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Model Name: Z3-MVE-02
User Instructions
H.264 HD Multiformat Video Encoder
Z3-MVE-02 Digital Media Encoder & Streamer
DOC-USR-0038-05
Manual Version 1.06.09c
Software Version 1.06.09
September 8, 2014
Before attempting to connect or operate this product, please read these instructions carefully and save the
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  • Page 1 Before attempting to connect or operate this product, please read these instructions carefully and save the manual for future use. This document contains proprietary and confidential information of Z3 Technology, LLC ("Z3"). This document may not be used, reproduced, disclosed, or disseminated to anyone without the prior written approval of an authorized representative of Z3.
  • Page 2 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Encoder Options ..................30 Decoder Options ..................33 APPENDIX A: CONFIGURING THE WOWZA SERVER FOR RTMP ..........34 APPENDIX B: TROUBLESHOOTING ................36 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...
  • Page 4 Figure 29 The Update Image Screen ............... 28 Figure 30 Wowza Performance Settings ..............34 Figure 31 Wowza Security Settings ................. 35 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 5: General Information

    The Z3-MVE-02 offers multi-format, multi-channel HD video up to 1080p30. The Z3-MVE-02 features HD performance, compact size, and low latency while still having less power consumption than a PC-based encoder platform. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 6: Included Parts List

    12V Power Supply BNC to BNC Cable x 3 Z3-MVE-02 RCA to RCA Cable DB-9 Serial Cable Figure 1 Parts Included with the Z3-MVE-02 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 7: Features

    Storage: -40 to 70 degrees C at 20-80% relative humidity (non-condensing)  Measurements: 203mm x 114mm x 41mm  Weight: 682g  _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 8: Operating Controls

    13 Component Pr In 14 HDMI In 15 RS-232 Serial Port Connection 16 VGA In 17 Ethernet Figure 3 Z3-MVE-02 Rear View 18 12V Power _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 9: Getting Started And Running The Z3-Mve-02

    5.2 Connecting and powering up the Z3-MVE-02 Connect an Ethernet cable to “Ethernet” on the Z3-MVE-02 (see ). Connect the other end of the Ethernet cable directly to a PC. You will use this PC to control the Z3-MVE-02 and to decode the output stream.

  • Page 10: Finding The Z3-Mve-02 On The Network Using Zfinder

    Make sure your Windows PC is connected to the same network in which the Z3-MVE-02 is connected to. Run the “ZFinder” PC Utility on your Windows PC. The ZFinder window appears. ZFinder does a scan of the network and lists the location of all Z3 systems connected to the network.

  • Page 11: Figure 7 Zfinder With Z3-Mve-02 Selected

    DOC-USR-0038-05 Click on the Z3-MVE-02 entry in the window to select it. This will cause the “Edit Device”, “Open Device” and “Flash Leds” boxes to activate: Figure 7 ZFinder with Z3-MVE-02 Selected (10) By clicking “Edit Device”, you can change the Name, IP Address, Netmask, and Gateway address of the Z3-MVE-02.

  • Page 12: Figure 9 Changes To Encoding Parameters

    Format” to “MPEG-2 TS” (4) Set “Dest IP Address” to 225.1.2.3 (5) Set “Dest Port” to 8888 Figure 9 Changes to Encoding Parameters _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 13: Figure 10 Z3-Mve-02 Web Menu - Start/Stop/Status Section

    (1) If necessary, click “Stop Encoder” (3) Click “Start Encoder” (2) Status changes to “Stopped” Figure 10 Z3-MVE-02 Web Menu – Start/Stop/Status Section _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 14: Opening A Vlc Client To Receive The Encoded Stream

    (15) Press “Enter”. (16) You should now see video streaming from VLC. Figure 12 Example of Z3 Video Streaming to VLC (UDP/TS) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 15: Streaming Rtp

    (24) You should then see RTP video streaming on VLC: Figure 13 Example of Z3 Video Streaming to VLC (RTP) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 16: Using Dhcp

    Local IP Address, Local Netmask, and Default Gateway will no longer be editable: (2) Values no longer editable (1) Check “use DHCP” Figure 14 Using DHCP _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 17: Figure 15 Saving "Use Dhcp

    Z3-MVE-02. (28) Turn the Power Switch on the Z3-MVE-02 to On. The LED “ready” light should appear after 1 minute. (29) Click “Refresh” on ZFinder. The Z3-MVE-02 should appear with a new IP address based on what it...

  • Page 18: Dynamically Changing Bit Rate / Frame Rate

    DOC-USR-0038-05 (30) As you did previously, select the Z3-MVE-02 row and then click “Open Device.” A browser will then appear with the GUI, this time using the new IP address: New IP Address Figure 17 Web GUI using New IP Address 5.7 Dynamically changing bit rate / frame rate...

  • Page 19: Tuning For Latency

    Figure 18 Tuning for Latency 5.9 Streaming RTMP The Z3-MVE-02 also supports streaming RTMP to servers such as Wowza and ustream. Z3 Technology has used Wowza for this demo. The steps for doing so are as follows: Follow steps (1)-(10) earlier in this section to connect the MVE-02 for encode and bring up the Web GUI.

  • Page 20: Figure 19 Configuring For Rtmp Encode

    (3) Set to IP Address of Wowza Server (4) Set to “/live/1080” (5) Set to “1080i” Figure 19 Configuring for RTMP Encode _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 21: Figure 20 Getting To The Wowza Test Player

    (1) Use IP address of Wowza server + “:8088” (2) Select “Applications” (3) Select “live” (4) Select “Test Players” Figure 20 Getting to the Wowza Test Player _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 22: Figure 21 Viewing Mve-02 Content In Wowza

    (3) Click “Start” (2) Type “1080” for Stream name (4) Audio and Video start to appear Figure 21 Viewing MVE-02 Content in Wowza _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 23: Running Decode On The Z3-Mve-02

    Connect the “HDMI Out” of the SDI to HDMI converter with an HDMI cable to “HDMI In” of a monitor. The control PC should still have the Web GUI of the Z3-MVE-02. If the encoder is still running from the Figure 10 previous demo, click “Stop Encoder”...

  • Page 24: Figure 24 Z3-Mve-02 Decoder Configuration Menu

    You should see video on the monitor. Figure 25 and Figure 26 on the next 2 pages show an example of streaming from one Z3-MVE-02 to another. Note that the encoder and decoder need to have different IP addresses. Since one uses DHCP in this example, this is automatically taken care of.

  • Page 25: Figure 25 Z3-Mve-02 Example Encoder Settings For End-To-End Streaming

    DOC-USR-0038-05 Figure 25 Z3-MVE-02 Example Encoder Settings for End-to-End Streaming _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 26: Figure 26 Z3-Mve-02 Example Decoder Settings For End-To-End Streaming

    DOC-USR-0038-05 Figure 26 Z3-MVE-02 Example Decoder Settings for End-to-End Streaming _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 27: Performing Other Operations With The Z3-Mve-02

    7.1 Saving Current Settings If you have a specific configuration you’d like to preserve, you can save it so that when the Z3-MVE-02 is powered off and back on, it automatically uses those settings. This can be done with the following steps: Once you make a change you want to save, click on “Save”...

  • Page 28: Updating Firmware From Web Gui

    IP/MAC address again, as it resets it to factory defaults. Please contact Z3 Technology for documentation on how to update. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 29: Updating Firmware From An Sd Card

    If you do not remove the SD Card, another update will occur next time you reboot (13) Turn the system back on. The update should be finished. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 30: Summary Of Gui Options

    The H264 profile of the bitstream. Generally High is used for > D1, Main for D1, Main and Baseline for < D1. High _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...
  • Page 31 “Use DHCP” is checked. On / Off On -> Use DHCP to get IP address at boot-up Use DHCP (see “Using DHCP”). [Checkbox] _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...
  • Page 32 1080i (1920x1080), 3/4 1080i (1440x1080), XGA (1280x1024), 720p (1280x720), 4/5 720p (1024x720), D1 NTSC (720x480), D1 PAL (720x576), 4-CIF (704x576), VGA (640x480) 2-CIF (352x576), CIF (352x288), SIF (352x240), QVGA (320x240), WQVGA (320x180) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 33: Decoder Options

    Load settings installed at the factory. Settings [Button] Load User Settings ----- Load user settings previously saved. Save User Settings ----- Save current settings for later use. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 34: Appendix A: Configuring The Wowza Server For Rtmp

    “Java Settings”. Click “Edit” and then change “Java Heap Size” to “Production Level” and “Java Garbage Collection Settings” to “Concurrent collector”. Click on “Save.”: Figure 30 Wowza Performance Settings _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 35: Figure 31 Wowza Security Settings

    “Open” and “Client Restrictions” are set to “No client restrictions.” Then click “Save”: Figure 31 Wowza Security Settings The Wowza server is now configured to work with the Z3-MVE-02. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 36: Appendix B: Troubleshooting

    -Is the Ethernet cable plugged into the Z3-MVE-02 solidly (do you see the link light on the Ethernet cable which indicates data is being transmitted)? -Does the Z3-MVE-02 IP address and PC IP address have the same first 2 values (or, if netmask is set to 255.255.255.0, the same first 3 values)? -Do the Z3-MVE-02 and the PC running the web browser have the same netmask? (Default value in the Z3-MVE-02 is 255.255.0.0)

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