ClearOne Digital Media - Manual (Page 21)

Advantages of StreamNet IP-Based video distribution:
1 . StreamNet delivers the highest quality uncompressed video over TCP/IP on a network
to multiple displays. With StreamNet, NetStreams is the first to deliver uncompressed
video over TCP/IP as most digital solutions for distributing
video employ artifact introducing compression prior to
distribution, due to bandwidth issues.
2 . StreamNet can distribute multiple resolution formats of high
definition and standard definition video signals.
3 . StreamNet technology insures precise synchronization
of audio and video signals for point to point, and point
to multi-point distribution, delivering the highest quality
audio and video performance with the lowest latency,
allowing audio and video signals to be delivered and
played back simultaneously at all display locations
without perceptible dissonance. Additionally, audio and
video signals distributed to multiple display locations
are fully synchronized across the network using TCP/IP
and eliminating lip sync problems. In addition signals are
automatically synchronized over the entire network for
point to multipoint distribution, with a total latency of just 30
milliseconds.
StreamNet’s suite of communication capabilities enables
easy system configuration and concrete network reliability.
StreamNet incorporates a suite of communications
conventions which reduce system configuration time and increases overall network
reliability. StreamNet services are known as Service Discovery, Message Routing, and
Status reporting.
Service Discovery - Every feature or function of the StreamNet IP-Based Multi-Zone
Audio and Control system is provided by a “service.” There are many types of services
– audio renderers, audio sources, general purpose inputs and outputs (GPIO), user
interface, media server proxy, to name a few. These services ‘advertise’ their existence
to the network, broadcasting their name, type, IP-Address(es) and other important
information. When StreamNet-enabled devices are plugged into the network, they
immediately advertise their capabilities in effect auto discovering and configuring,
reducing the need to program the entire system from scratch.
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