Niagara Video Acquires HDi-250, HDi-SDI & DVD-1150

BCD Closes Business as of 1 November 2018

We will remain working until all orders are shipped.

Niagara Video Acquires HDi-250, HDi-SDI, and DVD-1150
Order now from Niagara Video

Our principal owner is retiring and we have sold the rights to our two main products:
The DVD-1150 and the HDi-250 series will now be manufactured and sold by Niagara Video, Inc. and their dealers.
BCD has sold it's existing product stock and is referring all new orders to Niagara Video.
The transfer is in progress and we expect the transition to be complete before October 31, 2018.

Visit Niagara Video Now!   

 

 

BCD HDi Remote Commands


Use Crestron®, AMX®, your computer, RS-232 serial, or Telnet via IP.

 

The BCD HDi remote commands are the same for TCP/IP and for Serial.

 WakeOnLAN

Turn on power remotely using any WOL sending program.  Enabled by system BIOS.

 TCP/IP Remote

Find Your IP Address Automatically

It's easiest to let your network router assign an IP address to the HDi.
You can also assign IP IPV4 Address, Static Network Mask and Static Gateway Route Gateway manually, but DHCP is a lot easier.  You generally don't need to ask the IT people.

Press the Menu button, then Up Arrow until you see "Network Configuration.  Right/Left arrow to see Use DHCP.

 NetworkConfig_300_x_66.jpg

Press Enter and wait about 20 seconds for the HDi to receive it's IP address from your router.
Then you'll see something similar to

NetworkAddr_300_x_58.jpg

In this case, the IP <addr> is 192.168.1.13.

Connecting via Telnet.

From a Windows command window type   telnet 192.168.1.<addr> 3021
3021 is the 'port' address.  You'll need to know both for the Telnet program.

When Telnet connects, you'll see the BCD prompt character ">".
The prompt ">" means that it's ok to send remote commands.
>

Type "help" to see the list of commands:
>help
For more information enter 'help help' or 'help name' with name from:
baud burn deck dele dnum echo ecof econ eras exit fram help info list mark
mode open paus play powr quit recs reje rlse save stop thru vers zero
>

Type "help help" to see expanded explanations of the commands

>help help
baud: show/control serial baud rate - baud 0 means network
burn: burn 0|'data' or 1|'text' or 2|'icon' for video dvd to burn marked files to disc
deck: select the active deck in multi-drop serial configuration
dele: delete video files by name or number or marked files
dnum: set the deck number for multi-drop serial configuration
echo: show/control echo of commands 0|'off' or 1|'on'
ecof: disable echo of commands, alias for echo 0|'off'
econ: enable echo of commands, alias for echo 1|'on'
eras: blank/erase an optical disc
exit: exit the command parser, alias for quit
fram: display the current play/record frame number (during Record or Play)
help: show command help
info: developer/debugging status information
list: list available video files
mark: mark, unmark or list marked video files by name or number, 0 to unmark all
mode: show the current deck transport mode, e.g. PLAY
open: open the optical drive door or eject the disc, alias for reje
paus: pause playback or record.
        paus or the Pause Button also toggles E-E Video Loop Through

play: play a video file by name or number
powr: power off the deck
quit: quit the command parser, alias for exit
recs: record video with either timestamp or user supplied name
reje: eject the disc or open the optial drive door, alias for open
rlse: release paused playback or record and continue
save: save preferences to non-volatile storage
stop: stop playback or record
thru: set E-E Loop Through 0|'off' or 1|'on'
vers: Display the firmware version
zero: Set the frame number to zero

OPERATION

  • All commands are 4-characters. 
  • Press your computer keyboard Enter key after each command.

Type 'recs' (without the quotes) then pres your keyboard Enter keyto Record
Type 'stop' to stop.
The 'play' to play the most recently recorded file.

"list" will list the recorded files and assign a number to each.

>
>list
  1 2015Sep04_20.05.25.mpg     37M
  2 2015Aug29_20.12.59.mpg    287M
  3 2015Jul27_19.59.23.mp4      4M
  4 2015Jul27_00.04.32.mp4    108M
  5 2015Jul26_23.45.05.mp4      2M

play 2 will play file number 2
play <filename> will play that file

mark
'mark' marks files for further action
'mark1' marks file #1.   'mark 5' marks file #5
'mark 3' marks file #3
Use 'mark 0' to unmark all the files.

Now you can:
'dele' to delete those market files

burn
'burn' these files to a DVD disc (-R,+R, +RW)
'burn 0' or 'burn data' just copies the files as files, "as is" to the disc
'burn 1' or 'burn text' makes a DVD-Video disc with a text menu
''burn2' or 'burn icon' make a DVD-Video disc with a moving video menu

 

 

 

 

 

HDi-Latest News


 For General Release

March 2018

  • NEW! 8-channel audio.
    The HDI-250 records from HDMI & SDI with up to 8 channels of audio
  • NEW! Auto-DVD Mode: Just press
    Record
    Stop
    Eject
    ...and you have a DVD-Video disc.
    Play It!.
  • Complete Auto-Detect of Incoming Video Format(s) - HD & SD
    35 formats from 720x480i to 1920x1080i/p - up to 4K on request
  • Fast auto-detect of video formats:
    Standards:PAL/NTSC, Frame rates: 23.98/24(film) to 60 fps
  • Multiple Record Destinations: HDD, USB Flash, Optical Disc, RAM
  • Security PINs - Supervisor & Operator.  Locks out some functions
  • Web/LAN control interface - Basic, File listing
  • Cryptographic Login Authentication RSA Public/Private Key (7/14/16)
  • Direct File Recording to HDD, DVD Disc, USB (6/15/16)
  • Change Record Targets easily: HDD <--> USB <--> Optical Disc
  • WakeOnLAN (WOL)
  • New disk management: Safely spin-down/up for removable (for units with removable HDD)
  • Multiple HDD formats:NTFS, NTFS-XP, EXT4 for external computers
  • Expanded TCP/IP Capabilities.
  • Enhanced Commands for TCP/IP & Serial Control - same as DVD-1150 but better!
  • Fast auto-detect of video formats:
    Standards:PAL/NTSC, Frame rates: 23.98/24(film) to 60 fps
  • Multiple Record Destinations: HDD, USB Flash, Optical Disc, RAM
  • Presetable File Size Limits: 1GB. 2GB, 4GB, No Limit
    Recording restarts new file when limit is reached.
  • Preset Record Time Limit:30min, 1hr, 2hr, 3hr, 4hr, Custom.

 

December 2016

  • Introducing DualStream Recording!  Record an HD 1920x1080 file for special presentations
    and 720x480/576 MPEG-2 file for DVDs simultaneously.
  • Enhanced Commands for TCP/IP & Serial Control - same as DVD-1150 but better!

Version 2.3a thru v2.3f
22 November 2015

  • Auto-Detect of input standard, & format
  • Telnet Control over LAN. More commands including LIST recorded files, MARK files for further action, DELEete files, BURN[copy, text, icon] to DVD disc as files or as DVD Video disc. (150819)
  • Monitor disk space for video files: HDD & RAM to avoid "Disk Full" error. (Front pane display)
  • Secure Military Version: Record to RAM. No Hard Drive. Video files disappear at power-off
  • Addressable via Serial port. Each deck is assigned a DECK number.
    Baud rates from 9600 to 115Kbps
  • Auto DHCP with display of IP address
  • Selectable EE-Loop: Always or Record/Stop
  • (Coming) Dual Stream Recording: HD for presentation, SD for DVD
  • (Coming) Direct recording to front USB port.
  • File Conversion HD to SD for DVD-video recording
  • Disc Burn - completion remaining display
  • Standard BCD 4-character commands for TCP/IP & Serial Remote Control

You can download the latest firmware update and burn it to disc, only 8MB.  Complete Reinstall file is available.(4.2GB)

 

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