EVS IPDirector Version 5.6 - May 2009 Part 6 User's Manual - Manual (Page 30)

IPDirector Version 5.6 – User Manual – Part 6: Playout – Playlist Panel
EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2009
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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.
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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 XT server.
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LAYLISTS AND
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ONTROL
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ROTOCOLS
Once on-line, a playlist can be accessed using any other protocol that can control
an XT[2] server. In an environment in which some XT[2] 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 XT[2] 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.
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LAYLIST
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ANAGEMENT IN
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ASE OF AN
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ISCONNECTION
In case an XT[2] is disconnected from the XNet, all playlists which were on-line on
that XT[2] and which were present in a bin become off-line playlists. They are still
kept in the IPDirector database.
When the XT[2] is reconnected later, no link is re-created between the playlist
present on the XT[2] server and the playlist present in the bins. In this case the
playlist has to be given its on-line status manually again.