content over IP networks. As with all
MediaPOINTE® AV-over-IP products, you can control
the HD Portal plus by different methods. These
methods include: Web Portal interface, InfraRed
remote control, RS-232 serial port or Telnet.
This guide is written for units running version 5.3
software. If your HD Portal plus is operating on a
different version of software, some capabilities and
screen shots may be different.
Key Features
The HD Portal plus may be used in a variety of
situations for live communication and collaboration,
including:
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Capture, record, stream and archive live events,
meetings, conferences, seminars, colloquia
in digital High Definition. All content can be
easily accessed and published with full security
privileges defined by the content owner.
•
Capture, record, stream and archive one HD and
one composite video source simultaneously. The
HD video input supports graphics content from
computing devices such as laptops
•
Archive media content from multiple independent
sources.
•
Share visual information, designs, and concepts
with dispersed groups of people to gather input
during a video conference.
•
Stream important video conferences to other
locations such as overflow rooms or remote
conference locations over your corporate
network.
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Conduct customer or employee training across vast
geographical areas.
•
Discuss research, engineering, architecture,
product design, or process analysis when the
participants are not able to meet in one central
location.
•
Access a centralized data bank of expertise from a
field location.
How It Works
(Method of Operation)
The HD Portal plus can capture, record, stream and
archive video, computer graphics and audio media. The
HD Portal plus accepts DVI-D, analog RGBHV, composite
video, and unbalanced audio input. The Content input
accepts DVI and VGA sources. The audio input signal
is connected via 3.5 mm mono unbalanced input. The
HDMI and RGBHV outputs allow easy connection to a
monitor. Audio is output via 3.5 mm stereo unbalanced
output. HDMI input is also available via a DVI-to-HDMI
adapter or cable. Audio via the HDMI cable is not
supported. The HD Portal plus combines the video,
audio and graphics inputs into a single media stream
that is captured into a file which can be simultaneously
streamed live over your network and archived.
Users can select from several configurable parameters
(profiles) for capturing and subsequent playback
of the recorded material. These profiles are fully
configurable, allowing the user to specify the input
source, capture resolution, visual layout style, bit and
frame rates.
The archived recordings are stored on the HD Portal
plus's hard drive. The recorded file can then be
viewed on your PC locally or replayed directly from
the HD Portal plus on a local monitor using the VGA
or HDMI output connector. The content can also be
copied to a USB memory stick, downloaded to a PC, or
automatically transferred (FTP) to a server after the
file has been indexed.
The HD Portal plus records content in standard H.264/
MPEG-4 AVC format, which can be played on a variety
of desktop client players including QuickTime, VLAN
and others. It supports multiple resolutions.
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