Tektronix MTM400A Declassification

Release Notes

MTM400A
MPEG Transport Stream Monitor

077-0181-00

www.tektronix.com

*P077018100*

077018100

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Release Notes

Enhancements

General Features

This document briefly describes the enhancements implemented with the
MTM400A MPEG Transport Stream monitor and lists known operational issues
with software version 3.1. Also included are instructions for upgrading the
instrument firmware using files downloaded from the Tektronix Web site:
www.tektronix.com.

The following significant software enhancements have been implemented in the
MTM400A monitor and in version 3.1 of the RUI (Remote User Interface):

H Thumbnail display for H.264/AVC streams

H Ability to stream live audio/video (SD) to VLC media player or other

destinations, for example, set top boxes

H Support for the new Brazilian ISDB-TB standard

Remote Access

H Ability to learn test limits from reference streams and apply them to streams

under test

H PTS/PCR variation graph for detecting potential receiver buffer problems

H The TR101 290, 1.6 PID test can be applied to a user PID, with an increased

timeout

H Export of full SI information to XML format

H Improved speed when downloading recordings

H SNMP PID to service lookup

H SNMP PID to PMT type lookup

H SNMP access to IP traffic grid

H SNMP trap destination address setting via the user interface

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GbE Interface Option

User Interface

H Ability to assign session aliases

H IGMPv3 support

H Ability to copy subscription configuration from flows on the link

H IPv6 with MLD v1 and 2 support

H TTS (timestamp transport stream) support

H 188/192/204/208 byte packet support

H MDI (media delivery index) metrics across all sessions

H Cross-session bit rate testing

H Selected and all-session bit rate trend graphs

H Font type and size configurable

H Option to hide status bar and toolbar

H Option to hide configuration information text

H Option to hide and reorder table columns

H OptiontoplaceFlexVuPlus/Analysis tabs on the left side of the screen

H File menu name changed to Analysis menu

H Customize and Hide Toolbar buttons positions swapped to reduce confusion

H Table column management and content filter added for Program, PID, Log

and Device Information tables

H Copy to Clipboard added for most tables

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RUI Operational Requirements

Listed below are the system requirements for operating version 3.1 of the RUI:

H Operating System: Windows XP SP2 or Vista

H Intel Pentium 4

H 512 MB of RAM minimum

H Internet Explorer 7

H Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE), v1.6.0_10

Operational Issue Improvements

The following operational issues existing in the MTM400 monitor have been
fixed or improved in the MTM400A monitor and version 3.1 of the RUI:

Release Notes

General

H Infinite restart loops avoided by preventing Scheduler from changing the

analysis standard

H Memory leak/crash caused by thumbnail processing in Mpeg2 video with no

I-Frames

H Updated ISDB-T NIT Mode/Guard Interval Consistency Test to conform to

ARIB TR-B14 V1.6 (from 1.5)

H Updated SFN MIP Coding Error Test to pass, if P15 and P16 are not zero -

these are now used for DVB-H

H A spurious PAT/PMT inconsistency error where one of the PMT tables

began in the last byte of a packet

H Thumbnails generation stability improved for a corrupt streams

H Failure to offer thumbnails unless a user had purchased at least one other

option

H Corrected SNMP ObjectID OID, it is now specific to the MTM400

H Failure to display status of large polling scripts

H Failure to expose the per PID count of continuity errors via SNMP

H The MTM400A monitor can now generate thumbnails for a program after it

momentarily switches to encrypted transmission

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