TBS8520 Transcoder Server User Guide

Catalog 1. Product Overview... 3 1.1 Product Presentation... 3 1.2 Product Specifications... 4 2. Quick Start... 6 3. Home Page... 8 4.Management Page... 8 4.1 General Setting... 8 4.2 Users Setting... 9 4.3 Other page... 9 5.Content Page... 11 5.1 General Setting... 11 5.1.1 Setting... 11 5.1.2 Advanced Settings... 12 5.2 Profiles Setting... 12 5.2.1 Preprocessing Profile... 12 5.2.2 Post-processing Profile(Transcode Profile)... 13 5.2.3 Output Profile(HLS/ABR Profile)... 15 5.3 DVB Management... 16 5.3.1 Transponders(DVBS/S2, DVBT/T2, DVB-C, ATSC )... 16 5.3.2 All Channels... 18 5.3.3 TV Channels... 20 5.3.4 Radio Channels... 20 5.3.5 Tuner Cards... 21 5.3.6 Modulators... 22 5.4 Import Stream Management... 22 5.4.1 Unicast Stream Import... 22 5.4.2 Multicast Stream Import... 23 5.4.3 HTTP Stream Import... 24 5.4.4 HTTP Live Playlists... 25 5.4.5 MPTS stream Import... 27 5.4.6 Local Files Import... 29 5.5 Broadcasting Status... 30 5.5.1 Multicast Status... 30 5.5.2 DVB-C Output Status... 30 5.5.3 ASI Modulator Status... 30 6.Status Page... 31 6.1 Monitoring... 31 6.2 Resources(Output Stream Address)... 34 7.System Page... 35 7.1 General Setting... 35 7.2 Host Setting... 35 7.3 Services Setting... 36 7.4 Network Setting... 37 2 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

1. Product Overview 1.1 Product Presentation TBS8520 multiple inputs H.264/H.265 IPTV transcoder is TBS latest product, which is designed for our TBS TV tuner card customers. It s a high-performance video server that features in high integration and reliable hardware transcoding server. Because the original data rate from DVB-S/S2 channels is very high, send it to internet directly will cost a lot of bandwidth, then you need both receiving server and transcode server to lowdown the bit rate, this is not convenient and will greatly increase the cost of the solution. Now with TBS8520 real-time transcoder server you can Receiving and Transcoding at the same time, this is acost-effective solution for OTT IPTV providers. With Two Giga Ethernet Ports, it can be configured to transcode up to 80SD or 30 Full HD streams simultaneously, and equipped with 2 TBS Tuner/Capture PCI-e card inputs(up to 16 tuners) to receive channels directly from satellite or ASI / IP inputs to receive digital channels. It can be easily managed through NMS system, and has become an ideal solution for operator to provide high quality video transcoding. TBS8520 is a real multi-channel/formal transocoding server which answers all market requirements and is thus the suitable solution to Terrestrial, Satellite, Cable, IPTV networks 3 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

1.2 Product Specifications 4 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

Size 2U Input interface 2xRJ45, 1000M Base-T2 2xPCI-E slot Input Input Signal DVBS/S2, DVBT/T2, DVBC, ATSC, ISDBT, DTMB, HDMI, ASI Input Net Stream UDP, RTP, HTTP, HLS, Media Files Video codecs MPEG-2, AVC / H.264, HEVC / H.265 Resolution 1920x1080P, 1920x1080i, 1280x720P, 720x576i, 720x480i, 480x576, 544x576, 640x576,704x576 Audio codecs AAC, MP2, MP3, AC-3 Output Output types UDP, RTMP, HTTP, HLS, Media Files Video codecs MPEG-2, AVC / H.264, HEVC / H.265 Resolution 1920x1080P, 1920x1080i, 1280x720P, 720x576i, 720x480i, 480x576, 544x576, 640x576, 704x576 Audio codecs AAC, MP3 Rate Control CBR/VBR Transcoder up to 80 SD / 30 HD1080 AVC(H.264) streams up to 50 SD / 26 HD1080 HEVC(H.265) streams Power Consumption 65W ~ 250W 5 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

2. Quick Start When you get your TBS8520 please use the default Ethernet LAN1 and use the DPI to VGA converter coming with TBS8520 connect to your monitor Then power on after a while you can get this information from your screen: You can see that the server default IP: 10.47.48.1/255.255.240.0 Username : admin Password: kylone@1 Make sure that your PC is set to be the same range IP of TBS8520. 6 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

You can using Google Chrome Browse to open the main page of TBS8520 like this : after Sign in then you can see the whole panel of TBS8520: 7 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

3. Home Page Home page you can get the server CPU and Memory Usage status and Ethernet Input and Output status 4.Management Page 4.1 General Setting Allow Remote Devices this option is used to enable or disable the stream can be play from TBS8520,if you set to Yes then you can use VLC play the stream from TBS8520. if you are using RTMP send the stream to your CDN then you can disable this to protect your stream. 8 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

4.2 Users Setting This page you can manage the login user account,you can delete or create new account. 4.3 Other page This is page show all clients connect information include which application and how long it has been connected. 9 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

And you can click one of the IP it will show the detail page, you can disable this IP do not let it get the stream from our TBS8520 protect your stream you can set like this : 10 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

5.Content Page 5.1 General Setting 5.1.1 Setting Streaming Configuration: this is the HTTP output option you can choose which Ethernet used to streaming. our default mode is HTTP output. Broadcasting (System Defaults): This is the global multicast output option. You can choose which Ethernet used to streaming and the IGMP version. Update Information: When you added new channels and make some change of the channels setting you need to commit here to let it work, like this: 11 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

5.1.2 Advanced Settings Unicast/Multicast/HTTP Stream Acquisition: You can set but many buffer time our server will cache the stream then start processing. HTTP Live Stream Acquisition: This you can set the HTTP import stream option the connection timeout and the buffer time. 5.2 Profiles Setting 5.2.1 Preprocessing Profile 12 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

This is the soft decryption profile setting you can create new profile like this: 5.2.2 Post-processing Profile(Transcode Profile) You can press New Record to create a new transcoding profile: HW Acceleration : as we have two GPU inside so you can choose Node 1 or Node 2 Input Video Codec H.264/MPEG-4 : you can set to auto detect the video type Deinterlacing Mode: recommend set 2 Drop Second Fileld : Recommend set to Yes Advanced : If you have your own parameters for ffmpeg you can add her such as -x xx Video Codec : You can set with H.264 or H.265 Profile : It is the H.264 or H.264 encoder profile recommend set with Main Preset : If you want to process more video you can try with High Performance, if you want to have better picture then try with High Quality. Scaling: You can scale the video size here set the one you want or keep original one Aspect Ratio: you can set 4:3 16:9 or keep original Audio Code: AAC Samping Rate: recommend try with 44.1 KHz Channels: recommend 2 Audio Bitrate : recommend 128kb/s Video Bitrate control : CBR/VBR Video Bitrate: you can set 300k to 10000k Embed Subtitle : if the TS Stream have subtitle inside then you can use this to embed the subtitle to video and set the position where to show the subtitle. Embed Watermark: You can upload the logo you want to show and set the postion. Advanced : If you have new parameters you want to use you can manual add here 13 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

Here is the example HD source in output is H.264 and bit rate is 2Mbps 14 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

5.2.3 Output Profile(HLS/ABR Profile) This is the HLS&ABR output profile setting, you can press New Record to create a new profile compare with transcoding profile it have option for ABR setting like this : You can see that you have 6 profile, you can enable and set by yourself. then you can set the HLS chunk value here: 15 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

5.3 DVB Management 5.3.1 Transponders(DVBS/S2, DVBT/T2, DVB-C, ATSC ) Here you can create manage all the DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2,DVB-C,ISDB-T,ATSC transponders, let us create one DVB-S2 transponder as example press New Record then you can get this dialog: 16 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

Choose the system type with DVB-S2 and input the Frequency value with Hz. then press Save you will see this: If you are using TBS Multi Standard Tuner card such as TBS6590, TB6528, TBS6522 when you lock DVB-S/S2 transponder the Frontend Number value you need to set to 1 like this : Other mode you can keep the value as Default. Fill all value then press save, then go to the transponder bottom press Scan button: after press scan then you can choose the tuner you want to use to scan this transponder,please choose the one which is not in use: 17 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

Choose the tuner press scan wait about a few second it will auto show the scan result here if the signal is well you will see the scan result like this: after success scan press ok then you can go to All Channels to configure the channels 5.3.2 All Channels 18 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

Let us choose P22 for example click P22 it will show the channels property, Press Edit to start configure : Record Details of Channel PIDs: Here you can filter the PID you do not want to use, just need to remove it. PID Information Here you can get the channel all PID information Channel Configuration Current State: You can disable or enable the channel status here Broadcasting Here you can set the channels output as multicast CDN Upload (RTMP upload configuration) Profile: Choose RTMP Endpoint URL: The server address to send the stream, such as : rtmp://61.183.xx.xx/live/ Stream Name: The name of the stream, such as : sports Username: Your RTMP server user name Password: Your RTMP server password Transcoding: Choose the Transcoding profile used to process this channel. Example: 19 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

External Modules Preprocessing: Choose the soft decryption profile you want to use Post-processing: Choose the transcoding profile you want to use Output: If you want output HLS/ABR stream you can choose the profile you want to use. Example: or You can output default http, udp as Post-processing profile or HLS/ABR as Output profile 5.3.3 TV Channels List all TV Channels 5.3.4 Radio Channels List all Radio Channels 20 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

5.3.5 Tuner Cards Here you can see all tuner status: You can see that no tuner is in use press edit to assign the transponder to the tuner you want to use.let us assign one transponder to Input-1 like this : after assign press save then go back to setting to commit : 21 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

5.3.6 Modulators use with TBS DVB-C modulator 5.4 Import Stream Management 5.4.1 Unicast Stream Import You can input the unicast stream here,press New Recorder to create a new one. Record Details of Unicast Acquisition Display Name : The name of the unicast stream Interface : Choose the interface we are receiving the unicast stream Port Address 4001-4250: The Port number of the unicast stream Channel Configuration You can disable or enable the stream with Current State option Engine Configuration Stream Model: We have two option Passthrough and Cached Streaming, Passthrough mean the stream will direct streaming out if the input stream speed is fast then you can use this option, Cached Streaming mean our server will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings)then start streaming when the speed is not very fast use this option.. Double Buffer: If the stream still not smoothly you can enable this option to set double buffer. Broadcasting You can multicast this stream here CDN Upload It is the same like channels CDN Upload setting you can check here External Modules It is the same like channels External Modules setting you can check here as our server IP is 10.47.48.1 let us take this udp stream as example udp://@10.47.48.1:4001 22 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

5.4.2 Multicast Stream Import You can input the multicast stream here,press New Recorder to create a new one. Record Details of Multicast Display Name : The name of the multicast stream Interface : Choose the interface we are receiving the multicast stream IGMP version: You can choose Automatic,1,2,3 Multicast Address: the udp multicast address Port Address: The Port number of the multicast stream Channel Configuration You can disable or enable the stream with Current State option Engine Configuration Stream Model : We have two option Passthrough and Cached Streaming, Passthrough mean the stream will direct streaming out if the input stream speed is fast then you can use this option, Cached Streaming mean our server will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings)then start streaming when the speed is not very fast use this option.. Double Buffer: If the stream still not smoothly you can enable this option to set double buffer. Broadcasting You can multicast this stream here CDN Upload It is the same like channels CDN Upload setting you can check here External Modules It is the same like channels External Modules setting you can check here Let us take this udp stream as example udp://@239.255.0.1:1234 23 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

5.4.3 HTTP Stream Import Record Details of HTTP Stream Acquisition Display Name : The name of the HTTP stream Stream URL: The URL of the HTTP stream Channel Configuration You can disable or enable the stream with Current State option Engine Configuration Stream Model : We have two option Passthrough and Cached Streaming, Passthrough mean the stream will direct streaming out if the input stream speed is fast then you can use this option, Cached Streaming mean our server will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings)then start streaming when the speed is not very fast use this option.. Double Buffer: If the stream still not smoothly you can enable this option to set double buffer. Broadcasting You can multicast this stream here CDN Upload It is the same like channels CDN Upload setting you can check here External Modules It is the same like channels External Modules setting you can check here Let us take this HTTP stream as example http://10.47.48.123:9981/stream/channelnumber/8 24 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

5.4.4 HTTP Live Playlists Record Details of HTTP Live Stream Display Name : The name of the HTTP playlist Playlist Address: The playlist of the HTTP m3u8 file Current State: You can enable and disable the playlist here Engine Configuration Stream Model : We have two option Passthrough and Cached Streaming, Passthrough mean the stream will direct streaming out if the input stream speed is fast then you can use this option, Cached Streaming mean our server will cache about 5 to 10 seconds (You can set this value at Advanced Settings)then start streaming when the speed is not very fast use this option.. Connect On-Demand: You can enable this just when the client watch then start receiving and streaming it will save the band width of the internet. Double Buffer: If the stream still not smoothly you can enable this option to set double buffer. Actions Fetch the Playlist : After you create the playlist record, press Refresh button to get the channel list. Let us take this list as example : http://10.47.48.2:81/all.m3u8 25 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

after press Refresh if the playlist is ok then you can see the channels like this : You can click one channel start configuration like this : 26 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

5.4.5 MPTS stream Import Record Details of MPTS Display Name : The name of the MPTS Transmission : You can choose mulitcast, unicast, HTTP Transport Protocol : You can choose RTP,Raw Let us using one MPTS for test the address is multicast : udp://@239.255.0.1:5002 input like this :,press New Recorder then Press save then input other value like this : Save again then go to the bottom press Scan: 27 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

wait about few seconds then it will auto show the scan result like this : Press ok then go to Program List ->View to configuration every channels : Click one of channel start your configuration. 28 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

5.4.6 Local Files Import Pres New Recorder to create a new one Record Details of Local File Display Name : The name of the local file channel name File Name : The name of the file you want to use Loop : When the file end it will auto restart again. Channel Configuration You can disable or enable the channel with Current State option Engine Configuration Double Buffer: If the stream still not smoothly you can enable this option to set double buffer. Broadcasting You can multicast this stream here CDN Upload It is the same like channels CDN Upload setting you can check here External Modules It is the same like channels External Modules setting you can check here let us use spider.ts file as example : Then open the server samba folder with \\10.47.48.1 user name and password is kylone / kylone 29 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

Open then go to files folder and put the spider.ts file to it after this close the window go back to Content->Settings->Commit to let it work 5.5 Broadcasting Status 5.5.1 Multicast Status Here list all multicast output channels 5.5.2 DVB-C Output Status Here is the DVB-C output status 5.5.3 ASI Modulator Status Here is the ASI status 30 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

6.Status Page 6.1 Monitoring Here you can get all channels status and you can separately stop, restart every channels. Transponder : You can get the transponder lock status Strength, SNR, Bitrate, and you can restart and stop with the option button. Restart: Stop: 31 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

Preprocessing: Soft decryption Status You can get all channels status if you find one of channel status is not ok,you can separate restart this channel with restart button. CDN Uploads: Here is the RTMP upload status.you can check how long time and the upload bit rate and separately restart. 32 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

Post-Processing(Transcoding Status): Here you can see the transcoded channels output bit rate and how long it has been transcoded and you can separately restart the channels here. Peers: Here you can see that which IP and port connected and which channel it is in using,the output data rate, how long it has been connect,current status. And you can go to the Media Players page to set the Status. 33 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

6.2 Resources(Output Stream Address) Stream URLs Click to download the playlist is the whole channels list like this : http://192.168.0.188:81/all.m3u8 Channel URL is the URL for every channels such as http://192.168.0.188:4750/6021/0/base/stream.ts If you set the channel output as multicast then it will show the multicast URL like this : 34 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

7.System Page 7.1 General Setting Media Server You can Stop or Start the Media server when you click Stop all channels will stop streaming. After stop you can press start to let it running again. Archiving You can download current system configuration after click Download it will auto download one file like this : kylone-microcms-services-20180620082304.dat If you do some wrong configuration and you want to recover to the working status you can choose the *.dat file then click Upload to Restore. Licensing You can remove or input licensing key here System Operations You can reboot the server with Apply button 7.2 Host Setting You can set the system Time Information. 35 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

7.3 Services Setting SNMP You can configuration the SNMP here External Modules We support external Modules you can open the samba folder and put the modules to mods folder like this : After put the files inside mods folder then press Scan, It will auto load the modules and list here. 36 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide

7.4 Network Setting Interfaces You can click the port you want to configuration such as enp8s0: After set do not forget press Commit to let it work. If you have any problem with TBS8520 Please send email to our support@tbsdtv.com, we will reply you as soon as possible. 37 / 37 TBS8520 User Guide