Description
Features
- Two independent ASI/SDI ports: Input + Output or Dual Output (software-selectable)
- Each port can carry either DVB-ASI up to 214Mbps or full-frame 10-bit SDI
- Adaptive cable equalisation and inverted ASI
- Low-Profile PCI Express x1 card; Shipped with both low- and standard-profile brackets
- Watchdog-controlled input-to-output relais for redundant configurations
- Flexible receive modes with time-stamping, packet sequence counting and false-sync pass through for full TR 101 290 support
- SDI lossless Huffman encoding / decoding
- Bit-rate measurement and statistics
Block Diagram
DTA-2145 Applications
- Universal ASI/SDI input/output adapter for PC-based applications that record, play and/or process MPEG-2 transport streams
- Simple fail-over configurations for High-Availability stream generation
- With StreamXpert and StreamXpress software: versatile, low-cost stream station
Specifications
DTA-2145 Key Attributes
PCI Express Label PCIe 1x 10 W
Connector 75-Ω BNC (2x*)
Return Loss > 17 dB
Hardware Buffering 16 MB / Channel
ASI:
Physical Layer EN 50083-9
Bitrate Range 0 .. 214 Mbit/s
Packet Size 188 or 204**
SDI:
Physical Layer SMPTE 259M
Bitrate 270 Mbit/s
#Bits 8 or 10 bit
* Input+output or dual output
** Arbitrary packet size in raw mode
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-2145 – Multi-Purpose ASI/SDI Input+Output adapter for PCI Express bus
DTA-2145-SLP – Multi-Purpose ASI/SDI Input+Output adapter for PCI Express bus with StreamXpress and StreamXpert Lite
DTA-2145-SXP – Multi-Purpose ASI/SDI Input+Output adapter for PCI Express bus with StreamXpress and StreamXpert
DTA-2145-SY-SXP – Multi-Purpose ASI/SDI Input+Output adapter for PCI Express bus with StreamXpress, StreamXpert and SdEye
DTA-2145-VR-SY-SXP – Multi-Purpose ASI/SDI Input+Output adapter for PCI Express bus with VF-Rec stream recorder, StreamXpress, StreamXpert and SdEye
SOFTWARE 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