Viz Mosart Video Server Connection String

• Name: Specifies a logical name to be associated with the device. This is used to recognize the devices in various places.

• Type: Specifies which driver to be used for connecting to the server. See the table below for details about which Video Server Drivers that are currently supported.

• Server: Specifies the server name or the IP address of the video server.

• Config: Specifies a configuration file containing custom configuration for a particular video server driver. Editing these files is typically done during installation.

Video Server Drivers

• AirSpace: AirSpace video driver

• AirSpeed: AirSpeed video driver

• AirSpeedSearch: As AirSpeed driver, but contains search functionality only. Used by Media Administrator to obtain clip status from an AirSpeed video server.

• AirSpeedMultiStream: AirSpeed Multi Stream driver, also Airspeed 5000

• AirSpeedMultiStreamSearch: As AirSpeed Multi Stream driver, but contains search functionality only. Used by Media Administrator to obtain clip status from an AirSpeed Multi Stream or 5000 video server.

• Amadeus: Amadeus MAM driver

• EVS: EVS driver

• GrassValleyK2: Grass Valley K2 driver

• OPUS: Omnibus MAM driver using OPUS interchange

• Omneon: Omneon video driver

• OmneonSearch: As Omneon driver, but contains search functionality only. Used by Media Administrator to obtain clip status from an Omneon video server.

• Quantel: Quantel video driver

• ScreenLLSearch: Screen LinguaLib search driver

Applies to Models

• AirSpeed

• AirSpace

See Also

• AirSpeed Multi Stream / AirSpeed 5000 Connection String

Connection String Properties

• Type: AirSpeed and AirSpace

• Name: Defines the ID of this connection (Default=AirSpeed).

• Server: Defines the hostname or IP-address of the server.

• Config: Defines the name of the configuration file.
  Optional:

• BasePort:* The lowest port number to connect to (Default=59451).

• Player:* The player number (1-6). Used for setting the TCP port (Default=1).

• ChangeCheckInterval: Time in seconds how often to poll AirSpeed for clip changes (Default=1).

• ReceiveTimeout: Time in seconds to wait for response from AirSpeed (Default=10).

• HeartbeatInterval: Time in seconds to send out a heartbeat in case of no communication detected from AirSpeed (Default=30).
  * The TCP port to connect to becomes BasePort + Player - 1.

Examples

AV Automation:

Media Administrator:

Configuration File Properties

Configuration file properties can be overridden by connection string properties.

• KeepCache (boolean): How often (in seconds) to look for clip changes. value="1" is the default value if not configured here (Default=False).

• RefreshOnUpdate (boolean): When set to true the cache will be updated on each update clip message from the server (Default=True)

• VerifyClipDelay (integer): Delay in frames to wait before verifying new clips from server.

• ReceiveTimeout (integer): Time in seconds to wait for response from AirSpeed (Default=10).

• ChangeCheckInterval (integer): Time in seconds how often to poll AirSpeed for clip changes (Default=2).

• HeartbeatInterval (integer): Time in seconds to send out a heartbeat in case of no communication detected from AirSpeed (Default=30).

• GetMinimumList (boolean): Set to true to retrieve only clip names when initializing database (Default=False)

• DelayGetClipData (boolean): Delay getting detailed clip information. Information will be retrieved for clips in rundown only (Default=True).

• DelayEventsOnDatabaseInitialization (boolean): If true, all clip handling during database load will be postponed until last clip is received (Default=False).

• SignalDatabaseReady (boolean): Refreshes all clips after database has been built instead of refreshing for every item in the database (Default=True).

• VerifyModifiedClips (boolean): If true, all modified clip events for clip not in cache will be verified, as if they were created (Default=True).

• ReceiveBufferSize (integer): Set buffer size used for receiving date from AMS. Default 16384 = 2 times default buffer size of Net.Socket (Default=16384).

• Encoding (string): Set to encoding used for send/receive from AMS (Default=utf-8).

• SupportSearchUsingObjSlug: Ignores search for objSlug if set to false (Default=True).

• SupportSearchUsingRefID: Ignores search for refID if set to false (Default=False).
  
  Use for debugging purposes only:

• VerboseLogging (boolean): Set to true to enable logging of received messages from AMS (Default=False).

• DatabaseCache (boolean): If set to a valid filename, initial load database will store the content in this file (Default=False).

• DatabaseCacheUpdate (boolean): Determines when the debug database cache is updated (either [Never,Always,Initial]).

• LoadDatabase: Specifies whether the AirSpeed clip database should be initially loaded and maintained by the Media Administrator. Setting this attribute to true is required if any search should be possible using an AirSpeed video server.

Applies to Models

• AirSpeed Multi Stream 1.8

• AirSpeed 5000

See Also

• AirSpeed Classic Connection String

Connection String Properties

• Type: AirSpeedMultiStream

• Name: Defines the ID of this connection (Default=AirSpeedMultistream).

• Server: Defines the hostname or IP-address of the server.

• Config: Defines the name of the configuration file.
  Optional:

• BasePort:* Specifies the port number of the first port on the server (Default=59451).

• Player:* Specifies the player (1-6) that should be used for searches and clip verification (Default=1).

• ChangeCheckInterval: Time in seconds how often to poll AirSpeed for clip changes (Default=1).

• ReceiveTimeout: Time in seconds to wait for response from AirSpeed (Default=10).

• HeartbeatInterval: Time in seconds to send out a heartbeat in case of no communication detected from AirSpeed (Default=30).
  
  *The TCP port to connect to becomes BasePort + Player - 1

Examples

AV Automation:

Media Administrator:

Configuration File Properties

Configuration file properties can be overridden by connection string properties.

• KeepCache (boolean): How often (in seconds) to look for clip changes. value="1" is the default value if not configured here (Default=False).

• RefreshOnUpdate (boolean): When set to true the cache will be updated on each update clip message from the server (Default=True)

• VerifyClipDelay (integer): Delay in frames to wait before verifying new clips from server.

• ReceiveTimeout (integer): Time in seconds to wait for response from AirSpeed (Default=10).

• ChangeCheckInterval (integer): Time in seconds how often to poll AirSpeed for clip changes (Default=2).

• HeartbeatInterval (integer): Time in seconds how send out a heartbeat in case of no communication detected from AirSpeed (Default=30).

• GetMinimumList (boolean): Set to true to retrieve only clip names when initializing database (Default=False).

• DelayGetClipData (boolean): Delay getting detailed clip information. Info will be retrieved for clips in rundown only (Default=True).

• DelayEventsOnDatabaseInitialization (boolean): If true, all clip handling during database load will be postponed until last clip is received (Default=False).

• SignalDatabaseReady (boolean): Refreshes all clips after database has been built instead of refreshing for every item in the database (Default=True).

• VerifyModifiedClips (boolean): If true, all modified clip events for clip not in cache will be verified, as if they were created (Default=True).

• ReceiveBufferSize (integer): Set buffer size used for receiving date from AMS. Default 16384 = 2 times default buffer size of Net.Socket (Default=16384).

• Encoding (string): Set to encoding used for send/receive from AMS (Default=utf-8).

• SupportSearchUsingObjSlug: Ignores search for objSlug if set to false (Default=True).

• SupportSearchUsingRefID: Ignores search for refID if set to false (Default=False).
  
  Use for debugging purposes only:

• VerboseLogging (boolean): Set to true to enable logging of received messages from AMS (Default=False).

• DatabaseCache (boolean): If set to a valid filename, initial load database will store the content in this file (Default=False).

• DatabaseCacheUpdate (boolean): Determines when the debug database cache is updated (either [Never,Always,Initial]).

Connection String Properties

• Name: Amadeus ID for database

• Type: Defines the Amadeus driver for clip handling.

• Port: Set to port to listen for an Amadeus connection.
  Optional:

• Port: Defines the connection port (Default=2202).

• ResponseReadTimeout: Defines the wait time until timeout (default=5000).

• PollIntervalClips: Defines the time between polling (Default=15). Set to 0 to disable.

• RundownPrefix: Defines the prefix to add for the rundown name (Default=””).

• GetAllCGs: If true, METAREQ_ALLCGS message type will be used when getting clip info (Default=””). For more details, see the Amadeus documentation.

• LowerCaseRundowns: If true, then the rundown name will always be generated with lower case (Default=False).

• IgnoreSTEG: If true, all messages from Amadeus starting with STEG will be ignored (Default=True). For more details, see the Amadeus documentation.

• StegCommandIfSubtitled: Sends the specified STEG command if clip is subtitled (Default=KLOCKA INVOKEOFF). For more details, see the Amadeus documentation.

• SubtitleStegOutOn: Sets the graphics_out_on xml value in the STEG command set to Amadeus (Default=BACKGROUNDEND).

• PurgeCacheInterval: Use hh:mm:ss format (Default=00:00:00).

• PurgeCacheAge: Use hh:mm:ss format (Default=00:05:00).

Connection String Properties

• Type: Harris Nexio

• Name:* Defines the ID of this connection.

• Server:* Defines the hostname or IP-address of the server.

• Config: Defines the name of the configuration file.
  Optional:

• Port:* TCP port to connect to (Default=557).

• Encoding:* Set to “U” or “Unicode” if it should be Unicode.

• Case:* Set to “B” to be case sensitive on clip name searches.

• ClipNames:* Property for using exact clip names. If set to “EXACT”, clip names are case-sensitive (Default=EXACT).

• ChangeCheckInterval: Defines the number of seconds between checks for clip changes.

• LoadDatabase (boolean):* Set to “true” to build internal database of clips present on server and enable clip monitoring (Default=False).
  
  * The configuration file set property can be overridden by a connection string parameter.

Examples

AV Automation:

Media Administrator:

Configuration File Properties

• ChangeCheckInterval (integer): Time in seconds how often to poll HarrisNexio for clip changes (Default=5).

• Port (integer): Defines the default connection port (Default=557).

• Encoding (string): (Default=ANSI)

• Case (string): (Default=UPPER)

• ClipNames (string): Property for using exact clip names. If set to “EXACT”, clip names are case-sensitive (Default=EXACT).

• KeepCache (boolean): When set to “false”, the cache is cleared on reconnects (Default=False).

• RefreshOnUpdate (boolean): When set to “true”, the cache will be updated on each update clip message from the server (Default=True).

• VerifyClipDelay (integer): Delay in frames to wait before verifying new clips from server (Default=0).

• SupportSearchUsingObjSlug: Ignores search for objSlug if set to “false” (Default=True).

• SupportSearchUsingRefID: Ignores search for refID if set to “false” (Default=False).

• MaxCueTime (integer): Maximum milliseconds to wait for cue (Default=5000).

• ClipNamePattern: See General Configuration File Properties

Configuration File Properties

• Server (string): Defines the hostname or IP-address of the server (Default=localhost).

• Port (integer): Defines the TCP port to connect to (Default=8102).

• ServiceName (string): Default=JupiterService.svc

• Service (string): Default=http://\{Server}:{Port}/{ServiceName}

• GetStatusCommand (string): Default={Service}/clipstatus/{0}

• GetKeyFramesCommand (string): Default={Service}/keyframes/{0}

• PollIntervalStatus (string): Default={Service}/keyframes/{0}

Applies to Models

• Vizrt Xlator

• SVT F2C file name conversion service

Connection String Properties

• Type: MVCP

• Name: Defines the ID of this connection (Default=MVCP).

• Server: Defines the hostname or IP-address of the server (Default=localhost).

• Port: Defines the TCP port to connect to (Default=5250).

Configuration File Properties

• CustomSearch:* Set to “SVT” to enable SVT custom search on objSlug.

• SetNameAsRefId:* Set clip name as ref ID in the media object (Default=False) for re-use in other clip servers.

• WriteTimeOut: Sets the amount of time in milliseconds that a write operation blocks waiting for data from the server (Default=5000).

• ReadTimeOut: Sets the amount of time in milliseconds that a read operation blocks waiting for data to the server (Default=5000).

• AppendExtension:* A file extension used when sending messages to the MVCP interface (Default=””).

• RemoveExtension:* Used to strip the extension of a clip name (Default=””) from the MVCP interface.

• ClipNamePattern: See General Configuration File Properties
  
  *About custom search ‘SVT’: SVT has file names with 36 characters. The Nexio only supports 32 characters. SVT exposes a mapping proxy with an MVCP interface and a custom command F2C which translates a long name to a shorter one.

Examples

AV Automation:

Media Administrator:

Applies to Models

• Connects to Quantel using Quantel CORBA interface

Device Prerequisites

• Requires Quantel CORBA services to run

• Serial numbers of playout servers, normally obtained via Quantel Web interface

Quantel Video Server Connection String

Connection String Properties

• Name: Specifies a logical name to be associated with the video server. This is used to identify the server across AV Automation and Media Administrator configurations.

• Type: Specifies which driver to be used for connecting to the server. This should be set to “Quantel” for both AV Automation and Media Administrator

• Mode: Specifies whether the Quantel connection is used for playing clips or searching (Default=Search):

  • Mode=Player: The Quantel connection is used for playing clips (AV Automation).

  • Mode=Search: The Quantel connection is used for searching (Media Administrator).

• SerialNo: Specifies the serial number of the Quantel video server. This number is used to recognize the particular video server within a Quantel zone portal. Serial numbers may be obtained via the Quantel Web interface.

• IOR: Specifies the Corba IOR used to establish connection with a Quantel server. This IOR is normally obtained from the system administrator.

• Slave: Specifies an optional slave address. Used when Quantel is configured in a redundancy setup.

• Timeout: Specifies the timeout in seconds when initially connecting to the Quantel zone portal (ISA manager). Default is 10 seconds.

• Config: Specifies a configuration file containing custom configuration for the Quantel server driver. Normally set to ClipServerQuantel.xml, which contains the default configuration.

Examples

AV Automation:

Name=sQ7; Type=Quantel; SerialNo=19343; Mode=Player; IOR=http://quantel:@192.168.60.33/ZoneManager.ior; Config=ClipServerQuantel.xml

Media Administrator:

Name=sQ7; Type=Quantel; SerialNo=19343; Mode=Search; IOR=http://quantel:@192.168.60.33/ZoneManager.ior; Config=ClipServerQuantel.xm

Quantel Configuration File Properties

• DefaultTakenPortAction (enum): Action when not able to take a port when owned by someone else (Default=Steal). Options:

  • Steal: Takes control over the port even if in use by someone else.

  • Share: Shares control with the other user. Not recommended.

  • Cancel: Cancels the operation. Port will still be in control by other user.

• IssueRequestForTakenPorts (boolean): If true, the user will be prompted to confirm taking a port in use by someone else (Default=True). A dialog box will appear in AV Automation, warning about taking a port that is currently in use. Only applicable when DefaultTakenPortAction=Steal.

• ReleasePortsWithNoAssignedChannels (boolean): If true, any unassigned ports (with no assigned channels) will be released on player initiation (Default=True).

• ServerPollFrequency (integer): Polling frequency for server, in seconds.This is used as heartbeat between Viz Mosart and Quantel. Note that heartbeats are not issued if data has been received from Quantel since last heartbeat. (Default=30).

• ClipNameIsValidNumber (boolean): If true then it is possible to search from Viz Mosart GUI using valid Quantel ClipIDs directly (Default=False).

• QuantelSlugColumn (string): Specifies the Quantel database column that is used for the clip slug (Default=Title).

• QuantelClipIDColumn (string): Specifies the Quantel database column that is used for the clip ID (Default=ClipID).

• QuantelSearchColumn (string): Specifies the Quantel database column that is used for the clip searches (Default=Title).

• MaxPingAttempts (integer): Maximum ping attempts before a lost connection is detected (Default=1). When Viz Mosart detects a lost connection, the current connection will be closed followed by attempts to reconnect. For playout servers only (AV Automation).

• QuantelRefIDColumn (string): Specifies the Quantel database column that is used for the clip RefID (Default=Title). Used if SupportSearchUsingRefID is set to true.

• SearchUsingServerIdOnly (boolean): If true, will force AV Automation to only search for clips using Quantel ClipId’s obtained from Media Administrator.

• ClipNamePattern: see General Configuration File Properties

Quantel Failure Handling Properties

• QuantelStatusInterval (integer): Interval in seconds for the Quantel server to send regular status messages. These messages will only be sent when the Quantel server is idle. Default: 2 seconds

• QuantelCommErrorNumRetries (integer): The number of retries in case of a Quantel CORBA operation results in a CORBA_COMM_FAILURE. Default: 1

• QuantelCommErrorTimeout (integer): The timeout in milliseconds between retries in case of a Quantel CORBA operation results in a CORBA_COMM_FAILURE. Default: 100 msec

Quantel Search Filters

It is possible to define a set of dedicated filters used to either exclude or include hits returned from the Quantel ISA manager. Note that the Quantel ISA manager returns hits for all attached pools. It is therefore necessary to filter out the clips not available on the pools used by the corresponding video servers.

The Quantel search filters are defined in the Quantel configuration file as a list of Filter elements within a SearchFilter element. The following xml structure defines the default filters:

Each filter has the following attributes:

• property (string): Name of a Quantel database column. A special property=”IgnoreCase” is available to specify case insensitive or case sensitive searches.

• pattern (string): Regular expression applied on the resulting property.

• include (boolean): Action to take if the regular expression results in a match:

  • include=false, the hit is excluded from the search

  • include=true, the hit is returned as part of the search.
    The default example given above shall be interpreted as follows:

• All clips stored in the Quantel database with Category=”TEMPORARY CLONE” is ignored

• Only clips in the Quantel database with a PoolID that matches the pool identity of the corresponding video servers is returned

• All searches are case insensitive

Applies to Models

• Models with Omneon Spectrum

  Note: Viz Mosart does not work properly with Omneon Spectrum versions earlier than 4.6. In some cases, clip length is not updated when using Omneon Spectrum 6.4.3 or earlier. It is recommended to upgrade to Omneon firmware version 7.9.x or later.

Connection String Properties

• Type: Connection type: Omneon or OmneonSearch

• Name: ID of this connection

• Server: Hostname or IP-address of the server

• Player: Optional. If set, performs searches associated with directory for the given player. If not set, the Directory option should be used to identify the search directory.

• Directory: Optional. Specifies the search directory

• ExtList: File extensions to be used. List of case sensitive extensions separated by periods.

• ClipDir: Clip directory to monitor for files

• LoadDatabase (boolean): Set to true to build internal database of clips present on server and enable clip monitoring (Default=False).

• Config: Name of the configuration file (ClipServerOmneon.xml).

• UseFullPath: If true, the Media Administrator will return full clip paths. The clip ID will contain both the Omneon server directory, as well as the clip name. Setting this property to true is mandatory if multiple directories are used on a single Omneon server. (Default=False).

Examples

AV Automation:

Media Administrator:

Configuration File Properties

• KeepCache (boolean): When set to false, the cache is cleared on reconnects (Default=False).

• RefreshOnUpdate (boolean): When set to true, the cache will be updated on each update clip message from the server (Default=True).

• VerifyClipDelay (integer): Delay in frames to wait before verifying new clips from server (Default=0).

• DescriptionPattern (string): Makes it possible to extract a description from the object slug (objSlug) based on this Regex pattern (Default=[^_]*_(.*)).

• DescriptionReplacement (string): Regex expression referring to first matched group (Default=$1). Used when replacing object slug (objSlug).

• InvokeServerOnGetClipInfo (boolean): If true (non-zero), a request is sent to the video server when doing clip search. If true, all modified clip events for clip not in cache will be verified (as if they were created) (Default=False).

• VerifyModifiedClips (boolean): If true, all modified clip events for clip not in cache will be verified (as if they were created) (Default=False).

• IgnoreCase: If true, searching for clips is done case insensitive. Must be used in combination with <MatchExpression ignoreCase="true" /> from General Search Configuration File Properties .

• GoToTimeCodeTimeOut (integer): Maximum time to wait (in milliseconds) for successful execution of command to play clip from a given time code (Default=6000).

• UseNativeGoToTimeCode (boolean): If true, it will use GoToTimeCode method available in Omneon API. This may take a longer time to cue a clip at a specified position (Default=False).

• UseStopOnCue: If true, the timeline will be stopped, not paused (play with speed 0) when cuing a new clip. This will cause cuing to take longer than usual.

• ClipNamePattern: see General Configuration File Properties
  
  Search Properties: See General Search Configuration File Properties

Applies to Models

• K2

• Summit

Device Prerequisites

• The file ClipServerK2.xml must be placed in the channeltemplates folder on the Viz Mosart server.

Connection String Properties

• Name: Not important, used for logging purposes only.

• Type: Selects the Grass Valley K2 driver for clip handling.

• Server: Defines the IP address/hostname of the Grass Valley K2 server.

• Domain: Sets the domain as part of the user credentials.

• User: Sets the username as part of the user credentials.

• Pass: Sets the password as part of the user credentials.

• Suite: Defines the dedicated Grass Valley suite (Default=Mosart). This must be unique.

• Volume: Sets the volume of the file repository on the K2 (Default=V:). Should be “c:” when using an emulator.

• Bin: Sets the clip bin in the file repository on the K2 (Default=default).

Examples

AV Automation:

Media Administrator:

Configuration File Properties

• KeepCache (boolean): When set to false, the cache is cleared on reconnects (Default=False).

• RefreshOnUpdate (boolean): When set to true, the cache will be updated on each update clip message from the server (Default=True).

• VerifyClipDelay (integer): Delay in frames to wait before verifying new clips from server.

• VerifyModifiedClips (boolean): If true, all modified clip events for clip not in cache will be verified (as if they were created) (Default=False).

• DefaultTakenPortAction (Steal,Share,Cancel): If something other than Viz Mosart has taken the required channel, this determines what Viz Mosart should do.

• RefreshModifiedClips (boolean): If true, all modified clip events for clip in cache will be refreshed (for example deleted and reinserted).

• VerifyModifiedClips (boolean): If true, all modified clip events for clip not in cache will be verified (as if they were created).

Connection String Parameters

• Type: EVS LinX or EVS

• Name: Defines a unique name for the server.

• Server: Defines the IP address of the server.

• LoadDatabase: If true, loads all clip metadata into local cache (Default=False). Use true for Media Administrator.

• Config: Configuration file containing further configuration settings.
  Optional:

• LogOutput: The LinX log file created for the LogFlag option 0x00000003. The files for the other options will be in the same folder, and with names derived from LogOutput (see LogFlag below for details.) The folder should exist in advance, and the Viz Mosart user should have permission to create and write files. AV Automation and Media Administrator should log to different files, so LogOutput should be specified (with different folders) in the respective connection strings rather than in this file.

• VeryVerbose: If true (and the Viz Mosart application issues verbose logging), then some extra log messages are issued (Default=False).

Config File Parameters

• SupportSearchUsingObjSlug: Search by ‘slug’ (clip name) is supported (Default=True).

• SupportSearchUsingRefID: Search by a configurable clip property (given by the SearchPropertyName parameter; see below) is supported (Default=False).

• HeartbeatTimeout: The time (in milliseconds) after which the server connection may close if there is no activity (Default=12000).

• KeepAliveIntervalDivisor: In case of connection problems, multiply both HeartbeatTimeout and KeepAliveIntervalDivisor by the same factor (for example 2) (Default=8).

• LocalMtpcIpAddress: Necessary only if the Viz Mosart server has several network adapters, e.g. a virtual adapter (or several virtual adapters) in addition to the physical adapter, e.g. when VMWare (or similar) is installed on a demo PC, or when connecting through VPN. In this case, use the IP address (in the usual format of four dot(.)-separated groups of 1-3 decimal digits) of the network adapter connected to the EVS servers.

• LogFlag: Bitmask specifying LinX log level. Available options are listed in the table below. (In addition, linxFunctions.log will be produced.) The options may be combined. For example, 0xFFFFFFFF will produce all log files.

  Bitmask	Description	Log file, given LogOutput=...\linx.log
  0x00000003	Function entry and exit points, with parameters and return code	linx.log
  0x00000010	Connections	linxConnect.log
  0x00000400	Databases	linx_Archive.log
  0x00008000	Debug	linxDebug.log
  0x01000000	Tools	linxTool.log

• MaxTries: Obsolete. Instead, use SharedNbMaxConnectRetry and SharedConnectTimeout, described below. (The maximum number of times to try to synchronize the database. Default=10)

• NbMaxLinxConnection: The maximum number of connections. The default is 18, to accommodate two EVS servers. Add 9 for each additional server.

• OsdDefine00 - OsdDefine11: Defines the 12 OSD lines.

• OsdShowHideError: Defines whether or not to show OSD.

• OsdShowHideErrorSignals: Defines whether or not to show OSD. (For further details of these and other OSD settings, please see the default configuration file.)

• SearchPropertyName: Clip property that may be used for clip search. The default is Varid (a LinX specific clip ID that may be used to identify clips in the NRCS). If some other property is needed, please ask Viz Mosart personnel for a list of available values.

• SharedNbMaxConnectRetry: Maximum number of retries in case of connect error on a shared connection (Default=16). Increase if the error code 'Too many retries' is encountered, e.g. when synchronizing the database.

• SharedConnectTimeout: Maximum time in milliseconds to execute connection request on a shared connection (Default=500). Consider increasing if the error code 'Too many retries' is encountered, e.g. when synchronizing the database.

Applies to Models

• XS family (6U, 4U)

• XT family (XT2+, XT3, not nano)

Device Prerequisites

• Multicam 10.03, or later

• LinX license code

• Channels to be controlled by Viz Mosart must have Main CTRL LinX.

• The network, including any firewalls, connecting the Viz Mosart server(s) and the EVS server(s) must support and allow TCP (ports 50000-50002) and UDP (unicast and multicast, ports 50100-50108).

AV Automation Connection String

Example:

AV Automation Connection String Parameters

• Type: EvsXedio

• Name: Defines the unique name for the server.

• Config: Defines the configuration file containing further details.
  Note that the parameters mentioned so far are insufficient to connect to a playout server. For this, the IP address and port number are required. These are specified (:-separated) in the Video port field(s) in AV Automation Device Properties, for example 192.168.76.11:4021.

Media Administrator Connection String

Example:

Media Administrator connection string parameters

• Type: EvsXedioSearch

• Name: Defines a unique name for the server.

• Server: Defines the IP address for the Control center.

• Config: Defines the configuration file containing further details.
  Note that the parameters mentioned so far are insufficient to connect to the database. For this, the parameters DataSourceName, User, and Password are required. The defaults are probably sufficient. If not, these parameters are more conveniently set in the configuration file, described below.

Configuration File Parameters

• PrefixTypeEdit: MOS objIDs with this prefix are treated as 'edits' (Default=EVSE).

• PrefixTypeMedia: MOS objIDs with this prefix are treated as 'media' (Default=EVSM).

Relevant for AV Automation Only

• TimeOut: Defines the timeout in milliseconds (Default=1).

Relevant for Media Administrator Only

• AcceptHighResolutionOnly: Whether only high resolution clips are accepted (Default=False).

• DataSourceName: ODBC System DSN entry for the CleanEdit DB (Default=CleanEditDB).

• MonitorClipInterval: The interval (in seconds) at which found clips are monitored (Default=60). Used only if MonitorFoundClips is true, see below.

• MonitorFoundClips: Whether found clips are monitored (Default=False).

• Password: Password for the CleanEdit DB

• PrefixCheckItemReturnAllItemHiResPresent: The prefix added to the Description of a hi-res clip (Default=HIRES-).

• PrefixCheckItemReturnError: The prefix added to the Description of an error clip (Default=ERROR-).

• PrefixCheckItemReturnNotPlayable: The prefix added to the Description of non-playable clip (Default=NOTPLAYABLE-).

• PrefixCheckItemReturnOnlyItemLowResPresent: The prefix added to the Description of a lo-res clip (Default=LORES-).

• SkipGetDuration: Whether to skip getting clip duration. Note that this operation may be slow and MAY be rendered unnecessary by future Media Administrator dev (Default=False).

• User: User for the CleanEdit DB.

Debug Parameters, Relevant for Media Administrator Only

• LogFile: CleanEditOcx log file (Default=C:\EvsLogs\CleanEditOcx\CleanEditOcx.log).

Connection String Parameters

• Type: Orad OCIP

• Server: Defines the server hostname.

• Name: Defines the server name (Default=Orad OCIP). Used for logging purposes only.

• Port: Defines the server port. By default, the four ports 10001, 10002, 10003, and 10004 are configured on an OCIP-controlled Orad server. We recommend using different ports for AV Automation and Media Administrator.

  Example: 10002 for AV Automation and 10003 for Media Administrator.

• LoadDatabase: If true, the server database is loaded at start-up (Default=False). Use true for Media Administrator.

• Config: Configuration file containing further configuration settings.

Configuration File Parameters

• LoopPostRoll: Number of frames before clip-end to restart loop. Should probably be set to a positive value to obtain smooth looping.

• SkipAbortInLoadClip: If true, skip the ChannelAbort command at cue (Default=False).

• TimeoutDefault: Timeout in milliseconds for commands with no specific timeout set (Default=1000(1 second)).

• TimeoutChannelAbort: Timeout in milliseconds for the ChannelAbort command performed at cue.

• TimeoutChannelPause: Timeout in milliseconds for the ChannelPause command.

• TimeoutChannelPlay: Timeout in milliseconds for the ChannelPlay command performed at cue.

• TimeoutChannelPlayInit: Timeout in milliseconds for the ChannelPlayInit command performed at cue (Default=4000(4 seconds)).

• TimeoutChannelSetSpeed: Timeout in milliseconds for the ChannelSetSpeed command performed at play.

• TimeoutChannelStatus: Timeout in milliseconds for the ChannelStatus command.

• TimeoutCreateCallbackItem: Timeout in milliseconds for the CreateCallbackItem command at start-up (Default=2000(2 seconds)).

• TimeoutItemCheck: Timeout in milliseconds for the ItemCheck command occasionally performed at cue.

• TimeoutItemGet: Timeout in milliseconds for the ItemGet command occasionally performed at cue, and also for getting status.

• TimeoutListChannel: Timeout in milliseconds for the ListChannel command at start-up.

• TimeoutListItem: Timeout in milliseconds for the ListItem command at start-up (Default=2000(2 seconds)).

• UsePingOcipOperation (boolean): If true, use an OCIP operation for Ping instead of the default TcpIpClient ping (Default=False).

Debug Parameters

• WSACancelBlockingCallExceptionTraceEventType: The TraceEventType for the WSACancelBlockingCall exception. Options: Critical, Error, Warning, Information, Verbose (Default=Error).

Applies to Models

• Orad VJ

Device Prerequisites

• OCIP 1.0.4

Applies to Models

• Dalet BRIO

• Vector MultiPlay VServer

Device Prerequisites - VDCP

• Dalet BRIO

  • Single VDCP connection configuration per port - does not support multiple control ports per connection

  • Only clips in folders added to the BRIO VDCP configuration will be visible for Viz Mosart to monitor and play-out

  • Duration of video files is only available if the VDCP connection is configured to use a physical play-out port.

Connection String Properties - VDCP

• Type: VDCP (serial) or VDCPtcp (Ethernet)

• Name: ID of this connection

• Server: Hostname or IP-address of the server (for Type=VDCPtcp only)

• Port: Serial port (Type=VDCP, Default=COM1) or server side TCP port to connect to (Type=VDCPtcp, Default=52z05)

• LoadDatabase: If true, builds internal database of clips present on server and enables clip monitoring (Default=False)

• Config: Name of the configuration file. ClipServerVDCP.xml is the default name of the file used by VDCP Connection String.

Examples

AV Automation: VDCP (serial)

AV Automation: VDCPtcp (Ethernet)

Media Administrator: VDCP (serial)

Media Administrator: VDCPtcp (Ethernet)

Configuration File Properties - VDCP

• DefaultRecordingLength (integer): Default duration of recorded video files in frames (Default=1000).

• DelayGetClipDuration (boolean): Enable to build the initial playlist without getting the file duration (Default=False).

• IgnoreClipExistence (boolean): Enable to ignore requesting clip presence on the server.

• LogMessages (boolean): If true, log any messages that are sent and received. Verbose logging must be activated for this to have effect (Default=False).

• MaxClipList (integer): The maximum amount of clips to hold in cache. When this limit is reached, there will be no more clips added to the cache. Setting this to a low value reduces load time, but might cause invalid clip status if non-cached clips are in the rundown.

• UseInternalPlayerState (boolean): Enable to ignore requesting presence of the clip on the play-out device using the ID REQUEST message.

• UseLongClipNames (boolean): If true, use messages supporting variable length file names (maximum length 80 characters). If false, use fixed 8 character files names padded with spaces if less than 8 characters.

• UseAddedClipsCommand (boolean): Enable to retrieve a list of new files added to the video server.

• NextPingDelay (miliseconds): Interval in milliseconds between heartbeats sent from AV Automation to the VDCP server to keep the connection alive. Default = 10 seconds). e.g.: <item name="NextPingDelay" value="10000" />
  Turn off this ping using the DisableHeartbeat setting described below.
  To modify the ping interval for Media Administrator see Media Administrator - Properties Editor > Ping Delay.

• DisableHeartbeat (boolean): A command request (heartbeat) is sent from AV Automation and Media Administrator to the VDCP server to keep the connection alive.

  • Turn off the heartbeats from both AV Automation AND Media Administrator by setting DisableHeartbeat=true in ClipServerVDCP.xml. e.g. <item name="DisableHeartbeat" value="true" />

  • Turn off the heartbeats from one application (AV Automation OR Media Administrator), by setting DisableHeartbeat in the application’s connection string and removing (commenting out) DisableHeartbeat from ClipServerVDCP.xml.
    Example connection string: Type=VDCPtcp;Name=Server1;Port=10001;DisableHeartbeat=true;Config=ClipServerVDCP.xml
    See also NextPingDelay, described above.

• ClipNamePattern: see General Configuration File Properties

Connection String Properties

• Type: VizEngine

• Name: Defines the ID of this connection

• Server: Defines the hostname or IP-address of the server (for Type=VizEngine only)

• Port: Defines the port

• Config: Defines the name of the configuration file

• Folder: Location of the Viz Mosart configuration files. Either in %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Mosart Medialab\Mosart Server\ConfigurationFiles or with the video configurations in c:\channeltemplates.

Examples

Connection string for Integrated Engine (Viz Engine connection in AV Automation):

Type=VizEngine;Server=localhost;Config=VizEngineSwitcherConfig.xml (Port=6100 is optional)

Connection string for Video Server (Viz Engine connection in AV Automation):

Name=Vizrt;Type=VizEngine;Server=localhost;Port=6100;Config= ClipServerVizEngine.xml

Connection string for Media Administrator:

Name=VizEngine;Type=SimpleTestPlayer;Folder=D:\;SkipExtension=true;Config=ClipServerVizEngine.xml

Configuration File Properties

• AlwaysGetDuration (default=FALSE):

  • When FALSE, only files in the active Viz Mosart rundown will get the actual video duration.

  • When TRUE, get the video duration from all files in the monitored folder. Note that setting this value to true will impact the startup time of the SimpleTestPlayer driver in Media Administrator for folders with a large number of video files.

Device Prerequisites (Viz One)

For details, please consult Viz One documentation.

• At least one user should be configured.

• At least one publishing point should be configured.

Connection String Properties

• Name: See Standard Video Server Connection String above
  

• Type:VizOne

• Server: The hostname or IP address of the server (Media Service or Viz One)

• PublishingPoints:

  • Media Service: MEDIASERVICE

  • Viz One: Comma-separated list of publishing point identifiers

• Config: See Standard Video Server Connection String above

• PublishingPointAsObjId: If false (default), only one server id will be set: for Name (see above). If true, an additional server ID will be set for each publishing point.
  

The following property is used for Media Service only:

• Port: The Media Service port. (Default is 21099). Please refer to the Configure Media Service section in the Media Service guide.
  

The following properties are used for Viz One only:

• UserName: Username

• Password: Password

• AutoTransfer: If set to true, any assets in the rundown that are present in Viz One, but not on the publishing points, will be transferred. If false, they will not. (Default = True).

• ValidDuration: Duration for which an asset should be present on the publishing point from time of transfer. Value is in hours . (Default = 24).

Example (Media Service)

Name=VizEngine;Type=VizOne;Server=localhost;Port=21099;PublishingPoints=MEDIASERVICE

Example (Viz One)

Name=VizOne;Type=VizOne;UserName=username;Password=password;Server=10.211.112.213;PublishingPoints=vizengine-1;ValidDuration=26;AutoTransfer=true;PublishingPointAsObjId=false

Applies to Models

The driver has been designed to interact with any RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) using SQL. However, it has been tested for Microsoft SQL Server only. The following versions have been tested:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP1) - 11.0.3000.0 (X64)

• Microsoft SQL Server Express (64-bit) - 11.0.2218.0

Device Prerequisites

Create a DB user with

• read access to the table containing clip data

• no write or admin access. (As no attempts to prevent SQL injection have been done, this is necessary to prevent malicious or careless users from changing the DB.)

General Format

Name=DB;Type=SqlMediaSearch;ProviderName=System.Data.SqlClient;Config=ClipServerSql.xml;DbConnectionString="..."

Connection String Parameters

• Name: See Viz Mosart Video Server Connection String above.

• Type: SqlMediaSearch

• Config: See Viz Mosart Video Server Connection String above. A configuration file ClipServerSql.xml is installed. Use the name of this file (ClipServerSql.xml unless changed).

• ProviderName: The 'invariant name' of a .NET Framework data provider. At least the following providers are installed with the .NET Framework:

  • System.Data.SqlClient

  • System.Data.Odbc

  • System.Data.OleDb

  • System.Data.OracleClient.

Others may have been installed. Only System.Data.SqlClient has been tested.

• DbConnectionString: The connection string (containing connection settings) sent to the chosen provider. The format depends on the chosen ProviderName. For System.Data.SqlClient (the only provider tested) the format is documented in https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlconnection.connectionstring(v=vs.110).aspx. Quotes in the value have not been tested and may not work as expected.

• FileClipProperties: Same as the ClipServerSql.xml parameter; see below. Should be set in ClipServerSql.xml.

• FileSelectStatements: Same as the ClipServerSql.xml parameter; see below. Should be set in ClipServerSql.xml.

• LogResult: Same as the ClipServerSql.xml parameter; see below. Should be set in ClipServerSql.xml.

• DefaultTableName: Same as the ClipServerSql.xml parameter; see below. Should be set in ClipServerSql.xml.

• MonitorFoundClips: Same as the ClipServerSql.xml parameter; see below. Should be set in ClipServerSql.xml.

• MonitorClipInterval: Same as the ClipServerSql.xml parameter; see below. Should be set in ClipServerSql.xml.

Example

Name=DB;Type=SqlMediaSearch;ProviderName=System.Data.SqlClient;Config=ClipServerSql.xml;DbConnectionString="Persist Security Info=True;Initial Catalog=HarrisDBTest;Data Source=BGO-OFRENGINE\SQLEXPRESS;Failover Partner=aut-db-srv03.fs-pn.vizrtnet.int\harris;User ID=test;Password=test;"

Configuration Files

There are three configuration files:

• ClipServerSql.xml

• SelectStatements.xml

• ClipProperties.xml.

When Mosart Server is installed, these files are placed in the ConfigurationFiles sub-folder of the installation folder. If any of them needs to be changed, follow standard procedure: Copy the file to c:\channeltemplates, and change the copy . If you choose to change the name, you must also change (accordingly):

• If the name of ClipServerSql.xml is changed: The Config connection string parameter
  

• If the name of SelectStatements.xml is changed: The FileSelectStatements parameter in ClipServerSql.xml
  

• If the name of ClipProperties.xml is changed: The FileC lipProperties parameter in ClipServerSql.xml .

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