Advanced
Multicast Settings
With multicast feature, Surveillance Station can multicast video and audio streaming via a specific IP address and ports to save bandwidth on your server.
To enable multicast streaming on live view or mobile:
- Tick Enable multicast streaming on live view and/or Enable multicast streaming on mobile checkbox.
Note: If mobile streaming is not supported by the camera, or if the source of mobile streaming is the same as of live view streaming, the settings of multicast streaming on mobile will have no effect. Moreover, any settings in the multicast streaming on mobile cannot be the same as the corresponding values in the multicast streaing on live view.
- Assign an IP address as the Group address.
Note: Group address is valid within the range between 224.0.1.0 and 239.255.255.255.
- Assign Video port and Audio port.
Note: These two ports must be assigned an even number within the range between 10000 and 65534. The two ports must be different values.
- Click Save to apply the settings.
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- After enabling and configuring Multicast settings, when you right-click on the camera in IP Camera and select Get stream path, you will find an extra row entitled *Multicast. The URL path beneath it is used for RTSP multicast.
- Any two cameras cannot have the same Group address and Audio port/Video port.
- When a port number (n) is assigned to a Video port/Audio port, the system will automatically use the following 5 port numbers (n+1 ~ n+5) as well.
Stream Sharing Path
To set up stream path valid duration:
- Select either of the following from the Duration of validity drop-down list:
- 1 hour: Stream path will be refreshed every one hour.
- forever: Stream path will not be refreshed by timeout.
- Click Save to apply the settings.