“Customers who test channels in a live environment want to be able to switch the test easily from one stream to another in order to automate the process and save time, so we’re giving them the tool that will let them do it,” said Blake Homan, president and founder of Video Clarity. “The easier it is to run the tests, the more likely people will be to apply the RTM method. RTM Scheduler makes it very easy to test multiple channels for quality and performance over any length of time by simply setting the start time and duration for each tested channel.”
Although RTM systems monitor a single channel at a time, RTM Scheduler makes it easy for users to program an RTM unit to perform multiple sequential tests, thereby making it possible for a single RTM unit to perform quality measurements and fault-monitoring sessions on several channels. This capability is especially useful when the RTM unit is monitoring an SDI source against an IP-processed source. As a source for the test reference, RTM can select from an IP stream or up to four SDI interfaces sequentially. The RTM unit can then select any processed IP stream (or series of streams) for quality measurement and monitoring.
