An IPTV decoder is an electronic circuit that decodes digital video and audio from a video encoder and converts the stream to uncompressed formats compatible with traditional television and video displays. Applications where various types of video displays are used to view video content over a network, will necessitate the use of an IPTV decoder. This can include flat panel monitors, LED video walls, video projectors, and consumer TVs.
IPTV Decoders: Enabling Digital Video Delivery Without Quality Loss
Today, digital media consumers across the U.S. and the world are choosing to distribute video content over IP networks. Receiving video across an IP network is made possible by a device known as a decoder.
Contemporary Research's latest IPTV decoder with incorporated display control, the QIP-DVX IPTV Decoder/Controller offers display control functionality through RS-232 or IR. The unit is part of a family of products from Contemporary Research that can be used to form an end-to-end IPTV distribution system with control.
The decoder is compatible with unicast or multicast UDP and RTP IPTV streams and will accept MPEG-2 or H.264 single program or multiple program transport streams. A channel list of programs is uploaded from a PC running CR Toolbox software. Channel selection, volume, and power may be controlled from the front panel buttons, handheld IR remote, or external control system.
The QIP-DVX IPTV Decoder/Controller can receive commands from a Contemporary Research Display Control Center or Display Express software for channel selection, volume control, power, and display source selection. Power and source selection will be translated to the protocol required for the connected display and transmitted out the RS-232 or IR port.
CR Toolbox
CR Toolbox is a PC application designed for Contemporary Research products that can be connected over IP or USB.