Cisco Systems 2200 manual User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Encoder

Chapter 2 Getting to Know the Cisco Digital Media Encoder 2200

Encoder Preset (A, B, and C)

To stream your MPEG-4 content, select Enable Streaming. Set the appropriate streaming properties.

Note Live streaming and streaming to a file cannot be accomplished at the same time. Only one box can be checked at a time. To stream Live and to file at the same time, a separate profile must be set up.

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 other 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.

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