General Settings
Introduction
In this chapter we go through the server wide settings of Playout server.
All general configuration is done from Server -> Settings
There may be other settings available from Server -> Settings -menu, but these always relate to a specific Playout module and are discussed in the corresponding chapter.
General Settings
Delivery Settings
If there is a modulation card attached to Icareus Playout, it is possible to define the modulation parameters in Server -> Delivery Settings.
Icareus Playout currently supports for DVB-T, DVB-S/S2, DVB-C and DVB-H modulation cards from Decktec.
Multiplexer Settings
The most important setting for the output is to define Multiplexer settings. That is possible to do by choosing Server -> Settings -> Multiplexer menu. It will open a new window:
The general settings include:
Output bit rate (bit/s): the total output bitrate of the generated MPEG-2 transport stream.
Min unused bandwidth (bit/s): reserved bandwidth which is filled with null packets.
Output bit rate (bit/s): the total output bitrate of the generated MPEG-2 transport stream.
Min unused bandwidth (bit/s): reserved bandwidth which is filled with null packets.
ID Reservation
Id Reservation settings enable user to define the ID's that may be used for different elements within Playout.
DVB-T2 Descriptor
DVB-T2 descriptor
<!DOCTYPE data PUBLIC "" "si.dtd">
<data>
<descriptor name="T2 delivery system descriptor">
<field bitcount="8" name="descriptor_tag" type="ulong" value="7f" visible="false"/>
<length bitcount="8" target="total"/>
<field bitcount="8" name="descriptor_tag_extension" type="ulong" value="04" visible="false"/>
<field bitcount="8" name="plp_id" type="ulong" value="0"/>
<field bitcount="16" name="T2_system_id" type="ulong" value="0"/>
<field bitcount="2" name="SISO/MISO" type="ulong" value="0"/>
<field bitcount="4" name="bandwidth" type="ulong" value="0"/>
<field bitcount="2" name="reserved" type="ulong" value="0" visible="false"/>
<field bitcount="3" name="guard_interval" type="ulong" value="2"/>
<field bitcount="3" name="transmission_mode" type="ulong" value="1"/>
<field bitcount="1" name="other_frequency_flag" type="ulong" value="0"/>
<field bitcount="1" name="tfs_flag" type="ulong" value="0"/>
<field bitcount="16" name="cell_id" type="ulong" value="0"/>
<field bitcount="32" name="centre_frequency" type="ulong" unit="10 Hz" value="1C40AA80"/>
<field bitcount="8" name="subcell_info_loop_length" type="ulong" value="0"/>
</descriptor>
</data>
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