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
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 appliance streams can be delivered via RTSP unicast, UDP multicast or directed UDP unicast streams
Encoded Media hardware encoder appliances automatically broadcast the availability of multicast channels via the means of SAP announcements
Encoded Media hardware products come with a one-year limited warranty
Encoded Media's free multicast testing tool can help shed light on network issues
ONELAN NTBs are able to receive IPTV streams from Encoded Media products either as multicast or as unicast
An initial step in troubleshooting multicast particularly in relation to VLANs is to map out your Network Topology
