Standalone VGA Grid User's Guide

Standalone VGA Grid User Guide What is streaming?
What is streaming?
After you have configured your media and channels, decided on the content and layout of your broadcast, it’s
time to share your stream.
Standalone VGA Grid provides a number of options for streaming. Choose from methods for unicast,
multicast, CDN, SAP, UPnP and more.
When streaming to a server, you can use Standalone VGA Grid's Admin panel to control when streaming starts
and stops.
The following sections provide a description of the available streaming options, insight into why you would
choose each option, and procedures to stream your content using each option.

o
Choose a streaming option

o
Supported streaming formats
Streams for viewers:

o
Stream to viewers

o
Disable (and enable) streams for viewers

o
Restrict access to streams for viewers

o
Stream content using HTTPor RTSP

o
Configure HTTP and RTSP streaming ports

o
Stream content using HLS(HTTP Live Streaming)

o
Stream content using UPnP
Stream to a server:

o
Stream to a server

o
Stream to a CDN

o
Stream content using multicast
Stream to a media player:

o
Stream to a media player
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
185