Epiphan Networked VGA Grid - Manual (Page 145)

Networked VGA Grid User Guide 4-1 Stream your video
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 clients
(multicast), or provide web-based streaming where multiple clients can access the broadcast (Content
Distribution Network).
Your Networked VGA Grid can stream to individual viewers through HTTP, HTTP Live Streaming, UPnP and RTSP
and can also simultaneously stream to a server such as a multicast server or CDN.
The following tables provide a brief outline of the distribution options. A procedure to configure each
distribution option follows the tables.
Streaming for viewers
Streaming for viewers allows viewers to connect to your Networked VGA Grid and view the live stream.
You can configure whether or not streaming is enabled for viewers. See Disable (and enable) streams for
viewers .
Publishing Options Use this option to...
HTTP Quickly stream content to viewers simultaneously. No set up is required.
Networked VGA Grid is ready to stream content as soon as it is has power
and a configured channel. No other settings are required. Your audience
need only access the URL of the broadcast and they are instantly connected.
This viewing method is ideal for a small number of viewers since streaming
uses your system resources and bandwidth. However a small amount of
overhead is used for each viewer. For more information about using a HTTP
streaming, refer to Stream content using HTTP or RTSP .
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