Tektronix MTS300 User Manual
Tektronix MTS300 User Manual

Tektronix MTS300 User Manual

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  • Page 2 User Manual MTS300 MPEG Test System Program Stream Analyzer 071-0662-00 This document applies to MPEG Test System version 5.0 firmware and above. www.tektronix.com Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 3 Commercial Computer Software – Restricted Rights clause at FAR 52.227-19, as applicable. Tektronix products are covered by U.S. and foreign patents, issued and pending. Information in this publication supercedes that in all previously published material. Specifications and price change privileges reserved.
  • Page 4 WARRANTY Tektronix warrants that the media on which this software product is furnished and the encoding of the programs on the media will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of three (3) months from the date of shipment.
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  • Page 6: Table Of Contents

    ..........3–17 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 7 ..........3–22 Index MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 8 ....... 3–12 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 9 Table of Contents MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 10 PES packet level, extract and save all or part of program and system streams, and analyze streams for coherence to the MPEG standards. The MPEG Program Stream Analyzer is part of the MTS300 suite of hardware and software components used to create, generate, acquire, and analyze MPEG and DVB transport and program streams and can be used by itself or as an integral part of the MPEG test system.
  • Page 11 Preface Contacting Tektronix Product For questions about using Tektronix measurement products, call Support toll free in North America: 1-800-833-9200 6:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Pacific time Or contact us by e-mail: tm_app_supp@tek.com For product support outside of North America, contact your local Tektronix distributor or sales office.
  • Page 12 Getting Started Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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  • Page 14: Getting Started

    Syntactic analysis Consistency analysis (coherence between all components of the stream) System clock reference (SCR) analysis Presentation/Decoding time stamp (PTS/DTS) analysis 1–1 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 15: First Time Operation

    To enable the software you have purchased, use the procedure for entering the general password described in the MTS300 Series Software Only Installation Instructions, Tektronix part number 075-0630-XX.
  • Page 16 Operating Basics Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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  • Page 18: Operating Basics

    Menu Selections provides a table that summarizes the menu selections. 2–1 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 19: Functional Overview

    Title bar. The title bar displays the application name and application icon. The window control buttons are standard window controls and allow you to minimize, maximize, and close the application window. 2–2 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 20: Table 2-1: Upper Toolbar Buttons

    Next error Displays the next item that has an error in the program stream file. 2–3 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 21: View Windows

    The first bit of the program stream is zero. 2–4 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 22: Mpeg Program Stream Analyzer Views

    “?” on top of them indicate stream elements that are found in the bitstream, yet are not referenced in the program stream map (ghost elements). 2–5 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 23: Table 2-3: Hierarchic View Icons

    Elementary Stream Analyzer installed on your system. DATA Save Data Stream dialog box (page 2–16) End Code message Code window 2–6 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 24: Interpreted View Windows

    PES packet elements respectively). File name View type Item number Position Field Field length or Value rectangle position indicator rectangle 2–7 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 25 ISO/IEC 11172-1 and ISO/IEC 13818-1. You can move this window by clicking and dragging the title bar. Dismiss the window by clicking anywhere outside of it in the application window. 2–8 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 26 Double-click a value rectangle to display a pop-up message window for the value, as shown in the following illustration. 2–9 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 27: Binary And Hexadecimal Views

    You can also display binary and hexadecimal views of many program stream elements by double-clicking the three dimensional data packet fields in some of the interpreted views. 2–10 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 28: Basic Operations

    2. Use standard Windows techniques to select the drive and directory that contains the file you want to open. 2–11 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 29: Extracting And Saving Program Streams

    PES interpreted view. When this view is active, the analyzer extracts the PES packets you indicate and saves files using the PES stream file name extension (.pes). 2–12 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 30 Windows techniques, indicate the file in which to save the extracted data. Pack header data saved using this procedure are saved using the pack stream file name extension (.pck). 2–13 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 31 ID text box. The item number displayed in the active interpreted view is displayed in the From and To text boxes. 2–14 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 32: Table 2-4: Save Pes Stream Option Matrix

    Use .psd for program stream directory files. Use .psm for program stream map files. Use .pes for packetized elementary stream files. 4. Select OK. 2–15 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 33 Save as dialog box. The default extension for all elementary streams saved using this procedure is .es. 2–16 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 34: Printing Program Stream Data

    Quitting the MPEG To quit the MPEG Program Stream Analyzer, select Exit from the File menu. Program Stream Analyzer 2–17 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 35: Table 2-5: Menu Selections

    See page 3–4. PS Directory Displays the program stream directory interpreted view for the active program stream. See page 3–5. 2–18 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 36 (The Binary and Hexadecimal view windows are not affected by the font selection.) 2–19 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 37 Displays the Windows Help contents. About MPEG Audio Stream Displays the software version number and copyright Analyzer information about the MPEG Program Stream Analyzer. 2–20 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 38 Reference Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 39 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 40: Reference

    Furthermore, system streams do not have program stream map and program stream directory PES packet elements. 3–1 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 41: Pack Header View

    Use the command buttons on the Edit toolbar (or the selections from the Edit menu) to navigate through the pack header items. 3–2 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 42: Pes Packet View

    Use the command buttons on the Edit toolbar (or the selections from the Edit menu) to navigate through the PES Packet items. 3–3 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 43: Program Stream Map View

    Edit toolbar. The analyzer will check the program stream map syntax for the active stream, including CRC values, and display the next item with an error. 3–4 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 44: Program Stream Directory View

    Use the command buttons on the Edit toolbar (or the selections from the Edit menu) to navigate through the program stream directory items. 3–5 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 45: Table 3-1: Add View Options

    In order to view multiple, unique items of program stream elements, add another interpreted view window by selecting the appropriate icon from the Hierarchic view. 3–6 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 46: Binary And Hexadecimal Views

    Right-click the PS or Pack icon, and then select Packets Map from the submenu. From the Hierarchic view, select Characteristics from the Analysis menu, and then select Packs/Packets Map from the submenu. 3–7 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 47: Scr Clock Views

    SCR clock icons to the black line, which represents time. SCR clocks without errors are indicated using black arrows. 3–8 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 48 SCR clocks. To access this display, click the Add View button while the SCR graphical display is active, and then select SCR Values from the submenu. 3–9 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 49: Pts/Dts Clock Views

    1. From the Hierarchic view, select Temporal from the Analysis menu. 2. Select PTS/DTS from the submenu. NOTE. You cannot perform PTS/DTS analyses on data elementary streams. 3–10 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 50 PTS/DTS Values view, which is described in the next section beginning on page 3–13. 3–11 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 51: Table 3-2: Pts/Dts View Icons

    Access Unit icons can represent multiple access units. Picture type and sequence information is displayed only for video elementary streams. 3–12 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 52 Use the Next Item command button to display successive PTS/DTS items, or use the Go to command button to select a specific item. 3–13 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 53: Analyzing Program Streams

    After the analysis is complete, the following message window is displayed listing the syntactic errors found in the file. Errors are listed by MPEG element, item number, field name, and error. 3–14 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 54: Consistency Analysis

    When you perform a consistency analysis on a program or system stream, the analyzer creates a text file of the resulting errors (see Messages Output on page 3–20). 3–15 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 55: Temporal Analysis

    Enter the number of the video or audio elementary stream you want to analyze in the text box. 3–16 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 56: Automatic Analysis

    (See Automatic Analyses on page 3–19 for information about how to specify which analyses are performed when you select Automatic from the Analysis menu.) 3–17 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 57 NOTE. To generate the error log file, you need to set the Messages Output in file option in the Messages Output dialog box each time you start an MPEG Program Stream Analyzer session. See page 3–20. 3–18 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 58: Options Menu Reference

    2. Select any combination of analyses from the dialog box. Until you change these settings, the selected analyses will be performed every time you select Automatic from the Analysis menu. 3–19 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 59: Base

    Output in File check box is cleared. You need to select this option each time you begin an MPEG Program Stream Analyzer session in order to automatically generate error log files. 3–20 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 60: Font

    Hierarchic view windows Interpreted view windows SCR and PTS/DTS Graphic view windows 3–21 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 61: Interpretation

    *.acf by default. Set default configuration. Use this menu selection to revert the current options settings to the default settings. 3–22 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 62 Index Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 63 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 64 Common view window elements, 2–4 Configuration, read, save, and set default, 3–22 Consistency, analysis procedure, 3–15 Contacting Tektronix, vi CRC, in PSM interpreted view, 3–4 Index–1 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 65 Number of items, edit toolbar command button, 2–3 in interpreted views, 2–9 interpreted views, 3–14 PTS/DTS message windows, 3–10 SCR message windows, 3–9 Index–2 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 66 Windows view, 3–8 automatic analyses, 3–18 common elements, 2–4 error message, 3–14 Hierarchic view, 2–5 Tektronix MPEG Test System, v, 1–2 Interpreted view, 2–7 Temporal analyses, 3–16 Three dimensional rectangles, interpreted views, 2–10 Tile, menu selection, 2–20 Title bar, 2–2 X, symbol, 2–5...
  • Page 67 Index Index–4 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 68 Artisan Technology Group is your source for quality new and certified-used/pre-owned equipment SERVICE CENTER REPAIRS WE BUY USED EQUIPMENT • FAST SHIPPING AND DELIVERY Experienced engineers and technicians on staff Sell your excess, underutilized, and idle used equipment at our full-service, in-house repair center We also offer credit for buy-backs and trade-ins •...

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