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{{Short description|Communication protocol}}

'''Video Disk Control Protocol''' ('''VDCP''') is a [[proprietary communications protocol]] primarily used in [[broadcast automation]] to control [[hard disk]] [[video server]]s for [[broadcast television]]. [[VDCP]] was originally developed by [[Louth Automation]] and is commonly called the '''Louth Protocol'''. At the time it was developed, when Hewlett Packard (whose broadcast server division was eventually sold to [[Pinnacle Systems]]) and [[Tektronix]] were both bringing to market the first of the VideoFile Servers to be used in the broadcast industry. They contacted Louth Automation who then designed the [[communications protocol]] basing it on Sony protocols of both the Sony LMS Storage Device and the Sony VTR. The principal work was carried out by Ken Louth at Louth Automation.

VDCP uses a tightly coupled master-slave methodology. The controlling device takes the initiative in communications between the controlling broadcast [[automation]] device and the controlled device (video disk). VDCP conforms to the [[Open Systems Interconnection]] (OSI) reference model.

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VDCP is a [[serial communications]] protocol based on [[RS-422]]. It is derived from the [[Sony]] [[9-Pin Protocol]], an industry-standard protocol for control of professional broadcast [[VTR]]s that is used in [[Online editing (video production)|online editing]].

Full details of the protocol are available from [[Imagine Communications who, as Harris Broadcast]], who acquired Louth in 2000.

It was largely succeeded by the [[Network Device Control Protocol]].<ref name="q429">{{cite web | title=Harris launches network-based automation protocol for controlling broadcast audio/video devices | website=Digital Broadcasting com | date=2001-02-14 | url=https://www.digitalbroadcasting.com/doc/harris-launches-network-based-automation-prot-0001 | access-date=2025-08-14}}</ref>

==References==

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==External links==

* [http://www.broadcast.harrisimaginecommunications.com/ Imagine Communications (formerly Harris Broadcast)]

* [http://www.harris.com//view_pressrelease.asp?act=lookup&pr_id=476 NDCP Launch press release]

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