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Compressed Input

IP input

  • Type: IP (IGMPv3-based redundancy and dual multicast redundancy)
  • Protocols: MPEG Transport Stream (SPTS, MPTS), RTP / UDP, RTMP, SMPTE ST 2022-7
  • Bitrate: Constant Bitrate (CBR)
  • Error Correction: ProMPEG FEC

Reliable transport

  • Input: IP based
  • Protocols: SRT, RIST and Zixi
  • Carriage of UDP or RTP streams over the SRT protocol
  • SRT listener or caller mode
  • RIST sender mode
  • RIST listener mode
  • Zixi sender
  • Zixi feeder or Zixi Receiver mode

Satellite input

  • Standards: DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-S2X
  • Hardware requirements: Requires one or more of the following cards

MediaKind marketing code:

  • MKP/HWO/DEMODSDI (Dektec DTA-2127 DVB-S2X Quad Receiver with 3G-SDI/ASI Output)

Features:

  • Frequency range: L-band (950 – 2150 MHz)
  • Standards: DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-S2X
  • Modulation schemes: QPSK, 8PSK, 16APSK and 32APSK
  • Connector: 2 x F-type 75 ohm
    • Each connector allows 1x independent tuner/demodulator powered by a single LNB control
  • Long FEC Frame only

MediaKind marketing code:

  • MKP/HWO/PCI/SAT/DEMOD (Digital Devices SX8 Satellite Demod)

Features:

  • Frequency range: L-band (950 – 2150 MHz)
  • Standards: DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-S2X
  • Modulation schemes: QPSK, 8PSK, 16APSK, 32APSK and 64APSK
  • Connector: 4 x F-type 75 ohm
    • Each connector allows 2x independent tuners/demodulators that share a single LNB control

ASI input

  • Standards: DVB-ASI
  • Hardware requirements: Requires one or more of the following cards

MediaKind marketing code:

  • MKP/HWO/PCI/SDI/DTA (Dektec 2174B SDI/ASI)

Features:

  • Port configurations: 4x ASI input/output
  • Connector: micro BNC 75 ohms

MediaKind marketing code:

  • MKP/HWO/PCI/SDI/8 (Dektec 2178 SDI/ASI)

Features:

  • Port configurations: 8x ASI input/output
  • Connector: micro BNC 75 ohms

Input redundancy

  • Dual source redundancy: Active Passive (one-hit); Active Active (one-hit); Active Active (switch on failure)
    • Supported across input types e.g. Primary satellite input, Secondary (Backup) IP input
  • IP redundancy protocols: SMPTE ST 2022-7 Seamless protection switching

Video decoding

  • Video codecs: MPEG-2, H.264, HEVC, JPEG-XS
  • Supported resolutions: 480i, 576i, 720p, 1080i, 1080p, 2160p
  • Chroma: 4:2:0 and 4:2:2
  • Bit depth: 8-bit and 10-bit (codec-dependent)
Resolution Frame Rate Chroma MPEG-2 H.264 HEVC JPEG-XS (4:2:2 only)
2160p 23.98, 24,
25, 29.97,
50, 59.94 fps		 4:20 / 4:2:2 ✔ ✔
1080p 50, 59.94 fps 4:20 / 4:2:2 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
1080i 25, 29.97 fps 4:20 / 4:2:2 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
720p 50, 59.94 fps 4:20 / 4:2:2 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
576i 25 fps 4:20 / 4:2:2 ✔ ✔ ✔
480i 29.97 fps 4:20 / 4:2:2 ✔ ✔ ✔

Horizontally subsampled video is automatically rescaled to full frame width, as detailed below. Supported for all video codecs listed above.

Input resolution Output resolution Expected sample aspect ratio
1440 x 1080 1920 x 1080 4:3
1280 x 1080 1920 x 1080 3:2
960 x 1080 1920 x 1080 2:1
960 x 720 1280 x 720 4:3
640 x 720 1280 x 720 2:1

Supported down-conversions:

  • 2160p > 1080p, 1080i, 720p
  • 1080p > 1080i, 720p
  • 1080i > 720p

Supported up-conversions:

  • 1080i > 1080p
  • 720p > 1080i
  • Supported HDR inputs: PQ10 (HDR10), HLG10
  • Output: SDR BT.709 with tone mapping

Audio decoding

  • Audio codecs: MP1L2, AAC, AAC 5.1, HE-AAC v1 & v2, HE-AAC 5.1, Dolby Digital (AC-3), 2.0 & 5.1, Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3) 2.0 & 5.1, MPEG-H
  • Passthrough: Linear PCM, Dolby E, Dolby ED2, Dolby Digital (AC-3), Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3)
  • Audio sampling rate: 48 kHz
  • Audio Channels: Up to 8 stereo pairs per service
  • Phase Aligned Audio (PAA): Supported

Ancillary Data

  • Closed captions: CEA-608, CEA-708
  • Timecode: VITC
  • Teletext: SMPTE 2031, OP-47
  • Metadata: AFD/BAR, VANC
  • Signalling: SCTE-35 conversion to SCTE-104

Video transcoding

Video encoding

  • Codecs: MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), HEVC (H.265)
  • Chroma: 4:2:0
  • Conversions:
    • HD to HD or SD
    • SD to SD

Audio encoding

  • Audio codecs: MPEG-1 Layer-II, AAC, HE-AAC, HE-AAC v2 1. Dolby Digital® 2.0 / 5.1, Dolby Digital Plus® 2.0, 5.1, Dolby AC-3
  • Audio channels: Up to 8 stereo pairs per service.
  • Passthrough: Dolby E®, Dolby Digital®, Dolby Digital Plus®, Linear PCM (as SMPTE 302)
  • Data rate: From 4.75 kbps to 320 kbps (from 64 to 1024 kbps for DD+).

Compressed output

  • Transport Stream Passthrough: IP, ASI (requires multiplexer service), unmodified or decrypted
  • Protocols: IP, UDP, RTP, RTMP/RTMPS, ASI
  • Carriage of UDP or RTP streams over the SRT protocol
  • SRT listener or caller mode
  • RIST sender mode
  • RIST listener mode
  • Zixi sender
  • Zixi feeder or Zixi Receiver mode

Uncompressed output

  • Output formats: SDI, SMPTE ST 2022-6, SMPTE ST 2110

SDI output

  • Standards: SDI, HD-SDI, 3G-SDI, 12G-SDI, Quad‑Link 3G‑SDI
  • Video formats: 480i, 576i, 720p, 1080i, 1080p, 2160p
  • Hardware requirements: Requires one or more of the following cards

MediaKind marketing code:

  • MKP/HWO/PCI/SDI/DTA (Dektec 2174B SDI/ASI)

Features:

  • Output configurations:
    • 4x independent 3G-SDI/ASI input/output
    • 12G-SDI (Single‑link UHD) or Quadrant (Quad‑Link 3G‑SDI, ST 425‑5 Annex B — Square Division) or Interleaved (Quad‑Link 3G‑SDI, ST 425-5 Two Sample Interleave)
    • 12G-SDI with 3G-SDI/ASI side channel
  • Connector: micro BNC 75 ohms

MediaKind marketing code:

  • MKP/HWO/PCI/SDI/8 (Dektec 2178 SDI/ASI)

Features:

  • Output configurations:
    • 8x independent 3G-SDI/ASI input/output
    • 2x 12G-SDI (Single‑link UHD) or Quadrant (Quad‑Link 3G‑SDI, ST 425‑5 Annex B — Square Division) or Interleaved (Quad‑Link 3G‑SDI, ST 425-5 Two Sample Interleave)
    • 2x 12G-SDI with 2x 3G-SDI/ASI side channels
  • Connector: micro BNC 75 ohms

MediaKind marketing code:

  • MKP/HWO/DEMODSDI (Dektec DTA-2127 DVB-S2X Quad Receiver with 3G-SDI/ASI Output)

Features:

  • SDI output: 1x SDI output supporting SD/HD/3G-SDI
  • Connector: BNC 75 ohms

SDI over IP (SMPTE ST 2022-6) output

  • Standards: SMPTE ST 2022-6
  • Video formats: 480i, 576i, 720p, 1080i, 1080p (2160p not supported)
  • Hardware requirements: Any network card with sufficient network bandwidth may be used

SMPTE ST 2110 output

  • Standards: SMPTE ST 2110
    • ST 2110-20: Uncompressed video for 480i, 576i, 720p, 1080i, 1080p, 2160p
    • ST 2110-30: PCM digital audio output
    • ST 2110-31: AES3 audio output
    • ST 2110-40: Ancillary data (VITC/Time code, AFD/BAR, Closed captioning, OP-47 Teletext, SMPTE 2031 Teletext)
  • Protocols: Supports duplicate essence streams on separate output ports to facilitate SMPTE ST 2022-7
  • NMOS: NMOS IS-04 and NMOS IS-05 support
  • Hardware requirements: Requires one of the following cards

MediaKind marketing code:

  • MKP/HWO/PCI/NIC/25G/2PORT/B (MCX621102AN-ADAT)

Features:

  • NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx EN adapter card, 25GbE, Dual-port SFP28, PCIe 4.0 x8, No Crypto

MediaKind marketing code:

  • MKP/HWO/PCI/NIC/25G/2PORT/C (MCX631102AN-ADAT)

Features:

  • NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx EN adapter Card, 25GbE, Dual-Port SFP28, PCIe 4.0 x8, No Crypto

MediaKind marketing code:

  • MKP/HWO/PCI/NIC/100G (MCX623106AN-CDAT)

Features:

  • NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx EN adapter card, 100GbE, Dual-port QSFP56, PCIe 4.0 x16, No Crypto

Multiplexing

Inputs and outputs

  • IP (UDP or RTP) input and output of MPEG Transport Streams
  • RTP re-ordering
  • IGMP V3 redundancy
  • Input bitrate monitoring and CC error detection
  • SMPTE 2022-1 FEC on input and output

Processing

  • PID filtering and PID remapping by re-multiplexing input programs Real-time PSI regeneration

Content security

Decryption

  • Conditional Access (CA): BISS1, BISS2, BISS-CA, Director 6, DVB-CI
  • Hardware requirements: A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) may be required or suitable option cards. See details below

BISS version 1 (BISS1)

  • Modes: Mode 1 and Mode E
  • Key length: 48-bit
  • Standards: DVB-CSA

BISS version 2 (BISS2)

  • Modes: Mode 1, Mode E and BISS-CA
  • Key length: 128-bit
  • Standards: DVB-CISSA
  • Key length: 128-bit
  • Standards: DVB-CISSA
  • Features: Entitlement management, Self-generated key pairs, Injected key pairs
  • Key length: 128-bit
  • Features: Entitlement management, Over Air Control (OAC)

MediaKind marketing code:

  • MKP/HWO/PCI/CI/DUAL (Digital Devices Octopus Duo CI)

Features:

  • DVB-CI compliant
  • 2x CI slots for two independent Conditional Access Modules (CAM) on each option card
  • Capable of processing transport streams of up to 96 Mbps per CAM (though actual bitrate may be limted by the CAM)
  • All major CAMs supported
  • Multiple Dual Common Interface (CI) option cards supported

Ad insertion

  • Ingest format:
    • MPEG-TS over IP (SPTS), with a video buffer of 1 second minimum
    • Assets pre-encoded and stored locally
  • Scheduling control: Triggered via advanced scheduling control options:
    • Signal-based: based on submitted SCTE-35 signal (with matching criteria)
    • Signal based / fallback to time: SCTE-35 expected, but not present, fallback to out-of-band operations triggering
  • Asset management:
    • Storage of up to 90 minutes of assets in the unit
    • Assets and schedules fetched automatically from a central asset server
    • Automatic housekeeping of the asset store

Monitoring & control

  • Remote control: Provided via the Mediakind MK.IO portal
  • Direct control and status monitoring: Provided via Web browser user interface and REST API
  • Standard protocols: SNMP, NTP, IGMP
  • Automated (standalone) 1+1 output synchronization with PTS alignment (either SDI or ST 2110 inputs)
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