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Chapter 3 Using the Ease Menu and Niagara SCX Web Interface
Niagara SCX Web Interface
To stream your MPEG-4 content, select Enable Streaming. Set the appropriate streaming properties.
Note The default settings will enable multicast streaming. If this is not desired, change the IP address for
Group to the IP address of the server to which you want to stream from the encoder.
The save SDP File field will require a name and destination path for the resulting SDP file created when
the stream is started. If you are streaming to a Helix®, a Quicktime, or a Darwin server, refer to its
respective documentation or online message boards for setup details specific for the individual streaming
server.
Note You can stream point-to-point by selecting a share destination directory for the saved SDP file.
Remember to disable multicasting by entering in the IP address of the PC to which you want to stream.
For example, if you want another PC to view the stream, save the SDP file to a share folder on the local
drive. The other PC can open the SDP file and the stream can be played in a Quicktime or othe r MPEG-4
compatible streaming player. Since MPEG-4 encoding can be CPU intensive, it is not recommend that
you view the stream on the same system as the encoder unless you have a very powerful system
(dual-core processors or better). Doing so may overtax the host CPU which will cause video quality
degradation and encode session failure.
After you have input your settings, click the Submit button at the bottom of the page to save your
settings.
Warning
If you click away to another web page without clicking Submit, your changes will be lost.