evertz 8083XDS-AD Instruction Manual page 110

8083XDS-AD Analog and SD-SDI XDS Encoder
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If there is no automation system or XDS software controlling the insertion
of V-Chip program rating packets, the 8083XDS-AD has built-in facilities for
inserting a default V-Chip program rating locally from the front panel setup
menu system. Refer to section 3.2 for instructions on how to configure this
feature.
At the time of writing, Evertz Microsystems provides 808x Configware
software free of charge that can be used with Evertz captioning encoders
to manually encode many different XDS packet types. Evertz also sells
MetaCast 2 software that allows you to create a play list that matches your
program schedule, so that you can automatically encode different V-Chip
and XDS packets for each program segment. See the Evertz Web site
(www.evertz.com) for complete information.
If you want to encode V-Chip rating packets using the serial commands
you can follow this procedure.
The command to enter V-Chip packet "articles" is ^AP (see full description
in section 4.6.1 of this manual). The basic form of this command is:
^AP<sp>0105<sp>9999<sp>xxxx<cr> where ^A is control-A (0x01)
character, <sp> is a space character, <cr> is a carriage return (0x0D), and
"xxxx" would be replaced with the rating code as shown in the following
table. There are four different rating systems, each with their own sets of
codes.
MPAA* Rating System
N/A
G
PG
PG-13
R
NC-17
X
Not Rated
* EIA-608-B also defines a "compatibility mode" MPAA system where the
first byte has values 50 through 57.
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