Maintenance Manual

You can configure the MCU to support either (or both of) unicast or multicast streaming. Unicast streaming involves a
direct connection between the MCU and the individual user. Multicast streaming involves transmitting a single copy of
the video or audio stream to multiple recipients. When choosing to support multicast streaming, ensure that your
network has been properly configured to avoid network flooding.
Field Field Description Usage Tips
Streaming & ConferenceMe settings
Enable Select whether to enable streaming,
ConferenceMe, or neither.
To enable streaming, select Streaming from the drop-down
menu.
To enable ConferenceMe, select ConferenceMe from the
drop-down menu.
If you would like to disable both streaming and
ConferenceMe, select None.
Codec and bit rate choices
Name The MCU is configured with two
streaming rates, each comprising audio
and video encoding formats (codecs)
and overall (i.e. combined) media bit
rate. The names you enter are the
choices offered to users when
streaming.
This is intended to make the choice
easier for potentially non-technical
users; for instance, one rate could be
named "low bit rate" and the other
"high bit rate".
The name is optional - if not specified, the choices offered to
users will simply show the details of the audio and video
codecs, together with the overall media bit rate.
Player
format
Select from the available media players. It is not possible to use Windows Media Player to stream
conferences in multicast mode.
Streams Sets the audio and video combination to
use, and the overall media bit rate.
Typically, when two streaming rates are used, one is set up
as a low bit rate combination and the other configured to use
a higher bit rate. This enables those users with a low
bandwidth connection to achieve useful streaming while at
the same time allowing those with a high bandwidth link to
take advantage of enhanced video.
The available options vary depending on which media player
you have chosen.
Multicast Choose whether to use the specified
streaming rate for multicast.
If this is set to Enabled then for any
conference with Streaming set to
Multicast or Unicast and multicast,
multicast audio and video streams will
be transmitted according to the
corresponding streaming settings.
Note that multicast streaming is not
supported on IPv6.
Setting any Multicast parameters to Enabled will only be
useful if the multicast media IP addresses and port numbers
are also configured - see below.
It is not possible to use Windows Media Player to stream
conferences in multicast mode.
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