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SAMcorder provides a comprehensive feature set for real-time analysis and SNMP based monitoring of Digital TV broadcasts and allows to establish versatile monitoring solutions.
RF
Each ATSC / DVB / ISDB RF receiver for PCIe, PCI or USB interfaces can be used if a BDA driver is available for the appropriate device.
IP-Stream
Receive an MPTS or SPTS via IP/UDP unicast or multicast.
File
Play-back a recorded Transport Stream file.
In a first analysis of the received Transport Stream all announced program services and their corresponding PIDs are listed in a tree view. Additional information are provided, e.g. information about the Video and Audio encoding.
Via simple double click on a program entry an appropriate IP streamer for this program can be created, see also the section ‘Streaming’ below.
On the RF layer SAMcorder provides simple signal checks which are provided by the BDA driver of the used RF receiver:
Note: For DVB broadcasts. i.e. for DVB-T/-T2, DVB-S/-S2 and DVB-C, there is a dedicated dtvTools application named SAMbuddy-RF which provides detailed RF measurements (RX level, BER, MER and many more), including the display of constellation diagram, read more…
The in-depth MPEG monitoring according ETSI TR 101 290 specification is divided in three parts:
Individual thresholds for upper and lower limit can be defined for each single parameter.
Each particular PID of the multiplex gets listed in a tree view and additional information to an appropriate PID are displayed.
The Current Bitrate and the Average Bitrate for each particular PID are measured.
Individual thresholds for upper and lower limit can be defined.
For each program the bitrate can be measured and monitored, i.e. the overall bitrate of all PIDs which belong to the appropriate program service.
Individual thresholds for upper and lower limit can be defined.
The comprehensive analysis and monitoring of ATSC, DVB and ISDB Electronic Program Guides (EPG) comprises the following tasks:
All Teletext services are listed in a tree-view. A comprehensive analysis and monitoring includes following functions:
Digital storage media command and control (DSM-CC) services which are part of the current received broadcast will be recognized and can be analysed and monitored in any regard, that means:
Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) and/or Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) services will be recognized and can be analysed and monitored in any regard, that means:
The number of simultaneous IP streamers is not limited. Data duplication is possible, i.e. same data can be streamed to different destinations simultaneously. Beside IP streaming to remote locations, the data can also be streamed into a local file, whereby the file streaming can be configured regarding time and size thresholds.
