Sony aws-g500 Streaming, What Is Streaming, method, Caution, Features, Transmission

Streaming

You can encode the program output into Real Media streaming file format (.rm) within this unit, and broadcast it on the network.

What Is Streaming?

Streaming is one of the transmit multimedia data. Video and audio data is sent across a network, and may be played in real time.

To carry out live streaming with this unit, the program video and audio is encoded in the format used by Real Player, and transmitted.

Encoding takes place on the unit. There are the following two transmission methods.

Transmission	Features
method
Using the	• The results of encoding are sent from the unit to the streaming
streaming server	server provided by the provider, and the viewers access the
provided by the	streaming server to view the live content.
provider
	Provider

•	To some extent you can select such things as the number of
	clients that can view the content and delivery transfer rate
	because it is possible to obtain high network bandwidth,
	depending on your subscription with the provider.
• There is a cost for use of a streaming server.
• Obtain a subscription with a provider that provides a server that
	supports the RealMedia streaming file format (.rm).
Using this unit as •	The results of encoding are sent to the streaming server in the
the server	unit, and the viewers access this unit to view the live contents.

•Since viewers directly access this unit, the number of viewing clients and the data transfer rates are limited by the network linking this unit to the viewers.

•There is no cost for a streaming server.

Caution

You cannot encode the program output into a format other than Real Media streaming file format (.rm). If you want to encode into another format, you need to input the program output of this unit into another encoder and encode it.

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