L531AE-DC

6x 1GbE RJ45, 2x 10GbE Fiber, DC Power

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL
Dimensions 43.38 cm x 4.29 cm x 92.38 cm Operating Conditions 10 to 35 °C (50 to 95 °F)
(W x H x D) 17.08 in x 1.69 in x 36.37 in 10% to 80% RH (non-condensing)

Weight 19.51 kg (Unit) Storage Conditions -40 to 65 °C (-40 to 149 °F)

36.86 kg (Gross) 5% to 95% RH (non-condensing)

ECCN 5A992 Noise Level 68 dBA (Max)

USHTS Code 8471.50.0150 Electromagnetic Class A marking for All: ACMA,

Compliance ICES, CNCA, CE, SII, VCCI, GOST,
SABS, KC, BSMI, FCC
ELECTRICAL
Safety SCC, CE, TUV, IECEE CB, SII, NYCE,
Max Potential Power 952 Watts (Max) Compliance GOST, KSA ICCP, NRCS, BSMI, NRTL

Heat Dissipation 3248.36 BTU/hr (Max)

Line Frequency 50 - 60 Hz

Input Voltage -48 to -60 VDC

PSU Power Connector DC Terminal SYSTEM

System Management iDRAC9 Enterprise

Storage Capacity 240GB Redundant Storage

Interfaces 6x 1GbE RJ45

NOTE: Data center specific cabling is not provided, only regional mains 2x 10GbE Fiber
power cabling provided.

PORT CONFIGURATION

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INPUT SUPPORT
Live Input - Single and Multiple Program Transport Streams (SPTS, MPTS) over UDP/IP and RTP/IP with FEC
and SMPTE ST 2022-7 redundancy
- TR-01 with JPEG-2000 compression, PCM audio, and captions
- SDI (uncompressed), optional: SD-SDI, HD-SDI, 3G-SDI, Quad 3G-SDI (4K), Interleave (4K)
- Packaged network inputs: Apple HLS TS with muxed audio and video
- Video codecs:
⦁ H.264 up to 4:2:2 10 bit
⦁ H.265 up to 4:2:2 10 bit including High Dynamic Range (HDR)
⦁ MPEG-2
⦁ Apple ProRes®
⦁ RAW
⦁ JPEG-2000
- Audio codecs:
⦁ AC-3 (Dolby Digital)
⦁ EAC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus) *
⦁ Dolby E *
⦁ AAC
⦁ MPEG-1 Layer II
⦁ PCM

Live Input Redundancy - Input integrity: Generate repeat, black, slate, or color when input is missing
- Input failover, including seamless Hot Backup up to 4K ** (dual decode, single encode)

Live Input Redundancy - User-configurable

Trigger Conditions - Time-based errors ("Input Loss", "Video Loss", "Audio Silence", "Video Freeze", "Video Black")
- Event-based errors ("Transport Error Indicator Flag", "Continuity Counter Errors", "RTP Packet Loss")

File Input - Containers: MXF (AS-02, OP-1a-c, OP-2a-c, OP-3c), QuickTime, MPEG-4
- Packaged files: HLS
- Discrete audio and caption inputs
- OP-47 captions from 436M track of input MXF files

File Input Features - Separate audio and video files

- Audio delay offset
- Audio PID tracking
- Audio language tracking
- Audio track selection
- MPEG-2 deblocking
- Source file clipping
- Fast seek
- Merge multiple sources to single output
- Channel selection for multitrack inputs
- Audio only input
- Amazon S3 support
- Static image overlay per input

Multichannel Audio - Per clip audio channel assignment

Input - Unlimited audio tracks

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Timecode - Time code source embedded

- Time code source use local system clock
- Override time code date
- Start encoding at specified timecode
- External reference connector

Captions - Ancillary, DVB-Sub, SCTE-20, null, SCC, SMI, SRT, STL, Teletext, TTML, ARIB, EBU-TT-D
- Source CC channel
- 608 to 708 upconvert
- SCTE-27 pass-through support

Ad Avail - ESAM
- SCTE-35 splice insert
- SCTE-35 with APOS
- SCTE-35 Pullup
- SCTE-104 digital cue tone passthrough
- Ad avail blanking
- Black-out capability

Nielsen - Nielsen ID3 certification

- Nielsen RTVOD C3/C7 watermarking *

Notifications - Web callback

- Email

Scripting - Pre and post processing scripts

- Blank output during ad avail

608 Extended Data - Line 21 passthrough, rewrite, strip, insert

Services

Copy and Redistribution - Line 21 passthrough, rewrite, strip, insert

Control Packets

OUTPUT FORMATS
Video - H.264 (Baseline, Main, High up to 4:2:2*), 4:2:2 High Profile Intra 10 bit *
- H.265 (Main, Main10 up to 4:2:2*) including HDR 10, HLG, and Dolby Vision HDR *
- MPEG-2
- Apple® ProRes (up to 4:2:2 10 bit)
- Frame capture to JPEG (thumbnail creation)
- I-frame only mode
- Uncompressed

Audio - AAC-LC, AAC-HEV1, AAC-HEV2 (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, LATM/LOAS)

- Uncompressed WAV, AIFF
- AC-3 (Dolby Digital) *, AC-3 passthrough
- EAC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus) *, EAC-3 passthrough
- Dolby Atmos passthrough
- DTS Express *
- MPEG-1 Layer II
- Audio only output support (TS, HLS, MSS, RTMP)

Multichannel Audio - Per clip audio channel assignment

Output - Unlimited audio tracks

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Multilanguage Support - Follow input type (ISO 639)

- Insert audio type (ISO 639)
- Follow language code
- Insert language code

Output Locking - Apple HLS, Microsoft Smooth, and TS outputs

OUTPUT CONTAINERS
Live Streaming Outputs - Adobe RTMP Streaming (RTMP, RTMPS)
- Apple HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HLS)
- Microsoft Smooth Streaming (ISMV)
- MPEG DASH (ISOBMFF)
- MPEG-2 Part 1, Systems, CableLabs compliant (EBIF passthrough, EBP, PSI, RAI segmentation
marker) (MPEG-TS)
- Real Time Protocol (RTP)
- Single and Multiple Program Transport Streams (SPTS, MPTS) over UDP/IP and RTP/IP with FEC
- Zixi push protocol

File Outputs - Apple QuickTime and ProRes (MOV)

- Sony XDCAM MXF (XDCAM)
- RAW YUV or RGB formats (Uncompressed)
- MPEG-4 Part 10 (MP4)

Apple HTTP Adaptive - TS or fMP4 segment types

Streaming (HLS) - Byte range offset
- Single file / multiple segments
- Segment length
- Minimum segment length
- Auto upload to CDN
- Content base URL
- Manifest base URL
- Use subdirectories
- Disable caching
- Floating point manifests
- Resolution tag
- Compressed manifests
- Use Pantos 7 CODEC identifiers
- Program-Date-Time flag
- Closed-caption tag
- Ad markers - Adobe
- Ad markers - Simple
- Ad markers - SCTE-35 enhanced
- SMPTE ST 2038 ancillary data
- Alternate manifest destination
- File transfer protocols (HTTP push, Akamai, Webdav) with ULL chunked transfer

Encryption - AES CBC, CTR, EBC

- Key providers - 1Mainstream, Conax, Inside Secure, Irdeto, Piksel, PlayReady, Secure media, Cisco,
Verimatrix, SPEKE

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MPEG DASH (ISOBMFF) - Single file / multiple segments with ULL chunked transfer
- Fragment length
- Segment length
- ULL chunked encoding
- HbbTV 1.5 support
- Base URL
- Minimum buffer time

Encryption - DASH-CENC
- Key providers - Widevine, Piksel, SPEKE, PlayReady

Microsoft Smooth - Manifest level encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16)

Streaming (ISMV) - Collapse identical audio streams
Encryption - AES CTR
- PlayReady support
- Key providers - Conax, Inside Secure, Seachange, Piksel, Irdeto, SPEKE

Reliable TS Output - Deliver to AWS Elemental MediaConnect

- Zixi push protocol

Encryption - AES-128, AES-192, AES-256

SYSTEM CONTROL
CDN - Integrated CDN support: Basic PUT, WebDav, and Akamai

Load Balancing - Manual or automated load balancing options

- Notifications and alerts

Monitoring - System resource and statistics monitoring

User Authentication - Multiple authentication tiers, Amazon S3 public and private keys

AWS Elemental Conductor - Separate management system for control, monitoring and worker failure recovery in a multi-system
Live configuration
- Provision and operate channels using templates

Network Management - SNMP version 2c

Real-time Controls - Stop, pause and resume individual streams as well as archived files
- Audio gain adjustment for real-time control of audio volume
- Video and audio preview

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IMAGE ENHANCEMENT

Anti-aliasing Scaling - Reduce distortion artifacts when downscaling

Lanczos Scaling - Multivariate interpolation

Deblocking and Denoise - Remove common blocking and noise video artifacts

Deinterlacing - Motion adaptive interpolation

- Motion adaptive blend
- Motion adaptive interpolation with ticker

Inverse Telecine - Removes 2-3 frame format, restores original 24 fps frame rate

Telecine - None, soft or hard

Adaptive Quantization - Intraframe perceptual QP variation

Scene Change - Scene change detection

Look Ahead - Look ahead rate control

Gaming Optimizations - Fast complexity changes and rapid quality recovery during transitions

Noise Reduction - Noise filtering capability (Bilateral, Mean, Gaussian, Lanczos, Sharpen, Conserve, Perceptual)

Static Logo Insertion - Up to eight static image overlays (BMP, PNG or TGA format), SDR or HDR
- Apply image overlay to a single input, a single output, or globally
- Specify z-order and opacity

Motion Logo Insertion - Motion graphic overlay (HTML, MOV, PNG sequence or SWF format), SDR or HDR
- Overlay HTML motion graphics generated by third party authoring tools. Switch overlays on or off with
SCTE-35 signals.
- Using SWF and Adobe® ActionScript® code, manipulate the video for effects such as squeezeback

Thumbnail Creation - Create thumbnail JPEG images for any single frame or at custom intervals

Color Correction - Brightness, contrast, hue, saturation

- Full swing range or passthrough
- 601, 709 color space conversion
- HDR to SDR down conversion

MPEG-2 Error - Temporal pixel substitution

Concealment

Cropping - Select pixel locations to crop

Timecode Burn In - Text, font size, position

AUDIO ENHANCEMENT
Level Adjustment - Volume control

Audio Loudness - Audio loudness monitoring and correction; results stored to file (CALM compliant) *
Management

Channel Mixing and - Manual audio remixing

Mapping - Broadcaster mixed AD

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Rate Conversion - Adjust audio sample rate and frequency

Formats - Encode multiple formats simultaneously

Multiple Audio Tracks - Support for multiple audio streams for each video stream (SAP)

OTHER FEATURES
Metadata - VBI passthrough (V-Chip, CGMS-A)
- KLV Data

Caption Extraction and - Inputs:

Passthrough ⦁ Embedded
⦁ SCC
⦁ Teletext
- Transcaption Outputs:
⦁ CFF-TT
⦁ DVB-sub
⦁ Embedded
⦁ Embedded+SCTE-20
⦁ SCTE-20+Embedded
⦁ SCC
⦁ SMI
⦁ SMPTE-TT
⦁ SRT
⦁ Teletext
⦁ TTML
⦁ WebVTT
- Open caption support
- Caption burn in
- Language flag insertion

Processing - Rate control

⦁ CBR encoding
⦁ QVBR (Quality-Defined Variable Bitrate) encoding
⦁ VBR encoding
⦁ Statmux encoding *
- Insert / respond to AFD
- Scene change detect
- Minimum I-frame interval
- Force interlace mode
- Variable GOP support
- Content-adaptive B frames
- HDR 10 support (ST.2084, ST.2086, MaxFALL, MaxCLL)
- HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma) BT.2020
- Dolby Vision (Profile 5 and Profile 8.1) *
- Conversion between SDR, HDR 10, and HLG
- Rec.2020 color support
- RTMP metadata insertion
- EBIF passthrough
- EBP, PSI, RAI segmentation marker

* Available with Optional License

** Hardware Dependent
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