Descriptions
DTA-2144B Features
- Four BNC ports with individual status LEDs
- Operation in ASI or SDI mode can be selected under software control
- Each port can be independently configured as input or output
- Cable equalisation and inverted ASI
- Hardware counters for bitrate measurement and statistics
- Flexible receive modes with time-stamping, packet sequence counting and false-sync pass-through for full TR 101 290 support
- 10-bit SDI, full frame @ 270Mbps
- Lossless SDI Huffman encoding / decoding for reduction of bus bandwidth and file size
- Free drivers and SDK (DTAPI) for XP/2k3/Vista/2k8/Win7/Win8 and Linux 2.6
Block Diagram
DTA-2144B Applications
- Transport-stream multiplexing
- Monitoring of multiple MPEG-2 transport streams and/or SDI serial digital video streams
- Universal ASI/SDI input/output adapter for PC-based applications that record, play and/or process ASI or SDI
Specifications
DTA-2144B Key Attributes
ASI/SDI connector 75-Ω BNC (4x)
Input return loss >15dB
Hardware buffering 32MB/channel
ASI:
Physical Layer DVB-ASI (coax), EN50083-9
Rx or Tx bitrate 0 .. 214 Mbps
Resolution <1bit/s
SDI:
Physical Layer SMPTE 259M
Bitrate 270 Mbps
#Bits 8 or 10bit
DVB ID 5551
Available Options and Ordering Info
All USA orders will be shipped from our USA warehouse.
All other orders will be shipped from Canada.
ORDERING INFORMATION
DTA-2144B – Quad ASI/SDI Input/Output adapter for PCI Express bus
DTA-2144B-SLP – Quad ASI/SDI Input/Output adapter for PCI Express bus with StreamXpress and StreamXpert Lite
DTA-2144B-SXP – Quad ASI/SDI Input/Output adapter for PCI Express bus with StreamXpress and StreamXpert
DTA-2144B-SY-SXP – Quad ASI/SDI Input/Output adapter for PCI Express bus with StreamXpress, StreamXpert and SdEye
DTA-2144B-VR-SY-SXP – Quad ASI/SDI Input/Output adapter for PCI Express bus with VF-Rec stream recorder, StreamXpress, StreamXpert and SdEye
OPTIONS DESCRIPTION
1. StreamXpress – Playout Software
- Low-cost, high-performance playout software that supports all DekTec output adapters
- Endless play with optional automatic correction of continuity-counter, PCR/PTS/DTS and TDT/TOT fields
- SOAP-based remote control to automate StreamXpress operations (DTC-302-RC option)
- Saving and restoring playout parameters using XML-based settings file
- Reproducible injection of errors in the transport stream with adjustable error rate
- Easy-to-use control of modulation and channel simulation parameters
2. StreamXpert – Transport Stream Analyser Software
• Real-time analysis, monitoring and recording of MPEG-2 transport streams
• Recording based on duration, size or manual
• Provides detailed statistics on the PIDs, services and tables found in the transport stream
• Displays PIDs, services, tables, descriptors, stream information and PID-grid (compact overview of all PIDs)
• User definable TR 101 290 templates
• PCR analysis
• Measurement of bitrates, PCR-accuracy and interval
• Integrated SD/HD video and audio decoder with support for MPEG-2, AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, AVS, 4:2:2 and 10 bit video streams and MP1 / MP2 / (HE-)AAC / Dolby AC3 / Dolby AC4 audio
• Deep decoding of PSI, DVB-SI, DVB-RCS and ATSC-PSIP tables and descriptors
• Closed captions decoding
• SI decoding with user templates, Dolby AC4 analysis, multi-monitor support
• Support for analysing TS-over-IP streams via a DTA-2160 / DTA-2162 or a local network port
• The world’s most cost-effective and user-friendly transport-stream analyser
3. StreamXpert Lite – Light-weight version of StreamXpert for viewing and recording transport-stream contents, and for decoding audio and video.
StreamXpert StreamXpert Lite
Ribbon based GUI ✓ ✓
Display
List with properties of all PIDs ✓ –
List with properties of all services ✓ partial
List with properties of all tables ✓ –
Video Decoding
HEVC ✓ ✓
AVC ✓ ✓
AVS ✓ ✓
MPEG-2 ✓ ✓
4:2:2 ✓ –
10-bit ✓ –
Full screen mode ✓ ✓
Multi-monitor support ✓ ✓
Audio Decoding
HE-AAC ✓ ✓
AAC ✓ ✓
E-AC-3 ✓ ✓
AC-3 ✓ ✓
MPEG-1 Layer II ✓ ✓
Supported Interfaces
DekTec input adapters ✓ ✓
PC network ports ✓ ✓
Advanced
Custom table and descriptor templates ✓ –
PID Grid, graphical overview of all PIDs ✓ –
Dolby AC-4 analysis ✓ –
Recording
Manual mode ✓ ✓
Size based ✓ ✓
Duration based ✓ ✓
Measurement and Compliance
TR 101 290 priority 1, 2 and 3 ✓ –
Bitrate ✓ partial
PCR graphs ✓ –
PCR accuracy ✓ –
PCR interval ✓ –
PCR frequency offset ✓ –
4. SdEye – SDI Analysis and Monitoring Software
- Cost-effective real-time waveform analyser for SMPTE-259M signals
- Displays picture, YCbCr / RGB waveforms, vectorscope and peak meter
- Various picture display modes: interlaced, top- or bottom-field only, top and bottom field, full SDI frame
- User can select whether he wants to display Y, Cb, Cr, R, G and/or B components in the picture
- Contemporary GUI with quick access buttons and user-selectable window layout
- Supports all DekTec SDI-capable adapters including bus-powered USB-2 units for portable SDI monitoring
5. VF-Rec – Advanced transport-stream/SDI recorder
• Advanced recorder for TS, ETI, SDI, I/Q samples and T2MI.
• Allows to do continuous recording and remote control through SNMP
• Record to a single file, to multiple files or continuous
• SDI recording 10-bit full frame, up to 3G-SDI
• Remote monitoring and control through SNMP