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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 method of the transmitting 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.
Live Streaming
Transmission
method Features
Using your
provider’s
streaming server • The results of encoding are sent from the unit to your provider’s
streaming server, and the viewers access the streaming server to
view the live content.
• 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 server • The results of encoding are sent to the streaming server in the
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.
Provider