Practical aspects of UHD implementation

UHD. Practical aspects of the implementation
Rainer Fritz – RSOE
Sergii Pedorenko – RSUA
15.11.2017 Kiev

Agenda
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• Sky – UHD 24/7 Service. Case study
• R&S®VENICE S4 Ingest and Playout
for UHD
• R&S®Spycer On-Line and Near Line
storage for UHD
• R&S®AVHE100 UHD encoding and
multiplexing solution
• R&S®PRISMON UHD A/V monitoring
• New product portfolio *Caster from
GMIT

Sky – UHD 24/7 Service. Case study

Timeline
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• Project Start: March 2016
• Design & Planning: April-May 2016
• Installation and Construction: May June 2016
• Commissioning: July-August 2016
• Test, Training and Rehearsal period: August-September 2016
• OnAir: 14. October 2016
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Ingest
Live
Feed
Emergency Ingest
Online Media Storage
Postproduction
Suite
QC Suite
GFX Adobe
Suite
Clipster (Lab)
Channel Playout
Automation
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Workflow Diagram
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Equipment Ingest
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• XAVC-Intra (Class 300) was selected: 3840x2160, 50Fps, 10 bit color depth,
Chroma subsampling 4:2:2, 16 audio channels PCM
• Datarate for XAVC-I is 600 Mbit/s (75 MByte/s)
• ‘Proxy’, based on ProRes 422 Proxy HD (76 Mbit/s), is created on the Servers and
used for Re-Run trimming
• File Container is MXF OP1a
• Live Feed Ingest is realized via R&S Venice UHD server 2x Channel (4x3G-HDSDI)
• Backup by a AJA KiPro Ultra 4K server

Equipment Production
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• Central Storage is based on R&S SpycerBox Ultra TL:
approx. 500 Hours of XAVC-I UHD 50p material.
Data rates from 2-12 Gbit/s, depending on used capacity,
fragmentation, traffic,…
• Avid Media Composer are used for Editing and QC. Enhanced with
XAVC PlugIn (PDZK-MA2)
• Lab features a R&S CLIPSTER System as a mastering and coding
station, mainly used for conformity check of incoming IMF files
• 10 Gbit/s Network was implemented, based on redundant
Cisco Nexus 5K Core Switches

Equipment Playout
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• Due to the demand of live production, dedicated
SAM Kahuna Switcher, Evertz EQX Hybrid Router
and Keyer (GFX & Logo) were implemented
• A/B Playout is handled via two R&S Venice 4K
server in Main/Backup Mode
• Control of Playout components by ADC Automation
and Lawo vsm System

Equipment Distribution
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• Signals are encoded via R&S
AVHE100 platform
• Encoding into H.265 (25 Mbit/s) stream
(4:2:0, 10 bit), incl. DD+ Audio (2.0,
5.1)
• Multiplexing & DVB-S2 Distribution by
Sky Italy

R&S®VENICE S4 Ingest and Playout for UHD

New server generation
VENICE S4
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Interfaces
Video I/O
4x SFP+ module
− Optional dual HD-BNC transeivers and transmitters
− SDI and IP connectivity (exchangeable SFPs)
4x HD or 1x 4K/UHD bi-directional channels
Broadcast Interfaces
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FIMS
Automation
Business
System
VDCP
Serial
MOS
NRCS
RS 422VTR
Controller
Automation
*
* NAB 18
Venice
WS
config
VDCP
TCP/IP
Spycer
WS
Data
management
Connectivity & Integration
* NAB 18
*
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4.0.x
SDI and IP I/O (2022-6, 2110)*
LTC I/O for all channels
50p/60p on all channels
UHD licensing (1 channel)
Dolby E Decoding
Caption insertion and extraction OP47 (STL, SCC)
Automated ARC, AFD detection
MXF OP1A ProRes (-> IMF Packaging)
Playout / Ingest / Transform
NAB 18** NAB 18
New Venice software version
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R&S®Spycer On-Line and Near Line storage for UHD

R&S®Virtual Storage Access
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Key facts:
• Software component providing virtual storage access
• Customized for the R&S®VENICE and the R&S®Spycer
Media Gateway server
• Provides non-blocking parallel file replication
• Independently operating Rohde & Schwarz storage
systems

R&S®Virtual Storage Access - Handling of Storage Failures
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The virtualization layer covers errors and long
latencies on one storage system
• Uninterrupted media transfers
• Ensured response times
• Simultaneous execution of file system operations
• No failover process necessary
• Conditions are forwarded to a central management
service for later resynchronization

SpycerBox Cell – The high performance online Storage Solution
ı SpycerBox Cell designed to
meet the requirements of high performance markets:
ı Post Production (Movie / Broadcast)
Central Production Storage
Playout storage
Realtime Applications
ı Benefits
High performance
Unique high storage density
SAN and NAS capabilities at the same time
Failover Handling and Clustering
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SpycerBox Ultra TL – The compact nearline Solution
ı SpycerBox Ultra TL is designed to
meet the requirements of high capacity nearline markets:
ı Post Production (Movie / Broadcast)
High capacity nearline storage
High capacity for midterm archive
ı Benefits
SAN/NAS in a Box
Wide variety of connectivity options
Easily expandable by adding JBODs
High performance
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IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS)
ı Replaces current Stornext FS
ı Ethernet based (10/25/40GbE) instead of FC
ı Tiered Storage (nearline/online under same Namespace)
ı Policy based
ı Easy scaling during seamless operation
ı No Metadatanetwork, Clients connecting via SMB or blocklevel Access @ Ethernet (NFS like)
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Introduction
AVHE100 – Feature Summary
Fully redundant headend with Video / Audio processing:
ı Video encoding / transcoding for SD, HD and UHD resolutions
MPEG-2, H.264, HEVC
ı Audio encoding / transcoding
MPEG-1 L2, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, AAC-LC, HE-AACv1/v2
ı Statistical Multiplexing
ı Re-multiplexing of components
ı PSI/SI inserter and EPG re-multiplexing
ı DVB-T and DVB-T2 network adaptors
SFN adaptor
DVB-T2 gateway (T2MI)
ı Integrated Headend System Management
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Introduction
AVHE100 – Density
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ı Live UHD/4k encoding inside 2 height units
ı HEVC signal format with up to 60 frames per second in progressive
ı Optionally with 10bit color depth and HDR metadata (SMPTE2020)
4x 3G-SDI
2x R&S®AVS-BU140
TSoIP Output
Quadrant A Quadrant B
Quadrant C Quadrant D
1920 pixel
1080pixel
3840 pixel
2160pixel
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R&S HDR Broadcast Solutions: Venice/Clipster and AVHE100
R&S®AVHE100 R&S®TLU9
HDR
ı First SDI-based HDR/SDR signalization
VENICE S4 / CLIPSTER to AVHE100
ı Frame by Frame Switching
UHD/HEVC HDR
Encoding
R&S®VENICE S4
HDR or SDR
Playout
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R&S®PRISMON UHD A/V monitoring

R&S®PRISMON – Introduction and Overview
Product History
R&S PRISMON - NEXT GENERATION OF BMM-810
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Product Characteristics
ı Monitoring & Multiviewing in one box
ı 100% software-defined product
ı Wide range of supported protocols & codecs:
Baseband video: SD/HD/3G-SDI
Baseband video over IP: SMPTE 2022-6 & 2110, TR 03/04,
Contribution Codecs: J2K, TICO,...
Broadcast: 2022-1/2, ASI, MPEG-2/4, HEVC...
OTT Protocols: HLS, MPEG DASH, HDS, MSS, RTMP,...
ı Any video format:
Low resolution OTT video to UHD resolutions (incl. HDR
support)
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Convergent Monitoring
ı Multi-application
approach:
Convergent
monitoring of
playout,
broadcast and
over-the-top
platforms (incl.
video quality
assurance)
Channel
Play
out
DVB-
Headend
OTT-
Headend
BCN
CDN
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R&S®PRISMON – Product Details
Unique advanced content monitoring features
LiveQM - Video Quality
Measurements:
Standardized metrics
(PSNR/SSIM Struct. Similarity)
Automatic synchronization
Alarming and Logging of threshold
violations
Differential Image
Up to 8 measurements in parallel
Lipp-Sync measurements
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Internet
packet
loss,
jitter,
..
UDP
TCP
UDP
TCP
Artefacts
due to
missing data
Buffering
due to reduced
bandwidth
RelayCaster RelayCaster 100% due to
RelayCaster
OTT OTT
Reduced quality
due to lowered
bitrateHLS, DASH, .. Adaptive
streaming
IMPORTANT:
From
MPEG-2 to
AVC/H.264 to
HEVC/H.265
the problems
introduced by
packet loss are
increased
severely due to
codec
complexity
(inter-
dependencies)
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RelayCaster
RelayCaster 200 1000 One Lite (Software) Software AWS Encoder
Input IP IP IP IP IP IP
SDI / HDMI
MPEG2 / H.264
Output IP IP IP IP IP IP IP
Bandwidth 100 Mbit 400 Mbit 25 Mbit 25 Mbit Unlimited Unlimited 25 Mbit
Number of streams Unlimited Unlimited 1 1 Unlimited Unlimited 1
New for IBC 2017
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RelayCaster
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IPTV streams
RelayCaster RelayCasterInternet
Contribution and distribution of live content
over unmanaged long-distance Internet links
Improved reliability and higher bandwidths
on long distance Internet links
Security with AES encryption
Standard-compliant input and output
B2B: Data-center to data-center in the
backbone of services
IPTV streams
RelayCaster Streaming Protocol (RCSP)
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Applications: Primary Distribution
• Content owner provides live stream to local
operators
• Content owner increases number of viewers
and advert revenues
• Operator improves content portfolio
• Cost-effective win-win approach with little
running costs
Exemplary reference:
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Applications: Contribution
• License and collect interesting
live content world-wide
• Cost-effective contribution to
new markets
• Sub-licensing of content to
operators, OTT service
provider, ..
Exemplary reference:
Largest TV contribution network
over public Internet in Europe: 120+
channels in 24/7 production
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