Professional-grade DVB-C2/T2/ISDB-T receiver
Full support for legacy DVB-C and DVB-T
Optimized for network monitoring

  • Description
  • Specifications
  • Ordering Info

Description

DTA-2138B Features

  • Single-channel DVB-C2 / DVB-T2 /ISDB-T receiver for VHF/UHF with legacy support for DVB-C and DVB-T
  • Hardware-based demodulation with 0% CPU load
  • Demodulation of all DVB-T2 modes, including single and multiple PLP, SISO and MISO
  • Each channel provides reception status, RF level, demodulation status, MER and BER
  • Measurements include RF level, MER, bit error rates and monitoring of L1 parameters
  • Free Windows and Linux SDK (DTAPI) is fully compatible with other DekTec adapters
  • PCI Express x1, low profile
  • Low profile and standard profile PCI brackets available

DTA-2138B Applications

  • Monitoring of DVB-C2, DVB-T2, ISDB-T networks
  • DVB-C2 / DVB-T2 / ISDB-T test receiver
  • Re-multiplexing of DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-T2, DVB-C2 or ISDB-T streams with MuxXpert software

Specifications

RF input                        75-Ω F female
Input return loss            >8dB
Tuning range                 42 .. 880MHz
Input sensitivity           -90 .. -20dBm
Bandwidth                    1.7/5/6/7/8/10MHz
MER                               >32dB


PCI-Express label          PCIe x1

Standards: 

  •         DVB-C         EN 300 429
  •         DVB-C2       EN 302 769
  •         DVB-T         EN 300 744
  •         DVB-T2       EN 302 755, DTG6.2/7, NorDig-U v2.2
  •      ISDB-T        ARIB STD-B31

 

Ordering Info

All USA orders will be shipped from our USA warehouse. 

All other orders will be shipped from Canada.

DTA-2138B  –   DVB-C2 / DVB-T2 / ISDB-T receiver for PCI Express bus

DTA-2138B-SL   –   DVB-C2 / DVB-T2 / ISDB-T receiver for PCI Express bus with StreamXpert Lite

DTA-2138B-SX   –   DVB-C2 / DVB-T2 / ISDB-T receiver for PCI Express bus with StreamXpert

DTA-2138B-VR-SL   –   DVB-C2 / DVB-T2 / ISDB-T receiver for PCI Express bus with VF-REC stream recorder and StreamXpert Lite

DTA-2138B-MX   –   DVB-C2 / DVB-T2 / ISDB-T receiver for PCI Express bus with MuxXpert


Software Description

1. StreamXpert – Transport Stream Analyser Software
• Real-time analysis, monitoring and recording of MPEG-2 transport streams
• Recording based on duration, size or manual
• Provides detailed statistics on the PIDs, services and tables found in the transport stream
• Displays PIDs, services, tables, descriptors, stream information and PID-grid (compact overview of all PIDs)
• User definable TR 101 290 templates
• PCR analysis
• Measurement of bitrates, PCR-accuracy and interval
• Integrated SD/HD video and audio decoder with support for MPEG-2, AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, AVS, 4:2:2 and 10 bit video streams and MP1 / MP2 / (HE-)AAC / Dolby AC3 / Dolby AC4 audio
• Deep decoding of PSI, DVB-SI, DVB-RCS and ATSC-PSIP tables and descriptors
• Closed captions decoding
• SI decoding with user templates, Dolby AC4 analysis, multi-monitor support
• Support for analysing TS-over-IP streams via a DTA-2160 / DTA-2162 or a local network port
• The world’s most cost-effective and user-friendly transport-stream analyser

2.  StreamXpert Lite – Light-weight version of StreamXpert for viewing and recording transport-stream contents, and for decoding audio and video.

                                                             StreamXpert           StreamXpert Lite

Ribbon based GUI                                        ✓                               ✓
Display
List with properties of all PIDs                      ✓                               –
List with properties of all services                 ✓                               partial
List with properties of all tables                    ✓                                –
Video Decoding
HEVC                                                            ✓                                ✓
AVC                                                               ✓                                ✓
AVS                                                               ✓                                ✓
MPEG-2                                                        ✓                                ✓
4:2:2                                                              ✓                                –
10-bit                                                             ✓                                –
Full screen mode                                          ✓                                ✓
Multi-monitor support                                    ✓                                ✓
Audio Decoding
HE-AAC                                                        ✓                                ✓
AAC                                                              ✓                                ✓
E-AC-3                                                          ✓                                ✓
AC-3                                                             ✓                                 ✓
MPEG-1 Layer II                                           ✓                                ✓
Supported Interfaces
DekTec input adapters                                   ✓                                 ✓
PC network ports                                           ✓                                 ✓
Advanced
Custom table and descriptor templates         ✓                                  –
PID Grid, graphical overview of all PIDs        ✓                                  –
Dolby AC-4 analysis                                       ✓                                  –
Recording
Manual mode                                                ✓                                  ✓
Size based                                                    ✓                                  ✓
Duration based                                              ✓                                  ✓
Measurement and Compliance
TR 101 290 priority 1, 2 and 3                      ✓                                  –
Bitrate                                                           ✓                                  partial
PCR graphs                                                  ✓                                  –
PCR accuracy                                               ✓                                  –
PCR interval                                                  ✓                                  –
PCR frequency offset                                    ✓                                  –


3. 
MuxXpert – Real-time transport-stream multiplexer

  • Real-time multiplexing and re-multiplexing of live transport streams and contents from files
  • Automatic PSI and DVB-SI extraction, re-generation and insertion
  • Flexible configuration allows adaptation of PIDs, services, tables, descriptors, etc.
  • User interface provides information about services, components and bitrates in the input and output transport streams

4.  VF-Rec – Advanced transport-stream/SDI recorder

  • Advanced recorder for TS, ETI, SDI, I/Q samples and T2MI.
  • Allows to do continuous recording and remote control through SNMP
  • Record to a single file, to multiple files or continuous
  • SDI recording 10-bit full frame, up to 3G-SDI
  • Remote monitoring and control through SNMP

 

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