VGADVI Broadcaster User Guide
4-1 Stream your video
1. Connect to the admin interface using your preferred connection mechanism. See
Connect to the Admin
Interface
.
2. Login as admin.
3. From the web interface, scroll to the Publish Stream menu option. The Publish Stream page opens.
4. Click the
Publish
drop-down menu.
5. Choose
using MPEG-TS RTP/UDP push
.
6. Enter the destination multicast IP address where the broadcast can be viewed.
A IPv4 multicast address range is an address between 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255. Contact
your System Administrator for the specific address to use.
7. Enter the destination port number through which the media will stream.
8. Perform one of the following:
a. If you do not want to advertise your stream to a media player over a local network, go to the last
step of this procedure; or
b. To advertise your stream to a media player over a local network, follow the steps below.
9. Enable the
SAP announcement
checkbox to advertise your stream over a local network. When the
checkbox is enabled and a multicast IP address is configured, your stream is displayed in the playlist of
local media player.
10. Enter a multicast IP address in the
SAP announcement IP
field. If your media player is configured to
receive multicast streams from an IP address that is different from the default address 224.2.127.254, you
may need to contact your system administrator for a specific multicast IP address.
11. Enter a channel number in the
Channel number
field to identify your stream in the media player.
When a channel number value is not specified, viewers cannot select a channel from the set-
top box or Smart TV .
12. Enter a name for a group of streams in the text box next to
Group name
. Since media players simply
present a list of available streams, you can organize your streams into multiple folders or in cases where
folders are not displayed, use dot separator hierarchy to help your viewers filter out unwanted streams
by category.
13. Click
Apply
.
14. Click the
Info
menu option of the web interface. An Info page opens displaying stream information.
To view the stream from a media player, open the URL in a media player, for example:
rtp://@ip:port or in the case of the sample configuration in the figure shown above:
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