This Section is for the ENCODER see page 11 for DECODER usage Contents 1 Whats in the box 2 Setting up the ANT-38500 3. Configuring the ANT-38500 3.1 Video Information 3.2 Video Encode 3.3 Network & IP Port 4.
Connect the input Video source using an HDMI cable Connect the 12 volt power input (or use PoE )and switch on. The ANT-38500 will take approximately 2 minutes to boot up. You will see 4 LEDs. On powering the Red power LED is ON, after boot up the Green Status LED will flash.
3. Configuring the ANT-38500 (Encoder) The ANT-38500 default IP address is 192.168.10.100 . Please set the laptop/PC Ethernet IP address to be in the same sub-domain e.g 192.168.10.XXX Open Internet Explorer or Chrome (this will allow video to be viewed) or other browser to just view settings and browse to 192.168.10.100...
3.2 Video Encode:Settings Input format HDMI only for ANT-38500 Input format Detected in Auto Mode Primary Stream settings 3 other tabs for stream 2-4 Network- IP & Port: This section allows you set the encoder IP address and other network items...
4.1 RTSP over TCP to VLC player: RTSP streaming only requires one setting to be changed in the ANT-38500. This is the RTSP port which can be found under Network-IP&Port. By default this Port 554 The ANT-38500 RTSP URL is as follows: rtsp://<IP ADDRESS>:<PORT>/video1 (video only streaming of primary stream)
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To stream MPEG TS first we need to setup ONE WAY STREAMING in the ANT-38500 which can be found under NETWORK-One way streaming. Select MPEG TS and click Apply . Here you can select and Enable any or all of the 4 streams.
5.0 Help and Further Support 5.1 ONVIF Support The ANT-38500 series supports ONVIF profile S+G and uses port 80 as standard and login user name and password (admin: 1234). Profiles are as defined in the 4 stream settings in section 3.2 of this Quick Start Guide.
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LED Status Indicators Contact: support@antrica.com Call : +44 1628 626098 x3 Antrica Quick Start Guide ANT-38500 Series V12018 Page ! 9...
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ANT-38500 QUICK START GUIDE Applicable to ANT-38500 as a DECODER Antrica Quick Start Guide ANT-38500 Series V12018 Page ! 1 0...
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Contents 1 Whats in the box 2 Setting up the ANT-38500 Decoder Mode 3. Configuring the ANT-38500 Decoder Mode 3.1 Video & Audio: Information 3.2 Network : Remote 3.3 Network : Remote : ONVIF 3.4 Network : Remote : RTSP 3.5 Network : Remote : MPEG-TS...
Connect an ONVIF camera or RTSP camera/source as a test unit to the switch. Connect the ANT-38500 to a suitable display via HDMI or HD SDI (composite can be used but it will reduce the image size to PAL or NTSC resolution) Connect the ANT-38500 12 volt power input (or use PoE) and switch on.
In the video information page you can see up to 4 lines representing 4 streams being decoded . These lines will move up and down to represent data coming in. Flat line means no data or decode. Antrica Quick Start Guide ANT-38500 Series V12018 Page ! 1 3...
Click Get Profile list and select which profile you wish to decode. After any changes always click APPLY (not shown above but bottom right ) To display this stream you will need to setup the video output in section 4 Antrica Quick Start Guide ANT-38500 Series V12018 Page ! 1 4...
To add MPEG-TS URLs you will select MPEG-TS first from the REMOTE TYPE Then enter the IP address : eg 227.2.2.7 if Multicast plus Port: eg 1234 Click APPLY If unicast enter IP address of remote laptop with VLC or decoder. Antrica Quick Start Guide ANT-38500 Series V12018 Page ! 1 5...
(timed) or via API HTTP commands (See API document on website ) Stream URLs are added into this list and can be set to decode sequentially as shown below. 4.0 Video & Audio: Output Antrica Quick Start Guide ANT-38500 Series V12018 Page ! 1 6...
Video and Audio : OUTPUT : is the section where the ANT-38500 video output is set. The HDMI ,HDSDI output format is set here and the Composite video output (scaled to PAL or NTSC) is also set here. OUTPUT: REMOTE: 1,2,3,4 settings include how the image is scaled or cropped.
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