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TBS8510 Transcoder Server User Guide
Copyright © TBS Technologies 2005-2021 All Rights Reserved
2021-04-07
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  • Page 1 TBS8510 Transcoder Server User Guide Copyright © TBS Technologies 2005-2021 All Rights Reserved 2021-04-07 1 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    5.5.1 Preprocessing Profile ........................39 5.5.2 Post-processing Profile (Transcode Profile) ................... 40 5.7.3 Output Profile (HLS/ABR Profile)....................43 6. Status Page ................................. 46 6.1 Monitoring ............................... 46 6.2 Resources (Output Stream Address) ......................49 2 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 3 7.3.1 SNMP ............................53 7.3.2 Sharing ............................54 7.4 Network ..............................54 7.4.1 Interface ............................54 7.4.2 Diagnostics ............................ 56 7.5 Third-Party Plugins ........................... 57 8. Let the System parameter changes take effect....................57 3 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 4: Product Overview

    Now, with TBS8510 real-time transcoding server, you can receive and transcode channels at the same time. This is a cost-effective solution for OTT IPTV providers. With Two Giga Ethernet Ports, TBS8510 is capable to transcode either 80 SD or 30 Full HD streams. Equipped with 2 pieces of TBS Tuner/Capture PCI-e card (up to 16 tuners), TBS8510 is also capable to receive channels directly from DVB RF or ASI / IP inputs.

  • Page 5: Product Specifications

    1.2 Product Specifications D: IPMI is the Intelligent Platform Management Interface, you can setup the IP inside the BIOS F: LAN1 is the default network port 5 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 6 60-80 SD/30 HD 1080 AVC(H.264) streams up to 60 SD/28 HD 1080 HEVC(H.265) streams Transcoder Version 2: up to 80-100 SD/40 HD 1080 AVC(H.264) streams up to 80 SD/36 HD 1080 HEVC(H.265) streams Power 65W ~ 250W Consumption 6 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 7: Quick Start

    2. Quick Start When using the TBS8510 transcoder for the first time, please connect the default Ethernet LAN1 and VGA to your monitor. Power on the server, then the following information will be displayed on the screen: You can see the default IP configuration of the server: default IP: 10.47.48.1/255.255.240.0...

  • Page 8: Home Page

    You can use Google Chrome Browse to open the web page of TBS8510: After login in, you can see the whole panel of TBS8510: 3. Home Page Here you can see the transcoder’s CPU and Memory Usage status, Ethernet Input and Output status, and detailed transcode modules status.

  • Page 9: Clients

    Allow Remote Devices this option is used to enable or disable the streaming from TBS8510. If you set to Yes, then you can use VLC to play the stream from TBS8510. If you use RTMP to send the stream to your CDN, then you can disable this to protect your stream.
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  • Page 11: Content Setting

    Streaming Configuration: This is the HTTP output option. You can choose the Ethernet interface for streaming. The default mode is HTTP output. Multicast (System Defaults): This is the global multicast output option. You can choose the Ethernet interface for streaming multicast. 11 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 12: Advanced Settings

    5.1.3 Advanced Settings Unicast/Multicast/HTTP Stream Acquisition: You can set the stream input/output buffer in this section. TBS8510 Transcoder will cache the stream then start processing. HTTP Live Stream Acquisition: You can set the HTTP import stream options in this section, including the Connection Timeout and Buffer Time.

  • Page 13: Dvb Management

    Number should be set to 1 when you lock DVB-S/S2 transponder. In other modes, you can leave the value as Default. Fill in all necessary values, then press Save, and go to the bottom of the transponder, press Scan: 13 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 14 After press Scan, you can choose the tuner that you want to use to scan this transponder, please choose the one which is not in use: After successful scan, press OK. Then you can go to All Channels to configure the channels: Here is an example of DVB-C: 14 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 15 Here is an example of DVB-T/T2: Choose system DVB-T input the Frequency (Hz), Press Save and then Edit to input the else parameters: Here is an example of ATSC: 15 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 16: All Channels

    Here is an example of DTMB: 5.2.2 All Channels Let’s take CGTN channel as an example. it will display the channel properties. Press Edit to start configuration: You can setup the transcode profile or change the channel PID information. 16 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 17: Tv Channels

    Output (HLS): If you want output HLS/ABR streams, you can choose the profile you want to use. You can output default HTTP, UDP as Post-processing profile or HLS/ABR as Output profile 5.2.3 TV Channels List all TV Channels 5.2.4 Radio Channels List all Radio Channels 17 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 18: Tuner Cards

    (For the NEW TP make sure that it is already has been successfully scanned on the transponder page, then assign it to the tuner.) Please make sure to configure the idle tuners, when you assign TP to the tuner in transponder page. Then press Save and Commit all the new settings: 18 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 19: Import Stream Management

    If the input stream speed is fast, you can use this option. Cached Streaming means TBS8510 transcoder will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings), then start streaming. When the stream speed is not very fast, you can use this option.

  • Page 20: Multicast Stream Import

    If the input stream speed is fast, you can use this option. Cached Streaming means TBS8510 Transcoder will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings), then start streaming. When the stream speed is not very fast, you can use this option.

  • Page 21: Http Stream Import

    If the input stream speed is fast, you can use this option. Cached Streaming means TBS8510 Transcoder will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings), then start streaming. When the stream speed is not very fast, you can use this option.

  • Page 22: Rtsp Stream Import

    If the input stream speed is fast, you can use this option. Cached Streaming means TBS8510 Transcoder will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings), then start streaming. When the stream speed is not very fast, you can use this option.

  • Page 23: Hdmi/Sdi Capture Import

    If the input stream speed is fast, you can use this option. Cached Streaming means TBS8510 Transcoder will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings), then start streaming. When the stream speed is not very fast, you can use this option.

  • Page 24: Http Live Playlists

    If the input stream speed is fast, you can use this option. Cached Streaming means TBS8510 Transcoder will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings), then start streaming. When the stream speed is not very fast, you can use this option.
  • Page 25 You can click any channel to start configuration as shown below: 25 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 26: Mpts Stream Import

    Let’s use one MPTS for testing. The address is multicast: udp://@239.255.0.1:5002, press New Recorder then input like this: Press Save then input other value like this: Save again then go to the bottom press Scan: 26 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 27 Wait a few seconds, it will automatically show the scan results like this: Press OK, then go to Program List -> View to configure every channel: Click any of channel to start your configuration. 27 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 28: Local Files Import

    It is the same like channels CDN Upload settings. External Modules It is the same like channels External Modules settings. Let’s use spider.ts file as an example: Then open the server samba folder with \\10.47.48.1 Either User name and Password is kylone. 28 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 29 Open and go to files folder and put the spider.ts file in it: Then close the window and go back to Content->Settings->Commit to make it work. 29 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 30: Other File Input (Rtmp Input)

    The video and audio tracks must be configured with correct values. In the post-processing and Output Profile, the video decoder codec must be configured with correct codec. It does not support auto-settings. Please don’t forget to Commit the new configuration. 30 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 31 After commit all the new settings, you can check the status page: 31 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 32: Ts Submission

    5.4 TS Submission 5.4.1 Multicast You can check and set multicast information for all channels: You can setup the multicast output address and port, or you can use our system default address in this page. 32 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 33: Cdn (Rtmp Output)

    5.4.2 CDN (RTMP Output) This is the detail setting for RTMP. Click Profiles, you can create the RTMP upload profile: 33 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 34 Transcoding profile is the transcode profile used to transcode the channel and upload it to CDN. If you want to upload to a new address that has not yet created the profile, you can manual input the RTMP address as below: 34 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 35 The full HTTP address is: http://rtmp-push.xxx.com:1250/tvpad/test.httpts In this way, you can use H.265 to push the stream to the CDN server. The status of each stream is showed in the status page, as below: 35 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 36: Mpts Multiplexing

    5.4.3 MPTS Multiplexing Press New Record create a new MPTS stream: Press Edit to set the TS information like this: 36 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 37 Go to Commit page and press Commit to take effect, you can check the status on the status page after a while: 37 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 38: Dvb/Asi Modulators

    5.4.4 DVB/ASI Modulators If you use DVBT/C Modulator card with TBS8510, you can setup the modulator parameters here. Take TBS6004 DVB-C 4 QAM PCIe Card, TBS6014 QAMB(ATSC-C) Quad Modulator Card as example: 38 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 39: Profiles Setting

    5.5 Profiles Setting 5.5.1 Preprocessing Profile This is the soft decryption profile setting. You can create a new profile like this: 39 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 40: Post-Processing Profile (Transcode Profile)

    Crop: If you want to crop the picture you can setup the value here. Scale: If you want to change the resolution, you can setup here. Then it will scale the video when decoding. It will save some server’s resource in the case. 40 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 41 Bitrate: The audio bit rate. Subtitle Encoder Codec: Default option is to pass the subtitle PID. Track: The Subtitle track number. Overlay: If you want to burn the Subtitle to the video, set the Subtitle position 41 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 42 Min FPS: when FPS is lower than the setting number (like lose the video), the process will be auto restarted. Mini Bitrate: when the process bitrate is lower than the setting number, the process will be auto restarted. Speed: when audio has sync problem, the process will be auto restarted. 42 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 43: Output Profile (Hls/Abr Profile)

    Crop: If you want to crop the picture, you can setup the value here. Scale: If you want to change the resolution, you can setup here, the video will be scaled when decoding. It will save some resource. 43 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 44 Track: The track of the audio. Bitrate: The audio bit rate. Subtitle Encoder Overlay: If you want burn the subtitle to the video, please set the subtitle position. Notice that this will cost a lot of CPU resources. 44 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 45 Health Check (In some cases, there is a problem with the process and need to be restarted) Min FPS: when FPS is lower than the setting number (like lose the video), the process will be auto restarted. Speed: when audio has sync problem, the process will be auto restarted. 45 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 46: Status Page

    Here you can check all channels’ status and you can also stop or restart each channel separately. Transponder: You will have the transponder status here: Strength, SNR, and Bitrate. You can restart or stop the transponder with the option button. Restart: Stop: 46 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 47 You can monitor all channels’ status here. If any channel is not working well, you can use restart button to restart it separately. CDN Uploads: Here you can check the RTMP uploading status. You can check its working time and the upload bit rate. You can also restart it separately. 47 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 48 Here you can see the users’ IP and ports connected to the transcoder. You can also check the channel being used, its output data rate, its connected time, and status. For more configuration of the states, please go to page Media Players. 48 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 49: Resources (Output Stream Address)

    Click to download the playlist, you will get the whole channels list like this: http://192.168.0.188:81/all.m3u8 Channel URL is the URL of each channel such as: http://192.168.0.188:4750/6021/0/base/stream.ts If you set the channel output as multicast, it will show the multicast URL like this: 49 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 50: System Page

    You can Stop or Start the Media server. When you click Stop, all channels will be stopped streaming. If you want them to run again, just click Start. Scheduled Restart: Press to setup the auto restart time. 50 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 51: Data Time

    If the remote service is enabled, it will show the remote status. If you need remote support, you can send the IP to us. 7.1.2 Data Time You can set the system time here. 51 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 52: Tools

    Remove Modules, it will delete all modules after you apply Factory Defaults. Then. you will need to contact us to recover the transcode modules. 7.1.4 User Interface You can change the web UI Theme here. 52 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 53: Users

    7.2 Users You can create new users here. 7.3 Services 7.3.1 SNMP For detail more information about SNMP, please send email to support@tbsdtv.com. We can customize it for 53 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 54: Sharing

    If the default interface has more than 1 interface (with Internet), please follow the steps below to set it. Set the Metric value as to 0 , and setup the right Gateway and DNS. 54 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...
  • Page 55 For the use of other ports LAN, please setup as bellowed. The Metric value should be bigger than 0. Gateway and DNS both should be 0.0.0.0. After finishing all the settings, don’t forget to press Commit to make it work. 55 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 56: Diagnostics

    In some case, you might want to check the server status with Ping, DNS, HTTP. Here let us take a sample with Ping: Press Ping and wait a few seconds, then you will have get the following result: 56 / 57 TBS8510 User Guide...

  • Page 57: Third-Party Plugins

    No matter what changes you make to the transcoder, you have to click Commit to make it work. It will take a few seconds to restart all streams. If you have any questions about TBS8510 Transcoder, please send an email to support@tbsdtv.com, we will provide professional support as soon as possible.

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