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Niagara SCX User Guide
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Preface: About This Guide
This ViewCast Niagara SCX® User Guide provides set up, configuration, and setting information.
Product Description
The exclusive ViewCast Niagara SCX software offers robust monitoring and control of multiple,
remote, or distributed streaming encoders throughout an enterprise or across the Internet. It
includes:
• Concurrent view of multiple encoders
• Full control of encoding parameters
— Video and audio input selection — Encoder profile/target audience
— Video resolution and format — Stream destination and port
— Video and audio attributes
• Input/output preview
• Vectorscope/waveform display for end-to-end color accuracy
• Encoder statistics monitoring:
— Frame rate, bit rate
— CPU load
— Audio level
• Application integration via XML
This comprehensive system features:
• Real-time capture and compression from a live video source.
• Support for NTSC, PAL, Wide Screen, CIF, QCIF, SECAM, and all popular resolutions in
addition to custom user-defined picture dimensions.
• Support for all widely used bitrates, from 16 kb/s to 4 Mb/s +…
Niagara SCX streaming media management software provides an optimal method for managing live
video broadcasting over the Internet and to mobile devices. It allows you to set up and control
Niagara® streaming systems positioned throughout your enterprise or anywhere in the world – all
from your desktop.
You can instantly view the status of all of your networked encoders, see which ones have active
encode sessions and step through the application to control and monitor each individual stream.
ViewCast delivers two versions of Niagara SCX – Niagara SCX Standard and Niagara SCX Pro.