VBrick Systems EtherneTV-NXG 2, EtherneTV-NXG 1 manual Introduction

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1: Introduction

Brick's EtherneTV-NXG server has been integrated with the EtherneTV family of V products including the EtherneTV-MCS Media Control Server, MPEG-1/2/4

streaming encoders, Windows-based desktop computers (future Apple MAC support for MPEG-4 only) and the EtherneTV-STB. The EtherneTV-NXG delivers

stored MPEG assets as unicast streams (with full VCR-like functionality such as Stop/Pause/Play/FF/Rew) across an Ethernet network. The EtherneTV-NXG is built on a DELL hardware platform. Other features include the ability to schedule asset playback, asset searching, user and system statistics, plus much more. EtherneTV-MCS is required to gain the full benefits of the EtherneTV-NXG server and is sold separately.

In order to set up the EtherneTV MCS server, please follow the directions in the EtherneTV MCS Administrator’s Guide. Once the EtherneTV MCS server is setup and configured, then end users can access video the EtherneTV-NXG server through the MCS web interface.

VBrick uses its own software-based components to decode streams on the desktop. There is no client side software to install. The EtherneTV-MCS automatically downloads components to the desktop PC upon the user’s initial access to the system.

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