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| Adding & editing Media server configurations |
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| configuration of your network. | is specified at the publishing point, the |
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| Content Server can use any address in the |
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| 10.0 range for multicast streaming. |
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| Streaming port | The port number for the start of | If you do not enter a port range, the Content |
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| range start | the live streaming port range | Server will use the Destination multicast port |
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| between 10000 and 65000. | of the WMS Multicast Data Writer properties |
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| of the multicast publishing point. |
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| TTL | The multicast time to live (TTL) | This value tells the network how far |
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| threshold. | multicast packets should be allowed to |
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| travel across the network. The value |
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| “Subnet” (TTL=1) means that packets do |
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| not pass the first network router and should |
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| mean a multicast stream is viewable on any |
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| network, even those not enabled for |
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| multicast, where the client is on the same |
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| subnet as the Content Server. |
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| The efficacy of higher values: LAN |
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| (TTL=32), WAN (64), Internet (128), |
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| Unrestricted (255) depends on the network |
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| configuration. |
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| If you do not enter a TTL, the Content |
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| Server will use the Destination multicast |
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| Data Writer properties of the multicast |
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| publishing point. |
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| Publishing points: | Select this option if you have | If you are using a Two Videos layout there |
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| Use existing | created publishing points on the | must be two different publishing points to |
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| streaming server that you wish | stream one video stream off each. If you are |
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| to use. Enter the name of the | using Switching, Joined or Picture in Picture |
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| existing publishing points for the | layouts, you need to specify only one |
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| Main and Dual video streams. | publishing point, for Main. |
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| Live URLs | The alternate URLs are set to |
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| (http://(local)/tcs/data), Append |
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| filename to URL is selected |
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| and those options are grayed |
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| out in the interface. |
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| On demand settings |
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| Write movies to the | Select to have media to be | Do not select this option if you are |
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| default media | written to the Content Server’s | streaming from an external streaming |
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| location | default media location: this will | server. |
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| be either the E drive of the | You can check the default media storage |
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| Content Server or an alternate | location in the Server overview. The default |
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| storage location if you have a | media location for Windows Media files is |
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| NAS configured. | (media location)\data\media. |
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| Write movies to an | Select to write media to an | Choose this option if the streaming server is |
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| alternate location | external streaming server using | on an external server which has a shared |
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| a shared drive or UNC path. | drive accessible to the Content Server. |
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| Enter the shared drive or UNC path, e.g. |
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| \\servername\share in the Alternate path |
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| FTP movies to | Select to use FTP to transfer | Choose this option if the streaming server is |
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| location | media files to an external | on, or can access a shared drive on, an |
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| Cisco TelePresence Content Server 4.1 printable online | Page 61 of 121 |
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