What is streaming – Epiphan Pearl Mini Live Video Production System User Manual
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What is streaming?
What is streaming?
After you connect your camera, audio source, and set up a channel that consists of a single video source or a
whole switched program with multiple custom layouts, it’s time to stream your content and share that with
your viewers.
Pearl Mini provides many different options for streaming, including unicast, multicast, CDN, SAP, UPnP,
RTMPS and more. The streaming method you use will depend on your audience's location, hardware
resources, and available bandwidth. To help you choose, identify the number of viewers you have and
determine how they will access your stream.
Pearl Mini can stream directly to your viewers on the same local network using HTTP/HTTPS Live Streaming,
UPnP, HTTP (for FLV and MPEG-TS) and RTSP. At the same time, Pearl Mini can stream to a server, such as a
multicast server or CDN.
You can easily start and stop streaming using One touch control from the touch screen on Pearl Mini (see
Specify channels for One Touch streaming
) or control streaming from the Admin panel. You can even control
your live stream using Epiphan Live (see
Control streaming and recording
).
Considerations
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Are you streaming live video or recorded video?
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Where are you streaming too?
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Do you need to stream the content to one client (peer-to-peer) or deliver a single stream to multiple
clients (multicast)?
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Do you need to provide web-based streaming that multiple clients can access using a Content
Distribution Network (CDN), such as YouTube or Facebook Live?
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Do you need to encrypt your live stream for higher security?
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Streaming to the Kaltura Content Management System (CMS)? See
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