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Networked VGA Grid User Guide What is a channel?
What is a channel?
Networked VGA Grid uses Channels to organize and display content captured from DVI, VGA, HDMI, S-Video
and audio.
Channels make your sources (DVI, VGA, HDMI, S-Video and audio) available for streaming and recording. You
choose how you want to configure your sources (and extras like images and text overlays) into layouts within
your channel.
Networked VGA Grid has two kinds of channels:
1. HD Encoder channels (see Create an HD Encoder channel ) and
2. Custom local channels. Custom local channels use one or more HD Encoder channels and provide
multi-source capabilities and layout/ live switching ability (see Add an HD Encoder as a source (custom
channel)
Networked VGA Grid gives you a lot of control over how your sources are streamed. You are not limited to
creating a
Channel list that is a one-to-one reflection of your HD Encoders Sources list. You can make
channels from some or all of your sources and you can add the same source to multiple single-source or multi-
source layout channels.
For example, you could use the same source in all three of these situations, concurrently:
- as the only source in Channel 1 at 1080p, 30fps, 10,000 kbps;
- decoded and re-encoded as the only source in Channel 2 at 720p, 15 fps, 2,000 kbps;
- decoded and re-encoded in Channel 3 as part of a multi-source layout with picture in picture.
All channels can be streamed and recorded simultaneously. Following the example above, you could record
any combination of those three channels, and stream one, two or all three of them using any available
streaming methods.
In addition to creating multi-source channels, you can customize your channels by adding images, company
information, corporate colors and time stamps. Networked VGA Grid has a visual layout editor to help you
create exactly the layout you want to stream.
Although Networked VGA Grid's main purpose is to receive, synchronize, stream and record from VGA Grid
HD Encoders, you can also use the data from the HD Encoders in customized local channels. Networked
VGA Grid has a visual layout editor to help you design your custom channel exactly how you want it.
For each custom local channel you create, you can use the layout editor to create one or more channel
layouts. Then, while recording and/or streaming, you can switch live between different layouts. To learn about
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