Audinate synchronises its AV streams

For manufacturers who want to develop their AV-over-IP products, Audinate has announced that its Dante AV Product Design Suite (Dante AV PDS) is now shipping. It allows OEMs to build a high-quality, AV-over-IP endpoint for visually lossless results with low latency over a 1Gbps network. It also provides interoperability for audio distribution and control with the more than 2,500 existing Dante products, delivering synchronised audio and video streams. Based around the Dante AV module, the Dante AV PDS can be modified, branded and differentiated by OEMs via software, control and integration with other members of their product lines.

The Dante AV PDS has been designed to implement a codec, local HDMI and HDCP, ancillary data channels and control. The on-board Dante AV module provides Dante clock synchronisation, control, discovery, transport, messaging, management and updates. It comes with a full set of hardware documents and design files, while a complete software SDK reportedly allows OEMs to create fully interoperable Dante AV products with end-to-end HDCP support.

The suite includes a complete implementation of the intoPIX JPEG2000 codec supporting UHD and cinematic 4K resolution, up to 60fps, 4:4:4 chroma subsampling, 10-bit colour depth, up and down scaling and ultra-low latency dual block encoding and decoding. It uses a software control stack accessed through the Dante API and Dante Controller. The software supports the routing of ancillary data channels for control over Dante, including USB HID, Infrared, Serial (RS422) and Consumer Electronic Control for HDMI devices. Signals are transported over Dante and appear as routable channels.

The Dante AV PDS comes with a basic metal enclosure design, packaging design, preliminary EMI and thermal product scans, manufacturing instructions and test fixture design guidance. Each Dante AV PDS contains two pre-configured Dante AV endpoint design boards and five Dante AV modules.