User guide

Viz Engine Administrator’s Guide

The VCP specifications shown below are machine specifications for a typical newsroom

system setup, where VCP is the control application receiving the playlist.

VCP specifications

Software Viz Content Pilot 5.6 Media Sequencer 1.22 or later Oracle

10g Instant Client 32-bit Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Optional:

Oracle 11g Instant Client 32-bit Optional: Oracle 11g or 10 g

Runtime Client 32-bit Optional: Viz World Client, VCP TimeCode

Monitor, Viz PreCut. Optional: If you are using a local Viz Engine

to preview video clips from Viz One, Viz Engine must be installed

with an MPEG-4 codec and Matroska splitter

Optional: Windows Media Player 11 for video clip preview in Viz

Object Store.

Executable(s) VizContentPilot.exe vizPreviewEngine.exe (local preview)

Local drive access Access to Oracle client files and folders

Read and write access to C:\Program Files\vizrt\

Network access Mapped drive to Viz Object Store still store folder

Optional: If local preview using Viz Engine 2 is chosen, a mapped

drive to Viz Engine’s data root is needed

Also see Shared Data

Operating system Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (recommended) Windows 7

Enterprise 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit Windows XP

Professional 32-bit

The Viz Content Pilot client gets its Viz One connection parameters from the VCP

database. This is also true for the older Viz Video Hub.

Vizrt recommends the use of remote preview that has no need for a local Viz Engine or

graphics cards on the client machine.

Viz Content Pilot Database

The VCP database is an Oracle database server. Usually two database servers are

installed where one is used for manual failover and to hold the Viz Engine 2.x data root.

Viz Engine 3.x graphics data is stored on the Viz Graphic Hub ).

VCP database specifications

Software Oracle 11g Database 64-bit Oracle 11g Administrator Client

64-bit (standard edition) Optional: Oracle 10g Database and

Administrator Client 64-bit

Executable(s) Please refer to official Oracle documentation.

Ports and

Connections

1521 (queries)

Services Oracle database service, TNS listener service