EVS IPDirector Version 5.9 - January 2011 Part 6 User’s Manual - Manual (Page 37)

Issue 5.9.B IPDirector Version 5.9 – User Manual – Part 6: Playout – Playlist Panel
EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011
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On-Air Playlist
If the playlist is on air and you want to change the channel associated in the
Playlist Panel, a warning will be given before the allocation is allowed.
1.3.4 O
FF
-L
INE AND
O
N
-L
INE
P
LAYLISTS
A playlist is off-line when it has been created by IPDirector but no data has been
sent to the XNet server network and it cannot be seen in that network, it can only
be seen on IPDirector workstations.
A playlist is on-line when it has become present on an EVS server.
O
N
-L
INE
P
LAYLISTS AND
A
LTERNATIVE
C
ONTROL
P
ROTOCOLS
Once on-line, a playlist can be accessed using any other protocol that can control
an EVS server. In an environment in which some EVS servers are controlled using
IPDirector only, Multicam software only, or having control of channels shared
(either exclusively or in parallel) between protocols; the user rights structure of
IPDirector is not applicable to channels when they are not under the exclusive
control of IPDirector. Any playlist with on-line status could therefore be on-air with
any system controlling the channels of an EVS server. In this case, care must be
taken when manipulating an on-line playlist.
An on-line playlist will have a LSM ID associated to it, as the address of where the
playlist resides on the server. An off-line playlist only exists in the IPDirector
database without an LSM ID.
P
LAYLIST
M
ANAGEMENT IN
C
ASE OF A
D
ISCONNECTION TO
THE
EVS S
ERVER
In case an EVS server is disconnected from the XNet, all playlists which were on-
line on that EVS server and which were present in a bin become off-line playlists.
They are still kept in the IPDirector database.
When the EVS server is reconnected later, no link is re-created between the
playlist present on the EVS server and the playlist present in the bins. In this case
the playlist has to be given its on-line status manually again.