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The B264 has to send one independent copy of the bitstream to each client. There is a
limit of 5 clients or 20 Mb/s per Ethernet port in this mode.
The TCP protocol is capable of flow control; if the client is not fast enough, or if the
network between the B264 and the client is not fast enough, the protocol will attempt to
throttle the encoder, which is not possible. The B264 will buffer a small amount of
bitstream in this case, but if the overall performance of the client/network link
combination is insufficient to support the configured encoder data rate, the B264 will
drop transport packets.
Direct HTTP Streaming has one single parameter:
Listening Port: Use this to select the TCP port to be used by the B264 to listen to HTTP
connections. Please note that the B264 will not accept the values 22, 23, 80
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, 1935 and
5253 for this parameter as these ports may be internally used by the B264. The listening
ports for Encoders 1 and 2 can be set independently (and can be set to the same value if
desired).
The URL for accessing the bitstream will be:
http://encoder_ip:port/encoder1 (access to encoder1)
or
http://encoder_ip:port/encoder2 (access to encoder2)
Where encoder_ip is the IP address of either one of the B264 Ethernet ports (configured in
the Network Tab) and port is the Listening Port configured above. For example, if one of the
IP addresses of the B264 is set to 10.10.9.80, and the Listening Port is set to 8000 (as shown
above), the URL for Encoder 1 will be:
http://10.10.9.80:8000/encoder1
The B264 standalone modular encoder, when set in this mode, can also serve bitstream through
the management Ethernet ports.
Please note that none of the common web browsers (Explorer, Firefox, etc) are capable of
directly playing this URL; what these browsers will do is download the bitstream to a file. If you
wish to see video playback on a web page, please review the “Playing Video on a Web Page”
section later in this document.
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The MVN-EN460 has an internal Web Server running on port 80.