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2. Summary
Hydra
HYDRA is the hardware part of the iSTUDIO system. Different video signals (analog, SDI or HD-SDI, streaming video),
RGB data as well as audio sources (analog, digital, embedded or streamed audio meters) can be connected to a
HYDRA module. Each HYDRA or HYDRA COMPACT controller or HYDRA COMPACT TWIN section monitors up to 60 / 40 / 12
video sources and up to 112 audio sources (or even more with streamed audio meters of NGM-164) depending
on the configuration and displays them on an analog (RGB) or digital (DVI) visualization system. Furthermore the
HYDRA processes GPIO input and different kind of VBI. Closed captions, XDS, wide screen signaling and VITC can be
detected and displayed.
If the number of displayed sources exceeds the capacity of one HYDRA, or if the sources shall be displayed on
multiple displays, multiple HYDRAS can be used. These HYDRAS could easily be operated as one system.
Depending on the system configuration, several SDI video input cards, HD-SDI video input cards, analog video
input cards, streaming video input cards, RGB input cards, digital audio cards, analog audio cards and digital or
analog output cards can be plugged into the box.
Operator PC
For the operator PC any PC can be used that is connected to the same LAN as the HYDRA devices, as long as a
standard web-browser and a Java Virtual Machine are installed on it and it fulfills some minimum system requirements. On the operator PC the GUI of iSTUDIO is accessed. This provides a convenient remote operation of the
HYDRAS from multiple locations.
Barco – iStudio – R5976569 – user's manual – revision 09 – March-2007
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