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Introduction and Overview
Introduction
Welcome to the user's guide for the MediaPOINTE®
HD Portal plus. The HD Portal plus is one of the
easiest to use, cost-effective and reliable capture,
recording, streaming and archiving products on the
market today. It can archive important audio, video,
and graphical data while simultaneously transmitting
it anywhere on your network.
This user's guide describes how to set up and use
the HD Portal plus to record and transport graphics,
video and audio content over IP networks. As with
all MediaPOINTE® AV-over-IP products, you can
control the HD Portal plus by different methods.
These methods include: Web Portal interface, remote
control, contact closure, RS-232 serial port orTelnet.
This guide is written for units running 5.3 software. If
your HD Portal plus is operating on a different version
of software, some capabilities and screen shots may
be different.
Key Features
The HD Portal plus may be used in a variety of
situations for live communication and collaboration,
including:
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Capture, record, stream and archive live events,
meetings, conferences, seminars, colloquia
in digital High Definition. All content can be
easily accessed and published with full security
privileges defined by the content owner.
•
Capture, record, stream and archive one HD and
one compoiste video source simultaneously. The
HD video input supports graphics content from
computing devices such as laptops
•
Archive media content from multiple independent
sources.
•
Share visual information, designs, and concepts
with dispersed groups of people to gather input
during a video conference.
•
Stream important video conferences to other
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locations such as overflow rooms or remote
conference locations over your corporate network.
•
Conduct customer or employee training across vast
geographical areas.
•
Discuss research, engineering, architecture,
product design, or process analysis when the
participants are not able to meet in one central
location.
•
Access a centralized data bank of expertise from a
field location.
How It Works
(Method of Operation)
The HD Portal plus can capture, record, stream and
archive video, graphics and audio media. The HD Portal
plus accepts DVI-D, analog RGBHV, composite video,
unbalanced line level audio inputs. The selected video
input source along with the audio is captured into a file
which can be simultaneously streamed live over your
network and archived. The Content input accepts DVI
and VGA sources. The audio input signals is connected
via 3.5 mm mono unbalanced input. The HDMI and
RGBHV outputs allow easy connection to a monitor.
Audio is output via 3.5 mm stereo unbalanced output.
HDMI input is also available via a DVI-to-HDMI adapter
or cable. Audio via the HDMI cable is not supported.
Users can select from several configurable parameters
(profiles) for capturing and subsequent playback
of the recorded material. These profiles are fully
configurable, allowing the user to specify the input
source, capture resolution, bit, visual layout style and
frame rates.
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