Audio Transcoder
Release To Market Overview
Introducing Audio Transcoder
Important Product Features
PC Application
Runs separately from a COM1000/COM2000 on an external Windows PC
Available as a free download from www.technicolor.com/MCS
SurCode for Dolby Digital Licensed
Dolby AC-3 audio encoding licenses are available from Minnetonka Audio at
http://www.minnetonkaaudioshop.com/Technicolor-Audio-Transcoder
Distributors/Dealers/Users can purchase a hardware dongle containing the
number of licenses required for the installation.
Pass-through Dolby professional encoder fee of $10/audio stream (mono).
“Dolby Digital functionality is being provided by SurCode for Dolby Digital.
SurCode for Dolby Digital is manufactured under license from Dolby
Laboratories. Dolby and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby
Laboratories. Confidential unpublished works. 2003-2007 Dolby Laboratories,
Inc. All rights reserved. SurCode is a trademark of Minnetonka Audio
Software.”
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Purchasing Licenses – Minnetonka Audio
http://www.minnetonkaaudioshop.com/Technicolor-Audio-Transcoder
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Purchasing Licenses – Minnetonka Audio
Once purchased, licenses can be configured for each dongle via a
customer log-in page. This facilitates multiple dongle purchases
each containing a different amount of licenses.
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Installing Audio Transcoder
PC Hardware Guidelines
A single 2.4GHz quad-core processor with 4GB of RAM is capable of
transcoding approximately 50 channels of DIRECTV content.
For channel counts between 50 and 100, Technicolor recommends a
dual, quad-core machine similar to a Dell 2950 Gen III with a minimum
of 8GB of RAM.
Gigabit Ethernet NIC
PC Software Requirements
Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows Server 2008 or newer
4.0 .NET Framework (typically installed with Windows)
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Connection Diagram
External PC
COM24-FLX or COM24
outputting SD video
GbE Switch
All connections must be
Gigabit Ethernet
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*GbE-1 card required for
COM200 chassis with QAM
or
COM46 or COM46-FLX
outputting SD video
Audio Transcoder Operation
COM24/COM24-FLX/COM46/COM46-FLX
Set video destination to PC’s IP address with a destination port of 9000
+ the desired QAM destination port. In this example, the PC address is
192.168.3.200 and the desired QAM destination port is 17.
Hint: It’s recommended to use the tune-all feature of the COM system in
order to quickly tune and retune video on all the receivers.
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Audio Transcoder Operation
1) Make sure License dongle is plugged into the PC running Audio
Transcoder
2) Start Audio Transcoder and click on the Settings tab to set up
Enter the IP
Address of one of
the COM cards
Enter the QAM’s
IP Address
Select Mono or
Stereo
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Click Save Settings to save & exit
Audio Transcoder Operation
Audio Transcode will automatically discover all the COM cards in a
system and display these channels in a table format
Start Monitor = Starts all checked channels
Stop Monitor = Stops all checked channels
Check All
or None
Click on check
boxes to
enable/disable
Audio Transcode
Start or stop streams individually
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Audio Transcoder Operation
Total number of
licenses on the
dongle
CPU usage meter
Memory usage meter
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Status Log
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Thread Prioritization (which
channels are first to drop if
PC is overloaded)
Status
(Green Check or
Red Stop)
Input Bitrate
(Video is running)
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