Merging Video Streams (Smart Stream Selection),

[Jason Rossi]

We are upgrading to 7.7 and I am wondering how the Smart Streams can work when redundancy is in place? Specifically, we use Stream A to Primary, and Stream B to redundant. Can I merge those streams with them going to different servers? The docs seem to imply that both streams need to go to Primary media server.

Multicast is not an option here.

[Scott Olsen]

I also noticed just yesterday that 7.7 has been released.  Very curious about a lot of these new features as well.  Be sure to report back!  LOL.

[Nadeem Ahmed]

The most exciting feature is SASD , I must say we have enhanced this tool quite user friendly and built many innovative ideas behind this.

Br,

Nadeem

[jsah]

Hi Jason,

Yes, VSM 7.7.0 has the "Smart streams" allows you to also merge the recordings from Stream A and Stream B into a single timeline.

For example:

You can record continuous video throughout the night at a lower quality, but also record higher-quality video whenever an event occurs.

Configuring Multicast Video Streaming:

Multicast allows cameras to send the same video stream to multiple destinations using a single
transmission. A multicast transmission uses less network bandwidth than a unicast transmission to
multiple destinations.

Requirements:

To configure multicast streams, you must do the following:

1)Configure your network for multicast streaming.

2) Create custom stream settings for the camera template.

3) Configure the multicast IP address and port number on each camera that supports multicast. The allowed multicast port range any even number from 16000 – 19999.

Usage Notes:

•Audio is unicast even if multicast video is enabled.
•Multicast is performed between the supported encoding device and the Media Servers that are listening. The Media Server does not multicast video to clients.

Procedure:
Step 1: Configure your network to support multicast or ask your systems administrator for the multicast IP address(es) used by the cameras.

Step 2: Configure the template to support multicast streams.
a.Select Cameras > Templates.
b.Select a location and template name.
c.Select the Streaming, Recording and Events tab.
d.Click the Custom option for either Video Stream A or Video Stream B.
e.Select JPEG from the Codec field.
f.Select UDP_Multicast from the Transport field.
g.Complete the remaining custom stream settings.
h.Click Save.

Step 3: Enter the Multicast IP address in the camera configuration page.

a.Select Cameras.
b.Select a location and camera name.
c.From the General tab, enter the Multicast IP Address and port for the Primary and/or Secondary video streams.
–See your systems administrator for the correct multicast address.
–Primary and Secondary Multicast IP Address fields are enabled only if the corresponding template Stream A and Stream B Custom settings are configured for multicast.
d.Click Save.

Hope this help to answer your query.

Thanks,

Jayesh