Thor Broadcast H-1SDI-QAM-IPLL User manual

User Manua l
H-1SDI-QAM-IPLL
H-2SDI-QAM-IPLL
1/2 SDI to QAM Modulators and IPTV
Streaming Encoders

DIRECTORY
Chapter 1 Product Introduction .............................................................................................................1
1.5 Appearance and Illustration ............................................................................................................3
Chapter 2 Installation Guide..................................................................................................................4
2.1 Acquisition Check .............................................................................................................................4
2.2 Installation Preparation....................................................................................................................4
2.3 Wire’s Connection ............................................................................................................................6
Chapter 3 Keyboard Operation .............................................................................................................7
3.1 LCD Menu Tree................................................................................................................................. 7
Chapter 4 WEB NMS operation..........................................................................................................10
4.1 login ..................................................................................................................................................10
4.2 Operation .........................................................................................................................................10
Figure-15..................................................................................................................................................18
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting .................................................................................................................. 20
Chapter 6 Packing list...........................................................................................................................21

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Chapter 1 Product Introduction
1.1 Outline
H-1/2SDI-QAM-IPLL series products are THOR’s all-in-one devices which integrate encoding,
multiplexing and modulation to convert V/A signals into digital RF output. It adopts inner drawer-
type structural design which greatly facilitates the change of encoding modules
(HDMI/CVBS/SDI/YPbPr/…) as needed. To meet customers’ various requirements, H-1/2SDI-
QAM-IPLL is also optionally equipped with 1 ASI input for re-mux and 2 ASI out ports. MPTS and
SPTS output are available via the gigabit DATA port.
With its various inputs available, our H-1/2SDI-QAM-IPLL series products are widely used in public
places such as metro, market hall, theatre, hotels, resorts, and etc for advertising, monitoring, training
and educating in company, schools, campuses, hospital… It’s a good choice to offer additional info
channels.
1.2 Main Features
HDMI/CVBS/SDI/YPbPr… inputs(Now only HDMI and SDI board are available)
1*ASI in for re-mux and 2 ASI out ports(optional);
MPEG2 HD/SD & MPEG4 AVC H.264 HD/SD video encoding
2* channels in (19” rack case)
MPEG4-AAC; MPEG2-AAC; MPEG1 Layer Ⅱand Dolby Digital AC3 2.0 audio encoding
Dialog Normalization
Support CC (closed caption ) for SDI board
Support low delay encoding mode(SDI and HDMI board)
Support PSI/SI editing
Support PID re-mapping
Digital RF out (DVB-C/T/ATSC/ISDB-T RF Optional);
IP out via the gigabit data port
LCN (Logical Channel Number) support – for DVB-C/T/ISDB-T modulating mode
VCT (Virtual Channel Table) support – for DVB-C/ATSC modulating mode
Modular design, pluggable encoding modules
LCD display, Remote control and firmware
Web-based NMS management; Updates via web

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1.3 Technical Specifications
HDMI Encoding Input
Video
Input
HDMI*1(the other is backup)
Encoding
MPEG2; MPEG4 AVC/H.264
Bitrate
1-19.5Mbps
Resolution
1920*1080_60P, 1920*1080_50P,
(-for MPEG4 AVC/H.264 only)
1920*1080_60i, 1920*1080_50i,
1280*720_60p, 1280*720_50P
720*480_60i, 720*576_50i
Low Delay
Normal, Mode 1, Mode 2
Chroma
4:2:0
Aspect Ratio
16:9,4:3
Audio
Encoding
MPEG1 Layer II;MPEG 2-AAC; MPEG 4-AAC
and Dolby Digital AC3 2.0
Sample rate
48KHz
Bitrate
64/96/128/ 192/256/320kbps
SDI Encoding Input
Video
Encoding
MPEG2; MPEG4 AVC/H.264
Input
SDI*1
Bitrate
1-19.5Mbps
Resolution
1920*1080_60P, 1920*1080_50P, (-for MPEG4
AVC/H.264 only)
1920*1080_60i, 1920*1080_50i,
1280*720_60p, 1280*720_50P
720*480_60i, 720*576_50i
Low Delay
Normal, Mode 1, Mode 2
Chroma
4:2:0
Aspect Ratio
16:9,4:3
Audio
Encoding
MPEG1 Layer II ,MPEG2-AAC, MPEG4-AAC
and Dolby Digital AC3 2.0
Sample rate
48KHz
Bitrate
64/96/128/ 192/256/320kbps
Modulation
DVB-C
Standard
J.83A (DVB-C), J.83B, J.83C
RF frequency
50~960MHz, 1KHz step
RF output level
-20~ +3dbm, 0.1db step
Symbol rate
3.000~9.000Msps adjustable
RF Out
4*DVB-C carriers combined output
J.83A
J.83B
J.83C
Constellation
16/32/64/128/256
QAM
64/ 256 QAM
64/ 256 QAM
Bandwidth
8M
6M
6M
General
System
Local interface
LCD + control buttons
Remote
management
Web NMS
Stream Out
2 ASI out optional (BNC type, same one TS, mirror
as MPTS or SPTS)
IP (4 MPTS & 2 SPTS) out over UDP, RTP/RTSP
DATA Port
1000M
NMS interface
RJ45, 100M
Language
English
Physical
Specific
ation
Power supply
100~240VAC, 50/60Hz
Dimensions
482*242*44mm
Operation
temperature
0~45℃

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1.4 Principle Chart
MUX
Modulating
ASI In（optional）
ASI(optional)&IP
Output
MPEG-2 HD/SD
MPEG-4 HD/SD
Encoding
VGA/HDMI/SDI/YPbPr/CVBS
Source
RF
1.5 Appearance and Illustration
Front Panel Illustration:
1. LCD Screen
2. NMS Port
3. DATA Port
4. Power and Alarm Indicators
5. Lock 1 and Lock 2: SDI input locking status; Lock 3: ASI in locking status. Lock 4: useless
6. Up and Down, Left and Right Buttons
7. Enter Button: for confirm
8. Menu Button: for back step
9. Lock Button: To Lock the screen / cancel the lock state
Rear Panel Illustration:
1. SDI Input interface
2. ASI in/out(optional)
3. RF Output interface
4. Power Switch
5. Power supply Slot
6. Grounding
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 1 3 2 4 5 6

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Chapter 2 Installation Guide
2.1 Acquisition Check
When users open the package of the device, it is necessary to check items according to packing
list. Normally it should include the following items:
Encoder Modulator
Power Cord
Ground lead
If any item is missing or mismatching with the list above, please contact local dealer.
2.2 Installation Preparation
When users install device, please follow the below steps. The details of installation will be
described at the rest part of this chapter. Users can also refer rear panel chart during the installation.
The main content of this chapter including:
Checking the possible device missing or damage during the transportation
Preparing relevant environment for installation
Installing Encoder Modulator
Connecting signal cables
Connecting communication port (if it is necessary)
2.2.1 Device’s Installation Flow Chart is Illustrated as following：
Connecting
Grouding
Wire and
Power
Cord
Acquisition
Check Fixing Device Setting Parameter Running Device
Connecting
Signal Wire
2.2.2 Environment Requirement
Item
Requirement
Machine Hall Space
When user installs machine frame array in one machine hall, the
distance between 2 rows of machine frames should be 1.2~1.5m
and the distance against wall should be no less than 0.8m.

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Machine Hall Floor
Electric Isolation, Dust Free
Volume resistivity of ground anti-static material:
1X107~1X1010，Grounding current limiting resistance: 1M
(Floor bearing should be greater than 450Kg/㎡)
Environment
Temperature
5~40℃(sustainable )，0~45℃(short time)，
installing air-conditioning is recommended
Relative Temperature
20%~80% sustainable 10%~90% short time
Pressure
86~105KPa
Door & Window
Installing rubber strip for sealing door-gaps and dual level glasses
for window
Wall
It can be covered with wallpaper, or brightness less paint.
Fire Protection
Fire alarm system and extinguisher
Power
Requiring device power, air-conditioning power and lighting
power are independent to each other. Device power requires AC
power 220V 50Hz. Please carefully check before running.
2.2.3 Grounding Requirement
All function modules’ good grounding designs are the basis of reliability and stability of
devices. Also, they are the most important guarantee of lightning arresting and interference
rejection. Therefore, the system must follow this rule.
Coaxial cable’s outer conductor and isolation layer should keep proper electric conducting
with the metal housing of device.
Grounding conductor must adopt copper conductor in order to reduce high frequency
impedance, and the grounding wire must be as thick and short as possible.
Users should make sure the 2 ends of grounding wire well electric conducted and be antirust.
It is prohibited to use any other device as part of grounding electric circuit
The area of the conduction between grounding wire and device’s frame should be no less than
25mm2.
2.2.4 Frame Grounding
All the machine frames should be connected with protective copper strip. The grounding wire
should be as short as possible and avoid circling. The area of the conduction between grounding

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wire and grounding strip should be no less than 25mm2.
2.2.5 Device Grounding
Connecting the device’s grounding rod to frame’s grounding pole with copper wire.
2.3 Wire’s Connection
The grounding wire conductive screw is located at the right end of rear panel, and the power
switch, fuse, power supply socket is just beside ,whose order goes like this, power switch is on the
left ,power supply socket is on the right and the fuse is just between them.
Connecting Power Cord
User can insert one end into power supply socket, while insert the other end to AC power.
Connecting Grounding Wire
When the device solely connects to protective ground, it should adopt independent way, say,
share the same ground with other devices. When the device adopts united way, the grounding
resistance should be smaller than 1Ω.
Caution:
Before connecting power cord to this Encoder Modulator, user should set the
power switch to “OFF”.

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Encoder Modulator
192.168.0.136
Status Uptime
Alarm
Main Menu
Chapter 3 Keyboard Operation
This Encoder Modulator’s front panel is user-operating interface. Before operating, users can
decide whether directly use the default setting or customize the input and output parameters setting.
The detailed operations go as follows:
Keyboard Function Description:
ENTER: Activating the parameters which need modifications, or confirming the change after
modification.
MENU: To cancel presently entered value, resume previous setting and return to previous menu.
LEFT/RIGHT: To move the “►” to choose or set the parameters.
UP/DOWN: To modify activated parameter or page up/down when parameter is inactivated.
LOCK: To Lock the screen / cancel the lock state. After pressing lock key, the system will question
the users to save present setting or not. If not, the LCD will display the current configuration state.
At the “Factory Configuration” page, user can press “ENTER” key to restore the factory default
configuration.
3.1 LCD Menu Tree

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Modulator
Input Settings 1. SDI HD
2. SDI HD
Status
Video Cache
Field/Picture Enc
Aspect Ratio
Video Format
Audio
Video CC Switch
Video Bitrate
Low Delay
DTS Delay
GOP B Frame
GOP P Frame
H.264 Profile
H.264 Level
Out Resolution
Share PCR PID
PCR Interval
Audio Format
Dialog Normal
Audio Bitrate
Audio Gain
Audio Group
Audio Pair
Audio Delay
Channel 1
Channel 2
Channel 3
Channel 4
Standard
Level (CH Carriers)
Channel Enable
Frequency
Constellation
Symbol Rate

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Output Settings
Network
System
IP Stream
MPTS 1
MPTS 2
MPTS 3
MPTS 4
SPTS 1
SPTS 2
Data enable
Null PKT Filter
Output IP
Output Port
Output Protocol
Bitrate
Data enable
Null PKT Filter
Output IP
Output Port
Output Protocol
NMS
DATA
IP
Subnet mask
Gateway
MAC Address
Web NMS Port
Reset Password
Save Config
Load Saved CFG
Factory reset
LCD time-out
Key password
Lock Keyboard
Product ID
Language
Version
IP
Subnet mask
Gateway
MAC Address

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Chapter 4 WEB NMS operation
Users can not only use front buttons for setting configuration, but also control and set the
configuration in computer by connecting the device to web NMS Port. User should ensure that the
computer’s IP address is different from this device IP address; otherwise, it would cause IP conflict.
4.1 login
The default IP of this device is 192.168.0.136. We can modify the IP through the front panel.
Connect the pc and the device with net cable, and use ping command to confirm they are on the
same network segment.
I.G. the PC IP address is 192.168.99.252, we then change the device IP to 192.168.99.xxx (xxx can
be 0 to 255 except 252 to avoid IP conflict).
Use web browser to connect the device with PC by inputting the Encoder & Modulator’s IP address
in the browser’s address bar and press Enter.
It will display the Login interface as Figure-1. Input the Username and Password (Both the default
Username and Password are “admin”.) and then click “LOGIN” to start the device setting.
Figure-1
4.2 Operation
Status
When we confirm the login, it displays the Status interface as Figure-2.

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Figure-2
Encoder 1
From the menu on left side of the webpage, clicking “Encoder 1”, it displays the information of
the programs from the 1st encoding board as Figure-3.
Figure-3
Low Delay setting
This encoder modulator can achieve the low delay from encoding side to STB decoding side. User
can configure the low delay option accordingly in the Web GUI as Figure-4:
General Settings for the input
programs: Users can edit any item
listed as needed. Ticking Share
PCR PID means Video PID and
PCR PID are the same one.
Encoding status monitoring:
Signal locking, input resolution, encoding
bitrate etc
After parameters setting, clicking “Apply” to make the
setting take effect.
Not ticking “Auto”, users can set an output resolution not
higher than the input resolution.

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Figure-4
There are 4 low delay options:
1. Normal: to disable the low delay function.
2. Mode 1: to activate the low delay function in the default Mode 1 configuration.
3. Mode 2: to activate the low delay function in the default Mode 2 configuration.
4. Manual: to configure DTS Delay, GOP B frame and GOP P frame to get a low delay result
accordingly.
The delay is mainly affected by the different combination of Video Format, Video Bit-rate, Low
delay Mode and the Resolution of signal source etc.
NOTE: The delay duration will also be impacted as the decoding performance of the STB
side change. Users need to apply a well-performed STB or other decoding terminals to achieve
a low delay.
Encoder 2
Similarly, from the menu on left side of the webpage, clicking “Encoder 2”, it displays the
information of the programs from the 2nd (SDI) encoding board. In this example. SDI 2 has no
signal input.

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Figure-5
TS Config
Click “TS Config”, it will display the encoded program information as Figure-6. Users can parse
and multiplex encoded programs in this interface.
Figure-6
Output TS 1/2/3/4 represents the 4 carrier outputs and 4 MPTS out. Users can configure different
program group for each carrier output as needed.
: To enable/disable the CA filter
: To enable/disable the PID remapping
To refresh the input program information

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To refresh the output program information
Select the wanted input program(s) firstly and click this button to transfer the selected
program(s) to output.
Cancel the multiplexed programs from the output area after your program selection.
To select all the input programs
To select all the output programs
To parse programs time limitation of parsing input programs
Figure-7
General
Click “General” from the menu to set Character Encoding option according to the program name
language, NIT and VCT etc as Figure-8.
Figure-8
Click the program name to get a pop-up window where users
can configure the LCN and PID information etc as needed.

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Set Web Insert for NIT Insert and Click “+” from this page, it will display the screen as Figure-9
where it requires to add NIT descriptor. Please follow your configuration in Modulator page to
edit the NIT descriptor.
Figure-9
Modulator
This unit is equipped with 4 DVB-C frequencies output. User can configure the modulation
parameters of the 4 carrier outputs by clicking the .
Figure-10
Output Settings
Click “Output Settings” from the left menu, it will display the page as Figure-11 where to configure
Insert VCT in J.83B case.

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the 4 MPTS output and 2 SPTS Output by clicking the .
Figure-11
Network
When user clicks “Network”, it will display the page as Figure-12. It displays the network
information of the device. Here users can change the device network configuration as needed.
Figure-12
Password
From the menu on left side of the webpage, clicking “Password”, it will display the screen as

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Figure-13 where to set the login account and password for the web NMS.
Figure-13
Configuration
From the menu on left side of the webpage, clicking “Configuration”, it will display the page as
Figure-14 where to save, restore, make factory set, backup and load your configurations.

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Figure-14
Firmware
From the menu on left side of the webpage, clicking “Firmware”, it will display the screen as
Figure-15 where to update firmware for the device.
Figure-15
Date | Time
Users can set timezone and configure NTP server to update Date and Time in the device.