MPEG-2 Admin Guide
This VBrick MPEG-2 Admin Guide is written for anyone who will be using or configuring a VB6000 Series MPEG-2 VBrick appliance. This includes system administrators, network technicians, and anyone who will be using or configuring a VBrick network video appliance. VBrick encoder and decoder appliances are available in industry standard MPEG-2, MPEG- 4, and other formats. MPEG-2 appliances are used for delivering low delay, DVD quality video over high bandwidth networks. MPEG-4 appliances are used for delivering low delay television quality video over low and medium bandwidth networks. These products are available in one and two channel configurations, as well as a combination encoder/decoder that delivers two-way interactive video (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4). An optional hard drive allows the video to be recorded at the source.
Organization
Introduction | Explains the basics. Provides general configuration |
| recommendations as well as how to cable the appliance and |
| connect it to the network. |
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MPEG-2 Configuration | Explains how to configure MPEG-2 video appliances using the |
| IWS web interface. |
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SDI Configuration | Explains how to configure Serial Digital Interface video |
| appliances using the IWS web interface. |
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Status | Explains all of the detailed status information available about |
| the network, the encoder, the decoder, the hard drive, etc. |
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Diagnostics | Explains how to run a variety of onboard diagnostics including |
| ping, traceroute, and decoder color bars. |
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Maintenance | Explains how to use various maintenance functions. These |
| reading and saving all configuration parameters and changing |
| user names and passwords. |
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Maintenance Mode | Explains maintenance mode and how it is used to recover if |
| errors occur during of after a firmware download. |
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VBStar | Explains how to use this MPEG-2 appliance with a hard drive |
| to record and pump high-quality video throughout your |
| network. |
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Getting Help
If you need help, or more information about any topic, use the online help system. The online help is cross-referenced and searchable and can usually find the information in a few seconds. Use the tree controls in the left pane to open documents and the up and down arrows to page through them. Use the Search box to find specific information. Simply enter one or more words in the box and press Enter. The search results will return pages that have all of the words you entered—highlighted in yellow (Internet Explorer only). The Search box is not case-sensitive and does not recognize articles (a, an, the), operators (+ and – ), or quotation marks. You can narrow the search by adding words.
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