VBrick Systems VB4000, VB6000, VB5000 manual MPEG-2 Admin Guide, Organization, Getting Help

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.
MPEG-2 Configuration	Explains how to configure MPEG-2 video appliances using the
	IWS web interface.
SDI Configuration	Explains how to configure Serial Digital Interface video
	appliances using the IWS web interface.
Status	Explains all of the detailed status information available about
	the network, the encoder, the decoder, the hard drive, etc.
Diagnostics	Explains how to run a variety of onboard diagnostics including
	ping, traceroute, and decoder color bars.
Maintenance	Explains how to use various maintenance functions. These
	reading and saving all configuration parameters and changing
	user names and passwords.
Maintenance Mode	Explains maintenance mode and how it is used to recover if
	errors occur during of after a firmware download.
VBStar	Explains how to use this MPEG-2 appliance with a hard drive
	to record and pump high-quality video throughout your
	network.

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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