User Guide

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Basic Operation and Configuration
To modify parameters that affect a particular IP Video stream from the camera, select the
appropriate link at the top of the page (for example, ).
The default RTP Settings for connecting to an IP video stream
from the PT-Series HD are shown in the illustration. The RTP
Port and the Stream Name are used when establishing a
session from a client.
Given the camera IP address of 192.168.0.250, the complete
connection string for each of the video streams are as follows:
VIDEO 0 - rtsp://192.168.0.250:554/stream1/sensor1
VIDEO 1 - rtsp://192.168.0.250:554/stream2/sensor1
VIDEO 2 - rtsp://192.168.0.250:554/stream1/sensor2
VIDEO 3 - rtsp://192.168.0.250:554/stream2/sensor2
In addition, to maintain compatibility with legacy systems the
stream names are aliased as: ch0 = stream1/sensor1,
ch1 = stream2/sensor1, ch2 = stream1/sensor2, and ch3 = stream2/sensor2.
The video streams can be accessed with the shortened strings, such as rtsp://192.168.0.250/ch0.
In some networks, the RTP/RTSP traffic is carried (tunneled) over Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP) as that may allow the traffic to cross network boundaries and firewalls. While this method
involves more overhead due to encapsulation, it may be necessary for clients to access the video
streams when HTTP proxies are used.
By default, the video streams from the camera are sent
using multicast packets. With Multicast enabled, video
packets are shared by streaming clients, so additional
clients do not cause bandwidth to increase as dramatically.
If more than one camera is providing multicast streams on
the network, be sure to configure each stream with a unique
multicast Destination Network IP address and Destination
Port combination.