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Test using Epiphan TV CDN

Epiphan.tv is a service provided by Epiphan to help our customers to experiment with content distribution networks, bandwidth, performance limits and viewer limits are applied. To upgrade to a full service, select one of Epiphan’s preferred CDN providers at http://epiphan.tv/cdn-partners.php.

Stream to Epiphan TV

To hear audio content from Epiphan TV ensure audio is set to MP3 in Encoding configuration.

  1. Login to the Admin panel as admin. See Connect to the Admin panel.
  1. From the Admin panel, click a Channel; the menu expands.
  2. Click Streaming; the channel's Streaming page opens.
  3. Scroll to the Stream to a server section of the page.
  1. Click the Publish drop-down menu.
  2. Choose to <serial>. Epiphan.tv. Where <serial> is the serial number of the system.

  1. Click Apply; a connection through the media tunnel is established. The system streams to Epiphan’s portal – epiphan.net.
  2. To control streaming, click Stop and Start. (See See Controlling streaming and recording using Epiphan Live for instructions on streaming control using the Epiphan Live control interface).

You must set audio format to MP3 when streaming through epiphan.net, see Configure encoding .

View content from Epiphan TV

Before viewing content from Epiphan TV ensure you have:

  • a current browser;
  • a current flash player;
  • select the H.264 codec from the channel's Encoding page; and
  • set the stream bitrate lower than 500 kbits/s in the channel's Encoding setup.

To view content:

  1. Login to the Admin panel as admin. See Connect to the Admin panel.
  1. From the Admin panel, click a Channel; the menu expands.
  2. Click Streaming; the channel's Streaming page opens.
  1. Click the link to view the broadcast.

  1. A web page opens displaying the broadcast.

Specify a multimedia player to view your Epiphan TV broadcast

  1. From the Epiphan TV portal, click Switch To on the bottom of the screen; the following options appear.

  1. Choose a plug-in from the list, the stream is displayed using the selected multimedia player.
Add a link to your website to stream your Epiphan TV broadcast

Follow the steps below to embed code for the broadcast in a web page.

  1. Go to the Epiphan TV portal.

  2. Click Embed on the bottom of the screen; a dialog box opens displaying the code.

  1. Highlight and right-click on the code in the dialog box. A drop-down menu appears.

  2. Choose Copy.

  3. Paste the content into the HTML code for your website. A link to your broadcast on Epiphan TV is added to your web page.

Retrieve a list of addresses based on video stream encapsulation

  1. Go to the Epiphan TV portal.

  2. Click Direct URLs on the bottom of the screen; a dialog box opens displaying a list of URLs for different types of streams.

  1. Use the copy and paste function to provide viewers with the URL to view the stream.

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