Adding & editing Media server configurations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field

Field description

Usage tips

 

 

 

 

 

configuration of your network.

is specified at the publishing point, the

 

 

 

 

 

Content Server can use any address in the

 

 

 

 

 

10.0 range for multicast streaming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Streaming port

The port number for the start of

If you do not enter a port range, the Content

 

 

range start

the live streaming port range

Server will use the Destination multicast port

 

 

 

 

between 10000 and 65000.

of the WMS Multicast Data Writer properties

 

 

 

 

 

of the multicast publishing point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TTL

The multicast time to live (TTL)

This value tells the network how far

 

 

 

 

threshold.

multicast packets should be allowed to

 

 

 

 

 

travel across the network. The value

 

 

 

 

 

“Subnet” (TTL=1) means that packets do

 

 

 

 

 

not pass the first network router and should

 

 

 

 

 

mean a multicast stream is viewable on any

 

 

 

 

 

network, even those not enabled for

 

 

 

 

 

multicast, where the client is on the same

 

 

 

 

 

subnet as the Content Server.

 

 

 

 

 

The efficacy of higher values: LAN

 

 

 

 

 

(TTL=32), WAN (64), Internet (128),

 

 

 

 

 

Unrestricted (255) depends on the network

 

 

 

 

 

configuration.

 

 

 

 

 

If you do not enter a TTL, the Content

 

 

 

 

 

Server will use the Destination multicast

 

 

 

 

 

Time-to-live (TTL) of the WMS Multicast

 

 

 

 

 

Data Writer properties of the multicast

 

 

 

 

 

publishing point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publishing points:

Select this option if you have

If you are using a Two Videos layout there

 

 

Use existing

created publishing points on the

must be two different publishing points to

 

 

 

 

streaming server that you wish

stream one video stream off each. If you are

 

 

 

 

to use. Enter the name of the

using Switching, Joined or Picture in Picture

 

 

 

 

existing publishing points for the

layouts, you need to specify only one

 

 

 

 

Main and Dual video streams.

publishing point, for Main.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Live URLs

The alternate URLs are set to

 

 

 

 

 

 

(http://(local)/tcs/data), Append

 

 

 

 

 

 

filename to URL is selected

 

 

 

 

 

 

and those options are grayed

 

 

 

 

 

 

out in the interface.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On demand settings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Write movies to the

Select to have media to be

Do not select this option if you are

 

 

default media

written to the Content Server’s

streaming from an external streaming

 

 

location

default media location: this will

server.

 

 

 

 

be either the E drive of the

You can check the default media storage

 

 

 

 

Content Server or an alternate

location in the Server overview. The default

 

 

 

 

storage location if you have a

media location for Windows Media files is

 

 

 

 

NAS configured.

(media location)\data\media.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Write movies to an

Select to write media to an

Choose this option if the streaming server is

 

 

alternate location

external streaming server using

on an external server which has a shared

 

 

 

 

a shared drive or UNC path.

drive accessible to the Content Server.

 

 

 

 

 

Enter the shared drive or UNC path, e.g.

 

 

 

 

 

\\servername\share in the Alternate path

 

 

 

 

 

field.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FTP movies to

Select to use FTP to transfer

Choose this option if the streaming server is

 

 

location

media files to an external

on, or can access a shared drive on, an

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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