Setting Up A Computer To Receive And Display A Stream; Step 1: Obtaining The Ip Address Of The Target Computer; Step 2: Configure The Max-Cse For Communication To A Computer - AMX MAX-CSD ENCODER Instruction Manual

Displaying Stream Content
FIG. 48 Video Adjustment page (showing default values)

Setting up a Computer to Receive and Display a Stream

The MAX-CSE must first be configured to target a specific computer and a specific set of ports on
that target machine so that the third-party player has content to receive and display on-screen.

Step 1: Obtaining the IP Address of the target computer

1. On your PC, click Start > Run to open the Run dialog.
2. Enter cmd into the Open field and click OK to open the command DOS prompt.
3. From the C:\> command line, enter ipconfig to display the current IP Address of the PC. The
information displayed includes the DNS Suffix, IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Default
gateway.

Step 2: Configure the MAX-CSE for communication to a computer

1. Complete the first 10 steps described in the previous Step 2: Configuring the MAX-CSE for
communication section on page 57.
2. From the Stream section of the page, locate the Transport Protocol field and use the drop-down
arrow to select a desired protocol. For the purposes of these procedures, we've chosen UDP as
the protocol (FIG. 42).
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encoding is underway) and that the unit is detecting an incoming signal (shown by
the word SYNC appearing in the Video Sync section of the UI).
The most common error can result from a bad cable not being detected and therefore
no signal becomes available for the unit to encode. The encoding process can
continue on a MAX-CSE even without an actual signal being detected.
An UDP protocol is typically used with higher-bandwidth streams and only requires the
entry of a single Target Port because both the video and audio are combined into a single
media stream. With this method, the user will only need to launch one instance of the
third-party player because BOTH signals are fed into the application as part of the same
stream.
An RTP protocol is typically used both with lower-bandwidth streams and when user
wants to purposely separate the video and audio information into two distinct streams.
With this method, the user will only need to launch two instances of the third-party
Incoming Video signal
Once done making your screen
adjustments, SAVE SETTINGS.
MAX Video Encoder