9.25 Adtec-Afinity-Encoder

This page describes the device driver and the device window for the Adtec Afiniti Encoder device via SNMP. It supports RTP/UDP and SRT output.

When using UHD (channel.mode = SINGLE) encoders instances 2-4 are readonly.

Driver support one HD encoding instance. For each additional instance another device is needed. Additionally it is necessary to select the slot where encoding card is installed via device setup config.slot. The dedicated Output can be selected via config.output

The driver was tested with the following sw releases:

• 4.2.0 It is not backwards compatible to earlier releases

Device window pages

The following table shows which device window pages are available with this individual device type. Tool-bar functions not mentioned here are described at the general description of device windows .

• --- Contains the MPEG output parameter settings and the operation control.
• --- Contains RTP/UDP and SRT output parameters and statistics.
• --- Contains the conditional access (BISS) parameters.
• --- Contains video in/output parameters from the MPEG stream.
• --- Contains the parameters concerning the audio channel 1 encoding.
• --- Contains the parameters concerning the audio channel 2 encoding.
• --- Contains the parameters concerning the audio channel 3 encoding.
• --- Contains the parameters concerning the audio channel 4 encoding.
• --- The faults page.
• --- The device info page.
• --- The maintenance page. The configuration parameters described below are set at this page.

Configuration parameters

At the maintenance page of the device window there are a couple of configuration parameters which must be set to make the software talk to the encoder.

• parameter --- description

• address --- The SNMP address specification for the device. The full address specification consists of the following fields:aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:pppp read-community write-community

  • aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd --- The IP address of the device in 'dotted quad' notation. This field is mandatory.
  • pppp --- The IP port number where the device accepts SNMP requests. The port number may be omitted, the driver uses the standard port 161 in this case.
  • read-community --- The SNMP read community name. This must match the read community expected by the device.
  • write-community --- The SNMP write community name. This must match the write community expected by the device. The write community name may be omitted, the driver uses the read community name for both, read and write in this case. If both community names are missing, the driver uses 'public' as a default for read and write community.

• readBackDelay --- Defines the delay the driver uses when it reads back parameters recently commanded. The delay is initialized at a proved preset value which should not be changed under normal circumstances.

• slot --- Defines the slot where encoding card is installed 1-6.

• channel --- Defines the used encoder for this device from the 1-4.

• output --- Defines the index of the ts output which should be allocated to the chosen encoding channel.

• deviceComment --- An optional text entered here appears as an addition to the tooltip which is shown while the mouse is placed over a device icon in the GUI. The "\n" character sequence is translated into a newline character, splitting the text into multiple lines.

Variables defined by this device driver