Loudness monitoring

Figure: Encoder features – loudness

Table: Loudness monitoring

Loudness	With optional loudness module enabled, Volicon Media Intelligence service performs loudness meter measurements to meet following standards: EBU R 128, BS-1770-1, BS-1770-3, ATSC A/85 and EBU Tech 3341/2/3; Volicon Media Intelligence service loudness module, accurate per each video frame, takes measurements every 100 milliseconds; measurements able to be done with/without gating windows (-10 dB but adjustable)
Gating mode	Dropdown used to select ATSC1, ATSC3 or EBU
Input adjustment	Adjustment to input level for fine tuning; a floating-point value will be added to the input measurement
LRA	Loudness Range Measurement (LRA) quantifies variation in time-varying loudness measurement; supplementary to main audio measure, program loudness, of EBU R 128; measures variation of loudness on macroscopic time-scale loudness units (LU); LRA computation based on measurement of loudness level specified in ITU-R BS.1770 - with different gating threshold; LRA not to be confused with other measures of dynamic range
Long IM	Long-form Integrated Measurements: Greater than two minutes; total of seven user-defined, configurable measurements (e.g., 1 hour, 6 hour, 1 day, 5 day intervals); long-term values Volicon Media Intelligence service default setting: 60, 360, 1440, 0, 0, 0, 0
Short IM	Short-form Integrated Measurements: Two minutes or shorter; total of seven user-defined, configurable measurements (e.g., 10s, 30s, 60s); short-term values Volicon Media Intelligence service default setting: 10, 15, 20, 30, 60, 120, 0
Pre-dialnorm	Dialnorm indicates level of average spoken dialogue within encoded audio program; short-, long-term values often factory preset; Dialnorm not to be enabled when encoder ingesting digital audio stream (e.g., optical, S/PDIF or Dolby AC-3)
True peak	Enables monitoring the value of the audio signal waveform of a program in the continuous time domain; detects peak loudness that otherwise would escape the sampling process

Table: AC-3

AC-3	Dolby: Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding 3 enable/disable
Enable DRC	Dolby: Dynamic Range Compression

Figure: Encoder features – DPI and AFD

Table: Digital Program Insertion (DPI)

DPI	Digital Program Insertion
Events interval	List of intervals to be monitored for in/out DPI events
Log events	Enable/disable logging of DPI event to a database
Stream IDs	List of DPI streams to be monitored
DPI offset	Offset of DPI event relative to A/V (in milliseconds)
Default local avail durations	Default location available duration to use (in milliseconds)
Default pre-roll	Default pre-roll time before local avail (in milliseconds)
Indexing settings	New feature not yet implemented

Table: Active Format Description (AFD)

AFD profile	AFD profile in XML format
Type	Not used in Volicon Media Intelligence service

Table: Interactive services

Enable

Only applies to RPM systems: Identify objects and images on screen; used for channel change verification

Figure: Encoder features – thumbnails

Table: Thumbnails

Thumbnails enable	Checkbox to enable/disable thumbnails
MSMQHost	IP address or URL of Microsoft Message Queuing used to access video clip thumbnails
Resolution	Dropdown used to specify thumbnail image resolution
Sampling rate	Every x seconds, saves an image to storage

Figure: Encoder features – text overlay

Table: Text overlay

Text	Enable/display of embedded text
Height	Number of free text lines
Width	Number of characters in a free text line
Score line	The line on which the scores will be burnt in a 1-based index system
Status line	Line on which scores to be burnt in 1-based index system; if using default height, this is line before last
Video input line	Setting for the video input line burnt into the video

Table: Timestamp

Timestamp enable	Turns on timestamp overlay for this encoder channel
Alignment	Dropdown used to position the info on player screen
Auto calculate offset from UTC	Based on probe’s time setting
Format	Specifies how time is displayed: %month%-%day%-%year%%hour%:%minutes%:%second%/%frame%
Offset from UTC	Manually sets a time zone offset; setting overrides probe O/S time zone setting; Volicon Media Intelligence service uses value instead of offset in probe