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Pearl-2 User Guide What is streaming?
What is streaming?
After you connect your camera, audio source, and set up a channel that consists of a single video source or a
whole switched program with multiple custom layouts, it’s time to stream your content and share that with
your viewers.
Pearl-2 provides many different options for streaming, including unicast, multicast, CDN, SAP, UPnP, RTMPS
and more. The streaming method you use will depend on your audience's location, hardware resources, and
available bandwidth. To help you choose, identify the number of viewers you have and determine how they
will access your stream.
Pearl-2 can stream directly to your viewers on the same local network using HTTP/HTTPSLive Streaming,
UPnP, HTTP (for FLV and MPEG-TS) and RTSP. At the same time, Pearl-2 can stream to a server, such as a
multicast server or CDN.
You can easily start and stop streaming using One touch control from the touch screen on Pearl-2 (see Specify
channels for One Touch streaming) or control streaming from the Admin panel. You can even control your live
stream using Epiphan Live (see Control streaming and recording).
Considerations
l Are you streaming live video or recorded video?
l Where are you streaming too?
l Do you need to stream the content to one client (peer-to-peer) or deliver a single stream to multiple
clients (multicast)?
l Do you need to provide web-based streaming that multiple clients can access using a Content
Distribution Network (CDN), such as YouTube or Facebook Live?
l Do you need to encrypt your live stream for higher security?
l Streaming to the Kaltura Content Management System (CMS)? See Stream to Kaltura CMS
Secure streaming using RTMPS
You can use the Real Time Messaging Protocol Secure (RTMPS) to encrypt the content you're streaming to
servers and CDNs. Streaming with RTMPSis a great option if you're streaming confidential content, such as
corporate meetings or internal employee training.
RTMPS wraps the RTMP stream in TLS/SSL packets before it's transported over a TCP connection between the
network server and Pearl-2 (i.e. the client).
To set up secure streaming using RTMPS, see Set up a stream using RTMP or RTMPS push
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