Pearl Mini User Guide
Add video sources or a channel as a source
If a channel is selected as a video source, the corresponding audio for that channel is
selected by default.
7. Click
Save
. Your channel is ready for basic streaming and recording.
Because this is a single-source channel with only one layout, the channel's name is
updated to display the source’s name next time you view the channel. Click the channel
name in the
Channels
menu to refresh. Rename the channel and choose a custom
name if you don't want the channel name to change, see
.
What's next?
The default channel encoding setting should work fine in most cases. To check the encoding settings for
the channel, see
. There are a lot of creative things you can do next with your channel,
including creating more layouts, adding multiple video and audio sources, and customizing layouts to add
images and backgrounds, see
Add video sources or a channel as a source
Pearl-2 and Pearl Mini
You can add one or multiple video sources to any of the layouts for your channel using the custom layout
editor. You can even add the output from another channel as a video input source.
When you add a channel as a video source in another channel, whatever is displaying live in that channel
also displays in the other channel. This is useful when you need to stream the same switched program to
multiple destinations that have different encoding settings. That's because the encoding settings are set
at the channel level.
For example, to stream your switched program to YouTube at 1920×1080 and to Facebook at 1280×720,
you could:
1. For Pearl Mini, set up HDMI-A as Channel 1 and HDMI-B as Channel 2. For Pearl-2, continue to step
2.
2. Set up
Channel 1
as your switched program channel. Add all your custom layouts to Channel 1 and
stream this channel to YouTube at 1920×1080.
3. Set up
Channel 2
as your Facebook streaming channel. Configure Channel 2 with a single layout
that uses Channel 1 as the video source, and then stream Channel 2 to Facebook at 1280×720.
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