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Cisco Interactive Experience Client 4600 Series User Guide
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Stream Live Video
Revised: April 3, 2015
Appendix Overview
To stream live video from the IEC to other endpoints, you will need a video encoder dongle and an input
source such as a camera, camcorder, or IEC. This appendix describes a set up using the dongle and a
document camera that can be used to stream a document, a training session, a meeting, or a demo.
Topics in this appendix include:
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System Dimensions Video Encoder Dongle, page G-1
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Vaddio HD Document Camera, page G-2
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global.videoEncoder Object, page G-6
System Dimensions Video Encoder Dongle
The System Dimensions AVS 2610 is a video encoder dongle that is HDMI compatible. When connected
to the IEC and a camera, live video is captured by a HD video camera and then streamed by the dongle
to other IECs or remote computers.
The video stream is sent as part of the MPEG2 Transport Protocol (MPEG-TS). The stream can be sent
as either unicast or multicast.
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Unicast: The dongle can be used for a point-to-point video stream, for example, when a customer
wants to share their document with a virtual agent at a remote site. The stream is sent from an IEC
to a single endpoint such as another IEC or a remote computer.
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Multicast: The dongle can be used to allow multiple endpoints to view the same video stream such
as for a meeting or a training session. To accomplish this, the stream is sent to a multicast address,
which is a virtual address, and then anyone within the multicast group can access the stream at the
multicast address.
Note
A media server is not necessary for streaming to a multicast address if your network is multicast-enabled.
If you cannot do multicasting on your network, then you need a streaming media server.
