AS2204 FW3.1.

2 MPEG-4 ENCODER

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Revision 1.0 Date June 2011 Changes Release 3.1.2.0

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Table of Content
1.
1.1 1.2

INTRODUCTION
Purpose Release Description

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2.
2.1

KNOWN LIMITATIONS
Limitations and Design Considerations

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3.
3.1 3.2

EVOLUTIONS
Fixed Issues New features

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4.
4.1 4.2

RELEASE IDENTIFICATION ENTIFICATION

Software modules Release Documentation

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5.
5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13

RELEASE CONTENT
Video Input Audio Input Data Input Filter Video Processing PIP Processing Audio Processing Data Processing Muxer Output System Licenses Environment

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6.

QUALITY ASSURANCE
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1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose
This is the system release document of the AS2204 Distribution Encoder Firmware 3.1.2. This he document describes the version features, known issues and limitations. In addition, this document describes changes from previous versions, including added functionality, and fixed issues. and

1.2 Release Description

This document describes Release 3.1.2.0 of the AS2204 Encoder, dated May, 20 , 2011.

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2. Known Limitations
2.1 Limitations and Design Considerations tions

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LIM001

Description
It is forbidden to configure more than one Ethernet port on the same sub-network. It may cause network. streaming or management problems problems. Teletext A is not supported supported. With specific content and using 5.1 AAC encode, the Kyrion can produce a bad stream after a long time time. Emulation with custom patter is not available in this release. pattern When the logo is "automatically" repositioned, the calculated Top-Left X coordinate is not correct Left correct. Too big logos are not displayed at all oo all. Logo transparency is limited. No warning when setting a TS Output bitrate lower than the video bitrate tting bitrate. External Audio license report in WebGUI may be wrong after FW upgrade upgrade. Bitrate target not respected by EAAC EAAC. Recurrent loss of AES3 frames (mostly in NTSC) NTSC). Moving pattern does not work with freezed frame emulation. ern Kyrion IP address is not spoofed with FEC mode. WST/WSS/VPS data is supported in TS DVB/ISDB/SBTVD standard only for 25 or 50 fps framerate. AFD from SMPTE-2016 is ignored when no bar data are present. 2016 VBI demodulation not robust enough in case of corrupted/degraded signals signals. Teletext packets may wrongly be marked as non subtitle data data.

LIM002 LIM003 LIM004 LIM005 LIM006 LIM007 LIM008 LIM009 LIM010 LIM011 LIM012 LIM013 LIM014 LIM015 LIM016 LIM017

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3. Evolutions
3.1 Fixed Issues
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FT 1409 FT 1651 FT 3101 FT 2197 FT 2407 FT 2428 FT 2561 FT 2784 FT 2820 FT 2689 FT 2948 FT 3108 FT 3235 FT 3131 FT 3272 FT 3278 FT 3348 FT 3297 FT 3299 FT 3310 FT 3320 FT 3324 FT 3330 FT 3347 FT 3359 FT 3408 FT 3414 FT 3416

Description
Added subnet conflicts checks when manually configuring through the SNMP/WebGUI. manually Stability of video monitoring on front panel. PAL closed-captions CC3- & T3-4 are not supported (only CC1-2 & T1-2). -4 Prefer CC 708 over 608 when coming over SDI SDI. Audio PTS can be too early using AC3 pass io pass-through.

Stability improvement on repeated lock and unlock of input video signal signal.

Audio change in SDI like PCM < AC3 is not supported. <-> Number of ANC audio group is limited limited. Stability improvement on input video signal extremely disturbed disturbed. RTP FEC 2d does not work properly properly. VBI Demodulation. Tooltips WebGUI improvement improvements. Mono audio output is limited to 8 channels. Broken support of 608 (CC3/4 and TT3/4) and 708 from ANC ANC. PAT period can be set out of normative limits limits. MGT, STT, and VCT periods in ATSC mo are not set according to WebGUI. mode Too High values of TTL are not checked and bl block the output. GOP Size=0 and Fixed GOP are not handled correctly together together. ATSC Channel Short Name handling is not correct. PAT version number doesnt change on configuration changes. ANC buffer is too small for 8 audi audios. Editing network configuration is impossible with Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome. MPEG Audio Downmix from 5.1 works only in 384kbit/s.

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FT 3492 FT 3507 FT 3508 FT 3511 FT 3568 FT 3573 FT 3586 FT 3612 FT 3616 FT 3657 FT 3659 FT 3669 FT 3675 FT 3715 FT 3769 FT 3786 FT 3812 FT 3853 FT 3860 FT 3911 FT 3981 FT 4004 FT 4027 FT 4132 FT 4133 FT 4358 FT 4439

VITC associated to the second field isnt correct. No warning for configuration denial when trying to use S302M with MPEG instead of DVB conformance. g CRC error on PMT when encoder set with 16 audio and more than 12 language descriptor descriptors. ANC management improvement. A start could fail with a configuration using a big look look-ahead. SNMP start message clears audio alarm track status status. Potential audio loss on input source discontinuity discontinuity. Internal clock buffer evolution may cause encoder issue issue. Robustness improvement of AES3 management, especially on video source discontinuity. VITC insertion cannot be "uncheck" in ATSC muxer muxer. Several framerate changes on the SDI input may affect internal framerate emulation. WSS should not be analyzed on second field. lyzed In baseline mode, Intra are omitted if input source is missing. Encoder automatically shutdown on high temperature. Bad handling of wrong IP unicast output output. Awkward NTP High Precision setting setting. SMPTE352M 'isInterlacedContent' isnt correctly decoded decoded. Recurrent loss of AES3 frames (mostly in NTSC) NTSC). Audio alarms 'incompatible' can stay indefinitely opened opened. Non ISO_6937 characters are not correctly supported in DVB de descriptors. Broken VITC support in TS VBI ES for ATSC. Invalid DAR may be not supported. Corrupted backup possibility possibility. Resilience issue related to the TS bitrate. GUI may be broken after SNMP password cha changes.

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3.2 New features

# Description
PIP feature: Evol001 Flexibility: Evol002 Dynamical change of output configuration Dynamical change of PID remap function Dynamical change of TS PID 420 8bits in Baseline, Main and High Profils CABAC/CAVLC selection Bitrate range : 0.1k to 4Mbs Preset : Custom, Best Quality, High Quality, Reduced Latency

Network features: Evol003 VLAN TAG Route Table Editor Source Address Spoofing

Video features: Evol004 Evol005 Emulation ( Moving pattern overlay) Logo support New video resizes Temporal decimation Input probe

Audio features: Added various languages support to the TS descriptor

Data features: Evol006 Evol007 AFD extracted from SMPTE SMPTE-2016-1 support SMPTE-2031 support for Teletext and Vps 2031

External audio feature: 8 AES stereo inputs

WebGUI enhancement: Evol008 Evol009 Power on: Support: Evol010 Evol011 Tools: MIB file and its changelog can be downloaded from the unit - Kyrion IP@/mibs Dump of previous logs (verbose 4) on internal errors Added timing checks to ease de debugging or a posteriori analysis Improved logrotate configuration Booting time has been reduced System Name showed in the page title Video DAR is showed in the status page Configuration management improvement (import from / export to a slot) Release identification: Fimware version / OEM version / Base Sys System version

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4. Release Identification
This section specifies the versions and revision for the applicable software qualified with this version.

4.1 Software modules

FIRMWARE 3.1.2.0 OEM 1.2.0.1 BASE SYSTEM 2.7.0.1

4.2 Release Documentation

AS2204 Quick Start Guide v1.0 AS2204 User Guide v1.0

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5. Release Content
This section describes the available features of this Firmware version. s

5.1 Video Input

Number Format 4 tracks 625i 25fps 525i 29,97fps Probe Video robustness Input matrix Input format switching Emulation Probe input Dynamical change of aspect ratio support Input connector choice support Automatic switch to a configuration associated to a detected format Black Pattern Disable Moving pattern User defined pattern Last picture replay Default mode New New

5.2 Audio Input

Number Source 16 tracks SDI embedded 8 AES stereo input Format PCM mono PCM stereo PCM dual mono PCM 5.1 Dolby AC3 Dolby E-AC3 Dolby E / AES3 Dolby E / AES3 pass pass-through Selection Group/Pair SDI embed embedded Group/Pair external AES Emulation Silence White noise Sine 440Hz Signaling Language identifier age Audio type description New New Ext. Audio License New Ext. Audio License

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5.3 Data Input

VBI VITC (IEC-60461), WSS (ITU BT.1119-2) 60461), (ITU-R VPS (ETS 300 231 231-1998), WST (ITU-R BT.653-3) Close Caption (CEA/EIA (CEA/EIA-608-D) Teletext (ETSI EN 300 706) ANC ATC (SMPTE 12M M-2) AFD (SMPTE 2016M 2016M-1) VPI (SMPTE 352M SMPTE 352M) Close Caption - EIA 608 (SMPTE 334 334-2), EIA 708 (SMPTE 334-1) Teletext/VPS (SMPTE 2031M SMPTE 2031M) SCTE104 (SMPTE 2010 SMPTE 2010) Teletext (SD) Page properties configuration New New

5.4 Filter
Video filtering Resize 4/5; 3/4; 2/3; 1/2 Resize CIF/SIF; QCIF PIP resize CIF/SIF; QCIF ; SQCIF ; 192x192 ; 96x96 HSBC correction Detect telecine for interlaced @ 29.97 Hz Logo insertion Temporal subsampling Audio filtering Resampling 32k / 44.1k / 48k Gain (+/- 30dB) Delay (+/- 500ms) Teletext filtering Field line selection New New New PIP License

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5.5 Video Processing

Profil H.264 Baseline 4:2:0 8 bits 0 Main; High 4:2:0 8 bits 0 CABAC / CAVLC selection Profil MPEG2 Main; High 4:2:0 8 bits 0 High 4:2:2 8 bits Core Generation Rate Control Generation 2, Generation 3 CBR Capped VBR Bitrate Gop Preset SD [0.5k-40Mb/s] 0-255 Custom, Best Quality, High Quality, Reduced Lat Latency Gen3 License

5.6 PIP Processing

Profil H.264 Baseline 4:2:0 8 bits 0 Main; High 4:2:0 8 bits 0 CABAC / CAVLC selection Profil MPEG2 Main; High 4:2:0 8 bits 0 High 4:2:2 8 bits Core Generation Rate Control Generation 2, Generation 3 CBR Capped VBR Bitrate Gop Preset 0.1k-4Mb/s 0-255 Custom, Best Quality, High Quality, Reduced Latency New New New New New New Gen3 License New New New PIP License PIP License

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5.7 Audio Processing

Encoder MPEG1-LII [128-384kb/s] 384kb/s] MPEG2-AAC-LC [64 LC [64-192kb/s] MPEG4-AAC-LC [64 LC [64-192kb/s] MPEG4-AAC-HE [32 HE [32-64kb/s] MPEG4-AAC-HEv2 [16 HEv2 [16-48kb/s] DolbyE pass-thru Dolby AC3 / EAC3 pass pass-thru Dolby AC3 / EAC3 Decoder Dolby E AACHEv2 License

5.8 Data Processing

SCTE35 SCTE104 (VANC/ (VANC/SDI) to SCTE35 (TS) GPI to SCTE35 (TS) SCTE104 (TCP/IP) to SCTE35 (TS) DVB Subtitle EN 300-743 DVB Sub License

5.9 Muxer
Native RTP MPEG2-TS Output mode CBR, VBR Packet size 188/204 PID setting for Video, Audio, Data Video bitrate constrained by TS bitrate Dynamical change of TS PID Conformance MPEG, DVB, ATSC New New

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5.10 Output
IP ITF 2 MGT interface 2 Stream interface ASI ITF Network 1 Stream output Backup stream PID remap on each ta target stream VLAN TAG Route Table Editor Source Address Spoofing Flexibility Dynamical change of output configuration Dynamical change of PID remap function Protocol UDP / RTP New New New New New

5.11 System
Time Time update NTP server support (high precision option) Alarms Individual trap support SNMP trap support Password Firmware SNMP Public & Private WebGUI Private, Firmware update Backup firmware save & restore License update OEM MIB Configuration GPIO Front panel boot message and Web nel WebGUI banner Embedded MIB package Export & Import 32 files 2 Inputs and 2 Outputs New

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5.12 Licenses
LIC-AACHEV2 LIC-GEN3 LIC-AEXT LIC-PIP-AM LIC-MPEG2 LIC-DVBSUB AAC HEv2 support Core Gen3 support External audio input su support PIP support MPEG-2 video encoding support 2 DVB Subtitle support New New New

5.13 Environment
EN 55024 : 1998 / A1 : 2001 / A2 : 2003 EN 55022 : 2006 / A1 : 2007 EN 61000-3-2 : 2006 EN 61000-3-3 : 1995 / A1 : 2001 / A2 : 2005 FCC PART 15 Class B : 2008 ICES-003 issue 4 : 2004 CAN/CSA-CEI/IEC CISPR 22 : 2002 IEC 60950-1 : 2005 (UL and CAN/CSA 22.2)

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6. Quality Assurance
6.1 Reporting Bugs
Found a bug? Please contact the support team to report any bugs you find in the firmware. mailto:support@ateme.com Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback.

6.2 Customer care

ATEME Customer Service provides assistance with product information, sales, registration, and other non-technical issues. To find out how to contact ATEME Customer Service, please visit http://www.ateme.com for your region or country and click on Contact. If you require technical assistance for your product, including information on paid support options and troubleshooting resources, more information is available on Web site.

6.3 Notices, Terms, Conditions, and Attribution

Copyright 2007 ATEME. All Rights Reserved. KYRION is a registered trademark of ATEME. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This computer program is protected by copyright law and international treaties. Unauthorized use, reproduction, or distribution of this program, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law.

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