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.

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.

 

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.

Id Reservation settings enable user to define the ID's that may be used for different elements within Playout.

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>