Z3 Technology Z3-MVPR-02, User Manual

Page 1: ...3 Technology LLC This document contains proprietary and confidential information of Z3 Technology LLC Z3 This document may not be used reproduced disclosed or disseminated to anyone without the prior...

Page 2: ...ed section 5 7 on p 18 on encoding other inputs besides HDMI added section 5 8 on p 19 on sample use cases RC 2 0 5a 2 25 14 Added HW Warranty Note and Temp Humidity MS 2 00 05b 1 12 15 Added HDMI dis...

Page 3: ...urce 11 6 2 Connect and Power Up the Z3 MVPR 02 11 6 3 Find the Z3 MVPR 02 using ZFinder 12 6 4 Configure CH1 and Encode 14 6 5 Run VLC to View Stream 15 6 6 Streaming RTP 16 6 7 Changing the Bitrate...

Page 4: ...nder with Z3 MVPR 02 Selected 12 Figure 8 Z3 MVPR 02 Web GUI System Setup Page 13 Figure 9 Channel 1 Configuration Screen UDP 14 Figure 10 VLC Open Network Screen for UDP 15 Figure 11 Example of Z3 Vi...

Page 5: ...30 Web GUI Using DHCP Address 27 Figure 31 Allowed Input Combinations on the Z3 MVPR 02 28 Figure 32 Mapping of A V Cable to Component Jacks 28 Figure 33 RTMP Encode Channel 1 Settings 30 Figure 34 G...

Page 6: ...f SD video through composite input It has 2x HDMI 2x component and 2x composite inputs The Z3 MVPR 02 allows users to quickly take video from any of those 3 sources and stream them to the web or inter...

Page 7: ...P TS rate how to tune for latency and how to use DHCP Encoding from HDMI is described For encoding from component or composite see Section 6 11 Encoding from Component or Composite In on page 28 Detai...

Page 8: ..._______________ Z3 Technology LLC 100 N 8th ST STE 250 Lincoln NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 8 3 0 INCLUDED PARTS LIST Note The serial cable and gender changer are included for debugging purposes a...

Page 9: ...rates 2x USB 2 0 1x SATA and 1x SD Card Interface for local storage Web based configuration software for user friendly configuration and control RS 232 serial port for technical configuration and con...

Page 10: ...f the Z3 MVPR 02 1 2 1 Power Switch 2 Serial Port Connection 3 Composite Out 4 Status Light 1 5 Status Light 2 6 SD Card Slot 7 Audio In 1 8 Audio In 2 9 HDMI In 1 10 HDMI In 2 11 Component YPbPr In 2...

Page 11: ...rs for your Z3 product may differ from those pictured in this document 6 1 Set up the HD Source 1 Select an HD source with HDMI output Power on the HD Source Connect HDMI to a monitor Set the HD Sourc...

Page 12: ...ame network in which the Z3 MVPR 02 is connected 7 Run the ZFinder PC Utility on your Windows PC The ZFinder window appears ZFinder does a scan of the network and lists the location of all Z3 systems...

Page 13: ..._______ Z3 Technology LLC 100 N 8th ST STE 250 Lincoln NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 13 9 Click on Open Device An Internet browser window is opened default browser used is Firefox and the Web GUI a...

Page 14: ...t should be 5004 by default 12 The encoder may have already started after 20 seconds the encoder will automatically try to start If it has click on stop near the bottom of the screen The status should...

Page 15: ...LC to View Stream 13 Run VLC on your PC version used in testing at Z3 2 1 5 14 Select Media Open Network Stream In the box type udp 192 168 0 6 5004 where 192 168 0 6 is the IP address of your PC and...

Page 16: ...g it is relatively simple to change to RTP streaming All that is needed is a few parameter changes To stream using RTP do the following steps 17 In the CH1 configuration tab click on stop to stop the...

Page 17: ...here IP Address is the IP address of the Z3 MVPR 02 ch is 1 for CH1 2 for CH2 and m is added if a multicast address is being streamed For example if the IP address of the Z3 MVPR 02 is the default val...

Page 18: ...you to change the bitrate without stopping and restarting the encoder This can be used if streaming RTP To use it do the following steps 23 In VLC click on Tools and select Codec Information This brin...

Page 19: ...SA 1 402 323 0702 19 25 You should see the quality of the picture in VLC change and the video bitrate drop If you click on the status page and click Refresh you will also see the updated bitrate refle...

Page 20: ...selected as the output format Normally this value is set to 25 to 33 above the sum of the video and audio bitrate For example the default value out of the factory is a value of 10Mbps corresponding t...

Page 21: ...ATE should appear with the default value of 10000K Change this to 1000K see step 5 above 28 Click on start to start encoding see step 6 above 29 Open VLC to view your UDP stream Section 6 5 and view t...

Page 22: ...8508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 22 30 The value of TS Rate must be higher than video bitrate audio bitrate 1 25 If an attempt is made to input a value less than this the error message TS rate too small t...

Page 23: ...ue Z3 recommends is 100 B frames improve the quality of the picture but they also increase the latency by 1 frame time To minimize latency B frames should be disabled done by setting Number of B frame...

Page 24: ...w DHCP support works you can do the following steps 31 The first thing you need to do is set up a custom configuration so that the DHCP setting is used the next time the system boots up To do this cli...

Page 25: ...As soon as you select z3_config1 the screen will reload Check the Use DHCP box 35 Now that DHCP is set in z3_config1 save the configuration by clicking on the Save button Figure 24 Selecting z3_confi...

Page 26: ...the first time it might take up to 10 seconds for this message to appear This is due to the Z3 MVPR 02 initializing various configuration values 37 Now that you ve set DHCP saved it to the configurati...

Page 27: ...27 39 Select the Z3 MVPR 02 and then click Open Device 40 A web browser will then open at the IP address of the Z3 MVPR 02 and you will see the Web GUI Figure 30 Web GUI Using DHCP Address 41 You can...

Page 28: ...ose combinations an alternative is available Figure 31 below shows the combinations that are allowed and not allowed on the Z3 MVPR 02 CH1 CH2 Allowed Notes HDMI1 HDMI2 Yes Component1 Component2 Yes C...

Page 29: ...ngineTM as an example server for RTMP streaming RTMP output from the Z3 MVPR 02 supports metadata to enable MPEG DASH Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP transcoding with Wowza Streaming EngineTM med...

Page 30: ..._________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology LLC 100 N 8th ST STE 250 Lincoln NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 30 6 After you re finished your settings should look like the...

Page 31: ...he Content on Wowza 9 Go to a PC that is on the same network as the Wowza server and open a web browser in this example FireFox is used Type in the URL of the Wowza server with the port 8088 in this e...

Page 32: ...1 You should see the Test Players popup screen Select the Adobe RTMP tab change the Stream name to 1080 should match the directory you are streaming to in the Z3 MVPR 02 and click Start You should the...

Page 33: ...s If you have a specific configuration you d like to preserve you can save it so that when the Z3 MVPR 02 is powered off and back on it automatically uses those settings For an example of doing this p...

Page 34: ...4 This brings you to the File Selection Screen From here select the name of the img file to update with and click Open Figure 38 File Selection Screen The image file to be used will typically have the...

Page 35: ...Using the Password Feature 1 In the System Setup tab click on go next to Set Password 2 Once you click on go the change password options appear Enter the new password twice and click change 3 Wait fo...

Page 36: ...100 N 8th ST STE 250 Lincoln NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 36 4 Retype the IP address in the web browser You should then see a prompt for a user name and password Use admin for the user name and th...

Page 37: ...gateway to use for the Z3 MVPR 02 Note that a save of these settings and a reboot is needed for changes to this value to take effect DNS Server IP 1 a b c d 8 8 8 8 Specifies the primary DNS server t...

Page 38: ...details update device firmware See Section 8 2 Making a Firmware Update on p 33 download device logs Clicking this causes the Z3 MVPR 02 to extract a set of diagnostic logs that can be sent to Z3 Tec...

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Page 40: ...ded picture Height Height of encoded picture A small i will appear if interlaced is being encoded Audio Status Channel The channel number 1 or 2 Subchannel Always 1 in this release Codec The codec bei...

Page 41: ...480i 480p 576i 576p coming in through component HDMI When this is checked the aspect ratio in the bitstream is set to 16 9 For any HD input this value is ignored Video Resolution 320x180 1920x1080 19...

Page 42: ...gher the value the smoother the encode but also the higher the latency see Section 6 9 Tuning for Latency on page 23 Audio Enable True False True Encode audio Audio Info Entries for each of the 4 subc...

Page 43: ...__________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology LLC 100 N 8th ST STE 250 Lincoln NE 68508 1369 USA 1 402 323 0702 43 None Pid UDP TS Only 0 8191 120 121 122 123 If UDP format...

Page 44: ...tput Format RTP UDP TSRTP RTMP TSFILE FILE MPTS Output format of encoded stream RTP requires an SDP file for the receiver or the use of the RTSP URL see Section 6 6 Streaming RTP on page 16 for more d...

Page 45: ...n UDP Only tmp aux1 ts Appears if Aux TS File Enable is set to True Specifies where to save the TS file For example if a USB drive is connected the value media sda1 example ts could be specified Video...

Page 46: ...RUNNING POLLING Current status of the encoder POLLING indicates start was pressed and the encoder is waiting for valid input data to be detected Note 1 Encode Resolutions Supported WQVGA 320x180 QVGA...

Page 47: ...ess check this This will cause an Address box to appear where the user can type the multicast address the decoder should connect to Address For Multicast only x y z w 225 1 2 3 The multicast IP addres...

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Page 49: ...GUI encoder factory default Factory defaults Can also add more profiles by clicking on new in the User Presets tab Save Click on this to save preset value to what was selected Operating Mode Encoder I...

Page 50: ...Wowza to work with the Z3 MVPR 02 RTMP streaming the following steps are needed 1 Log in to the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager Home page by typing http localhost 8088 where localhost is the IP addres...

Page 51: ...323 0702 51 3 Click on Applications in the top band of options On the left column click on live and then Incoming Security Click Edit and then make sure RTMP Publishing and RTSP Publishing are both se...

Page 52: ...each other on the network Try pinging the Z3 MVPR 02 IP address from the PC Try pinging the PC from the Z3 MVPR 02 Problem Do not see video in VLC UDP Does the IP address set in Dest Address equal th...