By default, TV Server and HD Encoder appliances ship with multicast disabled. If you're a network admin and understand the requirements, enabling multicast on the web interface gives you an additional choice when configuring channels
Encoded Media's free multicast testing tool can help shed light on network issues
You can connect to the console remotely using one of three ways
Encoded Media’s IPTV 250, 250m and IPTV400 are IP controllable set-top boxes.
Viewing and updating the network settings of your TV Server appliance is a simple process
If you use third party devices such as a ONELAN Net-Top Box (NTB) or VLC media player to watch HD channels from a TV Server, by default HD subtitles are disabled
Encoded Media hardware encoder appliances automatically broadcast the availability of multicast channels via the means of SAP announcements
Encoded Media's learning or "universal" programmable remotes can be taught third party IR codes from other remote controls
To access HLS streams from a TV Server or HD Encoder appliance, use the following URL format
Your TV Server is factory preset to create files in a particular format