Introduction

The GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server provides the ability to build a non-K2 Summit based production system on COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) IT hardware and storage. Users can now purchase a commodity hardware solution and add the baseband HD-SDI support via an on-board video card, or the HD/UHD network adapter card for IP ingests and playouts. The GV I/O server may also be configured as a standalone device with local storage, or a shared storage client with K2 Summit SAN system or GV AMS Pro - Advanced Media Storage system.

The GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server supports production requiring cost effective Ingest and Replay in a fast paced News or Sports workflow. In addition, it supports studio and web production, live audience studio shows, and any operation that requires multi-channel ingests and playbacks in the editing and production system.

The GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server has up to four Recorder and Player channels that support SD, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p video formats. The UHD GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server supports up to 2160p (XAVC-I Class 300) video format with 2 Recorders and 1 Player via SMPTE 2110 IP channels. While the 1080p option supports no more than two channels simultaneously on a single GV I/O server. HDR work flows are also supported with HLG or PQ dynamic range type for 1080p and 2160p assets via SMPTE 2110 IP channels only.

As an alternative to K2 Summit systems, the GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server utilizes Dell PowerEdge R640 servers with an AJA^® Corvid 88 card for SDI connections to support channel ingests and playback, or the Mellanox ConnectX^®-5 10/25 GigE network adapter card that supports IP ingests and SMPTE 2110 playouts. The 1G/10G network adapters are provided for Control, and shared storage connections. The GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server also supports common SD and HD codecs without additional licenses.

The GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server includes the NVIDIA^® Quadro video card to support proxy file acceleration for the video and 8 audio pairs for the audio. While the UHD GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server includes the Matrox^® M264 video card, which can encode proxy for high-resolution files up to 2160p video format. With GV I/O generating proxy files automatically for ingest channels, fast editing and playback-to-air can easily be done on the fly in any production environment.