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Blankom MPE-4000 Datasheet And User Manual

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MPE-4000 MPEG-2/H.264 SD/HD Encoder
Datasheet and User Manual
SW Version: 2.15
HW Version: 1.43
Web NMS Version: 3.61

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  • Page 1 MPE-4000 MPEG-2/H.264 SD/HD Encoder Datasheet and User Manual SW Version: 2.15 HW Version: 1.43 Web NMS Version: 3.61...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Table of Content TABLE OF CONTENT ..........................2 INTRODUCTION ............................3 ............................3 RODUCT VERVIEW ..............................3 EATURES ..............................4 PECIFICATIONS .............................. 5 LOCK IAGRAM ........................... 5 PPEARANCE AND ESCRIPTION INSTALLATION GUIDE ..........................7 ................................

  • Page 3: Introduction

    DVB conform TS through ASI and IP port. The MPE-4000 has an overlay insertion feature: QR code, LOGO and OSD-TEXT. It can generate 3 parallel overlay operations at the same time. You can insert an advertisement picture, own LOGO, special QR code and/or OSD content on top of the encoding process.

  • Page 4: Specifications

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Specifications 1×SDI, 1×CVBS, 1×YPbPr and 1×HDMI Interface Input Output Interfaces 1920×1080i@60 1920×1080, 1920×1080i @59.94 1440×1080, HDMI, SDI, YPbPr 1280×1080i, 960×1080i 1920×1080i @50 1280×720p@60 1280×720, 960×720p, 1280×720p@59.94 HDMI, SDI, YPbPr 640×720p 1280×720p@50 Resolution 720×576, 704×576,...

  • Page 5: Block Diagram

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Block Diagram Remark: DVB TELETEXT or american CC will be passed as well Appearance and Description Front Panel Illustration ① LCD window ② LED-Status Indicators ③ Up and down, left and right navigation buttons ④...
  • Page 6 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Rear Panel Illustration ① XLR input connectors (for stereo audio 1-2 input) ② XLR input connectors (for stereo audio 3-4 input) (For 5.1 surround input) ③ RCA input connectors (for stereo audio 1-4 input or 5.1 surround input) ④...

  • Page 7: Installation Guide

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Installation Guide We assume, that the installation will be done by a skilled and well educated electrical technician taking care of environmental circumstances like Air-condition and grounding requirements. The device should always be mounted into a 19’’ Rack by the front screws and even better with some metal angles avoiding bending of the units housing.

  • Page 8: Front Panel Operation

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Front Panel Operation MPE-4000’s front panel is you operation interface where you configure the device manually. The LCD is a 2-line x 40-character back-lit dot-matrix you interface with pushbuttons for UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, ENTER, MENU, and LOCK button for front panel control.
  • Page 9 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Overview of the LCD menu tree: 2 System Setting 2.1 Network 4.1 IP Address 4.2 Subnet Mask 4.3 Gateway 4.4 MAC Address 2.2 Reset Web Yes/No 2.3 Output set 2.4.1 Mode 2.4.2 Bit rate 2.4.3 Dest IP...

  • Page 10: Initial Status

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 4 Video Setting 4.1 Video Port 4.2 Video Bit rate 4.3 Encode Type 4.4 Closed Caption 4.5 PID 4.6 Stream IP 4.7 Chroma Sample 4.8 Aspect Ratio 4.9 Rescaled 4.10 GOP Structure 4.11 GOP Size...

  • Page 11: General Settings For The Main Menu

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000  HD Encoder: to indicate the device name.  XX.XX/XX.XX Mbps: to indicate the current encoding Bit Rate and total Output Bit Rate  FMT: to indicate source signal resolution format ...
  • Page 12 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Network setting Enter “Network” to set the network. Submenus go as below: 2.1.1 IP Address 2.1.2 Subnet Mask 2.1.3 Gateway 2.1.4 MAC Address This is the IP address used for IP Address connecting to Web management.
  • Page 13 2.4.8 Source MAC 2.4.9 Gateway 2.4.10 Submask 2.4.11 Flt Null Packet  IP Out Mode MPE-4000 HD encoder supports program stream to output over UDP through the DATA port. IP Out Mode [02/02] Disabled [UDP] Disable: Program stream will not output from IP port, just output to the ASI Port(s).
  • Page 14 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Source MAC is read only on the front panel. It can only be modified Source MAC by the Web management interface. 11:22:33:44:55:22 Gateway 192.168.002.001 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.000  Flt Null Packet You can decide whether to filter IP null packet (PID 8191dec) at this menu.
  • Page 15 The audio sample rate is 48 KHz without other options. Audio Sample Rate 48 KHz [48 KHz] Audio Pair MPE-4000 supports 4 stereo (8 mono) or one DD 5.1 (AC3) audios embedded to mix with the video stream output. Audio pair Pair2 [02/06]...
  • Page 16 Pair-4: 4 audio (channel 1 to 4) streams are captured. 5.1CH: Surround (5.1) for Dobby/AC3 5.1 channel. Pair1-4 As the MPE-4000 is with 4 audio encode channel, “3.4”-“3.7”. You can enter “3.4”/“3.5”/“3.5”/“3.7” to set the corresponding audio parameters. Submenus (taking “3.4” as an example) are as below: 3.4.1 PID...
  • Page 17 [32 Kbps] 48 Kbps 64 Kbps 80 Kbps MPE-4000 support MPEG1-L2, AC3, AAC (LC/HE-AAC) audio encoding. Different audio encode types have different Audio Bit rates usually to consider. 64Kbps, 96-384Kbps for MPEG1-L2 32-384Kbps for AAC 128Kbps, 192Kbps, 156Kbps, 384Kbps for AC3 ...
  • Page 18 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000  AAC Profile Select AAC profile among LC, HE and HEV2. AAC Profile [01/03] [LC] HEV2  AAC Version You can set the AAC encoder version in this menu. AAC Version MPEG-2...
  • Page 19 There are 4 types of interface for video input. Select one type and the system will detect the single and process. Make sure the single cables are properly connected.  Video Bit Rate MPE-4000 can encode video at range of 0.52 Mbps to 60.00 Mbps. Video Bit rate 12.00 Mbps ...
  • Page 20 Aspect Ratio 16x9 [01/01] [16x9]  Rescaled Enter this menu to set the output Resolution. MPE-4000 support 1080I, 720P, 480I, 576I video input resolution and downscale transform. Disable: To out the same resolution as source resolution. Rescale Resolution Disable [01/10]...
  • Page 21 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000  Rate Control Mode MPE-4000 supports CBR (Constant Bit Rate) encoding control mode. Rate Control Mode [01/01] [CBR]  IDR Frequency Specify the IDR frequency relative to I-Frames. IDR Frequency NO IDRS...
  • Page 22 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000  Level You can choose the level which is used for encoding. Level [Auo] Auto Level 1.0 Level 1.1 Level1.2  PCR/PMT PID Enter each single menu to edit the PIDs. REMARKS: These values are based on decimal system (not HEX).
  • Page 23 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 SAVE CONFIGURATION You can enter Saving Configuration for saving settings. Choose yes and press ENTER to confirm. Save Configuration? LOAD CONFIGURATION With this menu, you can select a loading source and press ENTER to confirm. You can restore the device into the last saved configuration by choosing “6.1”...

  • Page 24: Web Interface Based Nms Operation

    PC (Personal Computer) or Laptop by connecting the device to the RJ45 WEB-IF NMS Port (Network Management Setup). You should ensure that the computer’s IP address is different from the MPE-4000’s IP address (default = 192.168.0.136) otherwise, it would cause IP conflict. Login The default IP address of this device is 192.168.0.136.

  • Page 25: Date-Time System Settings

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Date-Time system settings “Help” Function In “Encode Setting” Interface, whenever the mouse cursor is suspended on one item, a question mark appears by the cursor and the corresponding item comes to a hyperlink state. Click the hyperlink item to trigger a text window to give instructions on properly setting the corresponding item.
  • Page 26 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 SAVE and Load Menu The description is self-explaining… If new Firmware is released, you can upload it here. MPE-4000-MPEG-encoder-manual-RR-03-2018.docx Page 26 / 44...
  • Page 27 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 So better to BACKUP before Upgrade! : A popup will appear to safe the file ‘config.bin’. This would be the upload file after a factory reset. Change password here. If you’ll lose it, you must reset the machine by Front-...

  • Page 28: Output Settings

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 You should connect the unit to a local NTP server (5 max.) for syncing of actual correct time and date and offset: To be able to insert TDT/TOT Information in the output TS this time & date & GMT offset information are necessary.
  • Page 29 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Output bitrate. Range: 0,5Mbps-to 60 Mbps The value should be larger than the encoding Bitrate. Config-Section: In this part, all settings for the output stream from the DATA –RJ45 network interface can be adjusted.

  • Page 30: Advanced: Dolby Meta-Data

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 The PMT provides a list of how each service is organized in the transport stream, but it doesn’t actually give much information about how services are organized from the perspective of the viewer. The viewer cares specifically about TV channels, and shouldn’t even know about transport streams and elementary streams or any other part...

  • Page 31: Sdi-Channel Set

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 After confirmation of the License nag-screen, all of these parameters can be set according to your needs and independently for all 4 Audio-channel pairs. SDI-Channel SET: In this menu – if the SDI-Input carries multiple AUDIO pairs already, you can select these and re-organize them.

  • Page 32: Parameter -> Audio Setting

    Select “Audio Setting” on the top column and it shows the AUDIO interface. You can configure the Audio parameters: Capture Mode: MPE-4000 supports 4 stereo (8 mono) or one DD 5.1 (AC3) audios embedded to mix with the video to form a stream output. Drop: Audio data is captured.

  • Page 33: Parameter -> Video Setting

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Frame-2: 2 audio (channel 1&2) streams are captured. Frame-3: 3 audio (channel 1 to 3) streams are captured. Frame-4: 4 audio (channel 1 to 4) streams are captured. 5.1CH: Surround (5.1) for Dobby/AC3 5.1 channel.
  • Page 34 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Video Port: Select video input interface. Input availability Matrix: FMT\V| SDI | HDMI | YPbPr| CVBS | 480I | √ √ 576I | √ √ 720P | √ √ √ 1080I| √...

  • Page 35: Osd Settings

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Coding Mode: The coding mode to use. WARNING: For MPEG2 encoding only AUTO is supported (field coding for interlaced/frame coding for progressive). For H.264 150ms latency only AUTO is supported (field coding for interlaced/frame coding for progressive).
  • Page 36 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Right click: Settings of the logo can be modified. MPE-4000-MPEG-encoder-manual-RR-03-2018.docx Page 36 / 44...
  • Page 37 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Caption–Caption insert configuration Put your caption anywhere Click each one of the Select the text inserted OSD, then color and name it and select one background “affairs Idx” to save it color QRcode–QR code insert configuration...

  • Page 38: Troubleshooting

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Advanced -> OSD affairs settings Click “OSD affairs settings” on the top column will show the setup where you can configure the OSD affairs as per configuration. Check and select the affairs name...

  • Page 39: Packing List

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Packing List MPE-4000 MPEG2/H.264 HD Encoder 1 pcs You Manual 1 pcs HDMI Cable 1 pcs SDI Cable 1 pcs YPbPr Cable 1 pcs CVBS Cable 1 pcs XLR adapter Cables 2 Sets...
  • Page 40 User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Note Host Extensions for IP Multicasting [RFC1112] specifies the extensions required of a host implementation of the Internet Protocol (IP) to support multicasting. The multicast addresses are in the range 224.0.0.0 through 239.255.255.255. Address assignments are listed below.

  • Page 41: Registered Port

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 ALL multicast traffic on an open port and extra processing is required to filter out the required traffic. If the each stream arrives on a different port, the server can safely ignore any traffic on ports that are not open.

  • Page 42: Packet Structure

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 Packet structure UDP Header Offsets Octet Octet 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31...

  • Page 43: Note: Regarding Sap (Session Announcement Protocol)

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 applications in which the RTP and RTCP destination port numbers are specified via explicit, separate parameters (using a signaling protocol or other means), the application MAY disregard the restrictions that the port numbers be even/odd and consecutive although the use of an even/odd port pair is still encouraged.

  • Page 44: Contact

    User Manual professional h.264 & MPEG2 encoder MPE-4000 We assume, that this professional unit is used by professional technicians knowing all relevant norms, regulations, abbreviations (i.e. DVB, ATSC, …) and specifications. Contact: First Aid, Ralf Riedel: ralf.riedel@blankom.de IRENIS GmbH Owiesenkehre 1 D-22177 Hamburg - Germany Managing Director: Dipl.Ing.

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