
CatonCaster HD422 User Manual
General and Advanced Options for IP Input
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Setting
Range
Description
Receive
Enabled
Disabled
This setting allows the user to enable or disable these
input stream settings.
Physical
Connector
Port 1
Port 2
The physical connector on the MPEG/IP card that will be
used to receive the input.
Mode
Multicast
Unicast
Multicast setting allows the unit to receive multicast
streams. Multicast streams originate from the IP range
224.0.0.0 – 239.255.255.255. Unicast allows the unit to
receive unicast streams. Unicast streams originate
directly from a source device.
Destination IP
224.0.0.0 -
239.255.255.255
This setting is only available when receiving a multicast
stream. This address is the IP address the source device
is sending to.
Destination Port 0 - 65535
This is the UDP port the source device is sending to.
This is the only setting required to receive a unicast
stream.
FEC
Enabled
Disabled
Enabling FEC (Forward Error Correction) tells the
CatonCaster HD422 to look at Destination Port +2 and
Destination Port +4 for a SMPTE 2022 FEC Matrix.
Internal
Sources Filter
Enabled
Disabled
Enabling Source filtering disables IGMP V3 filtering and
allows a user to whitelist a single IP address for a given
multicast and block all other source IP’s
Internal
Sources Filter
IP
0.0.0.0 – 255.255.255.255
Source IP for whitelist. All other source IP addresses are
blocked