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User Instructions
H.264 HD Multimedia System
Z3-DME-02 Digital Media Encoder & Streamer
Model Name:
DOC-USR-0054-02
Manual Version 2.01.20b
Software Version 2.01.20
October 13, 2014
representative of Z3.
Z3-DME-02
for future use.
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- Page 1 Z3. Z3 Technology, LLC incorporates HDMI® technology. The terms of HDMI and HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface, and the HDMI Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of HDMI Licensing LLC in the United States and other countries.
- Page 2 Revision History Version Date Change Note Author 2.01.20 5/54/14 Initial Version 2.01.20a 6/25/14 Formatting Updated included parts list, video inputs, 2.01.20b 10/13/14 added inches and pounds to specifications, HDMI disclaimer and formatting “Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
8.2 Making a Firmware Update ..................32 8.3 Using the Password Feature ..................34 9.0 SUMMARY OF GUI OPTIONS .................... 36 9.1 The System Setup Tab ....................36 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... - Page 4 9.6 Values Appearing at the Bottom of All Tabs ..............41 APPENDIX A: CONFIGURING THE WOWZA SERVER FOR RTMP ............42 APPENDIX B: TROUBLESHOOTING ..................44 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...
- Page 5 Figure 42 Changing the password ..................34 Figure 43 Password Entry Screen ..................35 Figure 44 Wowza Performance Settings ................. 42 Figure 45 Wowza Security Settings ..................43 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...
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Page 6: General Description
2.0 INCLUDED PARTS LIST Z3-DME-02 Power Supply BNC to BNC Cable BNC to RCA Adapter DB-9 Serial Cable Figure 1 Parts Included with the Z3-DME-02 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 7: Features
Storage Temp: -40 to 70 degrees C at 20-80% relative humidity (non-condensing) Measurements: 233x 129x 35 mm (9.17 x 5.07 x 1.38 in) Weight: 921 g (2.03 lb) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 8: Operating Controls
Status Lights Figure 2 Z3-DME-02 Front View Analog HDMI/ SDI1 RS232 SDI2 Audio USB2 12V In Ethernet Port Figure 3 Z3-DME-02 Rear View ____________________________________________________________________________________ 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-Dme-02
(3) Connect an Ethernet cable to “Ethernet” on the Z3-DME-02 (see Figure 4). Connect the other end of the Ethernet cable directly to a PC. You will use this PC to control the Z3-DME-02 and to decode the output stream. -
Page 10: Finding The Z3-Dme-02 On The Network Using Zfinder
Z3-DME-02 appears: Figure 6 ZFinder with Z3-DME-02 Listed (9) Click on the Z3-DME-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-DME-02 Selected ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦... -
Page 11: Figure 8 Z3-Dme-02 Web Gui (System Setup Page)
(10) Click on “Open Device.” An internet browser window is opened (default browser used is Firefox) and the Web GUI appears: Figure 8 Z3-DME-02 Web GUI (System Setup Page) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 12: Figure 9 Z3-Dme-02 Setup For Sample Encode
(3) Make sure “Dest Address” matches PC IP Address (4) Set “Dest Port” to 5004 Figure 9 Z3-DME-02 Setup for Sample Encode ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 13: Figure 10 Z3-Dme-02 - Start/Stop/Status Section
“start” and observe the status change: (1) If necessary, click “stop” (3) Click “start” (2) Status changes to “STOPPED” Figure 10 Z3-DME-02 – 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
(22) Open VLC. Select “Media – Open File” and select the “z3-dm8107.sdp” file you just copied. (23) 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 "Update" To Change The Bitrate Dynamically
(25) In the CH1 tab of the Web GUI, change the bitrate from “8000K” to “2000K” and click the “update” button: (1) Change bitrate to 2000K (2) Click “update” Figure 15 Changing the Bitrate Dynamically ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 17: Adjusting The Udp Ts Rate
The steps below show an example where this might be desirable and what specifically you can do to change this and verify that the change was successful. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 18: Figure 17 Changing Ts Rate
(28) Once you select UDP, “TS RATE” should appear with the default value of 8000K. Change this to 1000K. (29) Click “start” to begin encoding. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 19: Tuning For Latency
Case 1: Highest Quality, Highest Latency 9999 Case 2: Good Quality, Standard Latency 2000 Case 3: Normal Quality, Lowest Latency Figure 19 Tuning for Various Use Cases ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 20: Running Dhcp
DOC-USR-0054-02 5.9 Running DHCP DHCP is also supported. When enabled, the Z3-DME-02 dynamically receives an IP address to use at startup. The IP address that is assigned can be seen through the ZFinder tool running on a PC. To see... -
Page 21: Figure 22 Selecting "Z3_Test" Within The System Setup Tab
(35) Now that DHCP is set in z3_test, save the configuration by clicking on the “Save” button: Click “Save” Figure 24 Saving Preset Values ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 22: Figure 25 Dhcp Address In Zfinder
Figure 26 DHCP Address Being Used (39) You can go back to Static IP by unchecking “Use DHCP” and saving that to the preset. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 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-Dme-02
Ethernet. A source generating this stream (for example, another Z3-DME-02) is required. 6.1 Connect the Decoder (1) Use a BNC-to-BNC cable to connect “SDI/ASI Out” on the Z3-DME-02 to an SDI monitor or to “SDI In” of an SDI->HDMI converter:... -
Page 24: Configure The Encoder
DOC-USR-0054-02 6.3 Configure the Encoder (7) Go to the Encoder Z3-DME-02. Change the settings to match those in the figure below. Here a multicast address is used. You can also stream unicast to the Decoder by specifying the IP address of the decoding Z3-DME-02. -
Page 25: Configure The Decoder
6.4 Configure the Decoder (8) On the decoding DME-02, follow steps (6) to (10) in Section 5 to bring up the GUI for the Z3-DME-02. (9) You should be at the System Setup Tab. From here, click on “Operating Mode” in the lower right corner and change to “Decoder”:... -
Page 26: Figure 31 Decoder Settings For Decoding Example
(15) You can also view the content using VLC. Open VLC as you did in the Encode instructions and use the address “udp://@225.1.2.3:5004” for the URL. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 27: Streaming Rtmp In 3 Different Resolutions
7.0 STREAMING RTMP IN 3 DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS This section shows how to use the Z3-DME-02 to take 1 video input and stream it over RTMP into 3 different resolutions (720p, D1, and CIF). The Wowza server is used as an example RTMP server to stream to. -
Page 28: Configure Ch1 For Rtmp Streaming
PC with the Wowza server. (8) After youre finished, your settings should look like the following: Figure 34 3-Channel RTMP Encode – Channel 1 Settings ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 29: Configure The Ch3 For Rtmp Streaming
(11) Use the same RTMP format and Dest Address, replacing “d1” with cif: Figure 35 3-Channel RTMP Encode – Channel 3 Settings ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 30: Set Up The Wowza Server
(1) Use IP address of Wowza server + “:8088” (2) Select “Applications” (3) Select “live” (4) Select “Test Players” Figure 36 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 31: Figure 37 Viewing Dme-02 Content On Wowza
Figure 37 Viewing DME-02 Content on Wowza (17) To view the other channels, simply change the stream name to “d1” or “cif.” ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 32: Performing Other Operations With The Z3-Dme-02
8.1 Save Current Settings If you have a specific configuration you’d like to preserve, you can save it so that when the Z3-DME-02 is powered off and back on, it automatically uses those settings. For an example of doing this, please see the description in the “Running DHCP”... -
Page 33: Figure 39 Updater Screen
(7) You will see screens stating that the image is being uploaded and that the flash is being updated. After about one minute, you should see the main menu again. (8) Your Z3-DME-02 is now updated! ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 34: Using The Password Feature
(2) Once you click on “go,” the change password options appear. Enter the new password twice and click “change.” Enter new password twice Click “change” Figure 42 Changing the password ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 35: Figure 43 Password Entry Screen
Use “admin” for the user name and the password that you had entered before: Figure 43 Password Entry Screen (5) You should now be able to access the Web GUI. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 36: Summary Of Gui Options
Rename a configuration file. delete Delete a configuration file. export Export current settings to a file. import Load settings from a previously exported file. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 37: The Status Tab
Input Status Input Input type (HD-SDI for the DME-02) Resolution Capture resolution for that input Capture frames per second for that input ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 38: The Ch1 Tab
The bit rate of the audio. Mode Mono Select between stereo and mono inputs. Stereo Source HD-SDI1 Where to get audio for that subchannel. HD-SDI2 Analog None ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... - Page 39 (see Section 5.7, “Adjusting the UDP TS Rate,” on page 17). stop Stop current encode session. start Start encode session. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...
- Page 40 “Follow input” = Generate encoder resolution based on capture resolution detected Note 2: GOP Sizes Supported: 10, 12, 15, 25, 30, 50, 60, 100, 120, 200, 240 frames ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...
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Page 41: The Ch2 Tab
“Decoder” is used to select decode mode. Stop All Stop encode on all channels. Start All Start encode on all channels. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 42: 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 44 Wowza Performance Settings ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 43: Figure 45 Wowza Security Settings
“Open” and “Client Restrictions” are set to “No client restrictions.” Then click “Save”: Figure 45 Wowza Security Settings The Wowza server is now configured to work with the Z3-DME-02. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N. 8th St. STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702... -
Page 44: Appendix B: Troubleshooting
-Is the Ethernet cable plugged into the Z3-DME-02 solidly (do you see the link light on the Ethernet cable which indicates data is being transmitted)? -Does the Z3-DME-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-DME-02 and the PC running VLC have the same netmask? (Default value in the Z3-DME-02 is 255.255.0.0)
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