Description
A low cost 8-channel ASI input/output low profile PCI card.
All USA orders will be shipped from our USA warehouse.
All other orders will be shipped from Canada.
ORDERING INFORMATION
DTA-2178-ASI – Octal ASI ports for low-profile PCIe
DTA-2178-ASI-SLP – Octal ASI ports for low-profile PCIe with StreamXpress and StreamXpert Lite
DTA-2178-ASI-SXP – Octal ASI ports for low-profile PCIe with StreamXpress and StreamXpert
Features
- Eight independent ASI ports, each configurable as input or output
- TR 101 290 support
- Free Windows and Linux drivers and SDK (DTAPI)
Applications
- Record and store transport streams from DVB-ASI
- Analyze and monitor TS signals incoming from the DVB-ASI channels
- Playout TS files for DVB-ASI output
- Multiplex and combine several DVB-ASI streams together
Specifications
Key Characteristics
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Connectors | 9x 75-Ω micro BNC |
| DVB-ASI | EN50083-9 |
| Rx or Tx bitrate | 0 .. 214Mbit/s |
| Resolution | less than 1bit/s |
Ports
| Port | Type |
|---|---|
| Port 1 to 8 | DVB-ASI |
| Port 9 | Not used |
PC Requirements
| OS | PCI-Express slot |
|---|---|
| Windows 7, 8, 10 Windows Server 12, 16, 19 Linux ≥2.6.32, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x |
PCIe gen2 x8 Standard profile |
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 ✓ –
