Starting One Time Tour; Switching Tcp/Udp Transmission Mode - Sony IPELA SNC-P5 User Manual

Starting One Time Tour

You can start the One time tour.
To use this function, you need to make One time tour
active in the Trigger setting menu (page 60) on the
Advanced mode menu and to set the items about One
time tour.
1
Monitor the camera image in the monitor window.
2
Select One time tour from the trigger list box.
3
Click Trigger icon.
By clicking it, One time tour starts.
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Starting One Time Tour / Switching TCP/UDP Transmission Mode
Switching TCP/UDP
Transmission Mode
You can select the communication port of the video/
audio data as TCP or UDP.
This function can be used when the Video mode
(page 37) is set to MPEG4 and the ActiveX viewer is
used.
1
Display the main viewer.
2
Click TCP/UDP transmission selector icon.
Transmission mode selector dialog appears.
3
Click one of the buttons TCP, UDP (Unicast) or
UDP (Multicast).
TCP: Usually select this.
When TCP is selected as the communication port,
HTTP communication is adopted for video/audio
communication.
HTTP is the protocol used for reading a usual Web
page.
In an environment capable of reading Web page,
you can watch or listen to the video/audio by
selecting TCP port.
UDP (Unicast): When UDP (Unicast) is selected
as the communication port, RTP (Real-time
Transport Protocol) is adopted for video/audio
communication. As RTP is the protocol for running
video/audio data, video/audio can be played
smoother than when TCP (HTTP) is selected. If the
fire-wall is installed between the camera and the
computer, or depending on the network
environment, the video/audio may not played
properly when UDP (Unicast) is selected. In this
case, select TCP.
UDP (Multicast): You can select this when the
multicast streaming (page 37) is On. When UDP
(Multicast) is selected as the transmission port,
RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol) and UDP
multicast techniques are adopted for video/audio
transmission. By selecting it, the network
transmission load of the camera can be reduced. If
a router which does not correspond to the multicast