Video Bridge - MCS

Owned by Ramya Raman (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Feb 06, 2023
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The new video bridge works on compressed and uncompressed content and doesn’t work on a stacked system. Thus, the new bridge is relevant only while working with MCS, which manages multiple MCMs.

For example, one MCM needs to show content that is monitored on the other MCM. The MCS is configured either through a CED or not through CED or a persistent display. It configures a display of a channel on a different unit than the ones that it's monitored on. The MCS is configured to the tile definitions of the bridge, (i.e.) the URL of the original source and from this point, the MCM creates a mock-up channel for the bridge and allocates this channel to the tile. These mock-up channels are seen only on MCM and not visible from the MCS side. The different work models of the video bridge are as follows.

  • For a Compressed and SPTS/MPTS stream, it takes the original channel, which is compressed, and transfers the content.

  • For an OTT stream, repackage the TS, so the content is not encoded. However, the video quality is not lost.

  • For an Uncompressed stream, the bridge is meant to handle uncompressed content or ndi contents. The compression is according to the tile assigned (i.e) the resolution and bandwidth will be reduced according to the tile’s need.

** The new bridge on MCM9000 is available from version 6.0 onwards.

How to configure the bridge on MCS

 

In this example, two MCM systems are configured on MCS for a video bridge. The first is the monitoring system, and the second one will be the displaying system for the video bridge.

** Please note a minimum of two MCM is required to configure the video bridge through MCS.

 

  1. On the MCS navigate to Devices Management page. Please ensure atleast two MCM9000 devices are configured on the MCS. Please refer to Adding MCM9000 devices to MCS to configure MCM9000 devices.

     


    In this example, first device MCM-9232 is used for monitoring Sources and second device MCM-9898 is used for displaying on the Output mosaic.

  2. Please refer to Add sources to through MCS to add Sources and Configure Output Encoder on MCS to configure the Output Encoder. Also, please ensure that the Video Bridge is enabled for the right NIC in the interface configuration.

     

     

  3. Navigate to Sources Configuration and monitor the sources on the first device (MCM-9232).

     

     

  4. Navigate to Output Configuration and start the encoder on the second device (MCM-9898).

     

     

  5. Now goto the second device (MCM-9898) that is displaying. Here in the Sources monitored are in the Bridge as shown below.

     

     

** Please note that when using light monitoring the Legacy Compressed Bridge will be in use.