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  • Page 1 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide AC8170 iCast User Manual Version V1.0 Release 2017-7 Content...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 1.Specification ............6 2.Application ............9 3.Feature ............... 9 4.Operation ............11 5.Function and Operation ..........13 5.1 Main Interface ......................16 5.1.1 Startup Interface .................... 16 5.1.2 Main Interface ....................16 5.2 Guick Guide ........................ 17 5.2.1 Recording ......................
  • Page 3 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.1.4 Stock Position ..................34 5.3.6.1.5 Recording Stratigy .................. 35 5.3.6.2 Casting Setup ....................36 5.3.6.2.1 Class Content Info .................. 37 5.3.6.2.2 Superscript/On-screen graphic ............38 5.3.6.2.3 Prologue/Epilogue ..................39 5.3.6.2.4 Casting Mode ....................40 5.3.6.2.5 Subtitle Setting ..................41 5.3.6.2.6 Mouse Setting ....................

  • Page 4: Specification

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.7.1 Display Setting ..................56 5.3.6.7.2 Import/Export .................... 57 5.3.6.7.3 Network Test ....................57 5.3.6.7.4 Tracking ...................... 58 5.3.6.7.5 Integrated Setting .................. 62 5.3.6.7.6 Serial Setting ..................63 5.3.6.7.7 Switch Stratigy ..................64 5.3.6.7.8 Tracking Network ..................66 1.Specification Item Sub-Item...
  • Page 5 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Language Chinese/English System Interface Graphic operation interface Structure Linux Video Input 7 channel video signal inputs:4 SDI input+2 HDMI +1 HDMI/VGA input Video Output 4 video outputs： VGA-OUT：recording and casting output； HDMI-OUT：Recording video output； SDI-OUT-1/2：Video output Video Display Touch Screen Video...
  • Page 6 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Video Frame 1～30fps Video Frame 50kbps 40Mbps Rate Audio Rate 420KB Data Storage SATA hard disk (optional,max 4TB) Touch Screen 11.6 inch touch screen Combined parts Joystick Joystick controlling RS485 4 RS485 connector RS232 Communication 4 RS232 connector Connector RJ45...
  • Page 7 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide built-in player / dual mode A movie mode works at the same time Updating Support network upgrade, RS232 serial port upgrade Support internal hard disk, external USB storage, NAS disk mapping; support USB video export; support Storage mode SAMBA shared download;...

  • Page 8: Application

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 2.Application Figure 1 Topology Figure 2 Classroom Application...

  • Page 9: Feature

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 3.Exterior Feature 1） 2）Size 3）Connection...
  • Page 10 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Connection Connection MIC-IN： Audio input, standard Power：DC 12V 3-pin 6.5 XLR header...

  • Page 11: Operation

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Listening Interface: 3.5mm USB3.0: connect Audio output interface, can be mouse,keyboard,etc. accessed listening headphones WIFI： WIFI antenna interface, NET： Gigabit Ethernet interface 2.4G signal HDMI-OUT ： 1080p60 video VGA-OUT：VGA output. output VGA-IN ： VGA input ， SDI-OUT-1/2：3G-SDI 1920*1080P60 SDI 1 /2 /3 /4 -IN：4 SDI in...
  • Page 12 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Get below items ready: AC8170 iCast (with adaptor)， USB3.0U Disk 1pcs， PC 1pcs (Graphics card with HDMI AND VGA output), Display 1pcs (with HDMI and VGA input,with 1920X1080@60MHz resolution as best），HDMI cable 4pcs,VGA cable 2pcs, network cable 1pcs, SDI cable 4pcs,PTZ cameras with 1080P25 to P60 SDI output(with RS232 and RS485 output,with HDMI output)，...

  • Page 13: Function And Operation

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Remark: IP 192.168.100.66 User can do touch screen controlling or using mouse. 5.Function and Operation The guide interface includes four modules: live image channel, resource video channel, manual guide function, system function settings. As shown in Figure 8 below. Figure 8 Guide interface 4 large module （1）...
  • Page 14 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide （2） resource channel module：The input video channel display interface can be saved as a resource video. （3） guide function module：One-touch recording / start / push / switch effects / screen split / guide mode switch and so on. （4）...
  • Page 15 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Figure 9 functional tree...

  • Page 16: Main Interface

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Main interface 5.1.1 Boot interface After the power cord is connected, press the main panel power button POWER to boot, comes with 11.6 LCD touch screen and HDMI-OUT, VGA-OUT interface to connect the high-definition display and will display the recording and playback logo interface. The format is JPG, the resolution is 1024 * 768,72dpi, the bit depth is 24, the size is not more than 128KB.

  • Page 17: Guick Guide

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Getting Started 5.2.1 Recode In the main interface, click the [Start] button, you can start recording live channel recording, recording the top right of the live channel will appear recording time. When you start recording, the icon changes to [END] and clicks again to pause recording Click the [Stop] button to stop recording the live channel.

  • Page 18: Division

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide streamer PGM and PGM2 two live channels, can provide different users to watch a different live screen. 5.2.3 Split The main interface on the right side of the split type shortcut button, the default home page shows 3, for manual switching when the rapid switch. A total of 12 split type selection, click the split button to enter the changes.

  • Page 19: Effect

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Figure 12 Split channel custom image selection 5.2.4 Special effects Manual guidance and automatic guide can be set to switch effects, for smooth transition image switching, enhance the viewing of the screen. Recorded a total of 28 kinds of switching effects, users can set the main interface effects bar display three effects button for quick guidance operation.

  • Page 20: Switch

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Figure 13 Special effects selection 5.2.5 Switch S700 recording and broadcasting host in manual guidance and automatic guided mode are supported manually click the touch resource channel for PGM live channel image switching. Automatic boot mode, the user can not do any operation, recording and recording the entire host automatically switch.

  • Page 21: Quick Settings

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide state strategy. Automatic tracking menu to enter: the main interface [menu] → [set] → [field debugging] → [automatic tracking]; Switch strategy to enter: the main interface [menu] → [set] → [field debugging] → [switching strategy], the password is 1. Non-professional technicians do not modify parameters.

  • Page 22: Channels

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.2.7 Resource channel Figure 15 Resource channel As shown in Figure C1-C8 and other colors marked area is the resource channel, S700 recording and broadcasting host a total of 7 video input. Rear panel interface SDI-1 then teacher panorama camera, in the resource channel C1 display;...
  • Page 23 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide ： Resource channel video The recording and broadcasting host supports movie mode (PGM / PGM2) + resource channel recording at the same time. The video of the resource channel can be used for later non-editing software. Open the resource channel video operation process is as follows: 1, set the corresponding resource channel recording stream: click on the main interface [menu] →...

  • Page 24: Quick Start

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.2.8 A button to start A button to open, you can record video recording PGM, resource channel video, RTMP push flow, PGM plug titles, automatic guide, etc., a key to open and a key to stop. A key to start the function menu page from the main interface 【menu】...
  • Page 25 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 2、the main interface set up behind the shortcut mode from the automatic switch to manual guide. 3、4-dimensional PTZ control bar under the [SW] function button to switch to [Camera] mode, manually switch the bottom of the 2 key, you can start the PTZ operation. Access tracking camera, if you do not use COM port, use the network to receive and send PTZ protocol.

  • Page 26: Pgm & Pgm2 Channel Switch

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.2.10 PGM & PGM2 channel switching PGM channel switching Figure 18 Click the PGM button, you can switch to PGM2, PGM and PGM2 at the same time to push, record, switch and other operations. 5.3 System function As shown in Figure 19, click on the main interface [menu], the system function is mainly divided into six modules: 1, channel module;...

  • Page 27: Channel Mode

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Figure 19 System function 5.3.1 Channel module Channel module Figure 20 Local channel: set the input channel image parameters, PTZ parameters, encoding parameters. Audio channel: set the PGM channel, resource channel, remote channel audio input and output.

  • Page 28: Meeting Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.2 Conference settings Figure 21 Conference settings Conference settings mainly with the video conferencing equipment for interactive and dial-up use, recording and broadcasting host can save the conference interaction, etc., the next meeting connection, can be initiated directly from the recording and broadcasting, and can be issued interactive strategy to the video conferencing equipment.

  • Page 29: File Operation

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.3 File management 图 22 文件管理 File management supports copying, pasting, and deleting recorded files. 5.3.4 Smart classroom Figure 23 Smart classroom - air conditioning settings...

  • Page 30: User Operation

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Figure 24 Smart classroom - lighting settings S700 recording and broadcasting host to support intelligent equipment control, you can control the classroom air conditioning and lighting. 5.3.5 User settings Figure 25 User management settings As shown above, user management can add users and passwords, user login, software...

  • Page 31: System Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide security shutdown and restart and other functions. 5.3.6 System function settings Figure 26 System function settings As shown in Figure 26, set the menu to share 7 major system function settings. Video settings, boot settings, live settings, FTP settings, system settings, project settings, on-site debugging and so on.

  • Page 32: Recording Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.1 Recording settings Figure 27 Recording settings There are 5 settings for the recording setup menu: Encoding settings, Audio encoding settings, Timed recording settings, Storage location, Recording policy settings. 5.3.6.1.1 Coding settings 图 28 Coding settings...

  • Page 33: Audio Encoding

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide The encoding setting is to set the PGM channel and PGM2 channel parameters in the movie mode for the adjustment of the size of the 2 live channels and the live image. Users default to PGM and PGM2 master code rate of 4000kbps, an hour video about 2GB. Sub-stream is not used for video, mainly for the network environment is bad when the RTMP push flow and RTSP pull flow.

  • Page 34: Time Recording

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.1.3 Timer recording 图 30 Timer recording The recording and broadcasting system supports the regular recording function. The user can set the time recording parameters for four time periods here, and copy the parameters of this day to any day of the week, and can only record PGM channel recording regularly. 5.3.6.1.4 storage location Figure 31...

  • Page 35: Recording Stratigy

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.1.5 Recording policy Figure 32 Recording policy The recording and broadcasting host supports movie mode + resource mode simultaneous recording, can record up to 9 channels at the same time: 2 movie channels (PGM and PGM2) +7 channel. Movie mode menu can be set to boot PGM / PGM2 / RES (resource video) automatic recording;...

  • Page 36: Casting Setup

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide As shown in Figure 33, in the video strategy - resource mode menu, select the need to record the resource channel, in the [one button to start] menu, select the resource video, and then click the main interface [one button to start] button to start recording. 5.3.6.2 Guide settings Figure 34...

  • Page 37: Class Content Info

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.2.1 Courseware information Figure 35 Courseware information Manual guidance, the user can use the courseware information can be inserted into the live channel PGM and PGM2, increase the video screen can be ornamental. Class name and video folder association, to facilitate teachers to find video files after class, different courses can be edited in advance of the course name.

  • Page 38: Superscript/On-Screen Graphic

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.2.2 Angle mark / logo Figure 36 Angle mark / logo setting In manual navigation, the user can manually insert the logo into the PGM and PGM2 channels. As shown in Figure 26, the PGM and PGM2 channels have the largest number of plug-in logo tags.

  • Page 39: Prologue/Epilogue

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.2.3 Title trailer Figure 37 Title trailer settings The recording and broadcasting system supports the insertion of the titles of the titles, such as the insertion of schools and teacher profiles, and eliminates the need for later editing.

  • Page 40: Casting Mode

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.2.4 Guide mode Figure 38 guide mode settings Recording and broadcasting system guide mode to support automatic guided, semi-automatic guide, manual guide, and so on three. When there is a tracking device, under automatic guidance, the user does not need any operation, the recording and broadcasting system will automatically switch the channel image to the live PGM channel.

  • Page 41: Subtitle Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.2.5 Subtitle settings Figure 39 Subtitle settings Recording and broadcasting system support in the live channel PGM and PGM2 real-time insert subtitles, the user can edit up to 13 different subtitles file. Subtitles can only display one line in the PGM and PGM2 channels, followed by subtitles that are previously posted.

  • Page 42: Mouse Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.2.6 Mouse policy Figure 40 Mouse policy As shown in Figure 40, the resource channel switch supports three modes. Default "use click to switch to PGM window" can be. User changes are not recommended. The strategy can be used in manual and fully automatic mode, the user simply click the touch resource channel to switch the resource channel image to the live channel PGM or PGM2.

  • Page 43: Live Streaming Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.3 Live settings Figure 41 Live settings As shown in Figure 41, the RTMP push and TS push functions can be set in the Live Setup menu. 5.3.6.3.1 RTMP push stream settings Figure 42 RTMP push stream settings...

  • Page 44: Ts Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide As shown in Figure 42 above, the main and sub-stream push addresses and push modes of the PGM and PGM2 channels can be set in the RTMP push menu. Push mode is determined by the RTMP stream receiving platform, the default use of Live mode. Push the size of the stream can be set in the video settings - coding settings, adjustable between 50Kbps-40Mbps, the main code default rate of 4000Kbps, sub-stream flow of 400Kbps.

  • Page 45: Ftp Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Note: multicast and unicast difference: unicast is the network after the request to push the video stream, the connection is the client direct video recording and broadcasting host, support a limited number of simultaneous viewing live. Multicast use must have a router in the LAN environment, the general router default multicast IP is 239.0.0.2, open the multicast stream, the recording and broadcasting host will be pushed to the multicast address of the video stream, the user to open the live only Connect to a multicast address...

  • Page 46: 5.3.6.4.1 Ftp Upload

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.4.1 FTP upload Figure 45 FTP upload settings As shown in Figure 45, the recording and broadcasting system supports the automatic upload of the video file to the stored FTP server after the recording stops. Support the recording and recording host automatically restart after loading the historical task.

  • Page 47: System Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Recording and broadcasting system to support local area network remote FTP download video files, users do not need to use U disk in the recording studio live copy files. FTP download format ftp: / / recording host IP, user name ftp, password is empty. 5.3.6.5 System settings Figure 47...

  • Page 48: Wifi Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.5.1 wireless setting Figure 48 wireless setting 5.3.6.5.2 Disk management Figure 49 Disk management Disk management menu supports recording and writing hard disk or peripheral U disk and other storage devices to format, uninstall and so on.

  • Page 49: Network Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.5.3 Network settings Figure 50 Network settings Recording and broadcasting system factory default IP is 192.168.100.66. Support for manually setting IP and DHCP to obtain IP addresses assigned by the router 5.3.6.5.4 system information Figure 51 system information In the system information menu to view the recording system hardware ID and software...

  • Page 50: System Time

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide ROM version and release date. 5.3.6.5.5 system time Figure 52 system time The recording and broadcasting system supports manual and automatic update times. Factory default s2m.time.edu.cn network server domain name, the user can also be customized to fill in other normal use of NTP time synchronization domain name or IP. The recording and broadcasting system will automatically synchronize according to the network server address after each boot.

  • Page 51: Project Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.6 Engineering settings Figure 53 Engineering settings 5.3.6.6.1 R & D debugging Figure 54 R & D debugging...

  • Page 52: Factory Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.6.2 Factory setting Figure 55 Factory setting As shown in Figure 55 above, the factory settings are mainly used for site staffing and commissioning. Factory settings menu a total of seven categories of configuration: boot logo settings, power settings, advanced settings, dual graphics output settings, factory information view, boot configuration, a key to open the configuration, etc.

  • Page 53: Power Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Video recording system supports user - defined boot logo. Boot logo image format jpg, resolution size 1024 * 768,72dpi, bit depth 24, the file size does not exceed 128KB; users can import the logo file to the U disk, and then access the recording and broadcasting host, in this menu to import , After the import point to determine, exit the menu and click the right POWER button to restart, restart the logo after the replacement effect.

  • Page 54: Dual Graphics Card Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 图 58 高级设置 Users can set some advanced parameters in this menu, non-professional technical staff do not modify. 5.3.6.6.2.4 dual graphics card settings Figure 59 dual graphics card settings Recording host built-in dual graphics card output, that is, the output screen and live screen output.

  • Page 55: Quick Start Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.6.2.5 one button to start settings Figure 60 one button to start settings One button to open the configuration menu, the associated functions are movie mode video, movie mode push, auto guide, resource video, movie mode insert titles, movie mode insert trailer and so on.

  • Page 56: On-Site Setting

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.7 Field commissioning Figure 61 Field commissioning 5.3.6.7.1 Display screen test Figure 62 Display screen test Recording and broadcasting system of a test display function, you can test whether the display screen dead pixels and so on.

  • Page 57: Network Test

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.7.2 Import and export configuration Figure 63 Import and export configuration The recording and broadcasting system supports the import and export of the parameter configuration. The user can import the parameters in this menu so that the debugging can not be repeated.

  • Page 58: Tracking

    AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Network ping test function, used to test the recording and recording of other equipment or WAN equipment communication test. 5.3.6.7.4 Automatic tracking Figure 65 Automatic tracking - action strategy Figure 66 Automatic tracking - status policy As shown in Figures 65 and 66 above, the recording and tracing device can be divided into action and status strategies according to the type of code.
  • Page 59 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 1、he action strategy is not the last action of the end of the code, but directly under the action of a start code, namely: tracking system to the recording and broadcasting host code is a switch to a channel, each time a command code to record Broadcast host, recorded after the transfer to receive the switch, the middle of the transition effects and the effect of the combination of the screen directly hard to cut the channel to the PGM live channel.
  • Page 60 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide corresponding command code, the normal realization of the mouse click on the main interface of the automatic broadcast guide button, recording and broadcasting to start a fully automated command code to track the host, tracking host received code After the start of the camera tracking;...
  • Page 61 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide cleared, not cumulative. That is, when the first trigger, after 5S and then trigger, is to re-count. Note: DVI channel to select the network interface, you need to select the continuous transmission mode (switch the signal after leaving the computer screen to return to the previous channel screen), if you select the single send mode, will remain in the computer screen.
  • Page 62 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.7.5 centralized control settings Figure 67, centralized control settings Note The central control setting is a configuration menu that connects the host to the central control device. Communication interface supports RS485 and RS232, in this menu serial number to select the correct hardware connection interface.
  • Page 63 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.7.6 Serial port settings Figure 68 serial port settings As shown in Figure 68 above, the serial port setup menu configures the parameters of the card back to the code. Specify the serial number back to the serial number must select the correct interface number, recording and playback will be the normal return code from the specified serial number issued.
  • Page 64 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 5.3.6.7.7 Switch policy Figure 69 Switch Policy – Login Figure 70 Switch policy modification...
  • Page 65 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide Figure 71 Toggle policy help information Note: As shown in Figure 69, click the Modify Policy and enter the default password "1" to log in to the advanced policy. Policy table has a default 17 switching strategy, if necessary, you can customize the modified switching strategy to achieve the desired switching effect.
  • Page 66 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide next action) after the switch to the action two, action two E (blackboard) and students close-up picture-in-picture effects. Note: If the action list, select the camera is empty, it means switching on the previous status bit to stop the switch. If you need to modify and add a new switching strategy, the mouse to select the need to modify the strategy (one line), double-click, the value of this line will appear in the action one, action two below the drop-down menu, the user can modify the drop-down menu values The...
  • Page 67 AC1870 iCast Quick Guide 2, tracking the host also need to fill in the corresponding set of recording and broadcasting host IP and listening port (recording and broadcasting fixed port is 9999).

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