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Thank you for choosing EDGE Simulcast (powered by Velocicast) as your auction streaming service. This information is for setting up your system using IP cameras. Auction Edge does not install Simulcast hardware. We highly recommend you partner with an installation professional for IP camera setup.
The focus of this document is IP Camera Solutions, for analog setup please refer to this article Analog Audio/Video Hardware
IP Camera Requirements / Supported Codecs
Very Important Note:
The Audio must be attached to the IP camera via an audio cable from the auctioneers' mixer and not come from a separate source. For example, you can not use the video on the IP camera and audio input on the PC for the Simulcast.
A couple of examples we've seen installed are:
Hikvision
VITEK
VTC-TNB4RFA3-2
ALIBI
U001-103
Item 0235TlTH
Non-Chinese made and GSA approved:
Turing Model: TP-MMB4AV2
Setup Overview:
DO NOT set the stream higher than 640x480. This can cause audio/video cutouts in the stream (for IT companies)
IP cameras require a software setup by Auction Frontier once access to the camera is established which can take a day or two.
The Velocicast online recording feature (cloud DVR) is now supported with IP Cameras!
The Velocicast mobile app supports IP camera streams
The video resolution output to the streamer matches the current settings for analog cameras. Anything above 640x480 resolution will not be used.
Test the rtsp url with VLC player by opening a network stream. Make sure you see video and hear audio when the auction does a mic check.
IP Camera Requirements / Supported Codecs
IP Camera must support the rtsp protocol. At this point we have only sampled a small subset of cameras and codecs here is what we know so far
-audio codecs that will work
G.711alaw
MP2L2
-that will *NOT* work
G.722.1
G.711ulaw
G.726
-video codecs that will *NOT* work
Motion Jpeg
Instructions IP Cameras with a Firewall
IP cameras must be directly routable from the Velocicast system therefore it's the customer's responsibility to expose the cameras to the outside world. This can be done in many different ways depending on the network, equipment, and administrator skill level. One easy and secure way that works with the majority of consumer-grade gateway routers is to use port forwarding. Please see your router setup information to properly configure port forwarding. For your convenience the general idea is that the IP camera has a specific LAN IP (something like 192.168.1.100) and a port exposed at that LAN IP that is serving the rtsp stream (the actual video/audio). Within your gateway router's admin console (the device that connects directly to your internet provider ethernet, fiber, or coax...) you will be asked for the LAN IP and the port that should be forwarded then you select a port number that you want exposed to the outside world, for example 9554. You will then need to provide your external IP address (if you do not have a static IP address we recommend contacting support). You can figure this address out by visiting http://www.showmyipaddress.com/
Now that you have gathered the external IP address and the exposed port number you will need to gather the path to the stream and the authentication credentials to the audio/video stream. Both of these pieces of information are specific to the IP camera make/model so please review your camera documentation. Keep in mind authentication is recommended but not required. If authentication is used make note of the `username` and `password`.
Here is an example of how to assemble the gathered information into a URI to be provided to Auction Frontier:
-If the camera is using authentication
rtsp://<username>:<password>@<external-ip-address>:<exposed-port>/<path-to-your-stream>
rtsp://afrontier:[email protected]:9554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1
-If the camera is using *NOT* authentication
rtsp://<external-ip-address>:<exposed-port>/<path-to-your-stream>
rtsp://66.1.11.111:9554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1
Information to be provided by the customer
-Customer Info (used to look them up in the database)
at least the name
-IP camera info (provided for each camera)
Name
Name displayed to the user on the streamer page
URI: This includes credentials and port information rtsp://66.111.111.111:554/Streaming/Channels/101
Additional Help and Support
If you are looking for information on setting up IP Cameras, please please refer to this IP Camera knowledge article.
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