VBrick Systems VB6000, VB4000, VB5000 manual Configuration Encoder Announce SAP

announcements of the multicast stream using SAP (Session Announcement Protocol).) Announcements can also be sent to the Portal Server to allow access to these streams to selected Portal Server clients.

The WM Appliance also serves the NSC file via HTTP so if you don't need the features of the .asx file, you can have viewers play the multicast stream via a URL directly to the NSC file on the VBrick. The URL can be used in a web page or embedded player or the URL can be opened by a standalone player. The URL for the Slot1 multicast is http://vbrickipaddress/

vbs1multi.nsc and for Slot2 the URL is http://vbrickipaddress/vbs2multi.nsc. You can also

copy and paste the URL from IWS.

Configuration: Encoder > Announce (SAP)

You can optionally send network announcements using SAP (Session Announcement Protocol) about the multicast and unicast streams created by your VBrick WM Appliance. Other VBrick products such as EtherneTV and StreamPlayer can use the SAP announcements to automatically create program listings to allow viewers easy access to the streams from the VBrick (or to filter the streams by IP address). Use this IWS configuration page to set information sent in the announcement and to control the destination address and other parameters for the announcement network packets.

Some of the information used in the SAP announcements is also used in .asx files and/or the

.wmv header for the Windows Media streams sent from the appliance so you may wish to configure these options even if you are not using the optional SAP transmission feature. The settings that are used in the .asx file and/or .wmv header are Program Name, Program

Author, Program Copyright, Banner, Rating, and Log URL.

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