User guide

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Introduction
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User Guide structure
This document is divided as follows:
- Chapter 2 introduces the main features of 4Sight and some basic
concepts of MPEG-4 streaming.
- Chapter 3 gives system requirements and describes how to install 4Sight
(for Windows and Linux).
- Chapter 4 explains how to run 4Sight and stream movies.
- Chapter 5 describes specific concepts of the streaming server itself:
Setting a movie folder, SNMP monitoring, reflecting, and relaying.
- Chapter 6 describes the Playlist Broadcaster, a tool for broadcasting a set
of movies.
- Chapter 7 describes the WebAdmin, a web-based interface for
monitoring 4Sight.
- Chapter 8 describes the Stream Switcher, a tool for relaying one stream
and then switching to another stream.
- Chapter 9 describes the Load Balancer, a tool for distributing traffic
efficiently among streaming servers.
- Chapter 10 gives details about authentication and authorization.
- Chapter 11 describes the external authorization module.
- Appendix A details all the configuration parameters.
- Appendix B shows configuration examples combining 4Sight and
Envivio 4Caster.