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.
Purchasing Licenses – Minnetonka Audio http://www.minnetonkaaudioshop.
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.
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 .
Connection Diagram External PC COM24-FLX or COM24 outputting SD video GbE Switch *GbE-1 card required for COM200 chassis with QAM or All connections must be Gigabit Ethernet 6 7/7/2014 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.
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 Click Save Settings to save & exit 8 7/7/2014
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 9 7/7/2014
Audio Transcoder Operation Total number of licenses on the dongle CPU usage meter Memory usage meter Status (Green Check or Red Stop) Status Log 10 7/7/2014 Thread Prioritization (which channels are first to drop if PC is overloaded) Input Bitrate (Video is running)
