Standard features
The GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server offers high performance, expansion options, and high reliability outlined in the summary below.
- The system comes ready to use with quick connections for the duplex LAN, USB, and monitor connections.
- The USB Recovery Flash Drive is provided in a clip inside the front panel of the hardware.
- The main enclosure is rack-mountable and the main components are easy to install.
- GV I/O options include:
- AJA Corvid 88 SDI card that supports up to 4 channels of Ingest and 4 channels of Playout
via SD/HD/3G-SDI with the NVIDIA Quadro video card for proxy
generation.
OR
- Mellanox ConnectX-5 10/25 GigE network adapter card that supports up to 4 channels of
Ingest or Playout via SMPTE 2110 media streams or Ingest via SMPTE 2022-6
media streams with the NVIDIA Quadro video card for proxy generation.
OR
- Mellanox ConnectX-5 25 GigE network adapter card that supports up to 2 UHD channels for Ingest and 1 UHD channel for Playout via SMPTE 2110 media streams with the Matrox M264 video card for proxy generation, which can encode high-resolution files up to 2160p video format.
- AJA Corvid 88 SDI card that supports up to 4 channels of Ingest and 4 channels of Playout
via SD/HD/3G-SDI with the NVIDIA Quadro video card for proxy
generation.
- Able to be configured as a standalone device with local storage, or a shared storage client with GV AMS Pro - Advanced Media Storage and K2 Summit SAN system. (With K2 SAN version 10.1.3 and later only)
- Support for 2160p UHD (XAVC-I Class 300 video format) via SMPTE -ST 2110 IP channels only.
- Support for 1080p high-resolution workflow with no more than two channels simultaneously on a single GV I/O unit.
- Support for HDR metadata with HLG or PQ dynamic range type for 1080p and 2160p assets via SMPTE -ST 2110 IP channels only. This option allows writing of HDR metadata into CMF, MXF and GXF file formats. Rec 2020 colorspace with Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG/Rec2100) and PQ (HDR10/SMPTE ST2084 – 1,000cd/m2) transfer curves are the formats supported.
- Support for common SD and HD codecs without additional licenses.
- Support for standard NMOS (Networked Media Open Specifications) IS-04 and IS-05 for device connection management.
- Support a web-based configuration utility for 64 audio tracks, UHD, HDR metadata, and NMOS work flow settings.
- High performance features include a powerful central processor and high speed Ethernet interface and disk access from SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) disk drives.
- The following GV AMS Pro - Advanced Media Storage network-attached storage systems are qualified for use
with the GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server:
- S210
- X210
- X410
- H400
- H500
- H600
Note: GV I/O UHD support requires GV AMS Pro storage or the available internal SSD storage. However, it is not supported on existing GV AMS Elite (K2 SAN) storage.