KILOVIEW H.265 S2 Video Encoder User Guide
- June 5, 2024
- KILOVIEW
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KILOVIEW H.265 S2 Video Encoder
Before using this product, it is recommended that you read the guide carefully. To ensure your personal safety and avoid physical or electrical damage to the device, please strictly follow the instructions of this guide to install and use it under the guidance of professionals. Incorrect electrical connections or physical installation may cause permanent damage to the device and even threaten personal safety.
Packing List
Device Interface
- Power Switch
- Power Port
- 3.5mm Line in/Line out
- HDMI Loop
- HDMI Input
- USB Port
- 1 GbE port with PoE
- Tally
- Status Indicator
- Reset（bottom）
Device Indicators
Tally
| Video status under encoding mode
---|---
Green light
always on
|
PVW
Red light
always on
|
PGM
LED Indicators
| Name| Color| Status| Description
Power
|
White
| Always on| Power connected
Off| Power off or failure
LINK
|
White
| Flashing| Network connected
Off| Network disconnected/abnormal
Run
|
White
| Flashing| Working normally
Always on| Starting to work
Off| Working abnormal/ not start
Applications
Note:
- Please use the standard power adapter equipped in the package. Likewise, other unqualified power adaptor may damage the device.
- Please make sure the camera is connected to the HDMI IN connector.
- If you wish, you can connect S2 to your monitor for real time preview by HDMI OUT .
Device discovery
Install Kiloview Multiview NDI Player for free
Download Kiloview Multiview for free
Visit website https://www.kiloview.com/en/ndi/multiview/, select “NDI
Series” “ Multiview”and click download, then install software step by step as
instructions.
Kiloview Multiview is a free software for NDI video discovery, management and
multi-view, which is popular and highly praised all over the world.
- Click in the upper right corner to log into webpage.
- Find the device and IP address in the device list. Enter management interface through web browser.
Note:
Naming rules： S2-
Two ways of accessing to the device management page
- Method 1： Drag the device directly in the discovery list to the left window, wait and click the icon ⓔ appeared in the upper right to access Web UI directly.
- Method 2： Open Web browser，enter: http://device IP address/ （Kindly note the device IP address for S2 is showed in the discovery device list.）
Use Studio Monitor in the NDI SDK Tools
Download NDI SDK Tools
Download and install NDI SDK Tools through NDI official website
https://www.ndi.tv/tools/. Kindly follow the NDI official instructions for
download method and installation process.
Studio Monitor is one of the NDI SDK Tools for free，which is provided
officially by NDI for discovery and monitoring NDI video. 
Right click on the Studio Monitor interface，find the name of S2 in the pop up menu, click it for playing NDI video. At the same time, a gear icon will appear in the lower right corner, click it and then a browser window will pop up for logging in and accessing the Web UI of S2.
Note:
Naming rules： S2-
How to handle if the device can’t be found?
If the S2 device can’t be found in the network by the above two methods due to the network conditions, please kindly try to access the device by its default fixed IP address 192.168.1.168. That is to say, enter http://192.168.1.168/ in the browser to visit Web UI.
Login to the device management page
Open the Web page of S2，Default username/password is admin/admin.
Note:
To insure your information security, it is recommended to revise your password
after you log into for the first time.
Work with your device
Video input checking
After video source connected, you will be allowed to preview video in real
time through web browser. Kindly note the video preview window is under
“image” mode by default, and it is refreshed every 3 seconds. If your
computer’s CPU performance is good, you can click the mouse to switch to the
“video” mode, and the smoothness of the preview will be
improved.
For more configurations and help, please visit Kiloview official website https://www.kiloview.com/cn/support/docs/S2/getting/
Streaming service
Click“+”on the right side of the stream service at the bottom of S2 Web UI.
Add a stream service, take RTSP protocol as an example.
Select
RTSP, fill in the name, service port and session ID, the other setting
parameters can remain default configuration, click “OK”.
Note:
- The default RTSP port is 554, when add multiple RTSP service, different port number should be used.
- Session ID can be any combination of numbers, letters and symbol.
After saving configurations, it will be displayed under the stream service,
which is closed by default. Click switch to start the stream service, it will
come up a RTSP stream address in the corresponding address.
Click icon PLUS BUTTON at the back of stream address, copy it and then check the encoded video stream by VLC.
Download VLC tool
Download and install VCL tool through official website
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/, please follow the official VCL instructions
for download method and installation process.
VLC is a multimedia player and framework with free and open cross platform,
which can play most of streaming media protocols.
Click media on the VLC – open network streaming – enter the URL address of
RTSP over internet, click play at the lower right corner to start streaming.
For more
support while using with S2 encoders, please visit Kiloview website:
https://www.kiloview.com/en/support/
Firmware upgrading
Download upgrade firmware
Kiloview will continue to provide the firmware of updating functions and
fixing bug for S2. Kindly visit “
https://www.kiloview.com/en/support/download/”
Select “video encoders” in the filter list > “S2”, find the latest firmware to
download in the program tag.
Upgrade device firmware
Login the management web page of S2, click “Settings”– “System
Settings”–“Firmware Upgrade” to check whether the latest firmware version
downloaded is higher than your current version. If yes, select the downloaded
firmware and click “Firmware Upgrade”.
After uploaded the firmware successfully, it need reboot the device. After
clicking “ok”, the device will restart, please be patient. After the device
restart, refresh web management interface to re-enter the web
UI.
Note
- Please not power off during the upgrade process, otherwise the device couldn’t work.
- Generally speaking, it will cost 3-5 minutes to upgrade the device, if it’s still not completed after 5 minutes, please try refreshing webpage, if you still can’t access it normally, try contacting technical support.
Restore factory settings
If the device cannot work normally after modifies the parameters or forgot
internet IP configuration and couldn’t search and find the device, please
restore factory settings.
Two methods for restoring factory settings:
- If the device can login to web page, then via the WEB page, click “Settings—System settings–Restore factory settings”.
- If the device can’t login to web page. Press the RESET button for 5 seconds in the bottom of device,
Note：
After restoring factory setting, below parameters will be turned to default
value:
- Login username and password will be “admin”;
- IP address will be restored as 192.168.1.168, subnet mask will be 255.255.255.0;
- All encoding parameters of video and audio will be restored to default value.
Note
To prolong the device life，please unplug the power and keep it properly if you do not use it for a long time.
Website for Official online document of S2
https://www.kiloview.com/en/support/docs/S2
Website for Kiloview official technical support
https://www.kiloview.com/en/support/
References
- 快速入门 – 长沙千视电子
- NDI Multiview - Kiloview
- Support and Help Center – Kiloview
- S2 4K HDMI Encoder – Kiloview
- Download Center – Kiloview
- Tools – NDI
- Official download of VLC media player, the best Open Source player - VideoLAN
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