1. Click Wizard
  1. Choose Video Quality Analyzer in the pop up window.

  1. Set how long you want to monitor the video quality, also how often to sample the video traffic, and the saved result file name. By default, the test will monitor video traffic for 5 minutes, every 10 seconds STC will get a sample of the video traffic, the end test result will be saved as vqanalyzertest-YYYY-MM-DD.db file.

  1. Check the ports you are going to use to monitor video traffic, please pay attention to Layer2 Encapsulation parameter. If the video traffic you are going to monitor has vlan header or pppoe header, you need configure this parameter correctly, or the video traffic will not be able to detect by STC.
Layer 2 Encapsulation / Available for Ethernet interfaces
Encapsulation type of the video stream / EthernetII, EthernetII/VLAN, EthernetII/PPPoE, EthernetII/VLAN/PPPoE / EthernetII
  1. According to the video traffic you want to monitor change below settings:
Field / Description / Values / Default
Port Name / Port under which at least one video stream was created / N/A / N/A
Probe Name / System-generated name for the probe / N/A / N/A
IP Version / IP version used to transport the video stream / IPv4, IPv6 / IPv4
Filter Type / Determines type of IP address / Multicast, Unicast / Multicast
Destination UDP Port (Min) / Beginning destination UDP port / 0-65535 / Multicast: 4000
Unicast: 1000
Destination UDP Port (Max) / Ending destination UDP port
Visible when Use Address Range is Selected / 0-65535 / Multicast: 5000
Unicast: 2000
IPv4 Address (Min) / Beginning unicast or multicast IPv4 address
Visible when IP Version is set to IPv4 / IPv4 unicast address
IPv4 multicast address / Unicast: 192.168.0.0
Multicast: 225.0.0.0
IPv4 Address (Max) / Ending unicast or multicast IPv4 address
Visible when IP Version is set to IPv4 and Use Address Range is Selected / IPv4 unicast address
IPv4 multicast address / Unicast: 192.168.255.255
Multicast: 225.0.0.255
IPv6 Address (Min) / Beginning unicast or multicast IPv6 address
Visible when IP Version is set to IPv6 / IPv6 unicast address
IPv6 multicast address / Unicast: 2001::1
Multicast: ff1e::1
IPv6 Address (Max) / Ending unicast or multicast IPv6 address
Visible when IP Version is set to IPv6 and Use Address Range is Selected / IPv6 unicast address
IPv6 multicast address / Unicast: 2001::ff
Multicast: ff1e::ff
  1. According to the test bed layer2 info, config below parameters:
PPP Session ID / Visible when Layer 2 Encapsulation is set to EthernetII/PPPoE or EthernetII/VLAN/PPPoE
ID for the PPP session / 1-65535 / 1
Number of VLANs / Visible when Layer 2 Encapsulation is set to EthernetII/VLAN or EthernetII/VLAN/PPPoE
Number of VLAN tags / 1-3 / 1
VLAN ID # / Visible when Layer 2 Encapsulation is set to EthernetII/PPPoE or EthernetII/VLAN/PPPoE
ID for up to three VLANs / 0-4095 / 100
  1. Config Tunable Parameters according to your test requirement.
  1. Double check your configuration in the summary window before finish the test wizard.

Field / Description / Values / Default
Loss Concealment Parameters
Frame Loss Concealment Robustness / Parameter that defines the FLC algorithm robustness. / 1-100 / 4
Tags / Select one or more tags to organize objects
See Tag Editor for information on managing tags / N/A / Cleared
Slices per I-Frame / Number of slices per I frame. Typically frame height in pixels divided by 16.
Note: Use 0 to enable auto-detection of slices per I-frame.
/ 0-100 / 0
Video Buffer Parameters
Nominal Delay / Play-out buffer nominal delay, in seconds / 0.0625-4095.9375 / 3.0
Maximum Packet Count / The maximum number of transport packets that can be stored in the buffer at any instance in time / 0-4294967295 / 65535
RTPParameters
RTP Timestamp Threshold / The maximum difference between two consecutive RTPtimestamps. / 0-47721.858 / 3
MOS Thresholds
MOS V Threshold / The absolute video stream MOS threshold used to determine the proportion of time spent below the threshold. / 1.00-5.00 / 1
MOS V Normalized Threshold / The relative (removing impact of image size and frame rate) video stream MOS threshold used to determine the proportion of time spent below the threshold. / 1.00-5.00 / 1
MOS AV Threshold / The audio/video stream MOS threshold used to determine the proportion of time spent below the threshold. / 1.00-5.00 / 1
MOS A Threshold / The audio stream MOS threshold used to determine the proportion of time spent below the threshold. / 1.00-5.00 / 1
ETSI TR 101 290 Interval Parameters
PID Interval / The maximum interval beyond which a PID Error is triggered.
For each PID, a data stream for the PID must appear within this time interval. The error is triggered if it is not within the interval. / 0.001-4294967.295 / 1
PAT Repetition / The maximum interval beyond which a PAT Error or PAT2 Error is triggered.
PAT:PID 0 must be present in the transport stream within this time interval.
PAT2:table_ID 0 on PID 0 must be present in the transport stream within this time interval. The error is triggered if it is not within the interval. / 0.001-4294967.295 / 0.5
PMT Repetition / The maximum interval beyond which a PMT Error or PMT2 Error is triggered.
PMT:table_ID 2 must be present in the transport stream on the PID which is referred to in the PAT within this time interval. The error is triggered if it is not within the interval.
PMT2:table_ID 2 must be present in the transport stream on the program_map_PID which is referred to in the PAT within this time interval. The error is triggered if it is not within the interval. / 0.001-4294967.295 / 0.5
PCR Continuity / The maximum interval beyond which the PCR Discontinuity Indicator Error is triggered.
The difference between two consecutive PCR values without the discontinuity indicator set must fall within this interval. The error is triggered if it is not within the interval. / 0.001-47721.858 / 0.1
PCR Repetition / The maximum interval beyond which the PCR Repetition Error is triggered.
The time interval between two consecutive PCR values must fall within this interval. The error is triggered if it is not within the interval. / 0.001-47721.858 / 0.04
PTS Repetition / The maximum interval beyond which the PTS Error is triggered.
The Presentation Time Stamp must be present in the transport stream at least once within this interval. The error is triggered if it is not within the interval. / 0.001-4294967.295 / 0.7
RTPDynamic Payload Configuration
Name / Payload configuration name / 255 alphanumeric characters / N/A
Active / Select to enable the payload in a test / N/A / Selected
Category / Codec category (Audio or Video) / Audio, Video / Video
Payload Type / RTP payload type / 96-127 / 96
CODEC / Codec to be used / Audio: MPEG-1 Layer 1, MPEG-1 Layer 2, MPEG-1 Layer 3, MPEG-2 AAC, AC-3, MPEG-4 AAC, MPEG-4 Low Delay AAC, MPEG-4 High Efficiency AAC
Video:JPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.261, H.263, H.263+, H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1 / Audio: MPEG-1 Layer 1
Video:MPEG-2
Video Frame Width / Width of a video frame in pixels / 50-65535 / 720
Video Frame Height / Height of the video frame in pixels / 50-65535 / 486