
DEC-300
™ H.264 and MPEG-2 SD/HD Decoder
User Guide V1.3
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4.3
TCP Streaming
If in your network occurs packet loss, jitter etc., we recommend using the connection-oriented protocol
TCP. TCP provides a point-to-point connection (unicast) for applications that require reliable
communications. If the TCP connection is established, then the data will be streamed in the same
order as it was sent from the encoder. Furthermore, lost packets can be retransmitted via TCP.
The ENC-200
™ and ENC-300™ support TCP streaming in connection with the DEC-300™.
To use TCP streaming on the ENC-
200™ in connection with the DEC-300™, please be sure that your
encoder has the firmware version 0.9.29 or higher, because this firmware version is necessary for
TCP streaming.
To use TCP streaming on the ENC-300
™ in connection with the DEC-300™, please be sure that your
encoder has the firmware version 2.06_w40 or higher, because this firmware version is necessary for
TCP streaming.
TCP streaming is based on the client/server architecture. For TCP streaming with the ENC-
200
™/ENC-300™ to DEC-300™ it exists to possibilities:
For TCP streaming you can configure the ENC-200
™/ENC-300™ as a server and the DEC-
300
™ as a client.
For TCP streaming you can configure the ENC-200
™/ENC-300™ as a client and the DEC-
300
™ as a server.
The ENC-200
™/ENC-300™ and DEC-300™ configuration changes depending on which client/server
possibility do you choose. So, the following subchapters describe the ENC-200
™/ENC-300™ and
DEC-300
™ configuration for the two possibilities to make a TCP connection.