Chapter 24 Redistribute Live TV

Procedures

Guidelines

Site Assessment for Live Video Programming, page 24-2

Site Assessment for Live Video Programming

Organizations that use Cisco Cast tend to show live video programming at their sites with the greatest bandwidth capacity, such as their main site. Live video programming is not suitable for remote branch offices with low bandwidth capacity.

When you plan how many TV channels to configure, consider the actual bandwidth capacity in your WAN and at each remote site where you will use Cisco Cast. The typical rate of bandwidth consumption will be in the range from 2 Mbps to 16 Mbps per channel, per site.

Restrictions

Channel Count Restrictions, page 24-2

Codec Restrictions, page 24-2

Channel Count Restrictions

Features of this Cisco Cast release support 99 or fewer channels of live broadcast programming and VoD programming, combined.

Codec Restrictions

Any digital encoders that you use for live broadcast channels must adhere to the MPEG2-TS standard for streaming and must support at least one of these codecs:

MPEG1

MPEG2

MPEG4/h.264 (supported on DMP 4400G endpoints only)

For this reason, we recommend that you use a Scientific Atlanta 9032SD encoder or 9050HD encoder to encode the video streams that your DMPs use for Cisco Cast channels.

Procedures

Add Channels, page 24-3

Edit Channels, page 24-3

Reassign Channel Numbers, page 24-4

Delete Channels, page 24-5

List Only the Defined (Active) or Undefined (Inactive) TV Channels, page 24-5

 

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