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
You can connect to the console remotely using one of three ways
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
There are a number of TV Server and HD Encoder core settings that are not acessible via the web administration interface
You can establish the version number of your TV Server or HD Encoder product either from the web administration interface or from the console.
One of the key features of TV Server is the ability to create complex rules that determine when, where and how the server creates new programme recordings
Encoded Media hardware encoder appliances automatically broadcast the availability of multicast channels via the means of SAP announcements
Viewing and updating the network settings of your TV Server appliance is a simple process
TV Server and HD Encoder appliances ship with a factory-set username and password for accessing the web interface and also the console interface
