System Recommendations

Cinegy Multiviewer software is certified to run on the 64-bit editions of the following operating systems: Windows Server 2016*, Windows Server 2019*, Windows Server 2022*, Windows 10*, and Windows 11*.

Cinegy Multiviewer is tested on fully patched versions of the supported operating systems at the time of version release, and problems may be encountered if a machine is not at this minimum patch level. Supported released versions are continuously tested against the recommended operating system, and incompatibilities that might be introduced by new patches will be addressed via a new Cinegy software release where appropriate.

Operating system recommendation: Windows Server 2022 is recommended for servers, and Windows 11 Pro is recommended for workstations and desktops.

* Chosen SDI card compatibility with the operating system should be confirmed by the user.

The recommended hardware depends on many factors, such as the stream count, video format – HD/UHD/8K, MPEG-2/H.264/HEVC/Daniel2, bit-rate, chroma format, and GOP size. The CPU and GPU load also differs depending on Cinegy Multiviewer operating mode and setup of alerts.

For example, to be able to monitor up to 20 H.264 Full HD (1920x1080p) streams, a Supermicro with dual Intel Xeon 8-core Gold 6254 3.1 GHz can be used. For monitoring up to 16 HD H.264 12-15 Mbit streams and having one output H.264 stream – dual 8-core Intel Xeon Gold 5320 2.4 GHz is sufficient.

NVIDIA GPU offloaded encoding/decoding can dramatically reduce CPU requirements. NVIDIA Quadro P1000 or Quadro P2200 are excellent choices for multiple accelerated outputs. A general recommendation whilst making a decision about the choice of a GPU is to consider NVIDIA models with multiple NVENC and NVDEC chips.

Several SDI streams can be monitored on the machine with virtually any CPU when output stream encoding is offloaded to the NVIDIA GPU. For example, to monitor 16 SDI HD streams and output H.264 encoded UHD stream, a machine should be equipped with an NVIDIA GPU, 4 SDI cards, and a motherboard with the corresponding number of PCI slots.

For example, to be able to monitor up to 20 H.264 Full HD (1920x1080i) streams, an NVIDIA Quadro P2200 card is required. In this case, virtually no requirements are applied to the CPU.

For working in screen output mode NVIDIA graphics card with DirectX acceleration is recommended.

The following SDI boards are supported as inputs for Multiviewer:

The following settings are supported:

A separate network is recommended for broadcast video multicast data, keeping general traffic away from time-critical video traffic.

Cinegy Multiviewer in MPEG-TS output mode supports two network interfaces on RTP/UDP/SRT streaming output – primary and backup. For mission-critical operations, it is recommended to use up to 2 separate adapters for each stream (primary and backup).

Most Cinegy IP-based tools and applications support a specific source network interface definition for each channel, player, and module. For mission-critical high bandwidth and bit rate multichannel operations, we recommend using separate network cards and dedicated network segments so that multiple cards and networks can be used on each server.