About: Outputs provide real-time connectivity metrics per connection and live previews of routed and distributed signals for confidence and health monitoring.
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- Overview
- Preview
- Website Overlay
- Resource locations and destinations
- Configuration information
- Stream mapping
- Metrics
Overview
Each output provides a live preview of the distributed signal, information on the configuration, and real-time connectivity metrics on distributed signals.
- Output preview: Visually monitor the distributed signal. The output preview also displays configured graphical overlays.
- Routed signal preview: The routed signal is displayed in a separate preview window for transcoded outputs. The routed signal is displayed instead of the output preview for passthrough outputs.
- Website Overlay: Control website overlay for all configured qualities.
- Resource locations: Lists all resource locations.
- Destinations: Lists all configured destinations.
Preview
Monitor the outgoing signal and compare it to the routed signal in case of a transcoded output.
- Preview info: Displays a label, e.g., "Preview" or "Original". By placing your cursor on the label, get more info on the video quality and content.
- Output title: Displays the type of output.
- Failover: Displays the active failover strategy. (only available upon request)
- Output preview: Displays the outgoing signal.
- Transcoding quality selection: For transcoded outputs, select the quality you want to display in the output preview. By default, the main quality is selected.
- Routed signal info and title: Displays a label, e.g., "Preview" or "Original". By placing your cursor on the label, get more info on the video quality and content.
- Routed signal preview: Displays the routed signal if available and a placeholder otherwise.
Website Overlay
This control panel will only appear if a website overlay is configured.
- URL: Displays the website URL the overlay is pulled from.
- Edit: Update the overlay configuration of your output.
- Reload: Refresh the connection between Live Video Cloud and your website source after confirming.
- Open/Close: Expand/collapse to display/hide further controls and the console message.
- Console Message: Displays the log messages of the connected overlay website.
- Used for: Enable/Disable the overlay for the configured transcoding qualities. Press “Update” to save the changes or press “Cancel” to ignore them.
Resource locations and destinations
Resource locations represent pull resources potential takers can use to receive a signal. Destinations are push destinations representing takers a signal is delivered to. Both are displayed in the monitoring previews.
- Status: Displays whether the element is offline/disabled, enabled, online and ready to transmit, or transmitting.
- Type/Name: Displays the resource location type or the destination name.
- Edit: Opens the part of the output dialog related to the specific resource location or destination.
- Delete: Deletes the destination. Not available for resource locations.
- Turn on/off: Changes the resource location or destination availability.
→ Learn how to turn on/off resource locations and destinations. - Open/Close: Expands the element to display further information and metrics or collapses the element if further information is not required.
Opening a resource location or destination provides additional information on the configuration, streaming credentials, and real-time connectivity metrics.
- Configuration: Displays all configuration information like the quality, credentials, and delay.
- Stream mapping: Displays all configured mappings incl. their processing status and all created mappings based on the default rule. → Learn more about monitoring stream mapping.
- Metrics: Displays real-time connectivity metrics and video and audio format information.
Selecting a specific signal taker reveals this connection's real-time metrics and format information.
Configuration information
The different types of resource locations and destinations expose different sets of configuration information.
Resource locations types and displayed information:
- HLS pull: Manifest
- RTMP pull: Hostname, stream Key
- MPEG-TS via TCP pull: Hostname, port
- SRT listener: URL, port, latency, encryption
Destinations types and displayed information:
- HLS push: Manifest, segment duration, segments in playlist, delay, authentication
- RTMP push: Hostname, stream key, delay, authentication
- SRT caller: URL, delay, encryption
- Facebook: Account, channel, delay
- Twitch: Account, ingest server, delay
- YouTube: Account, destination, delay
Stream mapping
If stream mapping is configured for an output, Live Video Cloud provides real-time information on the execution status of each mapping.
The upper half shows all mappings that have been configured individually.
The lower half shows all mappings that have been generated based on the rule ("PRESERVE" or "DROP") of how to handle all unmapped streams.
- Content type: Video, audio, or unknown.
- Incoming selector: Either a specific PID or an enumeration selector like "1st video".
- Outgoing target: Either a target PID or command like "DROP" or "PRESERVE".
- Status: While an output is running, displays a positive or negative status indicator representing the execution/processing status Live Video Cloud reports.
→ Learn how to monitor stream mapping.
Metrics
Resource locations and destinations provide real-time connectivity metrics per connection.
Resource locations:
- Support multiple connections displayed as signal takers with an IP address.
- Selecting a signal taker reveals the related connectivity metrics.
Destinations:
- Support one connection per destination.
- Immediately display all available connectivity metrics for the given connection.
Resource locations and destinations also provide information on the distributed video and audio format when using a transcoded output. The available real-time metrics depend on the used protocol.
→ Learn more about stream metrics.
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