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Pearl User Guide
What is streaming?
What is streaming?
After you have configured your media and channels, decided on the content and layout of your broadcast, it’s
time to share your stream.
Pearl provides a number of options for streaming. Choose from methods for unicast, multicast, CDN, SAP,
UPnP and more.
The following sections provide a description of the available streaming options, insight into why you would
choose each option, and procedures to stream your content using each option.
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Streams for viewers:
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Disable (and enable) streams for viewers
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Restrict access to streams for viewers
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Stream content using HTTP or RTSP
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Configure HTTP and RTSP streaming ports
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Stream content using HLS (HTTP Live Streaming)
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Stream to a server:
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Stream to a media player:
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Choose a streaming option
Each method of streaming media has strengths and weaknesses depending on your audience location,
hardware resources and bandwidth. To help you decide how to publish your content, you must first identify
the number of viewers and how viewers will access your content. Are you streaming live video, or recorded
video. Do you need to stream the content to one client (peer-to-peer), deliver a single stream to multiple
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