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 | ✓ | – |
