Softneta MedDream Manual
Meddream VideoStation functionalities v4.6.1 Install Manual
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents................................................................................................................................................................5
Explanation of symbols used............................................................................................................................................... 6
Warnings regarding residual risks.......................................................................................................................................7
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Minimal Requirements.........................................................................................................................................................9
General consideration.........................................................................................................................................................9
Installation...........................................................................................................................................................................9
Physical installation.......................................................................................................................................................9
Software installation / updates.....................................................................................................................................10
Install software...........................................................................................................................................................10
Update software.........................................................................................................................................................13
Software uninstalls ......................................................................................................................................................15
VideoStation Setup ........................................................................................................................................................... 16
Settings........................................................................................................................................................................17
General settings.........................................................................................................................................................17
Network settings.........................................................................................................................................................18
Recording settings.......................................................................................................................................................20
Device settings............................................................................................................................................................22
Recording configuration, settings ................................................................................................................................25
Stream settings............................................................................................................................................................27
Storage - disc space and service management...........................................................................................................31
Auto delete.................................................................................................................................................................31
Manual deleting..........................................................................................................................................................32
Service.......................................................................................................................................................................33
About VS and license........................................................................................................................................................ 33
Image/Video access from hospital network....................................................................................................................... 34
Functional test................................................................................................................................................................... 34
Create new study.........................................................................................................................................................34
Check connection with PACS......................................................................................................................................34
Technical specification...................................................................................................................................................... 34
Security considerations..................................................................................................................................................... 35
API restriction..............................................................................................................................................................35
Password.....................................................................................................................................................................35
Firewall........................................................................................................................................................................35
Other programs ...........................................................................................................................................................36
Access audio and video devices..................................................................................................................................36
Local archive ...............................................................................................................................................................36
Installator.....................................................................................................................................................................36
Figures.............................................................................................................................................................................. 37
Index ................................................................................................................................................................................. 38
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Explanation of symbols used
The symbols used in this daily workflow refer to important safety information which warn against possible health risks or fatal
injuries and contain useful notes. Whenever you see these symbols, read the accompanying information carefully and observe
all safety notes and information in the user manual, daily workflow and on the device labels.
WARNING! This indicates a hazardous situation which may cause patient death, potential injury or serious health
impairment, requiring professional medical intervention.
CAUTION! This indicates a hazardous situation which may cause minor potential injury, not requiring professional
medical intervention, or simply cause inconvenience to medical professionals using software without affecting patient health
status or health changes.
NOTE! Information, hints and advice for a better understanding of the instructions to be observed in the operation of
the instrument.
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Warnings regarding residual risks
No
Hazard
Warning/ Caution
1
Incorrect
configuration
CAUTION! VS software will try to scale medical device output signal to match settings. It is
recommended to select close enough or the same resolution for medical device output signal to
ensure best quality. Use WIDTH and HEIGHT entry controls to adjust the selected size or enter
the custom size.
CAUTION! VS software will try to scale medical device output signal to match settings. It is
recommended to select close enough or the same resolution for medical device output signal to
ensure best quality.
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Introduction
NOTE! Further in text MedDream video viewing and converting functionalities will be referred to MedDream
VideoStation or short name VS.
Intuitive user interface, simple, but very powerful software controllable by touchscreen Medical Panel PC. Storing locally more
than 125 hours of HD videos and up to 100.000 of still images.
The core functions:
•High-quality video recording into DICOM by using MPEG2 and MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression;
•Record/take multiple low and high (full HD) quality video/snapshots during the surgery or other procedures;
•Live stream video during the procedure;
•Record, stream, play video and take snapshots at the same time;
•Record video/take images from multiple connected devices (special video card needed);
•Flexible patient data assignment: selecting already existing patient, manually entering the patient details or
selecting from hospital DICOM worklist server;
•Possibility to start a new study recording, while other video/snapshots is in progress for saving to DICOM or
sending to DICOM archive;
•Review medical images/video during the surgery or other procedures;
•Trim the recorded video;
•Recorded studies can be stored locally, sent to the hospital DICOM archive (PACS) or exported to other storage
devices;
•View saved images/videos with integrated DICOM Viewer.
Customization possibilities:
•Custom video settings.
•Multi languages support: English, Lithuanian, other languages by request.
•Additional foot pedal support.
Figure 1. Connection diagram
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Minimal Requirements
Minimal hardware and software requirements:
Parameter
Requirements
Processor
Intel® Core™ i5 or i7
When using FHD streaming, recording and playing at the same time:
4 threads, 4 GHz or 8 threads, 1.8 GHZ.
Using intel media SDK (reduce CPU consumption), requires 3rd Generation (or
later) Intel® Core™, selected Intel® Celeron™, Intel® Pentium™ and Intel® Atom®
processors with integrated graphics supporting Intel® Quick Sync Video
Memory
4 GB RAM
Hard drive
SDD 500 GB (SATA)
depends on usage workflow, can be >=256, GB, ~7 days requires 56 GB
Onboard graphics
Intel® HD Graphics
Network Interface
1000 Mbit/s
Screen resolution
1920x1080 pixels (lower resolution not supported)
Supports following operating
systems
Windows 7/8/10/11 (32 and 64 bit)
NOTE! We recommend upgrade PC or reduce video quality, if it does no match minimal requirements for
recording, playing and streaming at the same time.
If you faced with such a problem, please contact Softneta UAB Customer support –e-mail
General consideration
VS software based on JAVA, C/C++, ELECTRON (CSS/HTML/JavaScript) built applications, JAVA WEB server and MySql
database. So, all data is stored into MySql database, program configurations are saved into files and studies are stored as
image/video/DICOM in local PACS system.
Installation
Physical installation
VS is working with video devices or capture cards installed on the same PC and can record, make snapshots and stream one
or more signals at the same time.
VS solution mostly used in operating room but also there are possible to use at doctor’s room where need record action with
patient (for example psychiatrist session). Therefore, physical installation depending on who will be recording and from what
kind of equipment you need to take a video signal. We recommend to consult with us before buying and we will present two
main scenarios bellow:
1. Video recording and snapshots without YUAN capture card.
To record and make snapshots need device who supports Microsoft DirectShow API. Most of devices, that can be installed
on Windows OS, supports DirectShow API.
2. Video recording, snapshots and streaming with YUAN capture card.
To record, make snapshots and stream video, requires YUAN USB/PCIe capture card with software compression.
Currently tested capture cards: SA7160 PCI, QP0203 PCI, FH8735 PCI, CY3014 USB.
VS supports YUAN capture card inputs: COMPOSITE, SVIDEO, HDMI, DVI_A, DVI_D, COMPONENTS, SDI.
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Figure 2. Physical installation scheme
Software installation / updates
Install software
VS software setup will install workstation files.
NOTE! All physically installation must be completed before software installation.
Intel media SDK restriction. Also, there more information about Intel Media SDK installation here: C:\
MedDreamStation\software\README.md
To install software for the first time, follow steps bellow.
NOTE! VS use: 80, 3310, 8081, 4568 ports for main applications to work.
Other ports can be configured via VS application settings.
NOTE! If you use capture board - install drivers before VS setup.
1. Download VS setup file from Softneta webpage.
2. Run executable file MedDreamVideoStationSetup-x.x.x.exe to start installation.
NOTE! Please contact us for more details about required capture card for your business workflow.
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Figure 3. Setup file
3. VS setup will display license agreement. Select “I accept the agreement” and click “Next”.
Figure 4. License Agreement page
4. Select the components you want to install: clear the components you do not want to install. Select Language which
you want to install. And click next when you are ready to continue.
Figure 5. Select components you want to install
5. VS setup will generate passwords, but you can change and set your own known passwords. All data about passwords
will be placed in C:\MedDreamStation\login.txt file.
After change, click “Next”.
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Figure 6. VS connections
6. VS setup display information about installing software. To start installation, click “Install”.
Figure 7. Ready to install page
7. Wait while setup installation complete (copy files, install and start application services).
Figure 8. Progress page
8. Complete VS installation:
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Figure 9. Finished VS installation
Installation will create shortcut to main application on the Desktop and Windows startup.
Update software
To update software, follow steps bellow.
1. Follow 1-3 steps from “To install software for the first time section”.
2. Installation setup ask you select which components should be installed. We recommend leave all components
checked. Click „Next“.
Figure 10. Select components
3. VS setup detect current passwords from files and test connection, but you can change and set your own known
passwords. All data about passwords will be placed in C:\MedDreamStation\login.txt file.
After change, click “Next”.
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Figure 11. Connection test page
If for some reason setup can’t detect correct passwords for current root user or services is not running – will display
fallowing message and you must enter correct current root password (first field) or must start VS services.
If you really know, that the password is correct and can’t run workstation services – press “Yes” button to continue
installation.
Figure 12. Bad root password
4. VS setup display information about installing software. To start installation, click “Install”.
Figure 13. Ready to install page
5. Wait while setup installation complete workstation, first older version will be uninstalled and new installed.
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Figure 14. Progress page
6. Complete VS installation:
Figure 15. VS success installed
Software uninstalls
1. To uninstall software, go to Control or Settings and select Uninstall.
Figure 16. Programs and Features VS file for uninstalling.
Or go to installed VideoStation directory and select “unins00x.exe”.
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Figure 17. VS file for uninstalling
2. Windows ask permission to uninstall VS software. Select “Yes”.
Figure 18. Uninstalling permission question
3. The Uninstall process begins. This will uninstall VS software.
4. Windows let you know when uninstall process complete. After uninstall remains these files and information: license,
DICOM/image/video and settings files. They should be deleted manually.
Figure 19. Uninstall process complete
VideoStation Setup
VS settings located in OTHER > SETTINGS of main menu.
NOTE! In order to ensure successful VS work, the settings must be modified only by the system administrator.
Figure 20. VS settings
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Settings
Contains the following settings: GENERAL, NETWORK, RECORDING and STORAGE.
General settings
Figure 21. VS general settings
MODALITY –set DICOM modality attribute for studies without modality worklist. By default, after installation, recorded files
modality will be set to OT. Can be changed according study type and we recommend choosing one of these modalities:
http://www.dicomlibrary.com/dicom/modality/.
SNAPSHOT KEY –pedal signal keys combinations to make image.
PLAY/STOP KEY –pedal signal keys combinations to start or stop video recording.
KEY BINDING LISTENER –function for retrieving the pedal signal keys.
Default, SNAPSHOT KEY and PLAY/STOP KEY are set, but it is recommended to review and update key combinations for
every pedal. Can add multiple key combinations (all pedals) for snapshot or video recording as long as they do not conflict
with pressing habits.
NOTE! Some pedals producing different signal key combination on longer press. It is recommended to
consult with active personal about pedal pressing habits (how long and how they press on snapshot or video
recording buttons).
NOTE! When connecting pedal and keyboard, review SNAPSHOT or PLAY/STOP KEY settings and try to
avoid pressing configured keys.
How to change or update key combinations:
•Press the button, and it will change to indicating, that started listening key press.
•Press the pedal button and will see KEY BINDING LISTENER will display key combination.
•Add key combination to SNAPSHOT or PLAY/STOP KEY by pressing button. To remove previous key
combination - press .
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Figure 22. Shortcuts for recording and image making
•User can add several possible keyboard combinations.
Figure 23. Shortcuts for recording and image making
•After complete press button to turn off key listener –will change to .
EXTERNAL KEYBOARD - use physical keyboard connected to PC or use windows keyboard on screen. Default is to use
keyboard on screen due touch screen monitor, but sometimes monitor is hanged very high and cannot be controlled by hand.
For this requires to connect mouse and keyboard.
SYSTEM LOGGING –set logging level to None, Error, Info or Debug of all actions. Recommended to turn on logs to Error
level to identify system bugs or hazard situations. Log file locations can be found under LOG FILE LOCATION option and can
be viewed with text editor.
CHARSET –set DICOM character set for studies to be encoded. For now, there is 3 common character sets: ISO_IR 100
(Latin1), ISO_IR 144 (Cyrillic) or ISO_IR 192 (UTF-8). To support most of the characters –use ISO_IR 192. But it is
recommended to consult to your DICOM archive (PACS) administrator.
NOTE! Try to set the same character set for the patient studies, try open one the same study and look for
DICOM tag “Specific Character Set “(0008, 0005). Some PACS, during study import, will update patient
name from DICOM file with different encoding –may lead to display incorrect patient name in the DICOM
viewer (this will not change/damage any DIOCM files –just database record).
Once all settings are set, double check and press save button
Network settings
Network settings let you manage LOCAL VS receiver, REMOTE hospital DICOM archive (PACS) and DICOM modality
WORKLIST server connection settings.
Remote hospital DICOM archive and DICOM modality worklist server settings can be the same or not –
depends on hospital infrastructure. Recommended to consult to your DICOM archive or worklist server
administrator.
LOCAL –VS DICOM file receiver. This allows to send DICOM files (studies) to VS.
•AET TITLE –max 16 Latin1 characters. Requires to ask your administrator for this entity title to identify VS PC.
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•HOST OR IP ADDRESS –VS PC host or IP address. It is recommended to set IP address for faster network lookup.
For receiver it is recommended to leave 127.0.0.1 local IP address.
•PORT –max 65535 number. DICOM protocol common use is 104 or 11112 ports that should not be reserved by OS
process. Recommended to consult administrator. For receiver it is recommended to leave 104 port as it is.
•DICOM RECEIVER SERVICE STATUS –will show receiver status (start/stop date and time). Also, you can turn off
receiver and refresh the status.
Figure 24. Local VS settings
Receiver can be checked by pressing button - will send DICOM C-ECHO to verify basic connectivity by DICOM
protocol.
Once all settings are set, double check and press save button
REMOTE - hospital remote DICOM archive (PACS). This allows to send saved studies to hospital DICOM archive. Typically
requires to ask your DICOM archive administrator to register VS DICOM file receiver (LOCAL window AET TITLE field) on
DICOM archive as device (to allow send DICOM studies from VS to DICOM archive).
•AET TITLE –max 16 Latin1 characters. Requires to ask your administrator for this entity title to identify remote
DICOM archive.
•HOST OR IP ADDRESS –DICOM archive host or IP address. It is recommended to set IP address for faster
network lookup.
•PORT –max 65535 number. DICOM protocol common use is 104 or 11112 ports. Recommended to consult
administrator.
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Figure 25. Remote DICOM archive settings
To check remote DICOM archive - requires LOCAL VS AET TITLE to be registered on remote DICOM archive. Press button
to send DICOM C-ECHO and verify basic connectivity by DICOM protocol.
NOTE! Sending DICOM studies from VS to DICOM archive typically requires LOCAL VS AE TITLE
to be registered on remote DICOM archive.
Once all settings are set, double check and press save button
WORKLIST –setup DICOM modality worklist server connection. This enables to search scheduled DICOM modality worklist
(scheduled patient procedures).
•AET TITLE –max 16 Latin1 characters. Requires to ask your administrator for this entity title to identify DICOM
modality worklist server.
•HOST OR IP ADDRESS –worklist server host or IP address. It is recommended to set IP address for faster network
lookup.
•PORT –max 65535 number. DICOM protocol common use is 104 or 11112 ports. Recommended to consult
administrator.
•CHARSET –setup encoding for worklist results. Result comes in DICOM standard and most results do not define
encoding –need to be set and tested manually.
•WORKLIST WILDCARD –add wild card symbol “*” on search parameters. Some worklist servers do not support this
for example on patient ID or accession number and requires to search exact patient ID or accession number.
Recommended to consult with administrator (typically this information can be found in worklist server or DICOM
archive conformance statement document).
Figure 26. Worklist settings
To check worklist server - requires LOCAL VS AET TITLE to be registered on worklist server. Press button to
send DICOM C-ECHO and verify basic connectivity by DICOM protocol.
NOTE! Receiving modalities worklist typically requires LOCAL VS AE TITLE to be registered on
hospital's Worklist server.
Once all settings are set, double check and press save button
Recording settings
Recording settings let you manage video input sources. Allows to define multiple input source configurations –profiles.
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Figure 27. Recording settings
Activate source profile - display video input source streaming window in application include on startup.
Update or change source profile settings.
Delete source profile. If source is active –requires to stop source.
Reload all active sources.
Add new source profile.
Can copy full stream address.
Download VLC media player format playlist file, that contains the same stream address.
NOTE! Do not enable the same video input source from multiple profiles. For e.g. added camera to profile A
and the same camera to profile B and enabled both of them, to be active in VS application. In this situation,
just profile A will start and profile B will fail, because input signal will be taken.
There are possibility to play A and B profiles, but card must allow this (play input signal via windows direct
show and other via capture card interface –if this exist). This possibility does not make any seance to have 2
the same signals recording and it can cause unstable input stream recording process.
Clicking the update or add new controls in the profiles list, opens the RECORDING PROFILE
SETTINGS window to configure the recording profile.
Also, there is direct access to recording profile settings from near stream window - settings button:
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Figure 28. Fast entering into profile settings
Figure 29. Device window of the Recording profile settings
Recording profile settings are grouped into three groups:
•DEVICE - contains input source options. Affects preview window, signal type.
•RECORDING - contains recording process setup and configuration options. For recording. Recommended select the
same resolution and frame rate as in DEVICE options.
•STREAM - contains streaming set available when DIRECTSHOW disabled.
GUI validates and checks available recording device option combination by DICOM TRANSFER SYNTAX
option.
Requires to ensure, that PACS supports transfer syntax(ask PACS administrator or see PACS DICOM
conformance statement document) and recorder DICOM files will be accepted by PACS
Some options can be updated in C:\MedDreamStation\recorder\configurationSettings.json, but during re-
installation –will be overridden.
Device settings
In DEVICE window of the RECORDING PROFILE SETTINGS, you can view and modify options:
•ACTIVE –enable or disable recording device profile.
•PROFILE NAME –enter or edit name for the profile. Each input source profile is identified by profile name. If user
enters the already existing profile name, the system will overwrite the existing input source profile data. In order to
create a new profile, enter different unique profile name.
•DEVICE –select found video devices, like camera or video capture board.
NOTE! If cannot see any devices or some is missing –please check connection cables to the device. If
problem persist - check Windows OS device list, if all drivers installed properly.
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