User guide

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Introduction

This document describes how to use the software delivered with

VENICE, the multi-channel video server manufactured by DVS.

VENICE is a highly flexible server system for the capturing and play-out

of audio and video content. Especially designed for broadcast work-

flows, it provides multiple independent channels and supports natively

the most common compressed formats. With VENICE you can easily

capture live content, e.g. from cameras directly, and access data for

play-out operations – if required both at the same time and in the for-

mat that suits your workflow best. During each operation you can con-

trol an externally connected device via RS-422 to act as a player or

recorder, either in a manual or autoedit operation mode.

To control the hardware of VENICE the VENICE client software is re-

quired. It is a comprehensive and intuitive application that can be used

either on the server locally (Linux version) or on any network client

(Linux, Mac, Windows) connected to the server. With this you can

place the hardware of VENICE at any location you like and still have full

control over it. By opening several instances of the software you can

control different video channels of one or more VENICE servers at the

same time.