Orban OPTIMOD-FM 8700, Operating Manual

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INSTALLATION ORBAN MODEL 8700i
ties, which could demand royalties on the stream even though it is intended only for
internal monitoring.
If you use an external SHOUTcast2 or Icecast2 server, configure it to require the lis-
tener to log into the stream with a user name and password. For
L
OCAL
mode, see
step (3.A) on page 2-105.
Compatible Players
:As of June 2017, Orban has successfully tested the following players with all the Op-
timod’s supported protocols and codecs:

Chrome on Android

Firefox on Android and PC
Chrome and Firefox can play the stream natively without any additional
plug-ins.

VLC

Winamp

Foobar2000 (authentication not supported)

[iTunes should work, but we have not yet tested it.]
As of June 2017, the following players are known not to work:

Windows Media Player

Internet Explorer

Microsoft Edge
Setup
Except for the audio source selector, the Setup controls appear in
I/O
S
ETUP
>S
TREAMING
A
UDIO
.
1. Select the Audio Source.
Select the audio source to be streamed via the
P
HONE
S
OURCE
drop-down, locat-
ed in the Optimod’s
I/O S
ETUP
>O
UTPUT
2
page. The useful selections are:

FM
: The output of the FM processing chain.
This represents the left/right output of the Optimod processing, so it does
not include the audible effects of the Optimod’s Half-Cosine Interpola-
tion composite limiter, if used.

HD
: The output of the HD processing chain.
This is the audio output of the Optimod processing, so it does not include
the effect of the HD Radio codec.