No Video Can Be Viewed When a User Switches the Live Video Viewing Mode from Multicast to Unicast
Symptom
Possible Causes
Multicast IP addresses are incorrectly configured.
Solution
- Log in to the IVS C/S client and double-click Devices on the Workspace tab page.
- In the device list, double-click the camera. The Configuration window is displayed.
- Choose .
- Check whether the camera multicast IP address is correctly configured by referring to the value range of User multicast IP addresses provided in Table 1.
Table 1 Value ranges of common multicast IP addresses Multicast IP Address Type
Multicast IP Address Range
Multicast IP addresses
224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255
Reserved multicast IP addresses
224.0.0.0 to 224.0.0.255
224.0.1.0 to 224.0.1.255
Local management group IP addresses
239.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255
User multicast IP addresses
224.0.2.0 to 238.255.255.255
- If yes, contact Huawei technical support engineers.
- If no, change the multicast IP address by referring to the value range of User multicast IP addresses and go to the next step.
- Check whether the fault is rectified.
If the fault is rectified, no further action is required. If the fault persists, contact Huawei technical support engineers.