Caton NVP-903 Reference Manual

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NVP-903

Multi-Stream Network Video Proces sor

REFERENCE GUIDE

Caton Technology Asia Pte Ltd.

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Content

1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 2

1.1 Product Overview ........................................................................................................ 2

1.2 Product Features .......................................................................................................... 2

2 Panel Design ........................................................................................................................ 3

2.1 Front Panel ................................................................................................................... 3

2.2 Rear Panel .................................................................................................................... 4

3 Web Control [Encoder Mode] ........................................................................................... 5

3.1 Log In .......................................................................................................................... 5

3.1.1 Log in via Ethernet ..................................................................................................... 5

3.1.2 Log in via Wi-Fi ......................................................................................................... 5

3.2 Configuration ............................................................................................................... 6

3.2.1 Interface ..................................................................................................................... 7

3.2.2 Equipment ................................................................................................................ 11

3.3 Advance ..................................................................................................................... 12

3.4 Status ......................................................................................................................... 15

3.5 OSD ........................................................................................................................... 17

3.6 System Setting ........................................................................................................... 18

3.7 Tools .......................................................................................................................... 20

4 Web Control [Decoder Mode] ......................................................................................... 22

4.1 Log In ........................................................................................................................ 22

4.1.1 Log in via Ethernet ................................................................................................... 22

4.1.2 Log in via Wi-Fi ....................................................................................................... 22

4.1.3 Work Mode .............................................................................................................. 23

4.2 Configuration ............................................................................................................. 24

4.2.1 Protocol .................................................................................................................... 24

4.2.2 Equipment ................................................................................................................ 27

4.3 Status ......................................................................................................................... 28

4.4 System Setting ........................................................................................................... 29

4.5 Tools .......................................................................................................................... 31

5 Technical Specifications ................................................................................................... 33

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1 Introduction

1.1 Product Overview

NVP are network video encoder and decoder series, which are specialized for high definition real-time video streaming applications. It provides flexible streaming for low-bandwidth transmission applications using H.264 video and AAC audio encoding, supporting FLV over RTMP streaming output, thus seamlessly connecting to streaming media server. The third generation NVP series encoder – NVP-903, support 3 encoding streams output for multi-screen application. Moreover, NVP-903 integrates H.264 decoding functions with HDMI output, to form a versatile media delivery solution over IP network.

Integrated with Caton leading R2TP technology, NVP-903 and NVP decoders can also realize high quality live video contribution and distribution over Open Internet.

1.2 Product Features

 Support 1080P@60 FULL-HD H.264 encoding/decoding  Support HD-SDI, HDMI, Analog AV for video & audio input  Support 1 channel encoding with 3 encoding streams output, with different bit rate/resoluti

or multi-screen application

 Support RTMP PUSH, TS over HTTP, TS over UDP IP output, seamlessly connecting to

streaming media server

 Support high bit rate file recording into SD card  Integrated with H.264 decoding function with HDMI output  Support Caton proprietary R2TP protocol for contribution and distribution over Open Internet  Internal hot-spot, support web UI control via PC/Android/iOS  Compact design: 200.0 x 44.5 x 153.0mm, 900g

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Tips:

If Data indi cators keep r e d when you hav e pl ug g ed in the vide o sou rc e, c he c k video/audi o in p u t settings via web contr ol. Make sur e the vide o/audio t ype in input setting and the vid eo source type to be the same.

2 Panel Design

2.1 Front Panel

Figure2.1 NVP-903 Front Panel

NVP-903 Front Panel consists of an E Ink screen and 3 indicators: Power, Data and Stream.

 E Ink: Displays device basic info. The info in E Ink will not be vanished after powered down.

 Work Mode: Current device work mode: NVP-903-E (Encoder Mode) or NVP-903-

(

Decoder Mode)

 SSID: Device serial number / SSID of NVP-903 internal hot -spot(AP)  Password: Password of NVP-903 internal hot-spot(AP)  Stream IP: Device IP address for streaming and web control

 Indicators: Displays current running status

 Power: [Blue] Device is powered up now  Data: [Green] Device recognizes the input source successfully. [Red] Device does not

recognize the input source now

 Stream: [Green] Device is connected to target server/decoder and pushing/pulling stream

to it; [Red] Device is not pushing/pulling stream to target server/decoder.

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2.2 Rear Panel

Figure2.2 NVP-903 Rear Panel

NVP-903 Rear Panel consists of power interface, video/audio interface, network interface and

SD card slot.

 Power (XLR): Connect NVP-903 power adapter to power up the device  SDI:

 Encoder Mode: HD/SD-SDI video/audio source input

 Video:

 Encoder Mode: Analog video source input

 Audio (L&R):

 Encoder Mode: Analog audio source input

 HDMI IN:

 Encoder Mode: HDMI video/audio source input

 HDMI OUT

 E

ncoder Mode: HDMI video/audio source loop-out

 Decoder Mode: HDMI video/audio output

 ETH: Network interface for streaming and device web control  USB: USB2.0 for Wi-Fi dongle function (In developing)  SD Card: Insert SD card for video recording (In developing)

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3 Web Control [Encoder Mode]

3.1 Log In

NVP-903 supports PC web control via Ethernet port, it also supports PC/Smartphone/Pad

wireless web control via NVP-903 internal hotspot.

3.1.1 Log in via Ethernet

1) Prepare a computer with Ethernet port and Internet web browser.

2) Connect your PC to the NVP-903 ETH port via Ethernet.

3) Configure computer IP address, make sure that NVP-903 and the computer IP are in the

same network segment

4) Input the device IP address in the web browser, it will displays the Log in page, as follows:

(Default IP Address: 202.0.0.138)

Figure3.1 Log in

5) Type in the Account and Password to login.

(Default Account: admin; Default Password: admin)

3.1.2 Log in via Wi-Fi

1) Prepare a PC/Pad/Smartphone with Wi-Fi function and Internet web browser.

2) Search Wi-Fi SSID of NVP-903 internal hotspot(AP) and connect your

PC/Pad/Smartphone to it. (Default AP Password: 87654321)

3) Input the device IP address in the web browser, it will displays the Log in page, as in

Figure 3.1

4) Type in the Account and Password to login.

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Tips: SSID of NVP-903 interna l hotspot (AP) will be displayed in t he E-Ink of device front panel .

(Default Account: admin; Default Password: admin)

3.2 Configuration

Click Configuration in main menu to enter the basic setting page, as follows:

Figure3.2 Configuration

In Configuration page, users can configure basic settings of video/audio source, transport

protocol and device IP setting.

Click to save the configuration.

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3.2.1 Interface

Select the video/audio source type to encode and the transport protocol for streaming.

Figure3.3 Interface

Table3-1 Interface

Menu Name Range

Interface

Video Input Sourc e

SDI

HDMI

CVBS

ColorBar (Internal Source)

BlackField (Internal Source)

Audio Input Source

SDI-Ch1/2

SDI-Ch3/4

SDI-Ch5/6

SDI-Ch7/8

HDMI

Analog

1KHz (Internal Source)

Silence (Inter nal Source)

Transport Protocol

R2TP

R2TP-S

UDP

HTTP (TS over HTTP)

RTMP (RTMP Push)

NVP-903 support 1 channel video/audio source input with 3 channel encoding streams output.

The encoding streams can be configured with different target address.

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1) UDP

Figure3.4 UDP

 Enable: Enable current encoding streams to transmit. ON: Enable the transmitting; OFF:

Disable the transmitting

 Port: Transport port for UDP transmission. Range: 1024~65535  IP Address: IP address of target device to receive UDP streams.

2) HTTP (TS over HTTP)

Figure3.5 HTTP

For HTTP transmission, NVP-903 will gen erate a stream URL for each encoding channel (e.g. http://202.0.0.139:50101/channel1.ts). Configure target decoder/server with this stream URL to pull the stream for NVP-903.

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3) RTMP

Figure3.6 RTMP

For RTMP transmission, the stream URL is generated by target RTMP streaming server. Configure NVP-903 with this stream URL to push the stream to RTMP streaming server.  Enable: Enable current encoding streams to transmit. ON: Enable the transmitting; OFF:

Disable the transmitting

 Port: Transport port for RTMP transmission. Default: 1935  IP Address: IP address of target RTMP streaming server  Application: The Application info in the stream URL  Stream: The Stream ID in the stream URL

4) R2TP

Figure3.7 R2TP

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Tips: R2TP is the proprietary transport protocol of Caton Technology. For R2TP transmission,

please make sure the decoder device support R2TP protocol.

 Enable: Enable current encoding streams to transmit. ON: Enable the transmitting; OFF:

Disable the transmitting  Port: Transport port for R2TP transmission. Range: 1024~65535. Please make sure R2TP port

of NVP-903 and target decoder device to be the same.  IP Address: IP address of target decoder device.

5) R2TP-S

Figure3.8 R2TP-S

 Enable: Enable current encoding streams to transmit. ON: Enable the transmitting; OFF:

Disable the transmitting  Port: Transport port for R2TP-S transmission. The R2TP-S port is provided by target R2TP

Relay Server

 IP Address: IP address of target R2TP Relay Server  ID: Transport ID for R2TP-S transmission. The transport ID is provided by target R2TP Relay

Server

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3.2.2 Equipment

Configure device IP for video streaming and web control.

Figure3.9 Equipme nt

 IP Address: Device IP address for video streaming and web control  Sub Mask: Net mask of device IP setting  Gateway: Gateway of device IP setting  DNS: DNS server of device IP setting  DHCP: Select IP setting mode. OFF: Manual mode; ON: DHCP mode  Link Status: Working status of ETH port. Online: ETH port has connected to the network.

Offline: ETH port does not connect to the network.

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3.3 Advance

Click Advance in main menu to enter the advanced setting page, as follows:

Figure3.10 Advance

In the advanced setting page, user can configure the encode settings of 3 encoding streams separately. Click Channel1/Channel2/Channel3 column to select the encoding channel.

Click to save the configuration.

Table3-2 Advance

Menu Name Range

Advance

Video Compress Profile

High

Main

Baseline

Video Compress Level 1.1/1.3/2.0/2.1/2.2/2.3/3.0/3.1/3.2/4.0/4.1/4.2

Video GOP

IBBP

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Video Bitrate Mode

CBR

VBR

Video Encode Format

PAL

1920*1080P (Channel1 Only)

1920*1080P_25Hz

1920*1080I

1440*1080P

1440*1080I

960*1080I

1280*720P

1280*720P_25Hz

720*576P

720*576I

720*576P_25Hz

640*360P

352*288P

NTSC

1920*1080P (Channel1 Only)

1920*1080P_29.97Hz

1920*1080I

1440*1080P

1440*1080I

960*1080I

1280*720P

1280*720P_29.97Hz

720*480P

720*480I

720*480P_29.97Hz

640*360P

352*240P

Video Bitrate (Kbps)

CBR

HD: 650-8000Kbps

SD: 300-8000Kbps

VBR

HD: 650-4000Kbps

SD: 300-4000Kbps

Audio Compress STD

AAC-LC

AAC-HE

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Tips:

For Video Encode Format, Channel1 support up to 1920*1080P_59.94/50Hz, Channel2 &

Channel3 support up to 1920*1080P_29.97/25Hz.

2. NVP-903 support encoding format up-scaler and down-scaler, however it cannot

transform the frequency between PAL and NTSC.

MPEG1-Layer2

Audio Track

Stereo

Monaural

DualMono

Audio Bitrate (Kbps)

AAC-LC

128

192

256

384

512

AAC-HE

MPEG1-Layer2

128

192

256

For OSD setting, please refer to Chapter 3.5 OSD in this manual.

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3.4 Status

Click Status in main menu to enter device status page. The device status page is also the default page after log in.

Figure3.11 Status

The device status page will displays video/audio source status, device IP info and stream transmitting status.

 Video

 Interface: Video type of video source setting

 Active: Video source status. ON: Device has recognized this type of video source; OFF:

Device has not recognized this type of video source



Input Format: Format of video input source

 Audio

 Interface: Audio type of audio source setting

 Active: Audio source status. ON: Device has recognized this type of audio source; OFF:

Device has not recognized this type of audio source

 Sample Freq(HZ): Sampling rate of audio input source

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 System Status

 Ethernet MAC: Device MAC address

 IP Address: Device IP address for video streaming and web control

 Sub Mask: Net mask of IP setting

 Gateway: Gateway of IP setting

 DNS: DNS Server of IP setting

 Transport Protocol: Current transport protocol for 3 encoding streams

 Channel Stream Status: Transport status of each encoding streams. It also displays

transport bit rate of current stream.

Transmitting: NVP-903 is transmitting the stream to target device now Connecting: NVP-903 is trying to connect to target device now Disconnected: NVP-903 does not transmit the stream to target device.

 Auto Refresh: Transport bit rate that displays will be refreshed for every 1 second.

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3.5 OSD

Click OSD in main menu to enter the OSD setting page, as follows:

Figure3.12 OSD

To use the picture file as OSD during encoding, you need to upload the png. file to the file list in OSD page.

1) Click Choose File column to select png. file in your PC and click to upload.

2) Click on OSD button in Advance page to use the png. file as OSD during encoding.

Select picture file name and set Coordinate X and Coordinate Y to configure the position of

OSD. ( Left front corner is <0, 0>, OSD move to the right for 1 pixel as Coordinate X add 1,

and move to the bottom for 1 pixel as Coordinate Y add 1)

3) To delete picture file in the file list, click .

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Tips:

1. NVP-903 support u ploading up t o 3 picture files.

2. The picture for mat f or OS D should be PNG.

3. The width pixel of the picture should be multiple to 128.

4. The picture size sho uld not exceed the size of enco ding format

3.6 System Setting

Click System Settings in main menu to enter the system setting page, as follows:

Figure3.13 System Setting

In System Setting page, user can view or set the basic device info, and set the work mode: Encoder or Decoder.

Click to save the configuration.

 Device Information

 Device Model: To view device model name

 Device Version: To view device software & hardware version

 Serial Number: To view device serial number

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Tips: When the wor k mode of NVP-903 is changed, devi ce will reboot a utomatic ally. Encode r mode

and Decoder mode cannot w ork in the same time.

For web control on decoder mo de, please refer to Chapter 4.

 Workmode: To set the work mode of NVP-903: Encoder or Decoder  Change Password

 Username: To view account name to log in. Default: admin

 New Password: To set new password to log in. Default password: admin

 Confirm Password: To refill the new password to confirm.

 AP Info

 SSID: To view SSID of device AP. SSID of AP is the same as device serial number.

 New Password: To set new password of device AP. Default password: 87654321

 Confirm Password: To refill the new password to confirm.

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3.7 Tools

Click Tools in main menu to enter the tools page, as follows:

Figure3.14 Tools

1) Upgrade

Click to select the upgrade package in PC, and click to upgrade. The upgrade process will need about 2 minutes, and device will reboot automatically.

2) Reboot

Click to reboot the device. The reboot process will need about 1 minute.

3) Factory Reset

Click to recover to the default settings. The reset process will need about 2 minutes, and device will reboot automatically.

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Tips: Please do not power off the device duri ng the upgrade or factory reset process. The web page

will refresh automatically which means the process is already finished.

4) Ping

Use the ping tools to confirm the connection status between NVP-903 and target device. Type in the target IP address and click to get the result.

Figure3.15 Ping

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4 Web Control [Decoder Mode]

4.1 Log In

NVP-903 supports PC web control via Ethernet port, it also supports PC/Smartphone/Pad wireless web control via NVP-903 internal hotspot.

4.1.1 Log in via Ethernet

1) Prepare a computer with Ethernet port and Internet web browser.

2) Connect your PC to the NVP-903 ETH port via Ethernet.

3) Configure computer IP address, make sure that NVP-903 and the computer IP are in the

same network segment

4) Input the device IP address in the web browser, it will displays the Log in page, as follows:

(Default IP Address: 202.0.0.138)

Figure4.1 Log in

5) Type in the Account and Password to login.

(Default Account: admin; Default Password: admin)

4.1.2 Log in via Wi-Fi

1) Prepare a PC/Pad/Smartphone with Wi-Fi function and Internet web browser.

2) Search Wi-Fi SSID of NVP-903 internal hotspot(AP) and connect your

PC/Pad/Smartphone to it. (Default AP Password: 87654321)

3) Input the device IP address in the web browser, it will displays the Log in page, as in

Figure 4.1

4) Type in the Account and Password to login.

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Tips: SSID of NVP-903 interna l hotspot (AP) will be displayed in t he E-Ink of device front panel .

(Default Account: admin; Default Password: admin)

4.1.3 Work Mode

After log in, click System Settings in main menu to enter the system setting page.

Figure4.2 Work Mode

Confirm Workmode to be Decoder mode. Device will reboot automatically if the work mode is changed.

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4.2 Configuration

Click Configuration in main menu to enter the basic setting page, as follows:

Figure4.3 Configuration

In Configuration page, users can configure basic settings of transport protocol and device IP setting.

Click to save the configuration.

4.2.1 Protocol

NVP-903 decoder mode support 1 channel STPS over IP decoding with HDMI output.

1) UDP Unicast

Figure4.4 UDP Unicast

 Protocol: Set Protocol to UDP  Workmode: Set Workmode to Unicast

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 Port: Transport port for UDP Unicast transmission. Range: 1024~65535  Enable: Enable stream receiving. ON: Enable the receiving; OFF: Disable the receiving

2) UDP Multicast

Figure4.5 UDP Multicast

 Protocol: Set Protocol to UDP  Workmode: Set Workmode to Multicast  TargetIP: IP address for UDP Multicast transmission. Range: 224.0.0.0—239.255.255.255  Port: Transport port for UDP Multicast transmission. Range: 1024~65535  Enable: Enable stream receiving. ON: Enable the receiving; OFF: Disable the receiving

3) HTTP (TS over HTTP)

Figure4.6 HTTP

 Protocol: Set Protocol to HTTP  HTTP: Type in HTTP stream URL that provided by encoder or streaming server  Enable: Enable stream receiving. ON: Enable the receiving; OFF: Disable the receiving

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Tips: R2TP is the proprietary transport protocol of Caton Technology. For R2TP transmission,

please make sure the encoder device support R2TP protocol.

4) R2TP

Figure4.7 R2TP

 Protocol: Set Protocol to R2TP  Port: Transport port for R2TP transmission. Range: 1024~65535. Please make sure R2TP port

of NVP-903 and target encoder device to be the same.

 Enable: Enable stream receiving. ON: Enable the receiving; OFF: Disable the receiving

5) R2TP-S

Figure4.8 R2TP-S

 Protocol: Set Protocol to R2TP-S  Port: Transport port for R2TP-S transmission. The R2TP-S port is provided by target R2TP

Relay Server

 IP Address: IP address of target R2TP Relay Server  Enable: Enable stream receiving. ON: Enable the receiving; OFF: Disable the receiving

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4.2.2 Equipment

Configure device IP for video streaming and web control.

Figure4.9 Equipme nt

Offline: ETH port does not connect to the network.

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4.3 Status

Click Status in main menu to enter device status page. The device status page is also the default page after log in.

Figure4.10 Status

The device status page will displays video/audio format, device info and stream transmitting status.

 HDMI/SDI Out: The format of decoded video  Device Version: Device software & hardware version  Video Type: Video compress format of input video source  Audio Type: Audio compress format of input audio source  Realtime Bitrate: Displays transport bit rate of stream that device is receiving

Auto Refresh: Transport bit rate that displays will be refreshed for every 1 second.

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4.4 System Setting

Click System Settings in main menu to enter the system setting page, as follows:

Figure4.11 System Setting

In System Setting page, user can view or set the basic device info, and set the work mode: Encoder or Decoder.

Click to save the configuration.

 Device Information

 Device Model: To view device model name

 Device Version: To view device software & hardware version

 Serial Number: To view device serial number

 Workmode: To set the work mode of NVP-903: Encoder or Decoder  Change Password

 Username: To view account name to log in. Default: admin

 New Password: To set new password to log in. Default password: admin

 Confirm Password: To refill the new password to confirm.

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Tips: When the w ork mode of N VP-903 is change d, device will reboot automatically. Encoder mode

and Decoder mode cannot w ork in the same time.

 AP Info

 SSID: To view SSID of device AP. SSID of AP is the same as device serial number.

 New Password: To set new password of device AP. Default password: 87654321

 Confirm Password: To refill the new password to confirm.

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4.5 Tools

Click Tools in main menu to enter the tools page, as follows:

Figure4.12 Tools

1) Upgrade

Click to select the upgrade package in PC, and click to upgrade. The upgrade process will need about 2 minutes, and device will reboot automatically.

2) Reboot

Click to reboot the device. The reboot process will need about 1 minute.

3) Factory Reset

Click to recover to the default settings. The reset process will need about 2 minutes, and device will reboot automatically.

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Tips: Please do not power off the device duri ng the upgrade or factory reset process. The web page

will refresh automatically which means the process is already finished.

4) Ping

Use the ping tools to confirm the connection status between NVP-903 and target device. Type in the target IP address and click to get the result.

Figure5.15 Ping

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5 Technical Specifications

[ENCODER MODE SPEC]

CODEC Video Codec

H.264

GOP

IP/IBBP

Profile

BaseLine/Main/High

Bitrate Ctrl

CBR/VBR

Level

1.2/1.3/2.0/2.1/3.0/3.1/3.2/4.0/4.1/4.2

Bitrate

HD: 650Kbps-8Mbps SD: 300Kbps-8Mbps

Bit Depth

8bit

Chroma

4:2:0

Multi-Stream

Up to 3 encoding streams

Input Forma t

1920x1080p59.94/50/29.97/25 1920x1080i59.94/50 1280x720p59.94/50 720x576i50, 720x480i59.94

Total Bitrate

≤20Mbps

Audio Codec

MPEG-1 Laye r 2 AAC-LC HE-AAC V1

Resolution

Up-Scalable & Down-Scalable

Audio Mode

Stereo/Dual Mono/Mono

OSD

PNG File for OSD

INPUT & OUTPUT Video Input s

HD-SDI *1, BNC, 75Ω HDMI *1, V1.4a Analog Video *1, RCA

IP Outputs

FLV over RTMP PUSH TS over UDP TS over HTTP R2TP (License Need)

Audio Inputs

HD-SDI *1, BNC, 75Ω (Embedded) HDMI *1, V1.4a (Embedded) Analog Audio *2, RCA

Ethernet

RJ-45 *1(10/100/1000 BASE-T)

USB

USB2.0 *1

Video Loop

HDMI Loop Out

SD Card

Standard SD Card Slot*1

PHYSICAL & MANAGEMENT Management

Web-UI Control

Hotspot

Internal Wireless AP, 2.4GHz

Front Panel

E-Ink Info Display

Input Voltage

DC 12V

Dimensions

200.0 x 44.5 x 153.0mm (W x H x D)

Weight

900g

[DECODER MODE SPEC]

CODEC Video Codec

H.264: [email protected]/[email protected] MPEG-2: MP@HL

Format

1920x1080p59.94/50/29.97/25 1920x1080i59.94/50/29.97/25 1280x720p59.94/50/29.97/25 720x480i59.94, 72 0x 576i50

Audio Codec

MPEG-1 Laye r2 MPEG-1 Laye r3 MPEG-2 AAC

INPUT & OUTPUT Video Output

HDMI *1, V1.4a

IP Inputs

TS over UDP TS over HTTP R2TP (License Need)

Audio Output

HDMI *1, V1.4a (Embedded)

Ethernet

RJ-45 *1(10/100/1000 BASE-T)