Pearl User Guide
What is a channel?
What is a channel?
Pearl uses
Channels
to organize and display content captured from DVI, VGA, HDMI, SDI, and audio.
Channels make your sources (DVI, VGA, HDMI, SDI, and audio) available for streaming and recording. You
choose how you want to configure your sources (and extras like images and text overlays) to into layouts
within your channel.
Pearl 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
Sources
list. You can make channels from some or all of your
sources and your 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;
- as the only source in Channel 2 at 720p, 15 fps, 2,000 kbps;
- and added to 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 a images, company
information, corporate colors and time stamps. Pearl has a visual layout editor to help you create exactly the
layout you want to stream.
For each 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 creating layouts,
read
. To learn how to do live video mixing / live
.
Through channel configuration and fine tuning you can maximize your stream quality, minimize your
processing requirements and bandwidth. You can also specify how the video is presented and streamed to
sharing destinations and viewers. Topics in this section include:
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Use the automatic channels Auto A and Auto B
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