DENSITÉ series IRD-3101 SD MPEG Decoder with ASI and GigE IP Inputs Guide to Installation and Operation M907-9800-102 27 Aug 2013 Miranda Technologies 3499 Douglas-B.-Floreani St-Laurent, Québec, Canada H4S 2C6 Tel. 514-333-1772 Fax. 514-333-9828 www.miranda.com © 2013 Miranda Technologies Inc.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Electromagnetic Compatibility This equipment has been tested for verification of compliance with FCC Part 15, Subpart B requirements for Class A digital devices. NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Table of Contents 1 IRD-3101 SD MPEG Decoder with ASI and GigE IP inputs .................................................... 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 2 Installation ................................................................................................................................ 6 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3 Installation in the Densité frame..........................................................................................................
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 4.7 5 Using the TS Probing Option ............................................................................................................. 46 Specifications ........................................................................................................................ 47 ANNEX 1 – IRD-3101 Local Control Panel User Interface ......................................................... 49 ANNEX 2 – Dolby Metadata Profiles ....................................
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 1 IRD-3101 SD MPEG Decoder with ASI and GigE IP inputs 1.1 Using this Manual The IRD-3101 comes in two versions: IRD-3101 IRD-3101-CI ASI and GigE IP inputs ASI and GigE IP inputs with Conditional Access Module Both are described in this manual. Any description that applies to both variants will use the term IRD-3101. Descriptions that apply exclusively to the CI version will refer to it explicitly.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Conditional Access • DVB-CI common interface slot allows insertion of CAM card • Allows descrambling of multiple programs encrypted by leading DVB Conditional Access Systems • Supports BISS-1 with user-supplied CAM card Easy Input and Program Selection • Manual or automatic input selection mode • Automatic mode allows switching to backup input upon loss of signal on active input, with adjustable duration • Program selection using local control or iControl • Extensive tra
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION • Dolby Metadata embedding on SDI Metadata Extraction, Display and Embedding The following can be extracted from the TS and embedded in SD-SDI or HD-SDI signal: o EIA-608 and EIA-708 closed captioning o WST teletext o SMPTE 12M Time code SMPTE 2016 AFD flag Extensive PSIP data extraction, including: o Time and date and other STT data o Channel number and other VCT parameters o Event description and EIT Event Information Table o Rating and other RRT data o Dolby me
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 1.5 Block Diagrams The following block diagrams show the functionality of the IRD-3101. Figure 1.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 1.6 Front Card-edge Interface The front card-edge of the IRD-3101 incorporates two elements: Status LED (see section 3.2) Select Button (see section 3.3) Status The CAM module is not shown in this view. Select • • IRD-3101 Select Button Status LED Figure 1.2 Front card-edge layout 1.7 Physical Layout – IRD-3101 with optional CAM The IRD-3101 consists of a base IRD-3101 card with an optional conditional access module (CAM).
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 2 Installation 2.1 Installation in the Densité frame The IRD-3101 and its associated rear connector rear panel must be mounted in a Densité3 frame. It is not necessary to switch off the frame’s power when installing or removing the card. See the Densité3 Frame manual for detailed instructions for installing cards and their associated rear panels. 2.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION • ASI OUT – Outputs the selected input or DVB-CI • HD/SD OUT 1 & 2 – SDI output, HD or SD The IRD-3101 provides two identical HD/SD SDI video outputs on BNC connectors. The SDI video signals conform to the SMPTE 292M and SMPTE 259M-C standards. HD signals are only available when the Up Conversion option is activated.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3 Operation 3.1 Control options The IRD-3101 can be controlled in two different ways: • The local control panel and its push-buttons can be used to move through a menu of parameters and to adjust parameter values (see section 3.3). • Miranda’s iControl system can be used to access the card’s operating parameters from a remote computer, using a convenient graphical user interface (GUI). (see section 3.4) 3.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.3 Local control using the Densité frame control panel 3.3.1 Overview Push the SELECT button on the IRD-3101 card edge (Section 1.6) to assign the local control panel to operate the IRD-3101. Use the control panel buttons to navigate through the menu, as described below. All of the cards installed in a Densité frame are connected to the frame’s controller card, which handles all interaction between the cards and the outside world.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4 Remote control using iControl The operation of the IRD-3101 may be controlled using Miranda’s iControl system. • • This manual describes the control panels associated with the IRD-3101 and their use. Please consult the iControl User’s Guide for information about setting up and operating iControl. In iControl Navigator or iControl Websites, double-click on the IRD-3101 icon to open the control panel. 3.4.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Icon #2 – TS Input status Transport Stream detected and OK.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION No signal (gray) Icon #6 – Secondary Audio status OK (green) No audio in program (yellow) No signal (gray) Icon #7 – Audio Sync Locked with Video (green) Free run (yellow) N/A (gray) Icon #8 – TS Limit No errors (green) Errors detected (red) No transport stream (gray) Icon #9 – Reference Locked to external reference (green) • Mouse-over the icon to see a description of the reference in use Reference missing (red) 12 | IRD-3101
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Frame sync option disabled (gray) Icon #10 – Color Bars Color bars OFF (green) Color bars ON (yellow) Icon #11 – Metadata Insertion No AFD / Dolby / Timecode / Teletext insertion conflicts (green) AFD / Dolby / Timecode / Teletext insertion conflicts (yellow) Move the mouse over an icon and a status message appears below the icon providing additional information. If there is an error, the error status message appears in the message area without mouse-over.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.2 The Input panel This panel provides resources for input configuration and monitoring Input section Use the Desired radio buttons to select the input. Available options are: • ASI1 – ASI input 1 • ASI2 – ASI input 2 • Ethernet – the data stream arriving on the rear-panel Ethernet port (only available when it is in Input mode) • AUTO – select the first valid input, prioritized as listed here (i.e.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.3 The Conditional Access panel Conditional Access is only available when a CAM (conditional access module) is installed. CAM status: The icon is green when a valid CAM card is detected in the card reader CAM ID: CAM card identifier Manufacturer ID: Identifies the manufacturer of the CAM card currently installed Supported CA Systems: a list of all the encryption systems supported by the installed CAM card.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION • 3.4.4 Some professional CAMs, because of the higher bit rate, will require a faster clock. Remember that the maximum bit rate that can be processed by the CAM is eight times the clock frequency. The ASI Output panel This panel allows selection of the source of signal for the ASI output.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION the service to be decoded is selected: • Manual – decode the service selected in the Service Select pulldown.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Change: Click the Change… button to open the Select AFD panel showing the available AFD codes that could be used as the default. Click on one to select it, then click Apply or OK at the bottom of the panel. Flags This section gives information about AFD flag management.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Time Code Insertion • ON • OFF VITC Insertion line – select the line to insert VITC time code (for SD output only): • 525 – between 10 and 20 • 625 – between 7 and 22 Duplicate – inserts a copy of the VITC time code 2 lines following the selected insertion line unless it would be outside the allowable range. (for SD output only) • OFF • ON Time Code Offset – Useful to compensate for delays in downstream equipment.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Generator Config Profile – use the pulldowns to select the generator profiles for programs 1 and 2. Profiles 1, 2, 3 and 4 are the available choices. • See Annex 2 on page 52 for a listing of the parameter values in the four profiles Dialnorm – Use these pulldowns to manually set a dialnorm value for the two audio programs, overriding the current value. These pulldowns are only active when the Dialnorm Override box is checked 3.4.6.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.7 The Video Processing panel The IRD-3101 includes basic proc amp functions for the analog output. 3.4.8 The Audio Config panel Figure 3.15 Video Processing panel This panel provides controls for configuring the Dolby AC3 decoder and analog audio outputs, and for monitoring some audio parameters 3.4.8.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Analog Audio Output • The Analog Output option must be activated in order to use these controls Synchronization – Use the pulldown to select whether the analog audio output will be synchronized with CBVS (which is not frame synced) or SDI Left Source, Right Source – Use the pulldowns to select the source of audio for the two output channels.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.9 The Audio Processing panel The audio program inputs to the IRD-3101 are placed into the four AES channels embedded in the IRD-3101 ASI output. Decode mode: If the input audio programs have passed through the decoder: the decoded outputs from Audio 1 (5.1 program which is decoded to six discrete channels), are grouped into three pairs of two channels (Left/Right; Center/LFE, and Ls/Rs) and each pair is assigned to one AES.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION • 625 from URS (Universal Reference Signal) – selects the internal reference (625) from the backplane • Input – uses the currently-selected input signal. The Used Reference box shows the reference currently in use, which is helpful in Auto mode Vertical (lines) With this adjustment, a value ranging from 0 to +200 lines, compared to the reference or the processing delay, may be set. This adjustment can be used in conjunction with the horizontal timing adjustment.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.11.2 TR 101 290 tab This tab shows the results of the tests against the TR 101 290 standard. Click in the checkbox at the bottom to enable or disable display updating (about once per second). The time-out value for each of the probed values can be set by the user. • Double-click on the current value to open the data box, and enter a new value. Figure 3.21 TR 101 290 tab 3.4.11.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.11.4 Pie Chart tab This tab displays the incoming service in the form of a pie chart, with color-coded segments representing the various elements in the service. • This representation illustrates the bandwidth distribution within the service. The table below the chart shows all of the elements, identifying each by name, PID and bandwidth.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.12 The Test panel Use the Color Bars checkbox to turn the Test function ON or OFF • When checked, the output signal is replaced by Color Bars. • When unchecked, the normal program signal is present at the output. • The icon at the top of the window (second from the right) shows the status of the color bars. 3.4.13 The Network Settings panel Figure 3.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Enter the new values directly into the data boxes. The changed data will show in red. • Press Apply to apply the new values, or Cancel to leave the current values unchanged. Current IP Address / Current Mask / Current Gateway – these are the current values for this card. Ethernet Speed: use the pulldown to select the ethernet speed.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION IGMP Multicast tab The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) at v3 supports the filtering of up to 59 defined IP addresses, allowing them to limit the range of sources that the receiving device can access, either by excluding all other addresses (Accept mode) or by excluding the listed addresses and accepting all others (Reject mode).
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION • Click Save to store the current parameter settings and values from the IRD-3101 into the selected User Preset. The existing contents of the preset will be overwritten. Profiles This section provides resources to save and recover the entire card configuration (including user presets if desired) on an external disk, or to copy it to another IRD-3101 card. Click on Profiles to open the Profile Copy window. Figure 3.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION • If the file was not saved for some reason, the Transfer Status box to the right of the Copy profile from line will indicate Failed against a red background Restore profile from disk… Click this button to open an Open dialog box within which you can locate and select a valid IRD-3101 profile file.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.15 The Options panel This panel provides an entry point for activating the five options available for the IRD-3101. Each option is accessed on a separate tab. Frame Sync option This option provides frame synchronization of the decoded signal to the external signal connected to the REF IN connector on the rear panel. To activate this option, you must: • Obtain a licence key from Miranda Technologies Inc.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Analog Output option This option activates the analog composite video and analog audio outputs of the IRD-3101. To activate this option, you must: • Obtain a licence key from Miranda Technologies Inc. • Type the licence key in the box • Click on ENABLE OPTION to enable the option’s features. The information window beneath the key entry box indicates whether the option is activated (green) or not (gray). Figure 3.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Dolby 5.1 option This option enables the Dolby 5.1 output on 6 discrete channels Note – Dolby 5.1 decoding is always enabled To activate this option, you must: • Obtain a licence key from Miranda Technologies Inc. • Type the licence key in the box • Click on ENABLE OPTION to enable the option’s features. The information window beneath the key entry box indicates whether the option is activated (green) or not (gray). Figure 3.37 Options panel – Dolby 5.1 3.4.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Levels associated with these alarms: The pulldown lists may contain some or all of the following options: The alarm makes no contribution (black icon) The alarm is of minor importance (yellow icon) The alarm is of major importance (orange icon) The alarm is of critical importance (red icon) The alarm exists but has no effect (used for text and composite alarms) Shortcut: if you click in one of the Set All boxes beside a section heading, you will open a pulldown that lets
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Copy to other cards Click this button to open a panel that allows the alarm configuration set for this card to be copied into another IRD-3101 card. • Select one or more destination cards from the list in the window by clicking in the checkboxes, or all of them by clicking in the All checkbox • Note that when you do a Copy Profile for this card (see Sect.3.4.14), the alarm configuration is copied along with all the other settings. Figure 3.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.17 The Info panel 3.4.17.1 Info tab When the IRD-3101 is included in an iControl environment, certain information about the card should be available to the iControl system. The user can enter labels and comments that will make this card easy to identify in a complex setup. This information is entered via the Info control panel. This panel also shows other information about the card.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION • Remote System Administration – opens the Joining Locators data box, which lists remote lookup services to which this IRD-3101 is registered. Add: Force the iControl service for this IRD-3101 to register itself on a user-specified Jini lookup service, using the following syntax in the data box: jini:// where <ïp_address> is the ip address of the server running the lookup service, e.g.: Figure 3.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION When you click the button, you will be presented with a dialog allowing you to confirm your decision to reset, or to cancel the reset.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 4 User Reference Guide 4.1 Decoding MPEG Transport Streams The user can input DVB-ASI signals up to 80Mbps on either ASI input connector. Alternatively, the Ethernet can be configured to receive an IP stream (see section 3.4.13). To select an input, go to the Input Menu into Input Selection. Once a valid transport stream signal enters the decoder, the first valid service found is decoded automatically if no selection was previously made.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION The following audio coding formats are currently supported: • • • • AC3 audio up to 5.1 channels MPEG1 Layer II MPEG2 Audio AAC audio (2 CH only) The first audio can be embedded as 5.1 discrete channels (the Dolby option is required to get discreet channels; otherwise you get 2 down-mixed channels) while the second audio is always output as 2 channels. Downmix mode can be selected between Lt/Rt or Lo/Ro modes independently for both audios.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Replace: Will use the PSIP information to replace any existing XDS data. Use this option if you know you want to use the PSIP advisory. Pass: If XDS data is already present, it is left untouched. In this mode, no V-CHIP is generated if no XDS data is present. Note that the PSIP RTT tables are not extracted. The rating information comes from the standard MPAA and other North American rating systems.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION In any case, the embedded AFD flag at the output follows any transformation that might have occurred. Therefore should the picture be rescaled, the embedded AFD reflects the actual status of the picture at the output. For example, an MPEG signal in full 16:9 (AFD code 8) down converted to SD 4:3 in letterbox will have the AFD flag 10 inserted to signal letterbox. Some restrictions apply to firmware revisions less than 211.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Input signal 4:3 Output signal 16:9 4:3 Full frame image in a 4:3 frame 4:3 Full frame image in a 4:3 frame 4:3 Pillar-box image in 16:9 frame (4:3_8) 4:3 Full frame image in a 4:3 frame (use preferred 4:3_8 code instead) (4:3_8) 4:3 Full frame image in a 4:3 frame (16:9_9) 4:3 Pillar-box image in 16:9 frame (4:3_9) (4:3_9) 16:9 Letterbox image in 4:3 frame 16:9 Letterbox image in 4:3 frame (16:9_9) 16:9 Full frame image in a 16:9 frame s (4:3_10) 14:9 Lette
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Input signal 4:3 Output signal 16:9 16:9 Full frame image in a 16:9 frame (use preferred 16:9_8 flag instead) 16:9 Letterbox image in 4:3 frame 16:9 Full frame image in a 16:9 frame (16:9_2) 14:9 Pillar-box image in a 16:9 frame (use preferred 16:9_11 flag instead) (4:3_10) 14:9 Letterbox image in a 4:3 frame (16:9_2) 14:9 Pillar-box image in a 16:9 frame (16:9_3) > 16:9 Letterbox (center) image in a 16:9 frame (4:3_11) 16:9 Letterbox image in 4:3 frame (16:9
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Input signal 4:3 Pillar-box image Shoot and protect 14:9 in a 16:9 frame 4:3 Output signal 4:3 Image shoot and protect 14:9 in a 4:3 frame (16:9_13) (4:3_13) 16:9 Image shoot and protect 14:9 in a 16:9 frame 14:9 Letterbox image in a 4:3 frame (16:9_14) (4:3_11) 4:3 Full frame image in a 4:3 frame 16:9 Image shoot and protect 4:3 in a 16:9 frame (16:9_15) 4.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 5 Specifications ASI INPUT Quantity/connector: Standards: Data bit rate: Mode: TS packet length: Return loss: One input with BNC connector EN50083-9 (V2:3/98) DVB ASI DVB ASI: Up to 80 Mbps Burst and byte supported 188/204 byte packets >15 dB up to 270 MHz ASI OUTPUT Quantity/connector: One output with BNC connector IP INPUT & OUTPUT Quantity/connector: Standards: Stream protocols: One Gigabit Ethernet with RJ45 connector IEEE 802.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION VIDEO AND TS METADATA CC data extraction: DTV CC: CC embedding: Teletext: Time Code: PSIP: REFERENCE INPUT Reference input: Signal: NTSC CC1 and CC2 as per EIA-608B EIA-608B compliant bytes of EIA-708B CC Embedding as per SMPTE-334M WST/EIA 300 706 SMPTE 12M ATSC PSIP Standard A/65 Return loss: One input with BNC connector SMPTE 170M/SMPTE 318M/ITU 624-4/BUT 470-6 black burst SMPTE 274M/SMPTE 296M tri-level synch (black) >35 dB up to 5.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION ANNEX 1 – IRD-3101 Local Control Panel User Interface LEV 1 LEV 2 LEV 3 LEV 4 Settings CARD STATUS DEVICE STATUS NO REAR, WRONG REAR, SYS OK (the items in this part of the menu are for information only, and will cycle through the display if the user does not use the control panel buttons) SELECTED INPUT DVB-ASI1, DVB-ASI2*, ETHERNET* TS TYPE NO SIGNAL, SIGNAL ERR, ATSC, DVB, ISO13818-1 OUTPUT FORMAT () REFERENCE STATUS* REF MISMATCH
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION DEFAULT AFD CODE numbers from 8 to 15 ASP. RATIO MODE NONE, AUTO, STRETCH, CENTER CUT, LETTERBOX, PILLAR BOX DISP. ASP.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION CVBS OUTPUT REFERENCE MENU* OFF, AFD, VLI/WSS AFD LINE 9, …., 20 NTSC SETUP OFF, ON CVBS BLANKING NARROW, WIDE CVBS LUMA RANGE NORMAL, SUPER B&W CVBS ASP. RATIO 4:3, 16:9 INPUT,EXTERNAL,URS-525,URS625,AUTO_SEL SOURCE DELAY PROXY CONFIG AFD/VLI/WSS INS.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION ANNEX 2 – Dolby Metadata Profiles The chart shows the metadata parameter values that are available as Profiles 1 through 4 in the Generator Configuration section of the Metadata / Dolby tab in the Video Output iControl panel. See page 19.
