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VIA Connect
– For User: Participating in a VIA Meeting
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To stream from one VIA unit to to a Windows/Mac computer:
1. Connect the VIA unit and the computer to the same network.
2.
Use the receiver computer’s IP address to create a URL as described in
3.
Use this URL on the VIA unit’s web pages as explained in
4. Log in to the VIA client application on the receiver computer.
5. Take moderator rights if Moderator Mode is on.
6. Click the VIA icon in the computer taskbar and select
Start Streaming
.
7. Launch VLC.
8. Click
Media
>
Open Network Stream
.
9. Type the streaming URL as udp://@:<port number>
Streaming begins and is displayed on the receiver computer.
Multicast Streaming
VIA gateway units (such as
VIA Connect
) can stream their screens as a multicast so that
multiple devices can view the gateway’s display.
Creating a Multicast URL
To create a Multicast IP URL:
1. Select an IP address in the following range:
224. 0. 0. 0 to 239. 255. 255. 255
2. Select any allowed port number from 1
–65536.
3. For example, for an IP address of 224. 0. 0. 5 and an allowed port of 2222, define the
UDP URL as: udp://224. 0. 0. 5:2222/
Feeding Multicast IP Information to VIA Unit
To feed multicast information to the VIA unit:
1. In the Streaming tab in the VIA settings template (see
), paste a URL in the Streaming URL text box in the format
Creating a Unicast Streaming URL
2. Click the Streaming switch ON.
Streaming is activated, and the Streaming URL field is disabled.
To change the receiver URL while streaming, click the
Streaming
switch OFF, paste the new
URL in the box and click the
Streaming
switch ON again.
Starting Multicast Stream
1. Launch the VIA client application on a Windows / Mac computer.
2. Make sure the client computer is on the same network as the VIA gateway.
3. Take moderator rights if Moderator Mode is on.
