General Use
3.5.5Streaming
Streaming lets you broadcast your meeting to participants on the web. The web participants can listen to the meeting, see snapshots, but not participate themselves. Snapshots of current stream (if MultiSite), selfview, far end and DuoVideo streams are accessible via http. See Appendix 6 for descriptions of the possible snapshot files.
How to use Streaming:
1.Choose Streaming from the Call Menu to open the Streaming menu.
2.Press Start Streaming from the menu line. An indicator will appear on the screen when streaming is activated.
3.Press Stop Streaming to end streaming. Streaming will also end when you disconnect the call.
4.Press Streaming Settings if you want to change streaming settings (see Streaming Settings below)
How to view streaming from a PC:
1.After streaming is started, an easy way to view the streamed audio/video is to start your Web browser and enter the
2.After the Web page of the system is shown, click on Streaming. Alternatively, enter
Streaming Settings
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| 239.255.255.255 will broadcast the stream to any host that has joined |
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| the specified multicast group. Specifying normal broadcast address |
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| 2250, the client has to specify which port to listen to. Video is |
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| transmitted on the specified port; audio is transmitted on the port |
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| number 4 greater than the specified video port, in this case 2244 and |
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