Content-type: text/html QVidium Video Transport Software

QVidium Video Transport Software

The Proxy software runs on the following.
  • Windows 10 (64-bit) with QVidium's Cygwin Image
  • Intel Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Redhat and CentOS 6.
  • ARM Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and CentOS 6.
  • NOTE: If there is a choice in OS, we recommend using Linux to maximize robustness
Minimum Intel-based Windows PC requirements
  • 8 Gbyte RAM
  • 2 GHz or higher Intel CPU
  • 1 Gigabit Ethernet

Windows Install (or Update)

Cygwin Install (One Time Install)

  1. Click on WindowsProxy.zip and save it to your Desktop or Downloads Folder
  2. Right-click on the WindowsProxy.zip file. This should popup a menu.
  3. Select an option like Extract files... or something similar. This should open an application or a Windows dialog.
  4. Extract the files to the C:\ folder.

Windows Proxy Install (or Update)

  1. Open the Proxy folder and right-click on the bash.bat file.
  2. Select Run as administrator from the popup menu.
  3. Enter the following command on the terminal.

    curl -k https://www.qvidium.tv/proxy/WindowsQVidiumProxy-69a1.run > install.sh
sh install.sh
  4. Go to Proxy Setup section below to finish setup.

Linux Install (or Update)

Recent versions of Ubuntu may have biosdevname installed. If so, then you must un-install biosdevname so that the primary Ethernet device name is /dev/eth0.
  1. From your Linux web browsr click on QVidiumProxy-90.run and save it to your system.
  2. Enter the following command on the terminal.

    sh ~/Downloads/QVidiumProxy-90.run
    If you saved the file somewhere other than your Downloads directory, you need to enter that directory. For example if you saved the file in the /tmp directory, you would enter. 
    sh /tmp/QVidiumProxy-90.run
    NOTE: If you have version 66 or older, you use these same instructions.

    To update to future versions of the Proxy software you can enter the following from the terminal 
    /usr/local/bin/QVidium update
  3. Go to Proxy Setup section below to finish setup.
    NOTE: If you are setting up a new Ubuntu server, consider installing the following:

    sudo apt update
sudo apt install net-toole
sudo apt install traceroute
sudo apt install openssh-server  # Optional, to enable remote shell access
sudo reboot

    Proxy Setup

    1. Enter http://192.168.1.90:8111 in your Web Browser

      where you replace 192.168.1.90 with your PC's IP Address.

    2. Click on the Tx Proxy 1 - > Register link to install a Tx License
    3. Click on the Rx Proxy 1 - > Register link to install a Rx License
    4. Go to http://qvidium.com/proxy/QVARQLinuxManual-v4.pdf for information about the proxy software.
    5. Go to http://qvidium.com/proxy/AWS-Proxy_Setup.pdf for help in setting up an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud-based Proxy Server.
    NOTE: If you do not see the license ID number, try re-booting your server.