ResearchChannel: Think Forward. Think Success.

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ResearchChannelThink Forward. Think Success.

• Michael Wellings, Director, Engineering9/19/05
• Philadelphia

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Important Information

• In Philadelphia, you can't put pretzels in bags
  based on an Act of 1760.

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• Reporter Where did you get the name, "The
  Italian Stallion"? Rocky Oh I made that up one
  night while I was eating dinner

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Topics of Discussion

• HD Network Update
• iHDTV Applications
• Current state of iHDTV system
• Planned Software Enhancements
• Scheduled Demos
• System design
• Audio
• Video
• What is HD / HDV

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iHDTV Explained

• iHDTV Explained
• iHD1500
• iHD270
• HD to the Desktop

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iHDTV Explained

• iHD1500
• Uncompressed SMPTE 292M 422
• Data rate total approx 1.5 gbps
• Requires
• high-end HD capture cards
• PCI Express PCs
• Windows XP (at the current time)

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iHDTV Explained

• iHD270 (first introduced aug 99)
• Sony HDCamtm compression
• SDTI data format 270mbps
• AJA Xena I/O
• Requires
• AJA Xena-HD capture cards
• Dual Processor P4
• Windows XP (at the current time)
• Sony HDCam Hardware encoder/decoder

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Scheduled Demos

• Sept 2005 - iGrid San Diego
• Enhanced HD interactive - USA118 Global N-Way
  Uncompressed Interactive Conferencing
• Underwater research using HD from SS Thompson
  USA119 20,000 Terabits Under the Sea
• Internet2 Demo HD Multicast/Streaming to pocket
  devices
• Nov 2005 - SC05 Seattle
• Enhanced HD Interactive Conferencing/HD Storage
  and capture using SRB (Storage Resource Broker)

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iGRID 2005 San Diego

• USA118 Global N-Way Interactive HD
• USA119 20,000 Terabits under the sea

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iGRID 05 USA118

• Sept 2005 - iGrid San Diego
• Enhanced HD interactive - USA118 Global N-Way
  Uncompressed Interactive Conferencing
• Remote sites
• University of Washington - Seattle
• WIDE - Tokyo
• University of Wisconsin - Madison
• University of Michigan
• SURFnet - Amsterdam
• AARnet - Goldcoast

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iGRID 05 USA118

• Sept 2005 - iGrid San Diego
• Remote site equipment
• 2 RX iHD1500 Hosts (multicast from iGRID)
• 1 TX iHD1500 Client
• Central site equipment
• 6 RX iHD1500 Clients
• 2 TX iHD1500 Hosts (Multicast)
• Evertz HD Video Tile Generator
• Multichannel mix-minus audio system

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iGRID 05 USA118

• iHD500 first demonstrated at SC 04
• Real-time HD communication Australia and Seattle
  gt Pittsburgh _at_ 1.5gbps each direction
• Relatively High latency (1500ms RT)
• 500ms hardware/software one-way
• 250ms network delay one-way

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iGRID USA 118 Network Diagram
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iGRID USA 118
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iGRID USA 118
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iGRIDAudio Engineering

• Jamie Alls
• Manager, Video Engineering
• jalls_at_cac.washington.edu
• SMVTT _at_ University of Washington

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iGRIDAudio Engineering

• For more information
• Jamie Alls
• Manager, Video Engineering
• SMVTT University of Washington

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iGRID 05 USA119

• Sept 2005 - iGrid San Diego
• First ever live HD/ip from a ship at sea to
  viewers on shore
• Ku-Band equipment upgrade to SeaTel antenna
• Careful RF engineering to design satellite
  Link-Budget
• Real-time MPEG-2 MP_at_HL encoding
• Ip gateway
• Satellite modem 20mbps

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iGRID USA 119
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iGRID USA 119 Network
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Internet HDTV Internet2 Demo

• HD streaming to desktops
• Multicast MPEG2 at 20Mb/s
• Windows Media 9 at 6Mb/s
• Internet2 Demo Media Streaming to Consumer
  Grade Devices
• Dates/Times Sept. 20, noon5 p.m.
• Sept. 21, 10 a.m.5 p.m.
• Location Conference Center Hall

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Software Challenges

• iHD1500 Enhancements
• tile display generated in software
• Audio mixing in software
• Audio mix-minus in software
• Video switching in software
• Possible Linux implementation

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iHD-X Open Source

• Open Source
• First quarter 2006
• Looking at various forms of open source
• Call for participants

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• ResearchChannel announced today that its iHDTV
  suite of software will be available as open
  source in first quarter 2006. iHDTV consists of
  software modules that capture, packetize and
  transport high-definition video in various
  formats over Internet protocol (IP) networks,
  with the goal of providing wider access to HD
  content.
• Developed with the University of Washington,
  iHDTV was first demonstrated at the National
  Association of Broadcasters annual meeting in
  2000. The software suite has since been expanded
  to enable and expedite efficient streaming with
  data at rates of up to 1.5Gb/s, which is
  sufficient to transfer uncompressed 1080i
  high-definition video. The iHDTV code is
  designed to require minimum overhead to achieve
  low latency. Its modular design can easily
  support new devices and flexible modes of
  operation, and the code is highly configurable.
• Open-sourcing our code will enable us to put
  together a talented group of partners worldwide.
  I expect great advancements in this technology
  with this new, collaborative group,says Michael
  Wellings, director of engineering,
  ResearchChannel.
• ResearchChannel envisions extensions to the
  current software that will scale the video images
  and tile several images together in a single
  display. These and other enhancements will create
  a package of services that will enable
  high-quality, low-latency, interactive HD
  collaborative environments. These environments
  might include interactions between people, or
  even between people and instruments, such as in
  remote-sensing applications.

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HD Projects

• Videoconferencing in HD _at_1.5mbps iHD1500
• Reduced latency using new hardware
• Blackmagic DecLink HD plus
• AJA Video XENA-HS
• Custom boards
• Possible hardware development and collaboration
  with RC Australian partners CSIRO and Intel
• HDV requires some explanation

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High Definition Video to the Desktop

• FORMATS
• MPEG2 MP_at_HL
• WM9-HD_at_720p
• REAL10
• H.264, ACV, MPEG-4
• HDV

• PLAYERS
• VLC (subject to license issues)
• WM9/10
• RealPlayer
• QuickTime
• VLC

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iHD1500 application

• SMPTE 292M/ip
• 1.5gbps
• 1080-60i HD video with multiplexed audio
• ResearchChannel partner Intel PCE-Express 3.4GHz
  Xeon platforms
• ResearchChannel partner AJA Video Systems
  supplied initial round of Xena-HD capture boards

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iHD1500 application

• Latency about 4 frames end to end plus network
  delay
• 4 frames133ms or 1/7 sec
• Network delay AustraliagtPhiladelphia 250ms
• Satellite latency about 250ms per hop
• H.323 devices about 250ms plus network delay
• No significant delay in video equipment

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iHD-X Software Engineering

• Matt Hodge
• Senior Software Engineer
• SMVTT _at_ University of Washington

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HD related (and some unrelated) applications

• iHD1500, iHD270
• netspew
• mptest
• dupacklicate
• tcprotolyze
• Platform issues

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HD related (and some unrelated) applications

• General hardware issues and limitations
• A/V I/O card issues
• The future

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iHD1500 Development

• iHD1500, iHD270
• Hdsdi and sd-sdi streaming
• Includes SDTI Sony HDCam embedded

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iHD1500 Development

• Netspew
• UDP network testing utility
• primary goal is to send and receive packets as
  fast and efficiently as possible

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iHD1500 Development

• MediapumpTest
• MPEG-2 Streaming
• Uses Optibase Mediapump board
• New hardware i/o board needed

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iHD1500 Development

• dupacklicate
• UDP Stream Duplicator

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iHD1500 Development

• tcprotolyze
• TCP Protocol Analyzer

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iHD1500 Development

• Platform issues
• Windows vs Linux
• A/V I/O card issues
• Driver sets
• SDK
• Documentation

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iHD1500 Development

• The Future
• Software tile display
• software audio switching/mixing
• software video switching

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iHD1500 Development

• For more information
• Matt Hodge
• Senior Software Engineer
• SMVTT University of Washington

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HD The State of the industry

• HDV format grows up
• Sony HVR-Z1U
• 1/3 169
• DV, DVCam
• HDV
• MPEG2 MP_at_H-14
• Does not quite
• Create 24p properly

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HD The State of the industry

• JVC GY-HD100
• 3 1/3 inch CCD 1280x720 169
• 720p with interchangeable lenses
• Will not shoot 1080
• Shipping this summer for about 10,000
• Manufactures 720 60p from 24p capture
• Sonys 50mb long GOP (15) professional product

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HD The State of the industry

• HDCam-SR 880mbps record
• Assume near future release of 1080p/60 recording
  (3gbps)
• XD-Cam (DVD recording)
• Long GOP (15) MPEG-2 36-72mbps

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HDV

• JVC GR-HD1
• 1 CCD 1.2 million pixel 43
• 800K pixel in HD mode 169
• Will not function as realtime live HD camera
• MPEG 420 GOP of 6

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HDV

• SONY HVR-Z1U
• 3 chip with spatial offset achieves 1440x1080
  HDV spec
• 169 native
• Good optical front end/ccd block
• MPEG 420 profile with GOP of 15

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HDV

• SONY HVR-Z1U
• Works as live HD camera in analog mode
• Editing possible in both IEEE 1394 transport
  MPEG2-TS HDV and analog Y, Pb, Pr
• Adobe Premiere 1.5 and FCP will ingest MPEG2-TS
  and edit in as AVI 1440x1080

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HDV Performance Multiburst
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Preliminary bandwidth comparison between
HDCAM/SR, XDCAM-HD and HDV
30 MHz
24 MHz
HD CAM-SR
HDCAM
10 MHz
20 MHz
30 MHz
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For More Information

• www.researchchannel.org
• inquires info_at_researchchannel.org
• Michael Wellings
• Director, Engineering
• wellings_at_researchchannel.org