Specifications

COMPATIBLE PLAYERS:

RTSP/RTP
RealNetworks^® RealPlayer^® 10 and above
AAC/aacPlus Audio Streams
Apple Computer^® QuickTime^® Player 6.0 and above
AAC Audio Streams; Currently does not support HE AAC/aacPlus
Will currently play AAC portion of HE AAC/aacPlus streams

HTTP/ICY
Nullsoft Winamp 5.05 and above

PE Version - Professional Edition

COMPUTER

Minimum System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows^® XP
Intel Pentium II 400MHz, RAM 128MB, 256MB recommended.
Microsoft Windows^® Server 2003
Intel Pentium III 500MHz, RAM 128MB, 256MB recommended.
This specification denotes the minimum CPU power necessary to control one OPTIMOD-PC card with external audio sources and one instance of the OPTICODEC-PC encoder. Additional cards, audio player, and/or encoder software will require additional CPU power.

Processor and Chipset: This software has been tested and qualified with Intel CPU and chipsets.

Sound Device:
An Orban Optimod-PC 1100 audio processor / sound card must be installed in the host computer in order to run the Opticodec-PC PE application.

Interface:
Graphical User Interface (GUI), standard Microsoft Windows
May be executed from command-line using configuration file for each stream.

ENCODER

Codec Technology:
MPEG-2 AAC ADTS
ISO/IEC 13818-7

MPEG-4 AAC
ISO/IEC 14496-3
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/techinf/aac/index.html

MPEG-4 HE-AAC / aacPlus v1 / aacPlus v2
ISO/IEC 14496-3 : Amd-1 : Amd-2
http://www.codingtechnologies.com

Sample Rates:
24kHz, 32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz

Bit Rates (kbps):
8, 10, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, 320

Number of Channels:
1-Mono
2-Stereo

Coding Options:
Optimize for Voice

Encoder Instances per Computer - Multicast:
1

Encoder Instances per Computer - Unicast:
Limited only by available CPU power.

STREAMING

Transport Protocols :
RTSP/RTP : RFC 2326/3550
HTTP/ICY SHOUTcast : RFC 2616
HTTP/ICY Icecast2 : RFC 2616
UVOX : Ultravox 3

Methods:
Multicast RTP/UDP (Internal Server)
Transmission: Multicast
TTL: 1-255
Unicast RTSP/RTP/UDP (Internal Server)
Transmission: Unicast
Unicast RTP/TCP (External Server)
Transmission: Manual Unicast
Unicast RTSP/RTP/TCP (External Server)
Transmission: Automatic Unicast - Announce
Session Description Protocol (.sdp) file per stream generated and sent to server : RFC 2327
RTP Payload Format:
ISMA (audio/mpeg4-generic) : RFC 3640
3GPP/3GPP2 (audio/MP4A-LATM) : RFC 3016
Unicast HTTP/ICY/TCP
Content Type: audio/aac
Content Type: audio/aacp
Unicast UVOX/TCP
Content Type: audio/aac

Packet Size:
1450 Bytes plus IP Header Bytes = Total < 1500 Byte MTU

Packet Optimization (PE Only):
Multiple audio frames per packet without fragmentation
Packet size not to exceed specified MTU

Connection Fallback - Unicast:
Automatic Reconnection to External Server upon Connection Failure

Stream Information:
Stream Name and Description; Artist and Title; all server-supported metadata

Metadata Input :
Text File, Serial, Ethernet TCP/UDP, Manual Entry
Several Audio Playout Systems Supported Directly

Server Requirements/Platform - RTSP/RTP Unicast:
Free Darwin Streaming Server 5.0 or later
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/
Available for Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional/Server, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Apple Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later Server and Proxy, Red Hat Linux 9, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris 9
Helix Server 10.0 or later
http://www.realnetworks.com/products/media_delivery.html
Available for Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Linux (RHEL 4.0), Sun Solaris 8 (Native) and 9
Helix Mobile Server
http://www.realnetworks.com/industries/serviceproviders/mobile/products/server/index.html
Available for Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Linux (RHEL 4.0), Sun Solaris 8 (Native) and 9

Server Requirements/Platform - HTTP/ICY SHOUTcast:
Free Nullsoft SHOUTcast DNAS 1.9.4 or later
http://www.shoutcast.com/download/serve.phtml
Available for Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional/Server, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Red Hat Linux 9, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris 9

Server Requirements/Platform - HTTP/ICY Icecast2:
Free Icecast2 Server 2.2.0 or later
http://www.icecast.org/download.php
Available for Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional/Server, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Red Hat Linux 9, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris 9

Server Requirements/Platform - UVOX Ultravox 3:
Free Ultravox Server
http://ultravox.aol.com/
Available for Linux

METERING/STATUS INDICATION

Graphical Interface:
Audio Level, True Accurate Peak Indicating
Connected to Remote Server
Disconnected from Remote Server
Bitrate of Connection to Remote Server
Connection Elapsed Time - DDD:HH:MM:SS

LOG FILE

Functions:
Enable/Disable
ASCII Text
Log File Size Specifier

Content:
Connect Date/Time, Connect Remote Server, Connect Bitrate
Disconnect Time

TE Version - Test Edition

Available upon request for testing encoder/server connectivity. With limited functionality, it allows testing network connectivity and/or server authentication to verify encoder/server configuration.

These specifications are subject to design improvements and changes without notice.

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