Standalone VGA Grid User's Guide

Standalone VGA Grid User Guide What is a channel?

What is a channel?

Standalone VGA Grid uses Channels to organize and display content captured from DVI, VGA, HDMI, SDIS-

Video and audio.

Channels make your sources (DVI, VGA, HDMI, SDI, 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.

DVI2PCIe cards do not support audio over HDMI. Standalone VGA Grid systems with DVI2PCIe

cards will not be able to capture audio through HDMI sources.

Standalone 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 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;

- as the only source in Channel 2 at 720p, 15 fps, 2,000 kbps;

- 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. Standalone VGA Grid 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 Create a custom channel and Custom channel layout editor. To learn how to do live video mixing / live

video switching, see Live video mixing / switching.