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- Page 1 Electra™ 9200 Standalone Encoder RELEASE 01 Getting Started Guide Rev A...
- Page 2 Harmonic assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the use of the products described herein, except as expressly agreed to in writing by Harmonic. The use and purchase of this product do not convey a license under any patent rights, copyrights, trademark rights, or any intellectual property rights of Harmonic.
- Page 3 Commercial Computer Software and Commercial Computer Software Documentation are being licensed to U.S. Government as end users (a) only as Commercial Items and (b) with only those rights as are granted to all other end users pursuant to the terms and conditions herein. Harmonic, 4300 North First Street, San Jose, CA 951 34 U.S.A.
- Page 4 The italics text used for emphasis and document references. NOTE: You require Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat version 6.0 or later to open the PDF files. You can download Adobe Reader free of charge from www.adobe.com. © 2013 Harmonic Inc. All rights reserved.
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Page 5: Table Of Contents
What’s Next ..............12 Chapter 3: Electra 9200 Encoding Tutorial ..........13 Workflow . -
Page 6: Chapter 1 Introduction
■ Chapter 3, Electra 9200 Encoding the Electra 9200, with steps to configure end-to-end encoding for a service that includes SDI input, encoding of one video and one audio, and output over an IP and/or ASI transport Chapter 4, Creating a DiviTrack DTMX Pool, shows how to create a pool and add two video streams ■... -
Page 7: Chapter 2: Installation And Startup
Using SAG, the web GUI Harmonic provides a web browser-based GUI to manage standalone encoder platforms, called SAG. It installs with the platform firmware, and launches automatically when you access the platform management IP address from any supported web browser. -
Page 8: Displaying Sag
Using SAG, the web GUI Displaying SAG Before you can use SAG, you must know the Electra 9200 device’s management port IP address. To display SAG, enter http://<IP_Address> in the browser, where <IP_Address> is the address of the management port on the Electra 9200 you want to configure. - Page 9 PSI tables. Define the output ports/sockets and connect the services to them. ■ DiviTrack ■ Create DTMX pools. Add and manage the streams in each pool. ■ © 2013 Harmonic Inc. All rights reserved. Electra 9200 Release 01, Rev A...
- Page 10 Error Log—See the error history for the device. The error log contains a list of errors detected ■ by the device since it was last started. Harmonic Technical Support may ask you to check the error log if you are having problems with a device.
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Page 11: Installing Platform Firmware
Harmonic recommends saving your current configuration before changing the firmware version, so you have these settings available if you return to the current firmware version. -
Page 12: License Requirements
The instructions included in this guide will step through configuration of a basic service with SDI input, one video and one audio stream, and IP or ASI output. They include the steps for adding video streams to a DTMX pool (optional) © 2013 Harmonic Inc. All rights reserved. Electra 9200 Release 01, Rev A... -
Page 13: Chapter 3: Electra 9200 Encoding Tutorial
This tutorial assumes an encoder with at least one A/V encoder card. It also assumes the encoder platform has no configuration specified for any streams. This tutorial will not cover encoding audio via a separate audio adapter card. © 2013 Harmonic Inc. All rights reserved. Electra 9200 Release 01, Rev A... -
Page 14: Defining The Logical Inputs
Chapter 3 Electra 9200 Encoding Tutorial Configuring an Encoder with SDI Input and IP or ASI Output Defining the Logical Inputs The first step is to define the service in Logical Inputs. For SDI input you must create the stream objects to match your input content. -
Page 15: Defining The Logical Outputs
Chapter 3 Electra 9200 Encoding Tutorial Configuring an Encoder with SDI Input and IP or ASI Output Defining the Logical Outputs Next, create a transport stream in the Logical Outputs and add the input service to it. 1. In this example, we’ll drag and drop the service from the Logical Inputs to the Logical Outputs... - Page 16 Coding Format, Resolution, Bitrate, and so on. For specific information about these fields, see the online help for this configuration page. Harmonic also recommends that you provide descriptive names for your streams and programs. By default, the encoder names your stream Video 1. You can provide a descriptive name on this page.
- Page 17 Bit Rate. To instruct the encoder to automatically create audio descriptors for this stream, select the check box. Harmonic also recommends that you provide descriptive names for your streams and programs.
- Page 18 Chapter 3 Electra 9200 Encoding Tutorial Configuring an Encoder with SDI Input and IP or ASI Output Adding Descriptors To add the necessary descriptors and manage PSI table generation, you look at the services in the Logical Outputs panel while in Table View. You change the view at the top of the panel, as...
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Page 19: Configuring The Output
Figure 3–5: Physical Outputs Creating an IP Socket The Electra 9200 uses GbE ports 3 and 4 for output. In this example, we configure the GbE–Port 3, add an IP socket, then assign TS–1 to the socket. 1. In the Physical Outputs panel, expand the Main Board to display the GbE Ports as seen in Figure 3–5. - Page 20 Chapter 3 Electra 9200 Encoding Tutorial Configuring an Encoder with SDI Input and IP or ASI Output Click For information about the settings you can make, see the online help for this configuration page. Add New 3. Now, add a socket. Right-click GbE–Port 3 again and select .
- Page 21 Chapter 3 Electra 9200 Encoding Tutorial Configuring an Encoder with SDI Input and IP or ASI Output Figure 3–6: GbE port with socket 4. Drag and drop TS–1 to the new socket. Notice that the TS–1 entry now includes an IP address in its name–the IP address of the socket that carries it.
- Page 22 Chapter 3 Electra 9200 Encoding Tutorial Configuring an Encoder with SDI Input and IP or ASI Output Configuring an ASI Port Sending the output TS to an ASI port is very similar to sending it to an IP socket. However, the ASI card needs no configuration, and the Ports 1 &...
- Page 23 Chapter 3 Electra 9200 Encoding Tutorial Configuring an Encoder with SDI Input and IP or ASI Output Notice that the TS–1 entry now includes ASI Port in its name–indicating that it is carried through the ASI port. Apply 4. When you have made your program configuration settings, click at the top of the configuration page.
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Page 24: Summary
Chapter 3 Electra 9200 Encoding Tutorial Summary Summary In this tutorial you saw how to create encoding streams for the SDI input to an A/V encoder card. The tutorial showed minimal configuration for a video stream and an audio stream. It showed how to assign the output TS to an IP socket, and to an ASI port. -
Page 25: Chapter 4: Creating A Divitrack Dtmx Pool
Sports program and the News program. As soon as you add the pool, the Pool Configuration table appears so that you can configure its streams and settings. © 2013 Harmonic Inc. All rights reserved. Electra 9200 Release 01, Rev A... - Page 26 For more information about setting minimum and maximum bitrates, see the online help topic Adjusting DTMX Bitrates. Apply 6. Click to commit the changes to the device. The pool will now manage the bitrate for these streams. © 2013 Harmonic Inc. All rights reserved. Electra 9200 Release 01, Rev A...
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