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-6 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-6 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 a web-based configuration utility to configure the GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server.
- Support for common SD and HD codecs without additional licenses.
- Support for 2160p UHD (XAVC-I Class 300 and XAVC Long GOP @200Mbps video formats) 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 standard NMOS (Networked Media Open Specifications) IS-04 and IS-05 for device connection management.
- Support for NDI inputs and outputs, along with a low latency NDI live streaming capability for confidence monitoring. The NDI streaming preview/multi-viewer option helps with K2 migration providing live streaming and confidence monitoring capabilities that had previously been available in GV STRATUS with K2. The low latency streams can now be made available anywhere on the network to any device.
- Support for HLS and SRT ingest streams with the Web Stream Ingest license per channel.
- Support for Time delay option with the ability to set up a loop record on one channel and have a time delay for playout on one or more of the other available channels. The designated record channel can be placed into record via AMP, VDCP or the AppCenter.
- Support for AppCenter as the Time Delay option requires updates to the AppCenter so that it can be used with the GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server.
- 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.