Enabling Multicast Settings

multicast streaming is disabled by default and should be enabled it is highly recommended to change the default multicast address to a different range that does not conflict with another zixi broadcaster, zec or multicast broadcaster range on your network make sure your network supports multicast before enabling multicast settings in zixi broadcaster/zec to enable multicast settings in zixi broadcaster/zec , go to settings > multicast pool the multicast pool screen is displayed under configuration , select the enabled in the address field, enter a multicast ip range in cidr format for example, type 225 5 0 0 / 16 configures the following multicast address range 225 5 0 0 225 5 255 255 this is the multicast ip address range that the zixi broadcaster/zec will use to stream the various streams multicast addresses are not related to a specific stream in a static manner instead, each of these multicast addresses is dynamically allocated to the various input streams all streams will use the same port (default 5000) and use the consecutive ip within the range (e g 225 22 0 0, 225 22 0 1, etc ) in the port field, enter the port that will be shared by all the members of the multicast pool default 5000 in the nic field, select the network card to use for the outgoing multicast traffic in the ttl field, enter the time to live click apply the following dialog is displayed click restart now or restart later warning schedule downtime before restarting if running other production streams on same zixi broadcaster or zec server /