Test Equipment: DVB ASI Confidence Viewer

High Performance High Definition or Standard Definition Broadcast Quality Transport Stream Logger with DVB ASI Inputs and Outputs. Designed for Cable and On Air Operators Who Need Automated Archiving of All "On Air" Programming for 30, 60 or More Days for Legal Purposes Such as UK's OFCOM. Stand Alone Video Archival Server with Capabilities of Playing/Recording MPEG-2 Transport Streams for Continuous or Schedulable Playback - Includes TS Analyzer/Viewer, Remote Management, with Featured Built-in Playout Scheduler.

Real Time 3 RU, Core i7 Based, Windows® Server Based, Gig/E or DVB-ASI Input, Multi-Window MPEG-2 or H.264 Transport Stream QA System for Viewing, Monitoring, and Logging Errors Such as Video Freezes, Black Screens, Loss of Video, Loss of Audio, Loss of Subtitles and Audio Levels in Multi Program ASI Streams with 10, 20, 30, 40+ Services. Includes Support for Audio Alarms, SNMP, Email Alerts, etc.

Standard Features:

• Captures transport stream as segments of data configured either by size or time
• Creates number of file segments that constitute a “floating window” corresponding to the record length
• Captures and plays back HD, MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC (MPEG-4 Part 10) streams via DVB interfaces
• Captures and plays back SMPTE 125M files via SMPTE 259M (SDI Video) interfaces
• Advanced playback Scheduler for Day, Week, Month or Year
• Transport Streams can be selected by PIDs
  Plays and Captures TS from all well known Video Encoders, Decoders, and Servers including Harmonic, Tandberg, Omneon, Tektronix, Radyne, Big Band, Seachange, Scopus, TUT Systems, and many others
• Playback rates up to 213 Mbps with fast SAS hard drives
• Captures to standard IDE hard drive at 60 Mbps
• Plays back a sequence of transport streams
• Play order allows the order of file playout to be edited
• Input TS file via CD, DVD, USB Drive, Ethernet or input video stream via DVB-ASI
• Output TS file via CD, DVD, USB Drive, Ethernet or output video stream via DVB-ASI
• Includes automatic TS analysis utility with PID and PCR clock info (Needs CBR for best result)
• Automatically uses the TS PCR info to accurately calculate the rate of the transport stream
• Selectable 188/204 packet size with auto conversion
• Continuous play or single play modes
• Buffer Overrun or Underrun warnings
• Remote management via Web interface
• Option: custom transport streams can be provided

Applications:

• Capture of video for VideoMirror/AS Archive
• Capture or playback transport streams for testing
• Record and analyze transport streams
• Development labs, manufacturing shop floors, and trade shows – to capture and playback, or just continuously playback transport streams in real time
• Analyze and preview transport streams
• Record transport streams of required data size
  • Broadcast and Network compliance logging
  • Cable and IPTV ingest logging and monitoring
  • Content repurposing
  • Media monitoring digital TV broadcasts

Standard Features:

• Transport stream multi-viewer software application
• Input -- three ordering options:
  • IP
  • DVB-ASI
  • IP and DVB-ASI
• Additional inputs:
  • Audio
  • Subtitles
  • Teletext (Subtitles, Newsflash, Interrupted, Subpages)
  • Clocks
  • Images
• MPEG-2 or H.264 transport stream input
• Compatible with HD or SD streams
• Supports both SPTS and MPTS
• Different Services can be monitored on one or more flat panel monitors with HDMI inputs, including:
  • Video Signal
  • Audio Levels
  • DVB-Subtitles (SD/HD)
  • Frozen or Black Video
  • Teletext (Subtitles, Newsflash, Interrupted, Subpages)
• Besides visualization of all services, different measurements can be enabled:
  • Freeze detection
  • Black detection
  • Silence detection
  • Silence + Freeze detection
  • Input lost detection
  • PID lost detection
  • Service lost detection
• All errors are logged
• Error alerts can also be communicated via border visualization, SNMP trap, e-mail, and audio

Applications:

• Broadcast Monitoring
• IPTV Services Monitoring
• Satellite Center & Cable Head-end Monitoring
• Mobile production and ENG (Electronic News Gathering)
  

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