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• Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1 (Windows 98 or 2000 only); Media Player 9, 10, or

11 (Windows XP only).

Standard Features

The VB6000 WM Appliance supports approximately 40 Mbits/sec total throughput via the

Ethernet/IP connection. This bandwidth can be used for any of the standard features shown

in Table 1 but the overall performance of any one of these features can be affected by the

sum total. For example, you can download more content from the hard drive when the

encoder(s) are not streaming, pushing, and/or multicasting. In a typical scenario, the hard

drive will support the progressive download of a video file to a maximum of 20 simultaneous

viewers, or 20 MBits/sec—whichever comes first.

Table 1. Encoder and Reflector Features

Typical VBrick Applications

The following scenarios describe typical applications for the VBrick WM Appliance. These

applications can be LAN-based, WAN-based, or a combination of both LAN and WAN

network topologies. Note that the VBrick WM Appliance can support all of these

Standard Feature Encoder Reflector

Accepts composite or S-Video input. X

Available as single or dual channel. X

Multiple bit rate support. X

Windows Media Audio 8 encoding (5 Kbps–192 Kbps). X

Windows Media Video 9 encoding (20 Kbps–4 Mbps). X

Optional 60 GB hard drive for local archiving. X X

8-bit 4:2:0 color format. X

Up to 640x480 resolution. X

Initiate HTTP Pull from a WM appliance or a WM server/encoder. X

Receive HTTP Push from a WM appliance or Microsoft encoder. X

Progressive download (20 simultaneous viewers). X X

Multicast streaming (UDP). X X

† Any combination of up to 200 clients including:

• Unicast RTSP Streaming (UDP).

• Unicast HTTP Streaming (TCP).

• Stream Push (25 maximum) to a VBrick Reflector, a Microsoft

Windows Media Server, or RealNetworks Helix Server via

HTTP (TCP).

• Stream Pull from Microsoft Windows Media Server or

RealNetworks Helix Server via HTTP.

† The total number of supported clients will be reduced if you are using the JPEG capture

feature. See JPEG Capture Constraints

on page 68 for details.