Cisco Systems OL-3995-01 manual IP/TV Components, IP/TV Viewer

Chapter 1 Product Overview

IP/TV Components

IP/TV Version 3.5 supports a wide variety of audio and video formats, including Moving Picture Experts Group-1 (MPEG-1), MPEG-2, Microsoft MPEG-4, ISO MPEG-4, Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding-Low Complexity (AAC-LC), and H.261.

To view a 7-minute video that describes IP/TV capabilities, click Introduction Video on the Cisco IP/TV Installer CD.

IP/TV Components

IP/TV consists of three separate components: IP/TV Viewer, IP/TV

Content Manager, and IP/TV Server.

IP/TV Viewer

IP/TV Viewer resides on the client and lets you view programs. A program is an audio, video, or text transmission over the network. IP/TV Viewer has a customizable user interface that displays a list of scheduled and on-demand programs. IP/TV Viewer allows you to subscribe to any of the listed programs, and plays the program at the scheduled or requested time. You can also browse among all currently running programs.

IP/TV Viewer obtains program information from IP/TV Content Manager, and displays programs served by IP/TV Server or other servers. It can also display programs multicast from the Multicast Backbone (MBone) of the Internet or from other servers that transmit in MBone-compatible format.

IP/TV Viewer can run as a standalone application, a helper application activated by a web browser, or a browser plug-in. It runs on Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows XP SP1.

This guide provides information on how to install and use IP/TV Viewer.

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