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    Observer

    User Manual

    Release 6.0

    Copyright 2011 by Volicon, Inc.

    Do Not Copy or Distribute

    All Rights Reserved

    Volicon, Inc.111 South Bedford Street

    Suite 201

    Burlington , Massachusetts 01803

    www.volicon.com

    email:[email protected]

    Tel: +1-781-221-7400

    Fax: +1-781-221-7407

    http://www.volicon.com/http://www.volicon.com/mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]://www.volicon.com/
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    1. Introduction ____________________________________________________________________ 4

    1.1. Purpose and Scope __________________________________________________________________ 4

    1.2. System Overview ___________________________________________________________________ 4

    2. Getting Started _________________________________________________________________ 4

    2.1. PC Client Requirements ______________________________________________________________ 4

    2.2. Logging In _________________________________________________________________________ 5

    2.2.1. First Time Access __________________________________________________________________________ 5

    3. Home Page - Favorites ___________________________________________________________ 7

    3.1. Home Page ________________________________________________________________________ 8

    3.1.1. Player Display Area ________________________________________________________________________ 83.1.2. Logging Out ______________________________________________________________________________ 83.1.3. Dashboard - Encoder/Stream Input ___________________________________________________________ 9

    3.2. Left Menu _________________________________________________________________________ 93.3. Control-bar ________________________________________________________________________ 9

    3.3.1. Player Hotkeys ___________________________________________________________________________ 103.3.2. Control-bar Cut Clips ______________________________________________________________________ 113.3.3. Volume Stream / Bar Timeline ______________________________________________________________ 11

    3.4. Player Stream Bar__________________________________________________________________ 12

    3.4.1. Player Stream Bar Icons ___________________________________________________________________ 123.4.2. Loudness meter __________________________________________________________________________ 12

    3.5. Popup Menu ______________________________________________________________________ 13

    3.5.1.LOUDNESS METER________________________________________________________________________ 133.5.2. Display Metadata ________________________________________________________________________ 13

    3.5.3. Audio Loudness __________________________________________________________________________ 133.5.4. Align Metadata __________________________________________________________________________ 133.5.5. Captions and Subtitles ____________________________________________________________________ 133.5.6.AUDIO TRACKS ___________________________________________________________________________ 13

    3.6. Status Line - AL, SS and BS ___________________________________________________________ 14

    4. Media Clips ___________________________________________________________________ 15

    4.1. Bookmarks _______________________________________________________________________ 15

    4.2. Fault Clips ________________________________________________________________________ 15

    4.2.1. Search Clips _____________________________________________________________________________ 164.2.2. Sort Clips _______________________________________________________________________________ 16

    4.2.3. Delete Clips _____________________________________________________________________________ 164.2.4. Mail Clips _______________________________________________________________________________ 16

    4.3. Export Clips _______________________________________________________________________ 17

    4.3.1. Bookmark Clips __________________________________________________________________________ 174.3.2. Export Video ____________________________________________________________________________ 174.3.3. Standard Export Format Types ______________________________________________________________ 174.3.4. Export With Advanced Options _____________________________________________________________ 18

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    4.3.5. Play Exported Clips _______________________________________________________________________ 18

    4.4. Export Existing Clips ________________________________________________________________ 19

    4.5. Report Fault Clips in ASCII ___________________________________________________________ 20

    5. Loudness Monitoring ___________________________________________________________ 215.1. Audio Loudness __________________________________________________________________ 21

    5.2. Export Audio Loudness _____________________________________________________________ 22

    6. CC Search _____________________________________________________________________ 23

    7. Front-end Setup ________________________________________________________________ 25

    7.1. User Preferences __________________________________________________________________ 25

    7.2. User Management _________________________________________________________________ 26

    7.3. Alert Notification, Emails and SNMP Notification ________________________________________ 26

    8. Appendix _____________________________________________________________________ 27

    8.1. Shortcut Keys _____________________________________________________________________ 27

    8.1.1. Glossary ________________________________________________________________________________ 28

    8.2. Troubleshooting ___________________________________________________________________ 28

    8.3. What NOT to do on the server side ____________________________________________________ 28

    9.1. Scheduled Recording Module ________________________________________________________ 29

    9.1.1. Recorded Events _________________________________________________________________________ 29

    10. Remote Control _______________________________________________________________ 31

    10.1. Remote Control Menu _____________________________________________________________ 31

    10.2. Virtual Remote Control ____________________________________________________________ 32

    10.2.2. Virtual Remote Macro Scripting ____________________________________________________________ 33

    10.3. Revision Change History ___________________________________________________________ 34

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    1. INTRODUCTION

    1.1. PURPOSE AND SCOPE

    This manual covers common monitoring and logging applications. Setting up alerting thresholds,

    user administration and system configuration are covered in the Observer Admin Guide.

    1.2. SYSTEM OVERVIEW

    The Observer system consists of one or more encoder servers (probes), usually located in remote

    or unmanned video distribution centers. Each server is capable of monitoring several video inputs

    simultaneously, typically connected to four video sources through its encoders. The Central/web

    server (CS) interfaces the system to the web client machines (client PCs). Usually the system

    administrator configures the web and probe server addresses and functions of the system.

    Once configured, the system constantly records video and monitors for various kinds of failures.

    2. GETTING STARTED

    2.1. PCCLIENT REQUIREMENTS

    To access the Observer from a client machine you will need:

    Windows 7, 64 bit OS 3.5GB RAM or aboveSound card

    Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 8 browser

    Windows Media Player 11 or greater installed

    Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or equivalent processor recommended

    Minimum NVIDIA or ATI video adapter

    User with local administrative privileges to install signed ActiveX control

    Minimum 10 Mbps network connection bandwidth: 1.2-1.5 times the sum of viewed

    stream's bandwidth, i.e., display two 512 Kbps streams smoothly, 1.2-1.5 Mbps of

    bandwidth is needed

    URL or IP address to the Web server placed in the browser Trusted Sites zone

    Silverlight support if used for clients other than IE

    Pease verify the client machine requirements before proceeding. In general a more powerful

    client machine will display more numerous concurrent video streams. However, the system

    logging and monitoring effectiveness is independent of the client machines.

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    2.2. LOGGING IN

    To access the Observer system

    Start Internet Explorer

    Enter Observer server URL

    2.2.1. First Time Access

    At first time access from a client PC machine (and

    system upgrades)to the Observer media player will be

    installed. Youwill be presented with a warning striptowards the top of the screen

    Accept it

    Run Add-on

    Accept the Security Warning

    Accept defaults (Check if prompts are hidden

    behind other forms to continue install)

    Download the media player

    If the CMM (optional module) is used, the Reckon client will be installed in addition to the

    Observer media player.

    2

    1

    3

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    Optionally specify a page to be presented after login (Home is the default)

    o Clips

    o Searcho User Preferences

    o Setting

    Login - Enter

    o Username

    o Password

    Change default values for security, see the

    Preferences section

    For the first time login name and password, see the First Read MeGuide shipped with the

    system, otherwise contact Volicon support.

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    3. HOME PAGE -FAVORITES

    Select Favoritechannels in the Dashboardout of many possible. This way a large system can be

    managed with ease - to access, click the Home Favorites icon (1). Favorites are available only

    if enabled (Maintenance Settings, RPM Admin Guide).

    Then select CheckStreams of Interest(2)from the bottom half of the page and press the

    Add to Favorites(3)- these will be moved up to the selected Encoder/streams section, top

    half of the Favorites page and will redefine players accordingly on the Home page.

    Follow a similar procedure with the Remove from Favorites (4)at the top half of the page.

    Favorites (1)

    Add to Favorites (3)

    Check Streams of Interest (2)

    4 Remove rom Favorite

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    3.1. HOME PAGE

    The Home page is the main monitoring interface of the Observer system. Here you select the

    various players to view live broadcasts, playback video channels and create clips for later review:

    To test the channels, display video streams with the button on the right of the Control-

    bar. Verify that all the Encoder/streams are working before proceeding to the next step.

    If no streams appear, check the Favorites configuration, otherwise your systemprobably doesnthave the encoders configured. See Stream Controlin the Observer Admin Guide.

    If encoder/streams appear but there is no video in them, it could be related to TCP streaming

    port not being open, therefore contact your network administrator.

    The Monitoring page is broken down into several key areas:

    3.1.1. Player Display Area

    The viewing area displays the selected video streams located above the player Control-bar as

    show in the figure above.

    3.1.2. Logging Out

    After completing your work-session it is important to Logout in order to save system

    resources. Logout is located at the top right of the Home page (and other pages).

    Player Display Area

    Control-bar

    Lft

    Dashboard

    t

    Live

    Player stream-bar

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    3.1.3. Dashboard - Encoder/Stream Input

    In addition to Favoritesand Uncheck All, Encoder/stream inputs are listed in the dashboard

    (of home page) as shown above. Enable player displays with the associated checkboxes. Click on

    the player you want to monitor (select it as the active player) - to operate it with the Control bar

    and to listen to its audio.

    Uncheck AlliconA convenience feature to uncheck all the selected players at one time.

    3.2. LEFT MENU

    The Left menu allows access to additional functionality such as clip list creation, editing,

    exporting, clip review - features described later in this document.Note that some of these abilities may be restricted by the administrator and thus not available

    to some user groups.

    3.3. CONTROL-BAR

    This bar controls the active video channel display.

    1. Rewind

    2. Reverse play

    3. Slow reverse

    4. Step back

    5. Pause

    6. Step forward

    7. Slow play

    8. Play

    9. Fast forward

    The Slow playand Slow reversework at the normal speed.Multiple clicks on the

    Rewindand Fast forwardicons will accelerate these operations.

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    3.3.1. Player Hotkeys

    In addition to the Control-bar, use keyboard single key strokes to control the player functions

    conveniently:

    LLive playback

    FFull-screen for active window

    D - Switch between main and extended display (in Full-screen mode)

    SSplit-screen

    PPIP (picture in picture)

    ZFast reverse

    XNormal reverse

    CSlow reverse

    - Pause/Un-pause PlayVSlow forward

    BNormal Forward

    NFast Forward

    IImage snapshot

    - Volume up/down (audio)

    Single frame forward/backward

    Single quote Cut clip

    Simply press the above keyboard buttons for the player functions listed. See Appendix,

    @Shortcut Keysfor more details.

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    3.3.2. Control-bar Cut Clips

    While examining media, the button allows you to clip sections of

    interest. Navigate to the desired start time and click the . The buttonsgraphicwill change automatically to . Then navigate to the desired end-point and click

    the button again. A dialog box will appear allowing one to specify additional information,

    e.g., Name, Description Press the to record the new clip in the Bookmarks area.

    Alternately press the Exporticon to save it on your Client PC in ASF and other formats. See

    the Export Clips section for additional details.

    3.3.3. Volume Stream / Bar Timeline

    Mute/un-mute and adjust the volume of audio by using the Volume

    and Volume slide bar icons

    Stream Bar Timeline is adjusted with the magnification glass marks to

    the right. Time to the left is the Seek-bar timeline displayed in

    minutes.

    FULL-SCREEN MODES AND RATINGS

    In addition to the standard display, there are three full-screen mode

    icons, from left to right and a Ratings button:

    FULL-SCREEN Displays the currently active input in full-screen mode. This mode can

    also be selected from the Popup menu and by double clicking any of the

    displayed channels.

    SPLIT FULL-SCREEN Displays all viewed inputs tiled across the entire screen

    PICTURE-IN-PICTURE In addition to full-screen mode, also displays the other viewed inputs

    as small previews at the top-right of the screen

    EXIT FULL-SCREEN To exit the Full screen mode, double click the display or press the

    escape key

    RATINGS (Optional module) facilitates efficient comparison of broadcasts at

    specific times and for selected channels. This feature works both in

    real-time and during playback.

    PLAY LIVE Connects the displays to their live video feeds

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    3.4. PLAYER STREAM BAR

    The Stream bar includes the Seek-bar and other elements:

    Popup Menu; CC Enable; Synch to Me Date Time Selector Input Stream Name

    The Seek-bar allows for quick review of the video history. By default its length represents 30

    minute duration; the parameter is configurable in the Preferences page.

    In addition, while hovering over it with a cursor, the corresponding Seek-bar times are displayedby a tool tip appearing close to the cursor. Clicking on it at a point of interest will bring the

    player to display media from the corresponding time of the Seek-bar.

    3.4.1. Player Stream Bar Icons

    Advanced options and the Popup Menu share many items. Right clicking a channel display brings

    up a Popup menu:

    ADVANCED OPTIONS The first menu icon on

    the Stream-bar brings up the Popup menu

    SHOW/HIDE CC Enables Closed Captioning text

    SYNC TO ME Synchronizes the displayed videos

    to the active display for comparison during the

    same time frame

    DATE/TIME SELECTOR Corresponds to video

    playback time. Changing the time selector

    allows access to any point in the history of the

    video stream - double click to editFigure: Loudness Meter and Popup Menu

    3.4.2. Loudness meter

    When enabled (in Popup menu), its height fluctuates to indicate the loudness of the input

    stream. It appears at the bottom left or right of the display depending on the Set LMicon.

    Stream-bar

    Seek-bar

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    3.5. POPUP MENU

    Right click on a display (previous figure) then select one of the following options:

    3.5.1. LOUDNESS METER

    Enables the display of Loudness Meter (previous figure).

    SET LM LEFT/RIGHTPositions Loudness Meter to the right or left at

    the bottom of the display

    3.5.2. Display Metadata

    XDS such items as Time of day, captions, program information

    Video and audio (parameters)

    Audio loudness - standardized Loudness Monitoring

    AFD (display)

    3.5.3. Audio Loudness

    See the Loudness Monitoring section

    3.5.4. Align Metadata

    Left

    Right

    3.5.5. Captions and Subtitles

    Off -- Disable Caption and Subtitles

    Languages-one subtitle

    Language-two subtitles

    Besides the ability to enable subtitles, you can also select one or more languages if available in

    the media and if so configured (Observer Admin Guide)

    3.5.6.AUDIO TRACKS

    Select from available audio tracks:

    Stereo Mono Dolby audio configuration

    Audio track inputs

    Configured with the Audio Profile Manager (Observer Admin Guide)

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    3.6. STATUS L INE -AL,SSAND BS

    Status line with video and audio

    measurements recorded for every

    channel can be examined through

    playback at a later date (up to system

    storage capacity)

    BS -BLACK SCREENAMOUNT

    Percentage of black in the display

    SS -STATIC SCREEN

    Percentage of static scenery in the

    display

    AL -AUDIO LEVEL

    Audio level of the received signal measured in dB. The default threshold for Low Audio Alert is -

    40 dB, amplitude range from -54 to 0 dB

    Black Screen Audio Level

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    4. MEDIA CLIPS

    4.1. BOOKMARKS

    Clipped video from live or recorded media get stored in the Bookmarks page. Access it from the

    Left menu:

    Clips Bookmarks to access Clip List:

    4.2. FAULT CLIPS

    After detecting faults in the media, the Observer generates fault clips. Access it:

    Clips Fault Clips

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    Media clips help users to review the problem first hand when it occurred.

    Clips can be:

    Shared with other users of the Observer system

    E-mailed to business partners

    Exported to your PC for later review

    4.2.1. Search Clips

    To search for a particular clip, enter text in the Name or descriptionfield and optionally check

    filtering fields Time range, Recoveries (from alerting), Video, Audio, CC, then start, press

    .

    4.2.2. Sort Clips

    Video clip lists can be sorted in ascending or descending order clicking on most columns such as:

    Name

    Description

    Created/Modified (time)

    4.2.3. Delete Clips

    Delete selected clips with the button or single clips with the X icon

    4.2.4. Mail Clips

    TheEmail icon facilitates sending the URL

    of a clip (not the clip itself) to a recipient. In order

    to see the clip, the recipient needs a users

    account on the Observer system. These can be

    setup by the system administrator.

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    4.3. EXPORT CLIPS

    Clip live or recorded video (Home page) with the

    button

    4.3.1. Bookmark Clips

    After clipping video, click (figure below) to send the clip to the Bookmarks page

    4.3.2. Export Video

    To export video/Closed Captions click the Export Videoor Export CC icons

    Figure: Clip Export

    Exporting selected clip dialog box will appear.

    Provide Filename, directory, type (PC

    client)

    Press the button

    4.3.3. Standard Export Format Types

    ASF file (Advanced Streaming Format)

    Flash Video .flv /HD Flash Video .flv

    H254 Video .mp4 /HD H254 Video .mp4

    MPEG2 Video .mpeg /HD MPEG2

    MPEG4 Mobile .mp4

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    4.3.4. Export With Advanced Options

    During export select one or more of the following:

    STREAM OPTIONS

    Audio

    Video

    ADVANCED OPTIONS

    Some of the options specify parameters that get burned into the exported video:

    Timestamp (burned in video)

    Banner(burned into video)

    Resolution(select resolution)

    Target Bitrate (select bitrate)

    Quality (select video quality)

    Maximum time accuracy for frame

    accurate export

    Audio Loudness

    4.3.5. Play Exported Clips

    To play an exported clip on a client PC use a standard media player (i.e., Windows Media Player).

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    4.4. EXPORT EXISTING CLIPS

    Access clips from Bookmarksor Fault clip

    Double click on a clip

    Click on the ExportIcon

    See Export Video section above for details

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    4.5. REPORT FAULT CLIPS IN ASCII

    button lists Fault clips in text or CSV

    System will prompt for a folder on your PC to download report

    Excel spreadsheet will display clip parameters in separate columns:

    The system will prompt for a folder on your client machine to download the report. Opening the

    report with a spreadsheet application will display clip parameters organized in separate

    columns.

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    5. LOUDNESS MONITORING

    Optional module for Observer release 6.0 and above to monitor and record standardized audio

    loudness measurements. From the Popup menu (right click on a display and) select

    Metadata Audio loudness

    The first line identifies the stream (81_1) used and the Probe server (192.168.0.81)

    Figure: Audio Loudness

    5.1. Audio Loudness

    European Broadcasting Union (EBU Tech 3341) standard for audio metering includes Momentary

    (400 ms), Short term (3s) and Integratedmeasurements (in accordance with ITU-R BS.1770-2)

    meter (default 15sec, 30 sec, 1 day and 5 day) see the proceeding figure and the following table.

    M: -18.41 lufs M:Momentary sliding rectangular (0.4s) time window

    -18.41 lufsabsolute loudness units (Decibel)

    S: -17.12 lufs S:Short term sliding rectangular (3s) time window:

    -17.12 lufs absolute loudness units (Decibel)

    SI/LRA 15s:

    -16.60 lufs/13.06 lu

    Short (term)Integrated/Loudness Range results, 15s integration window

    -16.60 lufs absolute loudness units (Decibel)

    -13.06 lu relative loudness units (Decibel)

    LI/LRA 1.0d:

    -16.25 lufs/16.47 lu

    Long (term)Integrated/Loudness Range results, 1.0 day integration window

    -16.25 lufs absolute loudness units

    -16.47 lu relative loudness units

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    (To enable and configure see the Observer Admin Guide Loudness Monitoring)

    SI/LRA 15s: Short Term Integrated units configured in seconds can be displayed minutes

    LI/LRA 1.0d: Long Term units configured in minutes can be displayed hours or days

    The player display adjusts its display time units automatically depending on the configured

    integration time:

    When Short Term Integration is configured for60 sec, it is displayed in minutes

    When Long Term Integration is configured for 60 min, it is displayed in hours, when for

    (60x24) 1440 min, it is displayed in days

    5.2. EXPORT AUDIO LOUDNESS

    Once enabled, the Loudness Monitoring results get recorded together with the video. After

    clipping with buttons from player display in the Home Page, click the

    Export icon and select the Audio Loudness option from the Advanced Options, see the

    Export Clips section for details.

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    6. CCSEARCH

    After selecting Search from the Left menu, filter existing clips with closed captions based ontheir Search text, Channel (stream), CC Duration and time period. The time period is

    defined by Date/durationor From, Tofields. Press the button to start the search.

    At completion all the instances of video clips matching the search criteria are listed along with

    the thumbnails for visual cues, caption text, channel number and time as shown below.

    Additional pages of clip listings when available are referred to at the bottom of the screen.

    To view any of the clips and their closed captions, click the corresponding thumbnail; then

    control playback with the Control-bar below:

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    7. FRONT-END SETUP

    7.1. USER PREFERENCES

    In User Preferences from the Left menu, you can configure the Seek-bar scale, change the login

    password and additional parameters as shown below:

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    Seek-bar duration Seek-bar duration time in minutes

    Time zone Specifies user player display and clip date/time.

    System Time zone Settingssourced from users Web

    client machine time zone (default). For the ObserverPro (Silverlight) the default is the only time zone

    setting availablechange through Web client

    machine time zone

    Default audio language Configured for the encoder servers in audio profile

    Timestamp on CC export Enables timestamps on CC being exported

    Play live last selected channels Play-live on channels selected last time just before

    logout rather than continue playing from when left off

    Show frame in live mode Enable frame control in live mode

    Limited results of CC search Limit the maximum number of clips from CC searches

    Select default CC state CC On, Off or Remember last state

    Select default XDS state XDS On, Off or Remember last state

    Select default Loudness meter state Loudness On, Off or Remember last state

    Change Password Ability to change your login password

    Observer Theme Background, color and display schemes

    Keyword Alerts Enable alerts of CC for configured keywords

    Enable, Disable or Delete

    Use slider players control Checkbox (Check/Uncheck)

    7.2. USER MANAGEMENT

    See the Observer Admin Guide

    7.3. A LERT NOTIFICATION,EMAILS AND SNMPNOTIFICATION

    See the Observer Admin Guide

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    8. APPENDIX

    8.1. SHORTCUT KEYS

    In addition to the Control-bar, use keyboard single key strokes to control the player functions

    conveniently:

    Player Hotkey buttons Multi- player screen

    (Normal mode)/6.0

    Test resultsFull-screen mode/6.0 Test

    resultsL Live playback L L

    F Full-screen for active

    window

    F F or ESC returns screen to

    normal player mode

    D - Switch between mainand extended display (in

    Full-screen mode)

    N/A D

    S Split-screen S F or ESC returns screen to

    normal player mode

    P PIP (picture in picture) P F or ESC returns screen to

    normal player mode

    Z Fast reverse Z Z

    X Normal reverse X X

    C Slow reverse C C

    - Pause/Un-

    pause Play

    V Slow forward V V

    B Normal Forward B B

    N Fast Forward N N

    I Image snapshot I

    -Volume up/down (audio)

    M - Mute/un-mute (audio) M (first press Mute on

    Control bar)

    M (first press Mute on Control

    bar)

    Single frame

    forward/backward

    and

    Single quote Cut clip

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    8.1.1. Glossary

    Encoder device which accepts video input and compresses it for streaming

    through the network via Internet Protocols

    Electronic Program Guide (EPG) softcopy of TV listings with the associated metadata for display

    Event association of video channel, specific start date/time, duration

    and recurrence for scheduling system to record video content; or

    for clip generation

    Observer Volicons broadcast video monitoring solution

    8.2. TROUBLESHOOTING

    Most of the troubleshooting and repairs are performed by the systems administrators - see the

    Observer Admin Guide for details

    8.3. WHAT NOTTO DO ON THE SERVER SIDE

    1. Do Notrun the Web client application on a server machine

    2. DoNot load/execute any additional applications on the server

    3. DoNot install Anti-virus until contacting Volicon Support

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    9.1. SCHEDULED RECORDING MODULE

    This is an optional module that comes with the Observer system:

    Channel/Service recording specified periods

    Channel/Service and verification during the scheduled periods

    Dwelling on a stream (instead of scanning) for an extended period

    9.1.1. Recorded Events

    To enter this page select Central Config Scheduled Recording

    Clicking on an event line belowEvent Details(right of diplay) will appear

    The Search icon is used to search for events

    The Export icon is used to export the list of all the

    events

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    Use the Manual Recordingtab to schedule the recording events:

    Select Parameters: Encoder/stream

    Service - Channel dialed in theEncoder/stream

    Startand End - Time

    Category

    Then press the Save button to schedule the recording event

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    10. REMOTE CONTROL

    The Remote Control feature comes with the Scheduled Recording (optional) module

    10.1. REMOTE CONTROL MENU

    Select an Encoder and Activateit(greenspeaker, above) to control the corresponding STB

    Select Remote Control (R/C) submenufrom theLeft menu

    Go to Live Mode (for most recent media)

    Control STB through GUI on the left

    The following R/C icons control STB (in addition to using Virtual R/C):

    GO TO Enter Channel numbers (52 shown), time delays and scripts in Textbox then click the

    Go toicon or (Keyboard) - A quick way to dial a channel and test a simple script

    Note IR message below the Control Bar

    INFO Command STB to display a Banner (without dialing a Channel)

    POWER ON/OFF Command STB (usually brings the STB in/out of standby mode)

    NEXT/PREVIOUS Up/Down channel, analogous to the way a real Remote Control

    functions. (STB IR codes are configured with the IR Trainer, see the RPM Admin Guide)

    LAST Returns STB to the previous channel tuned to. E.g. if tuned to channel 20, and then

    tuned to channel 10, clicking Last would return STB to channel 20

    VIRTUAL REMOTE CONTROL Brings up the Virtual Remote Control (graphic)

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    10.2. VIRTUAL REMOTE CONTROL

    Click the Virtual R/C icon

    R/C graphic will appear

    Click R/C buttons

    Note IR message below the Control Bar There is a 4-6s delay once hitting the R/C button to allow

    buffers to handle network issues

    Experiment pressing different R/C buttons

    R/C Macro Commands - Click the expansion icon below Shortcuts

    to start macro scripting

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    10.2.2. Virtual Remote Macro Scripting

    Click an Editicon to start

    scripting a Macro

    Name Macro in the Name,

    field see Macro1

    Write script in the Script

    field. Here it is 52,,,,,,71 to

    dial CH 52, delay (commas)

    then CH 71

    Script can also use R/C KeyNames and Pause command

    PX (X in seconds)

    Press the Save icon to

    complete the macro

    Reduce the Editing Window

    when done

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    10.3. REVISION CHANGE HISTORY

    053111 Create clips button function; Install - check behind forms; General editing

    060611 Media clips touch up, add report; User preferences

    070111 Scheduled recording module; Remote control

    071911 Add pre-recorded media source to Create Clips

    102611 Upgrade to 6.0, tab stops; move scheduled recording and R/C to the appendix

    111611 Dashboard; update popup menu, media clips section

    121911 Added player control hotkeys

    020112 Edit system overview, favorites; Loudness Monitoring (LM)

    020312 LM release 6.0, export, display time units


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