Multicast; Multicast Of An Archive Or A Live Streaming Video - Polycom RSS 4000 User Manual

Chapter 3 - Ordinary User Configuration
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Multicast

Multicast of an Archive or a Live Streaming Video

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Click Media>Live Streaming in the menu bar at the top of the page.
Select the live streaming content you want to view in the list, and then
click the Play button
right side of the page. Windows Media Player opens to play the video.
If the live streaming content uses two different bandwidths, two Play
buttons with their bandwidths will display in this area, and you may
choose the appropriate bandwidth to play based on your network
condition.
Polycom® RSS™ 4000 system supports the video multicast function and can
send video streams to a group of computers at the same time. Users can play
multicast videos by accessing the system's Web Management interface. Only
the use of the Internet Explorer browser is supported.
Before you use the multicast function, make sure that this option has been
activated by your system administrator, and that you have installed
multicast controls in the browser. See (Optional) Installing Multicast Controls.
If using the Windows 7 operating system, you must log in as an administrator in order
to successfully install the controls. Ordinary users cannot install multicast controls.
Users can start a multicast from the archives or the live streaming list. The
system supports up to 20 concurrent multicast channels.
To start a multicast:
Click Media>Archives in the menu bar at the top of the page.
Select the archive for multicasting in the Archives page.
Click the button
When the button changes into
undergoing multicast. To stop the multicast, click this button again to
return it to
To put a live streaming video into a state of multicast, Click Media>Live
Streaming to enter the Live Streaming page, and then start the multicast (see
the steps described above).
in the Live Streaming Details area on the
in the Archive Details area.
, it indicates that this archive is
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