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VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor

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VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor User’s Manual version 5.2

2016

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Contents 3

1 INTRODUCTION 6

1.1 About the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

1.2 How to Use This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL SETUP 8

2.1 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.2 First-time Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.3 Deploying in a Virtualized Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.4 Verifying Correct Initial Setup and Software Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.5 Initial Setup Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.6 Upgrading From a Previous Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.6.1 Upgrading by Re-Installing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.6.2 Upgrading From Version 5.0.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.6.3 Upgrading From Version 5.1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.7 Upgrading To a Maintenance Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.8 Accessing the User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3 QUICK SETUP GUIDE 16

3.1 Basic Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.2 Input Signal Deﬁnitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.3 Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.4 Adjusting Alarm Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3.5 License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

4 REMOTE VIDEO WALL 18

4.1 Introduction to the Remote Video Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

4.2 Accessing the Remote Video Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4.3 Remote Video Wall Widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4.3.1 Alarm View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

4.3.2 Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

4.3.3 Constellation Diagram (requires VBC integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

4.3.4 DataMiner Alarms (requires DataMiner integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

4.3.5 DataMiner View (requires DataMiner integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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4.3.6 Graphics View (requires VBC integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

4.3.7 Image Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4.3.8 Loudness Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4.3.9 Media Window (requires VBC integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4.3.10 RF Graphs (requires VBC integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4.3.11 Stream View (requires VBC integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4.3.12 Weather (requires Internet access) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

5 THE VB7880 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE 22

5.1 Main . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

5.1.1 Main — Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

5.1.2 Main — Thumb overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

5.2 Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

5.2.1 Alarms — All alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

5.2.2 Alarms — Alarm setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

5.3 OTT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5.3.1 OTT — Thumbnails (OTT — Active Testing, option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5.3.2 OTT — Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

5.3.2.1 OTT — Details — Proﬁles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

5.3.2.2 OTT — Details — Manifest (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

5.3.2.3 OTT — Details — Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

5.3.2.4 OTT — Details — Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

5.3.2.5 OTT — Details — Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

5.3.3 OTT — Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

5.3.4 OTT — Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

5.3.5 OTT — Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

5.4 Multicasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

5.4.1 Multicasts — Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

5.4.2 Multicasts — Join . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

5.4.3 Multicasts — Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

5.4.4 Multicasts — Ethernet thresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

5.4.5 Multicasts — Service thresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

5.5 Captions (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

5.5.1 Captions — Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

5.5.2 Captions — Caption service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

5.5.2.1 Captions — Caption service — Captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

5.5.2.2 Captions — Caption service — Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

5.5.3 Captions — Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

5.6 RVW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

5.6.1 RVW — Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

5.6.2 RVW — Mosaic A–D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

5.7 Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

5.7.1 Setup — Params . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

5.7.2 Setup — Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

5.7.3 Setup — Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

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5.7.4 Setup — VBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

5.7.5 Setup — Login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

5.7.6 Setup — VBC thresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

5.7.7 Setup — Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

5.7.8 Setup — Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

5.8 Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

5.8.1 Data — Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

5.8.2 Data — Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

5.8.3 Data — Eii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

5.9 About . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

5.9.1 About — Release info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

5.9.2 About — License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

5.9.3 About — Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

5.9.4 About — Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

A Appendix: Network conﬁguration 88

B Appendix: OTT Proﬁle Health 89

B.1 OTT Proﬁle Health Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

B.2 OTT Proﬁle Health Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

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1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 About the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor

The VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor performs real-time loudness monitoring as well as objective video and audio monitoring of MPEG-2, H.264/MPEG-4 and H.265/HEVC streams and offers a unique web browser based Remote Video Wall capability providing full visual status from anywhere. The VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor enables operators to inspect massive amounts of content services beyond human eyeball capability with dependable alarming on objective parameters having QoE impact.

In addition to providing automated Objective QoE of large amounts of services, the VB7880 offers thumbnail and metadata extraction for up to 100 streams (TV multicast streams or OTT) concurrently, depending on the license. The VB7880 with its RVW (Remote Video Wall) capability is ideal for visual at-a-glance monitoring in the NOC, VOC, head-end or remotely via any standard web browser.

The VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor is typically inserted before scrambling insertion in the head-end and the extracted metadata and decoded imagery is fed to the VideoBRIDGE Controller. Disruption of descrambling services is one of the main causes for service production disruptions in the head-end, and for the ﬁrst time cost-effective monitoring of scrambling is available.

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Further applications are in middleware scenarios for generating channel mosaics or for extracting channel metadata such as picture resolution, video bandwidth or wide screen signaling information. Each VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor runs an HTTP server with the client as a web browser, so there is no need to install custom software on computers needing access to the measurement data.

The VB7880 is designed to raise an alarm for descrambling failures at the head-end, before ingress into the network. The VB7880 can also detect freeze-frame errors and audio silence. Alarming can be masked during predeﬁned time periods. The VB7880 enables at-a-glance monitoring remotely via any standard web browser and it will also work with the VideoBRIDGE Controller.

The VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor is a server appliance, that can be installed onto any server that meets the minimum requirements speciﬁed in chapter 2.

1.2 How to Use This Manual

This User’s Manual is valid for software version 5.2 of the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor.

Throughout this manual the term stream is often used rather than unicast or multicast. One stream may consist of one or more services, and refers to one IP uni- or multicast.

Chapter 2 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL SETUP explains how to install the software on a server.

Chapter 3 QUICK SETUP GUIDE contains a quick setup guide; a step-by-step description of how to setup the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor once the initial setup has been performed.

Chapter 4 REMOTE VIDEO WALL describes the Remote Video Wall.

Chapter 5 THE VB7880 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE describes the graphical user interface (GUI) as seen when pointing a web browser to the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor’s IP address.

A Appendix: Network conﬁguration gives a brief introduction to the server OS network conﬁguration.

B Appendix: OTT Proﬁle Health explains the OTT proﬁle health bar and timeline.

Note that current version of the User’s Manual can be obtained from Sencore ProCare support by emailing procare@sencore.com.

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2 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL SETUP

2.1 System Requirements

The minimum hardware requirements are:

• Dual 6 core Intel E-Series 2.0 GHz CPU

• 32 Gbyte 1600 MHz DDR RAM

• 1 Tbyte HDD

• Dual 10/100/1000T Ethernet Network Interface card with support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

2.2 First-time Installation

Make sure that the server hardware matches the requirements listed above and then follow the procedure outlined below.

1. Obtain the latest installation kickstart image from Sencore.

2. Insert the installation medium into the server:

•

For CD/DVD-based installations, burn the downloaded ISO image to a CD/DVD and insert into the server.

•

For USB-based installation, transfer the downloaded image to a USB mass storage device using a tool such as dd (Mac, Unix, Linux) or USBWriter1(Windows).

•

For installation in a virtualized environment, attach the downloaded ISO image to a virtual DVD-ROM unit. It is recommended that you disable any ‘Easy install’ or similarly worded option, and do not select the operating system type when you initially create the new virtual machine instance in your virtualization environment. These options may override the installation instructions included in the provided installation image, causing an incomplete installation.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbwriter/

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Boot the server and make sure that the primary boot device is set appropriately. If the system fails to boot from the medium, you may need to conﬁgure the boot loader for ‘legacy BIOS mode’.

The installer will run, please follow the on-screen prompts to install the system, taking note of the following:

• IMPORTANT: Leave ‘Software selection’ at ‘Custom software selected’.

• IMPORTANT:

In the ‘Installation Destination’, the default partitioning will create a large

/home

partition, which is unused. To avoid this, use the ‘I will conﬁgure partitioning’ option. Then use the ‘Click here to create them automatically’ and manually reduce the size of (or remove) the /home partition, instead giving that space to the / partition.

•

We recommend that you conﬁgure network settings (IP address, gateway, DNS) within the installer. Post-installation network conﬁguration can be performed using the

nmtui

utility,

please refer to A Appendix: Network conﬁguration for details.

•

The default installation does not provide any graphical user interface environment. This can be installed later if desired, please refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux2or CentOS Linux documentation for more details.

At the end of the installation procedure, the server is rebooted. Remove the installation media and ensure that the system boots up properly.

Enter the selected IP address in your web browser to access the Software Activation page. If your host is using dynamic addressing, you can log in to the account created during installation and issue the command ip addr to display the address assigned to the system. Continue to chapter 2.4 for details on how to enable the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor system.

The kickstart will install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or CentOS 7 on the server. The disks will be formatted and all contents lost. Make sure that any important data on the server has been backed up before beginning the procedure.

2.3 Deploying in a Virtualized Environment

It is also possible to deploy the software in a virtualized environment. Pre-built images for VMware (vSphere/Workstation/Player) are provided in images contains a system already installed according to the steps described in the previous chapter, with VMware Tools already installed and activated.

To deploy the image, you need to import it to the virtualization host, please refer to the documentation of your virtualization environment for more details on how to do this.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/index.html

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7

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OVA

(Open Virtualization Format Archive) format. These

If installed in a VMware vSphere environment, the machine should report back its network conﬁguration to the host environment. Please allow some time for it to do so, and then continue with the Software Activation procedure as described in the next chapter.

If you need to log in to the console of the pre-built images, the default password for the

When installing the software in the virtualized environment yourself, please follow the steps from chapter 2.2. It is recommended that you disable any ‘Easy install’ or similarly worded option, and do not select the operating system type when you initially create the new virtual machine instance in your virtualization environment. These options may override the installation instructions included in the provided installation image, causing an incomplete installation.

root

user is

elvis

2.4 Verifying Correct Initial Setup and Software Activation

Once the software has been installed and restarted all further conﬁguration takes place through HTTP.

1. Launch a web browser application on the management system. Any web browser with support for JavaScript can be used to access the Software Activation interface, one of the following are recommended:

• Edge

• Internet Explorer 11.0 or higher

• Firefox 2.0 or higher

• Chrome

• Safari

2. Type the IP address of the server in the browser URL ﬁeld and press Enter . The network settings should have been set when the operating system was installed. If the web browser is unable to reach the web server, check the server’s network settings in the operating system.

The Software Activation view should be displayed inside the browser. Software Activation is password-protected, the user name is admin and the default password is elvis. This password can be changed under the More options heading4. The page displayed should look similar to the following screen shot.

If you forget the Software Activation password, you can reset it by logging in as root and issuing the command

/opt/btech/ssg/bin/reset_web_password

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If you already have an XML ﬁle with license keys for your system, click on the heading and upload this ﬁle under the down or in an e-mail, instead use the product page described below.

If this is a new server, and you need to obtain license keys for the purchased products, please click the link labelled representative as an e-mail attachment.

The VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor is not enabled by default on the newly installed server. To enable it, use the link labelled giving you the details of the installed software, such as the installed version and the hardware key. If you have a license key that you want to enable and have not yet done so, enter the key in the ﬁeld labelled Apply license key and click the Add license button.

Click the button labeled Advanced Content Extractor should now be activated, and you will be presented with a link to the user interface. The next time you access the server using a web browser, you should be taken to the automatically to the enabled software.

export hardware keys as XML

Activate software

Import license keys

Not activated

next to its name. This will take you to a page

and wait for it to ﬁnish. If successful, the VB7880

option. If have the license key written

and send the downloaded ﬁle to your sales

More options

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Please note that it may take some additional time before the user interface of the activated product becomes available. If you receive an error trying to access it, please wait for a few minutes before trying again.

To return to the Software Activation view to make changes, open the Advanced Content Extractor user interface and click the link labelled Manage installed software.

About — License

tab in the VB7880

2.5 Initial Setup Troubleshooting

If you are having trouble bringing up the Software Activation interface, or the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor web based management interface, verify the following:

•

Verify that the client machine and the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor are conﬁgured on the same subnet and that they have different addresses.

• Make sure that the IP address of the gateway and the network interface are not the same.

•

Verify that the appropriate Ethernet link indicators of the PC and the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor are lit.

• Verify that web browser proxy settings are not interfering.

• Verify that local ﬁrewall settings on the PC are not interfering.

• Try rebooting the server and make sure all services start as expected.

• Clear the browser’s cache.

Please refer to A Appendix: Network conﬁguration for more information on server network conﬁguration.

2.6 Upgrading From a Previous Version

You can either re-install the system as mentioned below, or by using one of the provided upgrade images.

If you are running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 beta, upgrades are not supported, and you must re-install the system.

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2.6.1 Upgrading by Re-Installing the System

If you want to re-install the system from scratch, please follow these steps:

Backup the system conﬁguration ( the system as root and copy the ﬁle running a version prior to 5.2, the ﬁle is located at location (off the system).

Export the current license ( nance keys; 5.1.0 or later) or write down the license key (About — License).

Possibly back up the system network conﬁguration by logging in to the machine and copying any ﬁles matching the wildcard the system).

If you have uploaded custom images for the Remote Video Wall, make sure you have copies of these available so that you can re-upload those separately.

5. Re-install the system as described above.

Using the Software Activation page import the previous license key (under re-enter it using the activation page) and activate the software.

About — License — Export current license and software mainte-

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*

Data — Conﬁguration — Full conﬁguration

/opt/btech/extractor/etc/btech.xmlcfg1e

/opt/btech/etc/btech.xmlcfg1e

to a safe location (off

More options

). Log in to

(if you are

) to a safe

); or

7. Import the conﬁguration from Data — Conﬁguration — Import conﬁguration XML.

If importing the old conﬁguration fails with an error, please follow these steps:

1. Log in to the system as root and issue the command

systemctl stop vb288.ewe

Restore the backup of the ﬁle

btech.xmlcfg1e

that you made above as

/opt/btech/extractor/

etc/btech.xmlcfg1e

3. Issue the command

systemctl start vb288.ewe

2.6.2 Upgrading From Version 5.0.0

VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor version 5.2 will be able to upgrade VB7880 version 5.1 only. Other versions of VB7880 will need to ﬁrst be upgraded to VB7880 version 5.1.

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2.6.3 Upgrading From Version 5.1.0

This release needs some additional software packages to be installed, and must be upgraded using the upgrade image labeled necessary. Please refer to chapter 5.8.2 for details on how to install the upgrade image.

The upgrade will also install the Software Activation interface (please see chapter 2.4 for more information), with the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor already activated. Open the the user interface and click the link labeled Activation, for instance to replace the default password.

upgrade from 5.1.0

Manage installed software

. The upgrade image will install these packages as

About — License

to make changes to Software

tab in

2.7 Upgrading To a Maintenance Release

Please refer to chapter 5.8.2 for details on how to upgrade to maintenance releases. You need to use the upgrade image labelled upgrade from 5.2.0 when installing a maintenance release.

2.8 Accessing the User Interface

Once the software has been installed and activated all further conﬁguration takes place through HTTP.

The following web browsers are supported for the management interface:

• Internet Explorer 11.0 or higher

• Edge

• Firefox 2.0 or higher

• Chrome

• Safari

Please note that, for optimum results, Chrome is recommended when displaying the Remote Video Wall.

The default management view should look similar to the following screen shot. If you have problems accessing the user interface, refer to chapter 2.5 for troubleshooting.

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3 QUICK SETUP GUIDE

This quick setup guide is intended to provide a step-by-step explanation of how to setup the VB7880 once the initial setup has been performed (as described in chapter 2). More detailed instructions are found in chapter 5 of this manual.

3.1 Basic Setup

1. Set appropriate parameters in the Setup — Params view.

If access control is required, deﬁne a password in the to read the instructions in the associated section of this manual.

3.2 Input Signal Deﬁnitions

Multicasts

Setup — Login

view. Note that it is important

Deﬁne multicasts, either by deﬁning multicasts from scratch ( importing a multicast list exported from another VB7880 or probe. Note that the sequence of the multicast deﬁnitions will be reﬂected in monitoring, so order the multicasts correctly if required.

2. Join multicasts in the Multicasts — Join view.

OTT

1. Deﬁne OTT channels (OTT — Channels).

Multicasts — Streams

) or by

3.3 Monitoring

When input signal parameters have been set, the signals may be monitored. For Ethernet multicasts the relevant monitoring views are: Main, Alarms, Multicasts and RVW. OTT trafﬁc monitoring is displayed in the OTT — Thumbnails view (OTT — Active testing if the appropriate license is installed).

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3.4 Adjusting Alarm Thresholds

When the VB7880 channels and streams have been deﬁned using default thresholds, the result can be a number of more or less permanent alarms, some of which may not be relevant under the current circumstances. In order for the user to get rid of unwanted alarms, the extractor provides alarm ﬁltering functionality in the form of alarm thresholds and alarm on/off selection.

Multicasts

Creating a new threshold template is done either by copying an existing one and altering the copy, or by creating a new threshold template from scratch. The Ethernet thresholds are deﬁned in the

— Ethernet thresh.

view. In addition to the miscellaneous thresholds, that affect only the streams with which they are associated, the Alarm — Alarm setup view allows the user to enable and disable alarms on an overall basis. It is also possible to deﬁne the alarm severity levels for different alarms in this view.

OTT

When a OTT channel is deﬁned the default OTT threshold template is assigned to it. To change threshold values create one or more new templates in the channels in the OTT — Channels — Edit view.

View. These thresholds are associated with streams in the

OTT — Thresholds

view and assign them to OTT

Multicasts — Streams

Multicasts

3.5 License

When ﬁrst activated, the VB7880 comes with a 30-day trial license. To use it beyond this time, a license key is required. To generate the license code, you will need to provide the hardware key, which can be found under About — License, or from the Software Activation interface, as described in chapter 2.4.

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4 REMOTE VIDEO WALL

This chapter gives a quick introduction on how to use the Remote Video Wall feature of the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor.

4.1 Introduction to the Remote Video Wall

The VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor gives the opportunity to monitor the content of up to 64 multicast services or live OTT channel proﬁles spread across four web browser windows. The VB7880 also provides measurements of the audio loudness level according to the ITU-R BS.1770-2 standard. The measurement used is the EBU R128 momentary (400 ms) value. You can display this data by selecting LUFS/LKFS in the Remote Video Wall conﬁguration. The raw measurements can be gathered through the External integration interface (Eii). The speciﬁcation of the Eii can be obtained from Sencore.

The Remote Video Wall can also be conﬁgured to display web-based widgets to convey important information from within the system. Please see chapter 4.3 below for more information on the available widgets.

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In addition the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor can also be integrated with the VideoBRIDGE Controller enabling Network diagrams and alarm lists right next to crisp mosaics decoded from the selected streams.

When VBC integration is available, any streams for which the VideoBRIDGE Controller has active alarms will be shown with a colored border in the RVW. All other streams are displayed with a green border. This makes it possible to discover stream alarms with just a quick glance. The VBC MicroTimeline is displayed under all multicast and OTT streams for which the VideoBRIDGE Controller has data. In addition, for OTT channels, a 24h OTT alarm graph will be displayed, using data from the VideoBRIDGE Controller connected probes monitoring the same channel (if any).

If VBC integration has not been enabled, the borders will be colorized according to locally generated alarms, but no MicroTimeline or OTT alarm graph will be displayed.

4.2 Accessing the Remote Video Wall

The Remote Video Walls can be reached by entering

m=1,m=2,m=3

described in chapter 5.6.2. The RVWs can also be reached through the management GUI in the section

RVW — Mosaic A–D

renamed Left.

Go to chapter 5.6.2 for details on how to conﬁgure the Remote Video Walls.

Google Chrome is recommended for displaying the Remote Video Walls.

and

m=4

selects Mosaic A, B, C and D, respectively, conﬁgured under the RVW tab, as

by following the blue link in the upper left corner. In the example below it has been

<IP address>/rvw/?m=1

in a browser’s URL ﬁeld.

4.3 Remote Video Wall Widgets

In addition to thumbnails, each Remote Video Wall slot can display a web widget. This chapter describes the Remote Video Wall widgets that are shipped with the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor.

Some of the widgets requires integration with a VideoBRIDGE Controller server, version 5.1.0 or later.

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4.3.1 Alarm View

This widget makes it possible to display a list of active alarms, either from the VideoBRIDGE Controller or the VB7880 itself. The alarm source is can be conﬁgured for each widget instance. If VBC integration is disabled, the alarm source is ignored and the local alarms are always displayed.

The Alarm View widget is designed to be two RVW tiles wide and 1–4 tiles tall.

4.3.2 Clock

This widget lets you display the current time on the Remote Video Wall. Several different clock faces are available, and they can be conﬁgured to display either local time (for the system running the browser displaying the RVW), or a speciﬁc time zone.

4.3.3 Constellation Diagram (requires VBC integration)

This widget lets you display the constellation diagram for a speciﬁc stream from one of the probes connected to the VideoBRIDGE Controller. In the conﬁguration you can select any RF interface on probes available in the VideoBRIDGE Controller.

4.3.4 DataMiner Alarms (requires DataMiner integration)

This widget makes it possible to display the current alarm count from a Skyline DataMiner server. Active alarms on the server are grouped based on the severity as deﬁned on the DataMiner server and the numbers are displayed in the RVW.

4.3.5 DataMiner View (requires DataMiner integration)

This widget lets you display a diagram from the Skyline DataMiner inside the RVW. In the conﬁguration you can select any of the diagrams conﬁgured on the DataMiner server that are visible to the user whose credentials you are logging in with.

4.3.6 Graphics View (requires VBC integration)

This widget lets you display a network diagram from the VBC Graphics View inside the RVW. In the conﬁguration you can select any of the network diagrams conﬁgured in the VBC Graphics View Setup.

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4.3.7 Image Viewer

This widget is a static image viewer, which can be used to easily include external information. In the conﬁguration, you can select the URL for an image to display and select the update interval.

4.3.8 Loudness Graph

This widget displays a loudness graph for an audio channel of a multicast stream monitored on the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor. Real-time audio analysis needs to be enabled for the stream for the data to be available. Up to two minutes of loudness data is displayed in the graph.

4.3.9 Media Window (requires VBC integration)

This widget lets you display a view of the Media Window for a speciﬁc stream from one of the probes connected to the VideoBRIDGE Controller. In the conﬁguration you can select any multicast stream on probes available in the VideoBRIDGE Controller.

NOTE: When displaying the media window widget for probes running 5.1.0-5 or earlier, or 5.0.2-4 or earlier, the threshold colorization does not completely reﬂect what is seen on the probe.

4.3.10 RF Graphs (requires VBC integration)

This widget displays customizable RF graphs from the VideoBRIDGE Controller. It can be conﬁgured to show RF parameters for any stream that is applicable in the VideoBRIDGE Controller, with a selectable interval. The parameters that can be displayed are Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), Modulation Error Ratio (MER) and Signal Level (SIG).

4.3.11 Stream View (requires VBC integration)

This widget makes it possible to display the VBC MicroTimeline for selected services inside the Remote Video Wall. The list of streams can be ﬁltered on name and/or current severity level (as deﬁned by the VideoBRIDGE Controller). The Stream View widget is designed to be one RVW tile wide and 1–4 tiles tall.

4.3.12 Weather (requires Internet access)

This widget displays a weather forecast for a conﬁgurable location for the next 24 hours.

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5 THE VB7880 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

The VB7880 web interface is reached by pointing a web browser to the IP address of the VB7880 as shown in the screen shot above. Note that different web browsers behave differently with respect to memory leaking, and if the VB7880 GUI should be available at all times the browser should be selected

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carefully. Memory leak manifests itself as the browser responding more and more slowly, and this is corrected by closing down the application and restarting.

Web browsers supported are:

• Internet Explorer 9.0 and higher (IE 11 should be run in compatibility mode)

• Firefox 2.0 and higher

• Safari

• Chrome

The interface is easy and intuitive to use. Navigate by clicking on the tabs just below the Content Extractor logo. Some of the pages have their own tabs for accessing nested pages. The bottom frame of the interface is always the Alarms & events list, usually referred to as the displayed or hidden by clicking the Toggle link, which is displayed as an arrow head.

The web interface has been designed to be resizeable in both vertical and horizontal directions with a minimum screen resolution of 1024×768 pixels.

Tool-tips are available for most buttons and labels. To access tool-tip information simply navigate the mouse pointer towards a button or a label and leave it hovering for a second or two.

alarm list

. The alarm list can be

In this manual the term stream is generally used instead of the terms multicast and/or a unicast stream. A stream may thus contain a single service or multiple services.

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5.1 Main

5.1.1 Main — Summary

The intention of this page, together with the to immediately see if there is anything seriously wrong with one or more input streams.

The following parameters are shown:

(Bulb):

Updated: The time since the last time synchronization update.

Timezone: The time zone relative to UTC. Conﬁgured in the OS.

Time: The current local time.

Clear all:

Last cleared:

The NTP/timesync bulb indicates whether the Extractor clock is locked to an external time reference signal. Green indicates that the Extractor is locked to an external reference whereas gray indicates that the Extractor runs in unlocked mode or the status is unknown.

Click the VB7880measurement and alarm history is cleared. Note that it is not possible to undo this operation.

The time the indicated the counters have not been cleared since VB7880startup/reboot time.

alarm list

NTP/timesync

Counters and alarms

Clear all

Clear all counters

, is to provide enough information for the operator

button to reset all counters, graphs and alarms. All

button was last clicked. If no time is

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Name:

Location:

Access:

Load average: The system load of the server.

Free mem: The available free memory.

Free swap: The available free swap memory.

Monitored multicasts: The total bitrate of all monitored multicast streams.

Joined multicasts: The number of joined multicast streams.

OTT channels: The number of enabled OTT channels.

The Extractor name as deﬁned by the operator in the view.

The Extractor location as deﬁned by the operator in the view.

The access rights of the current user. Access rights are either full access or read only access.

Resources

Trafﬁc

Setup — Params

Available network interfaces

Interface: The id of the selected network interface.

Enabled: Is the selected interface enabled and running.

Type: What type of IP address is set for the selected interface.

Address: The IP address of the selected network interface.

Netmask: The subnet mask of the selected network interface.

5.1.2 Main — Thumb overview

The

Thumb overview

used.

view displays a mosaic of all decoded thumbnails. By default the

Normal

mode is

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If the

Small

allowing more thumbnails to be displayed in a view. To display the stream address and name (as deﬁned in the Multicasts — Streams and OTT — Channels views) click the Stream info button.

The

Thumbs Details

more information about the details displayed in the multicast streams, and chapter 5.3.2 for OTT channels. Clicking the Close button will close the view.

Status bulbs indicates the current content-check status for the streams. The available status bulbs are Audio silence, scrambling, freeze-frame and color-freeze, and proﬁle alignment (OTT only). A gray bulb means that the test has not been enabled for the stream. A green bulb indicates that no error has been detected. A yellow bulb indicates that the extractor is detecting a potential error and a red bulb indicates that the conﬁgured error threshold has been reached.

The Remote Video Wall features offers a better overview of content and alarm status for each stream. Please refer to chapter 4 for more information on the Remote Video Wall feature.

button is clicked the

pop-up view is accessed by clicking a thumb in the

Thumb overview

view will display service names and thumbs only,

Thumbs Details

Thumb overview

pop-up see chapter 5.4.1 for

view. For

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5.2 Alarms

The VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor alarm handling is conﬁgured by the user at global level, stream level or service level. The alarm setup view allows global alarm conﬁguration whereas settings deﬁned for each multicast and service (in the simpliﬁed diagram of the VB7880 alarm handling is shown below.

The Alarms view gives the user the possibility of viewing alarms according to type or as one complete list.

Multicasts — Streams

views) will also affect VB7880 alarming. A

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5.2.1 Alarms — All alarms

The Ethernet, OTT, Caption and System alarms can also be found in separate tabs next to the All alarms tab.

If Auto-refresh list is selected, the alarm list will be continuously updated with new alarms.

Clicking the events list. By clicking an alarm entry in the ofﬂine list, a detailed alarm description can be viewed. The search ﬁeld in the upper right corner of the view allows the user to type a text string and the alarm list is updated to display only streams and alarms matching the speciﬁed text.

The alarm lists can be deleted by clicking the action will permanently clear the alarm lists — they cannot be restored.

The

Export

new window.

View list ofﬂine

button enables export of the corresponding alarm list as an XML ﬁle. This ﬁle will open in a

button gives the user the opportunity to view the complete alarms and

Flush alarms

button. However it should be noted that this

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5.2.2 Alarms — Alarm setup

The Alarm setup represents the ﬁnal ﬁltering stage for VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor alarms. The user selects whether an alarm should be enabled or ignored, and associates an error severity level with each alarm. When changes have been made to alarm settings click the changes to take effect.

Note that the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor alarm handling will also depend on the threshold settings assigned to a stream deﬁned by the user ( Service thresh. for multicasts, OTT — Thresholds for OTT and Caption — Thresholds for captions).

Also note that only enabled alarms are shown in the alarm lists and forwarded as SNMP traps. Enabling or disabling Extractor alarms does however not affect the alarms presented by the VideoBRIDGE Controller.

The following alarm severity levels may be selected:

OK: If enabled, the alarm will be present in the alarm list, color green

Warning: If enabled, the alarm will be present in the alarm list, color yellow

Error: If enabled, the alarm will be present in the alarm list, color orange

Multicasts — Ethernet thresh.

Apply changes

and

Multicasts —

button for

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Major: If enabled, the alarm will be present in the alarm list, color red

Fatal: If enabled, the alarm will be present in the alarm list, color black

The following alarms and events are conﬁgured:

ETH (Ethernet) alarms

Scrambling expected:

The service should have been scrambled but is sent in clear

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Major’

Scrambling not expected:

Freeze-frame detected: The service has frozen frames

Color-freeze detected:

Audio silence detected: The service has silent audio tracks

No data detected:

CC Errors detected:

No signal detected: The stream has no signal

Wrong DAR:

Wrong PAR:

Missing custom video PID:

The service should have been clear but is scrambled

The service has frozen in one color

The service has no data on video PID

The service has an excessive amount of CC errors

The stream has wrong Display Aspect Ratio

The stream has wrong Pixel Aspect Ratio

A custom video PID has been conﬁgured in the service threshold, but the PID does not appear in the stream

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Major’

SYS (System) events

[Critical system errors]:

[System errors]:

[System info]:

Enable this to view all critical system errors

Enable this to view all system errors

Enable this to view system information messages

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Fatal’

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Major’

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Ok’

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The number of proﬁles changed:

OTT Alarms

The number of proﬁles ﬂagged in the manifest ﬁle changed

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Warning’

Proﬁle stream type changed:

Address resolve error: Unable to resolve address name

Connection failed: Connection failed

Send error: Could not send data to host

Receive error: Could not receive data from host

Empty reply:

HTTP error: Invalid HTTP response

HTTP redirect error: HTTP 3xx redirection error

HTTP client error: HTTP 4xx client error

HTTP server error: HTTP 5xx server error

The streaming format has changed

Response did not contain any data in body

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Warning’

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Error’

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Major’

Freeze-frame detected: The proﬁle has frozen frames

Color-freeze detected: The proﬁle has frozen in one color

Audio silence detected: The proﬁle has a silent audio track

Mis-alignment detected:

Manifest parse error:

Unknown manifest:

One or more proﬁles are out of visual alignment

Failed to parse manifest ﬁle. Invalid format

Cannot recognize manifest XML format

CAP (Caption) Alarms

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Major’

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Fatal’

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Caption service missing:

The service has less caption services than speciﬁed in the threshold

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Major’

Bad quality:

Unknown: Unknown error

Some or all caption data was corrupt

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Error’

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Warning’

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5.3 OTT

5.3.1 OTT — Thumbnails (OTT — Active Testing, option)

The OTT support enables monitoring of OTT channels. Up to 100 OTT channels can be monitored in parallel, up to a total maximum of 100 channels (multicasts and OTT combined), depending on the license.

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The OTT Active Testing option enables additional monitoring for up to the licensed number of OTT channels. The Active Testing licenses can be distributed over the monitored OTT channels as desired.

The VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor will parse a channel’s manifest ﬁle, and for a live stream one of the latest chunks in each OTT proﬁle’s chunk sequence will be analyzed.

If manifest ﬁle parsing or chunk analysis reveals an error, an alarm will be raised. Note that some alarms depend on user deﬁned threshold values. Alarms must also be enabled in the view.

Alarm — Alarm setup

Thumbnail decoding is available for encrypted HLS streams.

The following OTT information is displayed in the Thumbnails view:

Status bulb: A bulb indicates the current status of the channel, i.e. the most severe proﬁle status.

Thumb:

Channel:

Progress:

Proﬁles: The number of proﬁles associated with a channel.

Encryption:

Proﬁle info: The OTT format is displayed (Smoothstream, HLS, MPEG Dash or Adobe HDS).

Additionally, the following OTT information is displayed in the OTT Active Testing view:

If the selected stream is of type HLS or HDS a thumbnail of the content will be decoded and updated.

The channel name deﬁned by the user and linked to a URL in the view.

The progress bar shows which channel is currently being monitored and how analysis is progressing.

Scrambling information is resolved from the proﬁle manifest. If the proﬁle is scrambled the encryption ﬁeld will read Yes. If the proﬁle is transmitted in clear the encryption ﬁeld will read No.

non-encrypted

HLS and HDS streams, as well as some types of

OTT — Channels

Alarm history:

Current proﬁle status:

A bar graph showing alarm severity history. It can either show the last 120

minutes or the last 24 hours. To switch between them, press the “24h” or

“2h” button on the left under the channel list. Each bar color represents the

alarm severity level as conﬁgured under Main — Alarm setup.

The channel health bar displays the current status for individual channel proﬁles. Proﬁles are separated by vertical black lines. Colors indicate proﬁle alarm status:

• Green: OK

• Yellow: Warning

• Orange: Error

• Red: Major

• Black: Fatal

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5.3.2 OTT — Details

Press the blue information button on a channel to open the details window. This window provides detailed information about the status and alarms on all the proﬁles for the selected channel. The same pop-up can be opened from the Main — Thumb Overview view, see chapter 5.1.2 for more information.

5.3.2.1 OTT — Details — Proﬁles

The Proﬁles view in this pop-up consists of two tables detailed below:

The following information relevant for the overall OTT channel is shown in the ﬁrst part of the Details —

Proﬁles pop-up window:

Channel:

Progress:

Proﬁles: The number of proﬁles associated with a channel.

The channel name deﬁned by the user and linked to a URL in the view. A bulb indicates the current status of the channel, i.e. the most severe proﬁle status.

Channels will be analyzed sequentially, and the progress bar shows which channel is currently being monitored and how analysis is progressing.

OTT — Setup

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Proﬁle status:

(Only displayed if OTT Active Testing is enabled for this channel.) The channel health bar displays the current status for individual channel proﬁles. Proﬁles are separated by vertical black lines. Colors indicate proﬁle alarm status:

• Green: OK

• Yellow: Warning

• Orange: Error

• Red: Major

• Black: Fatal

Stream type: The OTT format is displayed (Smoothstream, HLS, Adobe HDS or MPEG Dash).

In the same view below the table for the overall channel a more detailed view per shown with the following information in it:

Proﬁle: The name of the OTT proﬁle as ﬂagged in the manifest ﬁles.

Type: Live

Proﬁle health:

Proﬁle bps:

Download bps:

Chunk length:

Download time:

Download size:

for live content or

done based on the contents of the manifest ﬁle. (Only displayed if OTT Active Testing is enabled for this channel.) A timeline graph

display of a combined bitrate and alarm representation for individual proﬁles. Refer to Appendix B for a description of these graphs. The timeline duration is either 2 or 24 hours, and the graph resolution is one minute for the 2 hour graph, and twelve minutes for the 24 hour graph.

(Only displayed if OTT Active Testing is enabled for this channel.) The proﬁle nominal bandwidth as ﬂagged in the manifest ﬁles.

(Only displayed if OTT Active Testing is enabled for this channel.) The download bitrate, i.e. the chunk size (megabits) divided by the download time (seconds).

(Only displayed if OTT Active Testing is enabled for this channel.) The proﬁle chunk length (seconds) speciﬁed in the manifest ﬁle.

(Only displayed if OTT Active Testing is enabled for this channel.) The actual proﬁle chunk download time (seconds).

(Only displayed if OTT Active Testing is enabled for this channel.) The actual proﬁle chunk size (megabytes).

VoD

for stored content. The distinction between the two is

channel proﬁle

Encrypt.: Yes or No depending on whether the content for that proﬁle is encrypted or not.

HTTP header:

(Only displayed if OTT Active Testing is enabled for this channel.) The current HTTP header of the last chunk downloaded for that proﬁle.

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5.3.2.2 OTT — Details — Manifest (Option)

If Active Testing is enabled for the channel, the manifest ﬁle for the channel as well as for the manifest ﬁles for the individual proﬁles.

Channel:

Progress:

Proﬁles: The number of proﬁles associated with a channel.

Proﬁle status:

The channel name deﬁned by the user and linked to a URL in the view. A bulb indicates the current status of the channel, i.e. the most severe proﬁle status.

Channels will be analyzed sequentially, and the progress bar shows which channel is currently being monitored and how analysis is progressing.

The channel health bar displays the current status for individual channel proﬁles. Proﬁles are separated by vertical black lines. Colors indicate proﬁle alarm status:

Manifest

view shows health information on the overall

• Green: OK

• Yellow: Warning

• Orange: Error

• Red: Major

• Black: Fatal

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OTT — Setup

Proﬁle info:

Manifest size: The size in bytes of the main/top manifest ﬁle for the overall channel.

Manifest ﬁle: Clickable URL for displaying the manifest ﬁle as text for the overall channel.

Manifest URL: A clickable link to the current main/top manifest ﬁle for the overall channel.

HTTP header: The current HTTP header of the main/top manifest ﬁle for the overall channel.

Just below the channel manifest information in the same window is the detailed manifest information per proﬁle. This view contains the following information:

Proﬁle: The name of the OTT proﬁle as ﬂagged in the manifest ﬁles.

Proﬁle bps: The proﬁle nominal bandwidth as ﬂagged in the manifest ﬁles.

The type of stream is shown here. Apple

HDS or MPEG Dash.

HLS

, Microsoft

Smoothstream

, Adobe

Type: Live

Seq.age: The proﬁle sequence age.

Manifest size: The size in bytes of the manifest ﬁle for a particular proﬁle.

Manifest ﬁle: Clickable URL for displaying the manifest ﬁle as text for this particular proﬁle.

Manifest URL: Clickable URL to the proﬁle manifest ﬁle.

HTTP header: URL to HTTP header in text form for a particular proﬁle manifest ﬁle.

for live content or

done based on the contents of the manifest ﬁle.

VoD

for stored content. The distinction between the two is

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5.3.2.3 OTT — Details — Alarms

The

Details — Alarms

channel. An alarm log for the selected channel is also provided here.

In the right corner of the pop-up window is a free text search ﬁeld used to narrow down the entries in the alarm log.

The alarms are the same ones as explained for the information.

When the OTT Active Testing option is available, but the currently displayed channel has Active Testing disabled, the alarms that are not applicable to the channel are shown as black squares in the top half of the dialog.

view gives an at-a-glance overview of any active OTT alarms for the selected

Alarms Setup

view, see chapter 5.2.2 for more

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5.3.2.4 OTT — Details — Thumbnails

The Thumbnails tab will provide information about the current thumbnails in the stream.

The quality of the content in the selected proﬁle can be viewed in the thumbnail section, and the user may alter the selected proﬁle in the drop down list.

The section on the right hand side provides speciﬁc decoder and chunk information.

By pressing the apply button without selecting a proﬁle from the drop-down list the thumbnail will be switched to the default selection; Auto Select. Auto select will select the proﬁle with the highest bitrate and video data.

Click the ‘Play proﬁle audio’ button to play back the last decoded audio chunk for the selected proﬁle in the browser.

Decoder information

Size: The video picture size of the selected proﬁle

Aspect ratio: The video aspect ratio of the selected proﬁle

Pixel aspect ratio: The video pixel aspect ratio of the selected proﬁle

Codec: The video encoding format of the selected proﬁle

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Quality: The video sampling format of the selected proﬁle

Frame rate: The video frame rate of the selected proﬁle (Hz)

Audio Information

Codec: The audio encoding format

Samplerate: The audio sample rate

Channels: The number of audio channels represented by the audio PID

Layout: The audio channel layout

Format: The binary format of the audio stream

Bitrate: The effective audio bitrate

Loudness: The integrated loudness value for the currently decoded chunk

Peak level: The audio peak level for the currently decoded chunk

Chunk Information

Engine ID: The OTT engine monitoring the selected stream.

Channel ID:

Proﬁle ID: The ID of the selected proﬁle.

Bitrate: Bitrate rate of the a chunk.

Streamtype: The type of the stream detected; live or video on demand.

Sequence Number: The sequence number of a chunk.

The id of selected channel corresponding to the list of streams deﬁned by the user.

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5.3.2.5 OTT — Details — Alignment

The alignment tab gives the user a view of all the proﬁles for a selected channel with thumbnails and corresponding data. Each proﬁle has a proﬁle ID, bitrate, size and Sequence number.

If the sequence numbers are highlighted in yellow, the thumbnails are not generated from the same chunk for all proﬁles, and may therefor appear to be out of synchronization.

Click the ‘Play’ button to play back the last decoded audio chunk for the selected proﬁle in the browser.

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5.3.3 OTT — Channels

The OTT Channel Conﬁguration list shows OTT channels conﬁgured by the user. To add a channel to the list click the deﬁne channel parameters. A channel entry can be selected by clicking the channel; the list entry will be highlighted. Several list entries can be selected by using regular Ctrl + click functionality. Clicking the

Duplicate selected

channel parameters duplicated, except the channel name. Clicking the highlighted list entry. Clicking the the highlighted channel. Batch editing is supported; this is convenient if a new threshold template should be assigned to a number of channels or if monitoring of several channels should be enabled or disabled. Select the channels and click the indicated in the Edit selected pop-up view by an asterisk wildcard symbol.

Add new channel

button will create a new entry and open the

button. This will open the

Edit selected

will open the

button. Parameters differing between channels will be

Edit channel

pop-up view, allowing the user to

Edit channel

Delete selected

pop-up view associated with

pop-up view with all

will delete the

The search ﬁeld allows searching for one for more list entries containing a user deﬁned text string.

OTT Channel Conﬁguration

Enabled: Check the ‘Enabled’ check box to start monitoring the OTT service.

Threshold:

Active Testing:

VBC thresholds:

Manifest URL: The URL of the OTT channel.

Player URL:

RTMP: Check this check box if the channel is an RTMP channel.

RTMP live: Check this check box if the RTMP channel is a live service.

The OTT threshold that should be assigned to the OTT channel. OTT thresholds that have been deﬁned in the OTT — Thresholds view are available for selection from the drop-down menu.

Check this box to enable the ‘Active Testing’ parts of the selected Threshold settings for this channel. Only available if OTT Active Testing option is enabled.

The alarm threshold template used to conﬁgure when alarms are generated towards VideoBRIDGE Controller template. This setting is applies if Active Testing is enabled for this channel.

In this ﬁeld you can enter the URL to a web page which will open the OTT channel in your browser. If entered, a ‘play’ button will be displayed in the OTT overview tab, which will open the selected URL in a new browser tab.

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5.3.4 OTT — Settings

In the settings section global round time for all of the OTT engines can be set. The round time setting does not apply to channels for which real-time audio analysis have been enabled.

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5.3.5 OTT — Thresholds

The OTT threshold template to the list click the pop-up view, allowing the user to deﬁne threshold parameters. A list threshold template entry can be selected by clicking the threshold template; the list entry will be highlighted. Several list entries can be selected by using regular Ctrl + click functionality. Clicking the

Edit threshold

the threshold template name. Clicking the the template. Batch editing is supported. Select the threshold templates and click the Parameters differing between templates will be indicated in the wildcard symbol.

The search ﬁeld allows searching for one for more list entries containing a user deﬁned text string.

Threshold presets

pop-up view on a new threshold, with all threshold template parameters duplicated except

Edit selected

list shows OTT threshold templates conﬁgured by the user. To add a

will open the

Proﬁle alignment:

Edit channel

Name: The threshold template name deﬁned by the user.

Add new threshold

Delete selected

pop-up view associated with the highlighted threshold

Content-check thresholds

Picture matching in video streams is not an exact science, as noise can be introduced in many of the stages the stream goes through. This setting makes it possible to deﬁne how much noise is allowed when performing proﬁle alignment detection. When set to of noise is allowed when comparing the frames across proﬁles for out-of-alignment conditions. recommended setting, whereas a small amount of noise, which may result in too many out-ofalignment alarms.

button. This will open the

Duplicate selected

will delete the highlighted list entry. Clicking

Edit selected

Large difference

pop-up view by an asterisk

Normal difference

Small difference

Edit threshold

button will open the

Edit selected

, a large amount

allows only

button.

is the

Freeze-frame noise ﬂoor:

It is possible to deﬁne how much noise is allowed when performing freeze-frame detection. When set to Off, the freezeframe detection is disabled. When set to a small amount of noise is allowed when comparing frames.

Normal change change

too many freeze-frame alarms.

allows a high amount of noise, which may result in

is the recommended setting, whereas

Small change

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, only

Large

Freeze-frame error timeout:

Color-freeze noise ﬂoor:

The time (in minutes) a freeze-frame error should persist before the VB7880 will raise an alarm.

It is possible to deﬁne how much noise is allowed when performing color-freeze detection. When set to Off, the colorfreeze detection is disabled. When set to a small amount of noise is allowed when comparing to the list

of solid colors. whereas selection of noise, which may result in too many color-freeze alarms.

Normal change

Large change

is the recommended setting,

Small change

allows a high amount of

, only

Color-freeze error timeout:

Real-time audio analysis:

Audio silence detection threshold:

Audio silence detection timeout:

If the OTT Active Testing option is available, additional settings are available, which can be enabled on a channel-by-channel basis by checking the appropriate checkbox in the channel setup. Depending on the purchased license, there might be an upper limit as to the number of channel the Active Testing thresholds can be applied to, this limit is described in the Edit Threshold dialog.

To disable a threshold alarm, set the threshold value to -1. This does not apply for Manifest XML size.

Download speed error:

Download speed warn:

The maximum allowed difference between proﬁle bitrate and download bitrate (%). If the difference exceeds the threshold value a bitrate error alarm will be raised.

The maximum allowed difference between proﬁle bitrate and download bitrate (%). If the difference exceeds the threshold value a bitrate error warning will be raised.

The time (in seconds) a color-freeze error should persist before the VB7880 will raise an alarm.

Enables real-time loudness extraction for the stream. The loudness data can be retrieved through the Eii.

Set the threshold for silence detection in decibel below 0 LUFS/LKFS (max volume) Use negative values, 0 disables alarm.

The value in seconds for when to trigger the audio silence alarm.

Active testing thresholds

Actual bitrate min:

Actual bitrate max:

Sequence age:

Manifest XML size:

The minimum allowed bitrate when measured actual bitrate is compared to proﬁle bitrate (%). If the actual bitrate goes below the threshold an actual bitrate alarm will be raised.

The maximum allowed bitrate when measured actual bitrate is compared to proﬁle bitrate (%). If the actual bitrate exceeds the threshold an actual bitrate alarm will be raised.

The maximum time a manifest can remain unchanged before a manifest age alarm is raised.

The maximum detected size of the manifest before a manifest size alarm is raised.

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Min. Proﬁles:

Minimum number of proﬁles in the selected channel before an alarm is raised.

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5.4 Multicasts

5.4.1 Multicasts — Thumbnails

The

Multicasts — Thumbnails

that the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor extracts data from are presented in a list of streams, and a

‘bulb’ indicates the current alarm status of the associated stream. In addition, the Remote Video Wall

features offers a better overview of content and alarm status for each stream.

The ‘bulb’ can have the following colors:

Green: stream status: OK.

Yellow:

Red: stream status: alarm.

Gray: stream status: start-up/unknown.

The extractor is observing possible problems but the thresholds have not yet been exceeded.

view gives the user visual feedback of each stream’s status. The streams

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By clicking a stream name a dialog opens displaying an overview of the services available in the stream.

Press the blue information button to display the following information for the service:

Service name:

Service id: The ID of the selected service within a transport stream.

Audio silence detection status:

Freeze-frame detection status:

Shows the name deﬁned for the TV service in the SI service descriptor. If no SI is present in the stream the service id will be shown.

A bulb indicating the audio silence detection status. If no audio silence detection threshold value has been deﬁned, bulb color will be gray.

When a threshold value has been deﬁned, bulb color is green

for status OK. If the measured audio level goes below the audio silence detection threshold value, for more than the duration speciﬁed in the threshold settings, an alarm will be raised, and the bulb turns red.

A bulb indicating the freeze frame detection status for regular and color freeze. The freeze-frame error timeout value is set as part of the stream threshold template associated with each multicast (refer to the

Streams — Edit views). The different bulb colors are:

White:

decode video)

Grey: freeze-frame detection is disabled. Green:

detected.

Yellow:

frames have been detected, but the freeze-frame error timeout value has not been exceeded.

Red:

freeze-frame is enabled. freeze-frame has been detected and the freeze-frame error timeout value has been exceeded, thus resulting in an alarm.

Multicasts — Stream thresh.

Unknown (typically due to the Extractor being unable to

freeze-frame detection is enabled, no freeze-frame is

freeze-frame detection is enabled. Two consecutive equal

and

Multicasts —

Scrambling status:

The VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor is capable of extracting thumbs from up to 100 streams, up to

a total maximum of 100 channels (multicasts and OTT combined), depending on the license. MPEG-2,

A bulb indicating the scrambling check status. Scrambling check is deﬁned as part of the stream or service threshold template associated with each multicast (refer to the

net thresh.,Multicasts — Service thresh. Streams — Edit views). The different bulb colors are: Grey: Scrambling check is disabled. Green:

dance with the user-deﬁned requirement.

Red:

accordance with the user-deﬁned requirement; an alarm is active.

Scrambling check is enabled, and scrambling is in accor-

Scrambling check is enabled, and scrambling is not in

Multicasts — Ether-

and

Multicasts —

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MPEG-4/AVC and HEVC video formats in standard deﬁnition, high deﬁnition or ultra-high deﬁnition are supported.

The VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor will use a varying amount of time decoding the streams,

depending on how the streams are coded and if they are standard deﬁnition, high deﬁnition or ultra-high deﬁnition.

In the

video and audio metadata for the stream. The same pop-up can be opened from the

Overview view, see chapter 5.1.2 for more information.

Service Overview

view, clicking the Information icon opens the

Thumb View

which presents

Main — Thumb

Clicking the Close button will close the Thumbs Details view. For multicasts, the following metadata is displayed in the Thumbs Details view:

Audio ﬁelds

PID: The audio PID for which the associated parameters apply

Language: The audio language, as derived from PSI/SI

Average: The average audio level in dB, measured over 0.4 seconds

Peak: The peak audio level in dB, detected during 0.4 seconds

Audio level:

An audio level bar displaying the average audio level as a green bar referenced to the

peak audio level, the peak level being indicated by a white line

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Click the ‘Play’ button to play back the last few seconds of decoded audio for the selected PID in the browser.

The following stream status information will be displayed (bulbs will be green for status OK, red to indicate

an active alarm and gray if the associated check has been disabled):

Status description

Audio silence:

Scrambling: A bulb indicates the scrambling status with reference to the deﬁned requirement.

Freeze-frame:

Color-freeze:

A bulb indicates the audio silence status with reference to the deﬁned requirement.

Peak level:

silence threshold to determine if an audio silence alarm should be raised.

Threshold:

threshold template associated with the stream.

Expect: ‘Clear’ or ‘Scrambled’ Control bit indicates: ‘Clear’ or ‘Scrambled’ PES status indicates: ‘Clear’ or ‘Scrambled’

A bulb indicating the freeze-frame detection status. The freeze-frame error timeout value is set as part of the stream threshold group associated with each multicast (refer to the views).

Consecutive frozen frames:

been detected

Time since OK:

detected. When a freeze-frame condition occurs, this value indicates for how long video has been frozen.

A bulb indicating the color-freeze detection status. The freeze-frame error timeout value is set as part of the stream threshold group associated with each multicast (refer to the views).

Consecutive frozen frames:

have been detected

Time since OK:

detected. When a color-freeze condition occurs, this value indicates for how long video has been frozen.

The measured peak level (dB). This is checked against the audio

The audio silence detection threshold (dB) as deﬁned in the stream

Multicasts — Ethernet thresh.

The number of consecutive equal frames that have

The time (in seconds) since freeze-frame status OK was last

Multicasts — Ethernet thresh.

The number of consecutive single color frames that

The time (in seconds) since color-freeze status OK was last

and

Multicasts — Streams — Edit

and

Multicasts — Streams — Edit

The following metadata information is displayed:

Multicast (Stream Name)

Name:

Type:

Multicast address: The multicast address of the stream containing the selected service

Multicast port: The port number of the multicast containing the selected service

The name of the multicast containing the selected service, as deﬁned by the user

The type of the stream containing the selected service; multicast or unicast

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Transport stream ID:

Stream status:

The id of the selected stream as shown in the list of multicasts in the Ethernet section

The status of the stream containing the selected service, as reported by the decoding engine

Bitrate:

Stream Threshold: The name of the stream threshold template assigned to the multicast

Service Threshold: The name of the service threshold template assigned to the multicast

Schedule:

Custom Video PID mode: An indication of custom PID mode: ‘Normal’ or ‘Custom PIDs only’.

Service ID: The service ID of the selected service

PSI/SI Name: The name of the selected service, as derived from PSI/SI

Controlbit scramble state: The scramble state as indicated by the MPEG TS control bit

PES sync scramble state: The scramble state as detected from the PES sync state

Number of PIDs: The number of PIDs associated with the selected service

Bitrate: The total bitrate of the selected service (bits/s)

Has PCR: Yes if the selected stream contains PCR, No if not

Bitrate: The video PID bitrate of the selected service

PES sync: The latest PES sync state

The total stream bitrate of the multicast containing the selected service

(bits/s)

The name of the alarm masking schedule template assigned to the multicast

Service (Service ID)

Video PID (PID Number)

PID: The video PID of the selected service

PES length indicator:

Status: The status of the video PID as reported by the decoding engine

Size: The video picture size of the selected service

Aspect ratio: The video aspect ratio of the selected service

Pixel aspect ratio: The video pixel aspect ratio of the selected service

Codec: The video encoding format of the selected service

Quality: The video sampling format of the selected service

Frame rate: The video frame rate of the selected service (Hz)

If signaled in the PES packet header, the PES packet length is displayed.

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Audio PID (PID Number)

PID:

Type: The audio encoding standard

Has PCR: Yes if the selected Audio PID contains PCR

Language:

Bitrate: The audio PID bitrate of the selected service

Is scrambled: Yes if the audio PID is scrambled.

Peak level:

Average level:

Codec: The audio encoding format

Samplerate: The audio sample rate

Channels: The number of audio channels represented by the audio PID

Layout: The audio channel layout

The audio PID of the selected service. Note that there may be several audio PIDs associated with a service.

The language of the audio, as deﬁned in the Program Map Table (PMT)

The peak audio level in dB, detected during a period of approximately

0.4 second The average audio level in dB, measured over a period of approximately

0.4 second

Audio Information PID (PID Number)

Format: The binary format of the audio stream

Bitrate: The effective audio bitrate

If the Extractor cannot generate a thumbnail from the signal, it will present one of the following icons:

Shown if no data is received for the stream or if no PSI is found. There should be a match between presenting this icon and a No-signal alarm; however since the alarm and thumbnail mechanisms work independently of each other they have been given different names (loss of signal and no signal).

Shown while the thumbnail engine is trying to decode a thumbnail picture and more precise status information has not yet been obtained. This icon is typically displayed after extractor reboot or if new streams have recently been joined.

Shown if the service does not carry a video PID — which is the case for radio services.

The stream contains no service, as signaled in PSI/SI.

The signal cannot be decoded due to excessive CC errors.

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The VB7880 does not support thumbnail generation for this protocol mapping.

The signal is recognized as being MPEG-2 encoded but the thumbnail extractor is unable

to correctly decode a thumbnail picture.

The signal is recognized as being MPEG-4 encoded but the thumbnail extractor is unable

to correctly decode a thumbnail picture.

The signal is recognized as being MPEG-H encoded but the thumbnail extractor is unable

to correctly decode a thumbnail picture.

This icon is shown if the VB7880 is unable to receive or analyze the PMT PID. Note that

if a stream is known not to carry PSI, the user may select to manually specify a custom

video PID — refer to the Multicasts — Streams view.

The VB7880 can only generate a thumbnail picture if the video data is not scrambled. The Extractor will always try to generate a thumbnail picture and will only conclude that it

is scrambled if decode fails and the PID is signaled as being scrambled. If the stream is conﬁgured not to raise an alarm upon scrambling the icon will be colored green.

As above. If the stream is conﬁgured to raise an alarm upon scrambling the icon will be

colored red.

5.4.2 Multicasts — Join

A multicast added to the selected Extractor can easily be joined and unjoined by selecting it from one of

the lists and navigate it to the left or right by using the navigation arrows as shown above.

Press Apply changes to save the changes.

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5.4.3 Multicasts — Streams

In this view the operator can deﬁne multicasts available to the Extractor and associate a name with each multicast address. This name will be used by the Extractor when referring to the multicast. If no name has been deﬁned the Extractor will use the multicast address:port notation.

It is possible to add or delete several entries simultaneously. The current dialogue values will be used as the template with the values for Name and Address incremented for each.

Note that both multicast and unicast addresses can be entered here.

The search ﬁeld in the upper right corner of the view allows the user to type a text string, and the multicast

list is updated to display only streams matching the speciﬁed text.

Clicking

— Edit

multicasts and enable monitoring. The Extractor will only extract thumbnails from and analyze joined multicasts. Clicking channels). Unjoining one or more multicasts is done by selecting multicasts and clicking or by clicking Unjoin all.

Add new

pop-up menu. When multicasts have been deﬁned, clicking

or selecting one or more multicasts and clicking

Join all

will join all multicasts in the list (up to the licensed maximum number of

Edit selected

Join selected

will open the

will join the selected

Unjoin selected

Multicast

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Multicasts parameters

Name:

Address: The IP address of the unicast or multicast.

Port: The port number of the unicast or multicast.

A name should be assigned to each unicast/multicast. The name will be used

throughout the Extractor’s user interface when referring to this stream.

SSM source 1:

Ethernet thresholds:

Caption thresholds:

Service thresh.:

Schedule:

Custom video PID:

The SSM source value is only needed for IGMP v3 systems. A name may be

associated with a SSM source address.

The stream threshold that should be assigned to the multicast. Stream

thresholds that have been deﬁned in the

view are available for selection from the drop-down menu.

The Caption threshold that should be assigned to the multicast. Caption

thresholds that have been deﬁned in the available for selection from the drop-down menu.

The service threshold group that should be assigned to the multicast. Service

threshold groups that have been deﬁned in the

view are available for selection from the drop-down menu.

The scheduling scheme that should be assigned to the multicast. Scheduling

schemes that have been deﬁned in the available for selection from the drop-down menu. Scheduling allows alarm masking at predeﬁned time periods.

If a stream is known not to contain PSI needed in order to locate the video component, the user can deﬁne a custom video PID to be decoded by the Extractor. The PID deﬁnition is made as part of a service threshold that should be associated with the stream. If custom video PID is set to ‘Normal’ the Extractor will determine the video PID(s) based on PSI/SI plus custom

video PID deﬁnitions made in the service threshold template. If custom video

PID is set to ‘Custom PIDs only’, PSI/SI will not be analyzed.

Multicasts — Ethernet thresh.

Captions — Thresholds

Multicasts — Service thresh.

Setup — Scheduling

view are

Join stream: Check the ‘Join stream’ check box to join a multicast or unicast.

Join interface: Select which interface to join the selected multicast.

Note that no alarms will be raised if the corresponding alarm types are deactivated in the

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Alarms —

Alarm Setup view.

5.4.4 Multicasts — Ethernet thresh.

Thresholds are used to determine when to actually raise an alarm upon detection of an error. The

Multicasts — Ethernet thresh.

level. Thresholds are associated with each stream in the new threshold setting — click the threshold.

In the threshold presets list the ‘Refs’ column displays how many streams are associated with each stream threshold template.

Another way of creating a user-deﬁned thresholds is by highlighting one of the thresholds already deﬁned

and then clicking the Duplicate highlighted button.

Deleting a threshold is done by highlighting the threshold that should be removed and clicking selected. Note that the predeﬁned ‘Default’ threshold template cannot be deleted or changed.

view makes it possible to deﬁne threshold values that operate at stream

Add new threshold

Multicasts — Streams — Edit

button and assign a name and value to the new

view. To add a

Delete

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Ethernet thresholds

Name: A text string that identiﬁes the Ethernet threshold

Extract all services:

When enabled, all services in the multicast this threshold is

applied to will be extracted. For an MPTS, all services in the stream counts towards the active service limit deﬁned by the license. If only one or a few services need to be monitored, disable this setting, in which case services not referenced by the Service threshold applied to the same stream will be ignored. Please refer to chapter 5.4.5 for details on Service thresholds.

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Scrambling:

Each stream can be conﬁgured to raise an alarm when that stream’s scrambling status changes. The default behavior is to ignore whether a stream is scrambled or not. In order to trigger an alarm if a clear service is received when it is supposed to be scrambled, select Error if not scrambled in the Scrambling pull-down menu. For a multicast each individual service will be checked for violation of this setting — i.e. each service may trigger an alarm. As a general rule the value of the Scrambling pull-down should be set to Ignore when individual service scrambling alarm handling is deﬁned.

Scrambling detection mode:

Scrambling error seconds:

Freeze-frame noise ﬂoor:

When scrambling detection mode is set to ‘Both’, scrambling

of a stream is detected by checking the control bit of the MPEG transport stream packets and checking PES sync. If one or both checks indicate that the scrambling requirement is not fulﬁlled, an alarm will be raised. When ‘Control bit’ or

‘PES sync’ is selected, scrambling detection will rely on the

selected parameter only.

The number of seconds a scrambling error should persist before an alarm is raised. The default setting is to wait until the error has lasted for 40 seconds. This is useful when scrambling alternates between scrambled and unscrambled and you don’t want to raise an alarm every time the stream is not scrambled but only when there is a real error.

When set to Off, the freeze-frame detection is disabled. When

set to Small change, only a small amount of noise is allowed when comparing frames. Normal change is the recommended setting, whereas Large change allows a high amount of noise, which may result in too many freeze-frame alarms.

Freeze-frame error timeout:

Color-freeze noise ﬂoor:

The time (in minutes) a freeze-frame error should persist before the Extractor will raise an alarm

It is possible to deﬁne how much noise is allowed when performing color-freeze detection. When set to Off, the colorfreeze detection is disabled. When set to Small change, only a small amount of noise is allowed when comparing to the list of solid colors. Normal change is the recommended setting, whereas selection of Large change allows a high amount of noise, which may result in too many color-freeze alarms.

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Color-freeze error timeout:

Real-time audio analysis:

Audio silence detection threshold: The value in dBs when to trigger the audio silence alarm.

The time (in seconds) a color-freeze error should persist before the Extractor will raise an alarm.

Enables real-time loudness extraction for the stream. The loudness data can be retrieved through the Eii.

Audio silence detection timeout:

DAR alarm mode:

Expected display aspect ratio:

DAR alarm timeout:

PAR alarm mode:

Expected pixel aspect ratio:

The value in seconds for when to trigger the audio silence alarm.

The alarm threshold for Display Aspect Ratio can be set to Ignore, Same or Speciﬁc DAR.

• Ignore: No alarming for DAR.

• Same: Alarm if the DAR changes.

•

Speciﬁed DAR: The DAR expected for the stream must be speciﬁed in the text ﬁeld below.

The expected DAR must be given in the text ﬁeld (i.e: 16:9 or 4:3) if Speciﬁed DAR has been selected in the drop-down menu above.

The number of seconds before an alarm is triggered when the Expected display ratio is not correct.

The alarm mode of the expected Pixel Aspect Ratio, can be set to Ignore, same or Speciﬁc PAR.

• Ignore: No alarming for PAR.

• Same: Alarm if the PAR changes.

•

Speciﬁed PAR: The PAR expected for the stream must be speciﬁed in the text ﬁeld below.

The expected Pixel Aspect ratio must be given in the text ﬁeld (i.e: 1:1 or 2:1) if Speciﬁed PAR has been selected in the drop-down menu above.

PAR alarm timeout:

The number of seconds before an alarm is triggered when the expected PAR is not correct.

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5.4.5 Multicasts — Service thresh.

Thresholds are used to determine when to actually raise an alarm upon detection of an error. The

Multicasts — Service thresh.

level. This is particularly useful to specify individual alarm handling rules for services in a multi-program transport stream (MPTS). Note that if there is a stream and service threshold mismatch, the service threshold will apply. This may be the case if scrambling or scheduling requirements are set differently in the stream threshold template and service threshold template associated with a stream.

view makes it possible to deﬁne threshold values that operate at service

If the

Extract all services

services not referenced by a Service threshold (even if all service-speciﬁc settings are disabled or set to

‘Same as stream’) will be ignored by the VB7880.

In the service threshold template list the ‘Refs’ column displays how many streams are associated with each service threshold template. Thresholds are associated with each stream in the

Streams — Edit

assign a name and value to the new threshold.

Another way of creating a user-deﬁned thresholds is by highlighting one of the thresholds already deﬁned

and then clicking the Duplicate highlighted button.

Deleting a threshold is done by highlighting the threshold that should be removed and clicking selected. Note that the predeﬁned thresholds cannot be deleted or changed.

view. To add a new threshold setting, click the

setting is disabled in the Ethernet threshold that is applied to a stream, any

Multicasts —

Add new threshold group

button and

Delete

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Service thresholds

Name: A text string that identiﬁes the service threshold group

Description: A text string that describes the service threshold group

ID:

The service ID for which the associated thresholds should apply. For an SPTS the service ID will generally be 1; adding several list entries with different service IDs allows different thresholds to apply for different services within an MPTS.

Rename:

Scrambling:

The rename functionality allows a service to be renamed for the use of the VideoBRIDGE Controller. This is useful when services within an MPTS are unnamed (no service names in the SDT) or when services should be recognized by the VideoBRIDGE Controller under a different name than indicated in the SDT.

Each service can be conﬁgured to raise an alarm when that stream’s scrambling status changes. The default behavior is to ignore whether a stream is scrambled or not. In order to trigger an alarm if a clear service is received when it is supposed to be scrambled, select Error if not scrambled in the Scrambling: pull-down menu. When Error if scrambled is selected, the Extractor will raise an alarm if it detects that the stream is clear. When Same as stream is selected, the requirement deﬁned in the stream threshold will apply.

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Scrambling detection mode:

When scrambling detection mode is set to ‘Both’, scrambling of a

service is detected by checking the control bit of the MPEG transport stream packets and checking PES sync. If one or both checks indicate that the scrambling requirement is not fulﬁlled, an alarm will be raised. When ‘Control bit’ or ‘PES sync’ is selected, scrambling detection will rely on the selected parameter only.

When Same as stream is selected, the requirement deﬁned in the

stream threshold will apply.

Custom video PID:

Custom video mode:

DAR Mode:

Expected DAR:

PAR Mode:

If a stream is known not to contain correct PSI needed in order to locate the video component, the user can deﬁne a custom video PID to be decoded by the Extractor. Note that for MPTS streams the service IDs for each service should be unique in the threshold template, even if the stream itself does not contain PSI.

When a custom video PID has been deﬁned for a service, the user

must specify the video encoding format: MPEG2, H264 or HEVC.

The alarm threshold for Display Aspect Ratio can be set to Ignore, Same or Speciﬁc DAR.

• Ignore: No alarming for DAR.

• Same: Alarm if the DAR changes.

•

Speciﬁed DAR: The DAR expected for the stream must be speciﬁed in the text ﬁeld below.

The expected Pixel Aspect ratio must be given in the text ﬁeld (i.e: 1:1 or 2:1) if Speciﬁed PAR has been selected in the drop-down menu prior.

The alarm mode of the expected Pixel Aspect Ratio, can be set to Ignore, same or Speciﬁc PAR.

• Ignore: No alarming for PAR.

• Same: Alarm if the PAR changes.

•

Speciﬁed PAR: The PAR expected for the stream must be speciﬁed in the text ﬁeld below.

Expected PAR:

The expected Pixel Aspect ratio must be given in the text ﬁeld (i.e: 1:1 or 2:1) if Speciﬁed PAR has been selected in the drop-down menu above.

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Schedule:

The Schedule drop-down menu allows the user to associate a scheduling scheme to a service, in effect masking alarms during selected intervals. Scheduling templates are deﬁned in the

Scheduling

‘Always’ will always be selectable, and these will result in service

alarms never and always being masked, respectively.

When Same as stream is selected, the requirement deﬁned in the

stream threshold will apply. Note that alarm masking only affects alarm lists and SNMP traps; other alarm indications in the GUI will remain visible.

view. The predeﬁned scheduling templates ‘Never’ and

Setup —

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5.5 Captions (Option)

To enable closed caption extraction on a stream, a

be applied to the stream. See chapters 5.4.3 and 5.5.3 for more details.

Captions threshold

with

Enabled

ticked needs to

5.5.1 Captions — Services

The

Captions — Services

service. The services that the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor extracts captions from are presented in a list of services, and a ‘bulb’ indicates the current alarm status of the associated service.

view gives the user visual feedback of the closed caption status of each

Thumb: Thumbnail

Name: Service name

Alarm history:

Parent MC stream: Name of the multicast stream this service is extracted from.

#SCTE 20: Number of SCTE 20 caption services detected in this service.

#CEA 608: Number of non-SCTE 20, CEA 608 caption services detected in this service.

#CEA 708: Number of CEA 708 caption services detected in this service.

A bar graph showing alarm severity history for the last 24 hours. Each bar color represents the alarm severity level as conﬁgured under

Main — Alarm setup

5.5.2 Captions — Caption service

Press the blue information button on a service to open the caption service window. This window gives you access to view all closed caption services, and see the alarms for this service.

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5.5.2.1 Captions — Caption service — Captions

The

Captions

display the select captions.

By default, only the closed caption text is shown in the list. If you would like to see all control messages as well, check the Show control messages checkbox at the bottom left.

view in this pop-up consists of a closed caption service format selector, and the list to

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5.5.2.2 Captions — Caption service — Alarms

The Alarms view gives an at-a-glance overview of any active or cleared alarm for the selected service.

In the right corner of the pop-up window is a free text search ﬁeld used to narrow down the entries in the alarm log.

The alarms are the same ones as explained for the

information.

Alarms Setup

view, see chapter 5.2.2 for more

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Thresholds are used to determine when to actually raise an alarm upon detection of an error. The

Captions — Thresholds

Thresholds are associated with each stream in the

new threshold setting — click the threshold.

In the threshold presets list the ‘Refs’ column displays how many streams are associated with each stream threshold template.

Another way of creating a user-deﬁned thresholds is by highlighting one of the thresholds already deﬁned

and then clicking the Duplicate highlighted button.

view makes it possible to deﬁne threshold values that operate at stream level.

Add new threshold

Multicasts — Streams — Edit

button and assign a name and value to the new

view. To add a

Deleting a threshold is done by highlighting the threshold that should be removed and clicking

selected. Note that the predeﬁned ‘No Captions’ threshold template cannot be deleted or changed.

Delete

Caption Thresholds

Name: Unique name of these threshold settings

Enabled: Tick this to start closed caption extraction for streams using this threshold

Min. SCTE 20: Minimum number of SCTE 20 caption services expected in services

Min. CEA 608: Minimum number of non-SCTE 20 CEA 608 caption services expected in services

Min. CEA 708: Minimum number of CEA 708 caption services expected in services

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5.6 RVW

5.6.1 RVW — Setup

The

RVW — Setup

chapter 4 for more information on the Remote Video Wall feature.

view conﬁgures parameters valid for all the Remote Video Walls. Please refer to

Setup — Branding

Name:

Image:

The name of the selected RVW Mosaic is shown as a label at the top of the RVW.

A small image/logo that will be visible in the top left corner of the RVW Mosaic. The ﬁle must be selected from the corresponding drop-down menu.

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VBC host name:

The host name or IP address of the VideoBRIDGE Controller used for integration with the RVW. Leave blank if you do not have a VBC server.

DataMiner host name:

User name:

Password:

The Remote Video Wall allows logos or similar images to be uploaded and set on the each RVW. A

company logo or image can be set as an reference to a selected RVW. To upload an image, use the ﬁle selector under the from the drop-down menu under Delete image heading and press the Delete button.

The DataMiner user name and password are stored in plain text on the VB7880 server and can be seen by all logged-in users. If possible, have the VB7880 use a non-privileged account on the DataMiner server.

Import image

The host name or IP address of the Skyline DataMiner used for integration with the RVW. Leave blank if you do not have a DataMiner server.

The user name to use when establishing a session towards the DataMiner server.

The password to use when establishing a session towards the DataMiner server. The user name and password is sent directly from the VB7880 to obtain a session key, the RVW widgets do not have access to the password directly.

heading and press the

Go!

button. To delete an uploaded ﬁle, select it

5.6.2 RVW — Mosaic A–D

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The

RVW — Mosaic A–D

RVW and in which frames. A Remote Video Wall can have up to 16 multicast services or OTT channel proﬁles depending on the setup.

Follow the link formed by the name of the selected RVW to be re-directed to the URL that hosts the Remote Video Wall. To display a preview of the RVW inside the conﬁguration UI, use the Please note that the preview might fail to display properly under some circumstances, and is only meant as a preview, not a permanent display.

Due to limitations of the VBC server, widget conﬁguration and preview dialogs may not work properly when opened from inside the VBC interface. If this happens, point the web browser directly to the VB7880 and perform the conﬁguration there.

Real-time audio analysis is automatically enabled for any multicasts or OTT channels that are set to display audio bars in the RVW.

Mode: The selected frame can contain these services.

views allows the operator to select which streams to be presented on each

(preview)

RVW — Mosaic A–D

link.

• None: The frame will be empty, this is the default selection.

•

Multicast: When selected from the drop-down menu, a multicast service can be selected in the Channel drop-down menu below. Make sure that the stream has been joined in the Multicast section.

•

OTT: When selected, a live OTT proﬁle can be selected in the Channel dropdown menu below. Make sure that the channel has been enabled in the OTT section.

•

Widget: Embed a web-based widget in this frame. After selecting this type, the

widget to embed can be selected from the ‘Widget’ drop-down menu.

•

Iframe: Embed a web page in this frame. After selecting this type, the address of the page to embed can be entered in the ‘Address’ ﬁeld.

Superframe:

Name:

Channel:

Audio: The audio PIDs in a stream to be monitored.

Metering:

Select Superframe to increase the size of a stream thumbnail or widget. When superframe has been selected, the other frames hidden by this frame will be locked from editing. A frame can be set up to be displayed in any size from 1x1 to 4x4.

A name to refer to the selected stream in the Remote Video Wall section. If left empty, the slot will use the name of the service deﬁned by the stream.

In Multicast mode, any service available within a stream may be selected for display. In OTT mode, any proﬁle available within a live OTT channel may be selected for display.

The speciﬁc type of metering for the Audio PIDs. Select either RMS or LUFS/LKFS metering. RMS metering will display one meter for each audio channel in the stream, whereas LUFS/LKFS displays one compound meter for the entire audio stream. Setting metering to None will disable audio bars for this frame.

Note: If the service is scrambled, the VB7880 will not attempt to monitor the audio.

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Widget:

In Widget mode, any installed widget can be selected for display in this frame. Please refer to chapter 4.3 for descriptions of the available widgets.

Options:

Preview:

If the widget has any conﬁguration options, click the Conﬁgure button to set up the widget. In the conﬁguration dialog, select Apply to apply the changes or Close to close the dialog without saving changes. Some widgets may also provide a Reset button that restore the widget’s default setting.

Click the Display button to display a preview of the widget inside the conﬁguration UI. Please note that not all widget might display correctly in this mode.

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5.7 Setup

5.7.1 Setup — Params

The Setup — Params view enables the following settings:

Various

Extractor name: Each Extractor can be assigned a user deﬁned name.

Extractor location: A text string describing the location of the Extractor.

EBU mode:

Freeze log when full:

Treat events as alarms:

Source speciﬁc multicasts: This option should be enable to use Source-speciﬁc multicasts.

Selects the unit to use for loudness monitoring. In EBU mode, LUFS is used, otherwise LKFS is used.

Alarms

When enabled the alarm list will freeze when full (an event will show that it

is full). When the list is full new alarms are ignored until Clear alarms is pressed. This can sometimes be useful if a unit is placed unattended.

When enabled each event is treated as an alarm that is active for 5

seconds. This may be useful when reporting to external systems that do not support events but only active or cleared alarms. This setting affects the local alarm list, SNMP traps and syslog messages.

Network settings

Time synchronization

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Use time server:

If enabled, the Extractor will synchronize with an external NTP time-server. Please note that if you have conﬁgured NTP synchronization in the operating system (either in the installer or manually), these settings might not be reﬂected here.

Time server: The IP address or host name of the time server.

Instead of setting up network time synchronization from this tab, we recommend using the standard operating system tools for conﬁguring the system clock. The settings on this tab are deprecated and will be removed from a future release of the VB7880 software.

Please refer to the operating system instructions1for further details on how to conﬁgure the date and time.

SNMP

Community string: The Extractor SNMP community string can be changed.

Trap destination 1-3:

SNMP traps will be sent to the speciﬁed destinations. Set to 0.0.0.0 to disable SNMP trap transmission.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System_

Administrators_Guide/chap-Configuring_the_Date_and_Time.html

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5.7.2 Setup — Colors

The

Setup — Colors

condition should occur. A mono-colored freeze frame condition may in some cases indicate what equipment is failing, resulting in the color-freeze.

A freeze color is deﬁned by clicking the

maximum of four colors may be deﬁned. An existing color may be modiﬁed by clicking the associated

Edit link.

Name:

Description: A description of the color or an error indication.

Color:

view allows the user to deﬁne colors that should be recognized if a color-freeze

Add new color

Edit color

The color name. This name will be part of a color alarm description and the associated

SNMP trap.

The RGB color on the format #XX(Red)XX(Green)XX(Blue) where XX represents a

hexadecimal ﬁgure spanning 0-255 in decimal notation. If supported by the browser, clicking the color should pop up a color selection dialog.

button and assigning an RGB value to a name. A

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5.7.3 Setup — Ethernet

The

Setup — Ethernet

view can be used to verify the server network conﬁguration. A Appendix: Network conﬁguration gives a

brief introduction to the server OS network conﬁguration.

menu displays Ethernet parameters for the available network interfaces. The

Click the information.

Manage server

button to access the Software Activation interface, see chapter 2.4 for more

5.7.4 Setup — VBC

The VideoBRIDGE Controller can automatically detect the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor and add

it to the VideoBRIDGE Controller equipment list, provided that the auto-detect functionality is enabled and the VideoBRIDGE Controller server address is known to the Extractor. Note that the network must be transparent to trafﬁc between the VideoBRIDGE Controller server and VB7880 Advanced Content Extractors for auto-detection to work.

The VideoBRIDGE Controller server’s host name may be typed in the VBC server address ﬁeld. The IP

address associated with the DNS name will be displayed. If host name lookup fails, it is necessary to type the VideoBRIDGE Controller server’s IP address.

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When changes have been made in the

effect.

Setup — VBC

view, click the

Apply

button for changes to take

5.7.5 Setup — Login

By default, there is no access control and all users have access to all features. Access control can be enabled for the Extractor, restricting users to read-only access until they log in.

Any user can enable access control, but only users who are logged in can disable it or change the

password.

When access control is activated a

for users that are not logged in. It will be necessary to log-in each time a web browser application is launched and pointed at the extractor.

Log-in is performed by providing the correct password. The default password is deﬁne a new password that should be easy to remember.

READ-ONLY access

message is displayed under the alarm list

elvis

. The operator may

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Note that when logged in from the VideoBRIDGE Controller, the VideoBRIDGE Controller user’s access rights apply.

The password deﬁned here controls access to the VB7880 user interface. To change the password for the Software Activation interface, please refer to chapter 2.4

5.7.6 Setup — VBC thresh.

This tab is only available if the OTT Active Testing option is enabled, and the settings here only apply to

these tests.

The VBC error second thresholds are used by the VideoBRIDGE Controller to issue VBC speciﬁc alarms. The VBC will raise an alarm when the number of error seconds exceeds the error seconds threshold. The VBC thresholds are only relevant when a VideoBRIDGE Controller is part of the monitoring system.

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The reason for using error second thresholds is to avoid alarms that toggle on and off, which for a large

monitoring system might otherwise lead to an unintelligible user interface. The VBC thresholds will allow masking of minor error incidences thus resulting in a control system GUI that presents persistent alarms only.

The VBC error second thresholds are speciﬁed as the number of seconds affected by an error situation. These thresholds refer to a monitoring window of one hour, meaning that if the number of error seconds

summed over any one-hour period exceeds the associated error second threshold an alarm will be raised by the VBC.

If a monitoring window different from one hour is selected by the VBC user, the threshold values will be automatically recalculated to proportional values.

In the ‘VBC threshold presets’ table the ‘Refs’ column shows how many streams are associated with each VBC threshold template.

By clicking the deﬁnition of a new threshold template. It is possible to copy or delete an existing threshold template by clicking the template, the Edit selected button should be clicked.

Multi-edit functionality allows editing several VBC thresholds simultaneously. Highlight the list entries that should be edited and click the Edit selected button.

OTT transport errors: Number of seconds with OTT transport related alarms

OTT HTTP errors: Number of seconds with OTT HTTP related alarms

OTT XML errors: Number of seconds with OTT XML related alarms.

Add new threshold

Duplicate selectedorDelete selected

button the user will enter a VBC thresholds edit view enabling

VBC thresholds

button respectively. To edit a highlighted threshold

5.7.7 Setup — Scheduling

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The

Setup — Scheduling

PIDs or services using the PID threshold or service threshold template system. This way it is possible to mask alarms during selected time intervals, e.g. due to maintenance.

In the schedule list the ‘Refs’ column shows how many streams are associated with each schedule threshold template.

view enables deﬁnition of scheduling templates which are associated with

The predeﬁned scheduling templates

respectively. A new scheduling template is created by clicking the possible to copy an existing scheduling template by highlighting a schedule template and clicking the

Duplicate selected

week days. Intervals are speciﬁed on the form hhmm–hhmm, for instance the interval 1200–1400 means

that alarm masking should start at noon and ﬁnish at 2 pm. Several alarm masking intervals may be speciﬁed for each day using comma separation. To edit an existing scheduling template, highlight it and click the Edit selected button. To delete a template, highlight it and click the Delete selected button.

When a scheduling template has been modiﬁed, click the

templates become available as selections in the Multicasts — Service thresh. — Edit view.

The search ﬁeld in the upper right corner of the view allows the user to type a text string, and the schedule

list is updated to display only scheduling templates matching the speciﬁed text.

button. The alarm masking intervals are deﬁned for individual week days or for all

Never

and

Always

result in alarms being masked never or always,

Add new schedule

Apply changes

button. Deﬁned scheduling

button. It is also

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5.7.8 Setup — Security

The security section is a restricted section where only the administrator should have access. In this

section the SNMP support may be disabled or enabled (default). For security reasons the login will expire two minutes after accessing this section.

This page uses the same log-in credentials as the Software Activation interface. Please refer to chapter 2.4

for details on Software Activation.

Enable SNMP:

Security parameters

If SNMP is disabled, no MIB is available on port 161. However SNMP traps are sent as usual on port 162.

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5.8 Data

5.8.1 Data — Conﬁguration

Full and partial conﬁguration of the Extractor can be exported as XML documents. This is achieved by clicking one of the links inside the selected XML document. The browser will allow the contents of the page to be saved to ﬁle.

Restoring the Extractor conﬁguration, multicast stream list or OTT channel list is just as simple. Just click the and the information in the XML document will be applied. The conﬁguration, stream list, thresholds and scheduling exports can all be imported by other VB7880s. Multicast stream lists, OTT channel lists and scheduling information can be exported to and imported from Sencore VideoBRIDGE probes.

You can also import and export license and software maintenance keys in XML format from this page.

It should be possible to import the conﬁguration from a VB280. Go to the Data tab in the VB280 and select and the VB7880, some changes may not carry forward correctly.

To import documents that have been manually edited the CRC attribute at the very top of the document

must be deleted (i.e. delete mechanism.

Under certain circumstances an unmodiﬁed conﬁguration ﬁle may fail with a CRC error when imported back. This problem can most often be ﬁxed by opening the exported conﬁguration ﬁle in a text editor and removing the crc attribute as mentioned above.

Browse

Full conﬁguration

button and select the ﬁle that contains the XML document. Then click the

under

Export XML

crc="..."

frame. A new browser window pops up containing the

Go!

button

. Due to the changes in the architecture between the VB280

from the ﬁle). This will bypass the checksum veriﬁcation

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Note that the Extractor name and location are not part of the XML document. Hence exporting the full conﬁguration of one Extractor and restoring it on another will make the two Extractors identical except for the network settings.

Clicking the Debug data export option will generate a document containing debug information that may be useful if Extractor misbehavior is reported. This ﬁle should be sent along with a description of the misbehavior.

5.8.2 Data — Software

The software section allows the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor to be upgraded to a newer version

just by pressing the choose ﬁle button and selecting the then pressing Go!.

.tea

ﬁle from the directory of the local PC and

5.8.3 Data — Eii

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The

External integration interface

party NMS systems. In order to facilitate integration the containing the data typically being requested by an NMS system via the regular Eii interface.

Please refer to the document Eii External Integration Interface for detailed information about Eii.

(Eii) allows inclusion of Sencore VideoBRIDGE equipment into 3rd

Data — Eii

view allows export of XML ﬁles

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5.9 About

5.9.1 About — Release info

This section shows the version and build date of the installed software and the underlying operating

system.

5.9.2 About — License

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This view shows the available Extractor options and current Extractor license and software maintenance

details. By clicking the blue information icon associated with each option it is possible to view option details.

It is also possible to export the license and software maintenance keys in XML format from this page.

These keys can be imported using the Data — Conﬁguration tab, or from Software Activation.

Click the for more information.

To disable the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor, uncheck the

the

Activation interface (which is done by default the ﬁrst time you activate the software), you will need to

change the default back to Software Activation before disabling VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor.

Manage installed software

Change

button. You cannot do this if it has been set as the default software through the Software

link to access the Software Activation interface, see chapter 2.4

Activate software

checkbox and click

5.9.3 About — Technologies

This view shows a description of some of the technologies available in the Sencore VideoBRIDGE

product family.

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5.9.4 About — Credits

This view shows information about the software included with the Extractor.

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A Appendix: Network conﬁguration

To change the network conﬁguration, using the

using nmtui can be found in the Networking Guide1.

Some older installation images did not make the you can install it by issuing the command

nmtui

tool is recommended. More documentation on

tool available. If it is not installed on your system,

yum install NetworkManager-tui

It is also possible to use the modifying network connections using nmcli:

nmcli

command. Here are some example commands for adding and

# Display a list of active connections

nmcli con

# Add a new connection

nmcli con add con-name eno2 ifname eno2 type ethernet ip4 10.100.100.1/24

# Disconnect the eno2 connection

nmcli con down eno2

# Reconfigure the IPv4 address

nmcli con mod eno2 ipv4.addresses 10.100.100.2/24

# Connect the eno2 connection

nmcli con up eno2

More documentation on nmcli is available in the Networking Guide2.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/

Networking_Guide/sec-Networking_Config_Using_nmtui.html

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/

Networking_Guide/sec-Using_the_NetworkManager_Command_Line_Tool_nmcli.html

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B Appendix: OTT Proﬁle Health

B.1 OTT Proﬁle Health Bar

The proﬁle health bar displayed at channel level shows an overview of current status for individual channel

proﬁles. Different colors indicate status:

• Green: OK

• Yellow: Warning

• Orange: Error

• Red: Major

• Black: Fatal

All enabled alarms may affect the proﬁle health bar, and alarm severities can be assigned to each alarm

in the Alarms — Alarm setup view.

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B.2 OTT Proﬁle Health Timeline

The OTT proﬁle health timeline shows information about channel bitrate and channel alarm status for the

last two hours, with a time resolution of one minute. Green parts of the timeline indicate proﬁle download time versus chunk length. The graph is scaled so that 100% indicates a chunk download time identical to chunk length (in seconds), chunk length being signalled in the proﬁle manifest. Quick chunk download times therefore result in a ‘low’ green graph, as seen in the left hand part of the graph above. When download times exceed the user deﬁned proﬁle bitrate warning and error thresholds the graph is colored yellow and orange respectively.

In addition to proﬁle bitrate indication the graph displays proﬁle status information related to non-bitrate alarms. Active proﬁle alarms are represented in the graph as 100% bars, the color reﬂecting the severity of the alarm. If several alarms are active within a one minute period the graph color will reﬂect the most severe alarm. Historical alarms can be examined in more detail by viewing the OTT alarm list.

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Sencore VB7880 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Contents

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 About the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor

1.2 How to Use This Manual

2 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL SETUP

2.1 System Requirements

2.2 First-time Installation

2.3 Deploying in a Virtualized Environment

2.4 Verifying Correct Initial Setup and Software Activation

2.5 Initial Setup Troubleshooting

2.6 Upgrading From a Previous Version

2.6.1 Upgrading by Re-Installing the System

2.6.2 Upgrading From Version 5.0.0

2.6.3 Upgrading From Version 5.1.0

2.7 Upgrading To a Maintenance Release

2.8 Accessing the User Interface

3 QUICK SETUP GUIDE

3.1 Basic Setup

3.3 Monitoring

3.4 Adjusting Alarm Thresholds

3.5 License

4 REMOTE VIDEO WALL

4.1 Introduction to the Remote Video Wall

4.2 Accessing the Remote Video Wall

4.3 Remote Video Wall Widgets

4.3.1 Alarm View

4.3.2 Clock

4.3.3 Constellation Diagram (requires VBC integration)

4.3.4 DataMiner Alarms (requires DataMiner integration)

4.3.5 DataMiner View (requires DataMiner integration)

4.3.6 Graphics View (requires VBC integration)

4.3.7 Image Viewer

4.3.8 Loudness Graph

4.3.9 Media Window (requires VBC integration)

4.3.10 RF Graphs (requires VBC integration)

4.3.11 Stream View (requires VBC integration)

4.3.12 Weather (requires Internet access)

5 THE VB7880 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

5.1 Main

5.1.1 Main — Summary

5.1.2 Main — Thumb overview

5.2 Alarms

5.2.1 Alarms — All alarms

5.2.2 Alarms — Alarm setup

5.3 OTT

5.3.1 OTT — Thumbnails (OTT — Active Testing, option)

5.3.2 OTT — Details

5.3.2.2 OTT — Details — Manifest (Option)

5.3.2.3 OTT — Details — Alarms

5.3.2.4 OTT — Details — Thumbnails

5.3.2.5 OTT — Details — Alignment

5.3.3 OTT — Channels

5.3.4 OTT — Settings

5.3.5 OTT — Thresholds

5.4 Multicasts

5.4.1 Multicasts — Thumbnails

5.4.2 Multicasts — Join

5.4.3 Multicasts — Streams

5.4.4 Multicasts — Ethernet thresh.

5.4.5 Multicasts — Service thresh.

5.5 Captions (Option)

5.5.1 Captions — Services

5.5.2 Captions — Caption service

5.5.2.1 Captions — Caption service — Captions

5.5.2.2 Captions — Caption service — Alarms

5.5.3 Captions — Thresholds

5.6 RVW

5.6.1 RVW — Setup

5.6.2 RVW — Mosaic A–D

5.7 Setup

5.7.1 Setup — Params

5.7.2 Setup — Colors

5.7.3 Setup — Ethernet

5.7.4 Setup — VBC

5.7.5 Setup — Login

5.7.6 Setup — VBC thresh.