DekTec SDI ingest¶

Flussonic Media Server can:

• Ingest video and audio directly from DekTec SDI cards.
• Pass video to a DekTec SDI card
• Read teletext in both standard definition (SD SDI) or high definition (HD SDI) streams received from DekTec cards.
• Read ad insertion markers from streams received from DekTec cards. Ad insertion markers are then converted from VBI SCTE-104 to SCTE-35 format suitable for sending to MPEG-TS and HLS. No additional settings required for that.
• Transmit Teletext B from MPEG-TS streams to video pushed to DekTec SDI cards.

DekTec driver installation in Ubuntu¶

You can install the driver as provided by the DekTec SDK. Dektec Readme contain detailed information which driver should be compiled for specific card. Follow this instruction. Once the driver is installed, please restart flussonic using the command service flussonic restart.
After updating Linux kernel it might be needed to reinstall the DekTec driver.

Capturing video from DekTec SDI card¶

You can find serial number of Dektec SDI card in DVB cards tab in Installed boards dropdown menu or using the console utility from Dektec DtInfoCL.

To capture video from DekTec SDI card, configure the stream with the dektec://serial_number:port source.

To specify the source via the web-interface, go to Media > click the stream name > on the Input tab enter the source in the New URL field > click Save.

You can also configure the stream via the configuration file, for example:

stream example {
  input dektec://2174220025:2;
}

Capturing audio from DekTec SDI card¶

Flussonic Media Server captures both PCM and AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio from DekTec SDI cards. The first two audio tracks must be PCM. If the next two audio tracks are AC-3 audio, then it will be captured too.

No additional settings required for that.