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TV a partir
de uma
rede
Parte 3
• As noções básicas de transmissão de dados
através de uma rede
• TCP, UDP e RTP – Afinal o que significa?
• Utilizando uma rede
• Cabeamento de rede permite que todos os outros
cabos sejam redundantes
• 1000MBPS recomendado para uma operação
confiável
This is how our test
centre looked like for
this report.
FEATURE Faça-você-mesmo IPTV
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FEATURE Selfmade IPTV
1. Schematics of a MULTICAST
transmission. The server sends
one stream to the switch. The
transmission is then forwarded
to all connected devices.
2. Schematics of a UNICAST
transmission. The server sends
one stream to the switch, but
this time the stream is only
forwarded to one specific client.
Notice how the remaining ports
are fully available for other
communications.
3. Analogy of UDP: one
transmitter sends information,
regardless of how many
listeners there are. Also,
there is no feedback to the
transmitter. If a listener misses
a part or if he cannot correctly
receive the transmission, there
is nothing to do about it – the
transmitter will never know!
4. Analogy of TCP: one
transmitter sends information
to one listener. The reception
of every sentence has to be
confirmed by the listener. If he
missed the sentence or if he
did not understand it clearly,
the transmitter will send the
sentence again.
Vitor Martins Augusto
You can find quite a bit of infor-
mation on IPTV in the Internet
but it’s often not all that easy to
understand since it can be very
long-winded and complicated and
assumes the reader has some ba-
sic knowledge. One reason for the
difficulty in getting started in this
field is that most of the material
doesn’t have TV installers in mind
but rather is more geared towards
network specialists and IT admin-
istrators; two worlds bump into
each other here. Our goal is to save
our TELE-audiovision readers some
time and describe the more impor-
tant points.
Taking the leap into the IPTV world is
made complicated by these keywords:
TCP, UDP, RTP, Multicasting and Uni-
casting. But none of these are really
earth-shattering.
Almost everyone today that uses a
computer or tablet to get to the Inter-
net knows what TCP is. This network
protocol regulates the communication
between the various computers. Data
is sent in small packets from the send-
er’s computer to the recipient’s com-
puter.
To prevent the loss of a packet, it
contains the address of the transmit-
ter and the receiver. The packet also
includes a checksum that is calculated
from the data it contains. This makes it
possible to determine if the packet ar-
rives correctly and undamaged.
The best thing about TCP is that the
individual packets are transmitted until
a confirmation is sent back by the re-
ceiver. If this is the case, the transmit-
ter can then forget about the correctly
received data. Otherwise, the packet
would be retransmitted as often as
needed until a reception confirmation is
sent back. The order in which the indi-
vidual data packets are received is not
important – they will be placed in the
proper order by the receiver.
You can look at TCP as an amateur ra-
dio communication between two Hams:
the first Ham transmits a lengthy mes-
sage and after each sentence waits for
the second Ham to signal that he re-
ceived the message by saying „Roger“.
If he didn‘t understand it the first time,
the first Ham repeats the transmission.
This protocol is ideal for data trans-
missions; it guarantees that the data
arrives correctly and in one piece. For
live video and/or audio transmissions
this protocol is not as ideally suited.
There are two problems:
1) The video (or audio) has to arrive
in the correct order. What good would
it do if the third frame, for example, is
lost and after the seventh frame the
whole thing is repeated?
2) The checksum process is redun-
dant. If the image data of a frame
doesn‘t arrive correctly, it would be too
late the retransmit that frame.
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Because of these reasons
the UDP protocol is much
better suited for live trans-
missions of audio and vid-
eo. In this case we‘re deal-
ing with a greatly simplified
protocol in that the data
packets are sent without a
checksum. Aside from that,
the transmitter is not looking
for any kind of return signal
from the receiver. And in
Multicast mode the transmit-
ter really doesn‘t care who‘s
on the receiving end.
Analog to UDP could be
compared to a radio broad-
cast: the DJ reads the news
aloud and has no idea who‘s
listening, no idea how good
the reception is and no idea
if the listener understood
everything that was said.
Unlike TCP, with UDP you
1. DekTec DTE-3137 in action. Amazing how much
performance has been fitted in such a small
device – yet, it can inject a complete DVB-S/S2
transponder into the network.
2. In order to be able to work with IPTV, we had
to get ourselves a gigabit switch. These are
very cheap now, so there is no excuse to keep
struggling with 100MBPS technology.
3. The Dexing NDS3975 in action: it is receiving
three transponders (one from its internal tuner,
one from the Topreal TP-1011 through ASI and
one from the DekTec DTE-3137 through IP). It then
multiplexes a new transponder which is output
through ASI and IP (on a different IP). Amazing!
4. This picture shows one clear advantage of
using only IPTV within a studio or head-end
station: notice the blue network cable – this
single cable is enough to transport all required
information. Actually, all other cables could be
removed (except for the LNB-cable, in case you
want to use the internal tuner).
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should make sure there is
a reliable network connec-
tion between the transmitter
and receiver, otherwise the
broadcast won‘t be reliable.
RTP on the other hand is
not a fundamental protocol
like TCP or UDP. On the con-
trary, RTP is a protocol layer
based on UDP. This means
that as a basis UDP is always
used for RTP. RTP offers a
number of functions that
greatly improve live audio
and video transmissions:
• Data identification
• Time stamps for audio/
video synchronization
• Maintaining the order of
MPEG frames
• Special handling of MPEG
key frames
This just goes to show that
RTP should be used when-
ever all the devices involved
support this protocol.
With Multicasting an au-
dio/video stream is simply
transmitted without any par-
ticular receiver in mind. This
transmission is routed to all
users by the network and
it‘s up to the users to de-
cide if they want to receive
it or not. Obviously this is
extremely practical if more
than one user wants to re-
ceive the same stream. As
many users as desired can
tune in without the need for
additional network band-
width between the transmit-
ter and the switch.
Since the switch has to
process numerous data
packets, it could very quickly
become overloaded when
dealing with a cheap SOHO
product (Small Office, Home
Office) while at the same
time additional data is ex-
changed between users. If,
for example, User 2 doesn‘t
want to take part in Multi-
casting and would rather
send a large file to User 3, it
could happen that the flow of
this data transmission is re-
duced to a snail‘s pace or it
might not function at all.
To utilize Multicasting, with
regard to the IP destination
address it would be good
enough to configure using any
IP address from 224.0.0.0 to
239.255.255.255. This ad-
dress range would be used
by all of the Multicast de-
1. Wireshark capturing the network traffic. Beware that
lots of data is captured during a IPTV broadcast. You
should only capture data for some seconds, otherwise
it will take ages to process all captured packets.
2. After capturing the network traffic for a short
period, there are many analysis tools available within
Wireshark. This picture shows where the traffic
originated. It can be clearly seen that the devices with
IP-address 192.168.1.149 and 192.168.1.210 generated a
huge amount of traffic. Notice the destination IP: they
are multicasting IPs
3. All captured packets can be analyzed individually and
the contents can be viewed, while the header is shown
in a more detailed way.
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4. This graph shows the bandwidth
during the captured transmission. Inter-
estingly, the bandwidth is not constant,
when displayed in millisecond interval.
5. This graph shows the bandwidth of
the same transmission, but as Bits/
second. With just two transponders fed
into the network, a 100MBPS switch
is working at its limit. In fact, we tried
to use a 100MBPS switch and it froze
after a few seconds. A regular operation
was only possible using a 1000MBPS
switch.
6. Using DekTec’s StreamXpert soft-
ware, which already has been tested
in TELE-satellite 11-12/2012, together
with the professional DekTec DTE-3137
receiver, one has much more feed-
back about the IPTV broadcast. Notice
the lower left corner: a graph shows
continuously the occupied network
bandwidth.
7. StreamXpert can show all possi-
ble information about the streamed
transponder, including the programme
clock reference (PCR), required for
correct synchronization of audio and
video. This allows editing the times-
tamps in order to compensate for any
detected errors.
vices.
Note that Multicast is
not only used for IPTV;
it is used whenever the
same data needs to be
sent to multiple com-
puters, such as, when
multiple computers
need to be installed all
at the same time via a
network. That‘s how IT
professionals, for ex-
ample, in universities or
large company‘s install
an operating system on
hundreds of computers
all at once.
With Unicasting how-
ever, the stream - un-
like Multicasting - is
sent to one specific re-
ceiver. This has the ad-
vantage of not loading
down the network for
all the remaining users
allowing data traffic to
function normally. The
data is routed in the
switch between the in-
puts of the servers and
the users while the re-
maining switch ports
remain free.
The disadvantage is
the fact that for eve-
ry additional user the
stream would have to
be individually retrans-
mitted. In no time at all
the network bandwidth
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8. Despite having a perfect
picture, StreamXpert indicates
some errors in PAT and PMT.
Interestingly; these were
already present in the original
DVB-S stream…
9. Useful information provided
by StreamXpert: the grid
view, where all active services
within the stream are mapped
according to their PID.
10. Meanwhile, we monitor
our Dexing NDS3975 with
the SnmpNMS management
software. This application
gives us remote access to the
internals of this integrated
professional receiver.
11. On the Mux-tab, we can
specify which channels of
the three different incoming
transponders (through the
internal tuner, ASI-in and IPTV)
we want to output.
ate via a 100MBPS interface;
in view of the fact that the
bandwidth of common DVB-
S/S2 transponders transport
data on average at 50MBPS,
this would be sufficient.
All the IPTV receivers we
know of also operate on a
100MBPS network interface.
Why then would you want to
upgrade to a 1000MBPS in-
frastructure? The simplest
explanation is this: if cars
could only drive at 55 MPH,
then in principle single-lane
roads would be good enough.
But if there are a large num-
ber of cars all on the road at
the same time, then a multi-
lane highway would be much
better even though the cars
would be moving no faster
than 55 MPH. A 100MBPS
switch is designed for this
speed and would fall to its
knees if all the ports would
suddenly demand high data
transfer rates at the same
time. A 1000MBPS switch is
would reach its capacity and
it‘s especially the connection
from the server to the switch
that would need to withstand
enormous amounts of data.
The question often arises
if IPTV should be operated
at 100MBPS or would it be
better at 1000MBPS (also
referred to as 1GBPS or
1GBit/s). It‘s not an easy
answer; it depends ulti-
mately on how you want to
use IPTV and the network.
When different receivers will
only route single transpond-
ers to one or more multiplex-
ers, then for the most part
a 100MBPS network would
suffice. Quite often profes-
sional receivers only oper-
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simply able to handle much
more data internally.
If you want to provide
IPTV to a community, a ho-
tel or a home where the
network would be used for
other services (Internet,
File sharing, VoIP, etc.), then
we definitely would recom-
mend a 1000MBPS network.
In today‘s day and age this
is considered standard and
upgrading from a 100MBPS
network to a 1000MBPS
network should not really
present any problems if the
cables already in place are
CAT-5e or CAT-6 types. If
this isn‘t the case, the exist-
ing cable should be replaced
with CAT-6 cable. The
switches would also have to
be updated and you should
make sure that the network
adapter on older computers
can also handle 1000MBPS.
To get an overview of the
network, it would pay to in-
stall a Network Monitoring
Program, also called a Net-
work Sniffer. These pro-
grams log all packets that
are sent on a network.
In order for this to be tech-
nically possible, special soft-
ware, known as WinPcap,
needs to be installed. Win-
Pcap places the computer‘s
network card in „promiscu-
ous“ mode in which the net-
work card accepts all pack-
ets, not just those that are
specifically meant for that
computer, but all of them.
Additionally, WinPcap pro-
vides an interface for ap-
plications to gain access to
these data packets.
The most well-known
and most popular network
monitoring program is Wire-
shark. The basic require-
ment is WinPcap and with
that all of the data traffic can
be logged. In this way it‘s
easy to recognize which IP
addresses from which com-
puters are requesting which
data packets. It‘s also easy
to identify if network multi-
casting is in use, how much
bandwidth is being used,
etc. And the good news?
Both WinPcap and Wireshark
are free.
Whether in a studio or in
a headend, IPTV has estab-
lished itself as an omnipres-
ent solution for the distri-
bution of audio and video
signals. There are many
advantages regardless if
IPTV is used for the internal
distribution in a headend or
for the direct feed to an end
user.
Just the fact alone that all
data can be sent over a sin-
gle cable makes it worth uti-
lizing this technology.
12. To check our IPTV streams
within the network, we use VLC.
13. TSReader Professional is an
excellent tool when it comes to
analyze transponder streams.
Instead of just rendering the
channel, TSReader shows
all PIDs and their respective
bandwidth.