ENC-400-HDMI
™ H.264 Encoder
User Guide V 2.1
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3.4.4
Menu: Encoder / SAP
The Session Announcement Protocol (SAP) is a protocol for broadcasting multicast session information.
A SAP listening application can listen to the well-known SAP multicast address and construct a guide
of all advertised multicast sessions. SAP was published by the IETF as RFC 2974.
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According to this specification and standard SAPs are sent on the multicast address
224.2.127.254 on port 9875.
A SAP is used to label a stream to guarantee an effective workflow. Streams with SAPs can easily be
located, selected and viewed
– due to their description. Please see the Figure 15 below to get an
overview of all the properties that can be defined.
Figure 15: Encoder / SAP page of the ENC-
300™ encoder
Table 9 descri
bes the ‘Encoder / SAP’ page of the ENC-300™.
Settings:
Description:
Transmit Enable:
Enables/Disables the transfer of the SAP messages.
Retransmit Time:
Specifies the time interval in seconds, how often the SAP message
shall be sent into the network.
Time To Live:
Specifies
the
number
of
routers/switches
how
many
routers/switches a SAP message is allowed to travel/pass.
Session Name:
Specifies the name for your session.
Session Description:
Specifies the description of your session.
Keywords:
Specifies your session with Keywords.
Author:
Specifies the name of the author of the session.
Copyright:
Specifies the description of the copyright of the session.
Table 9: Description of the 'ENCODER/SAP' webpage of the ENC-
300™