All things related to multicast

[kevin mayeshiro <>]

greetings Mark,

recently (within the last month), i spoke with a VBrick
representative about their VB-4000 series product line.
i asked "Can I view the stream with an IP/TV client",
and the reply was "No". i then asked if i would have to
use their client (StreamPlayer) to view the VBrick
generated stream, and the answer was "Yes".

you might want to contact VBrick support and find out
what is proprietary to their system.

regards,

- kevin
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 kevin mayeshiro
 UC Davis

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On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Mark Boolootian wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I have a bit of a multicast problem and could use some advice.
>
> I've got a project involving a VBrick 4300 that will eventually
> multicast MPEG-2 video from an ROV crawling around the floor of
> the Monterey Bay, assuming the microwave shot across the
> Monterey Bay works.
>
> Currently, the VBrick is sourcing video to 233.22.107.1 and
> issuing SAP announcements.  Routers listening for sdr (session
> name is "UCSC Test") can see the session, but the announcement
> doesn't show up in the sdr application.  I also could not see
> the announcement using an iptv client. I had hoped to use the
> iptv client to look at the VBrick stream, but as far as I can
> tell, iptv will only let me fire up sessions it learns from
> content managers.  I can't tell iptv to look at a particular
> group/port.
>
> Why aren't the SAP announcements from the VBrick showing up
> in sdr or the IP/TV content manager iptvhost.uoregon.edu?
> Are there nuances to the SAP configuration on the VBrick that
> might be responsible for this?
>
> thanks,
> mb
> ---
> Mark Boolootian
> UC Santa Cruz
>