Streaming from Chrome
AKA the "Control Room"
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AKA the "Control Room"
Last updated
The Streamwell Control Room lets you stream directly from Google Chrome instead of using third-party streaming software or hardware.
Once enabled under Administration -> Server -> Features, you can open the Control Room for any channel from the home screen:
Choose your audio/video sources (in this example, an NDI output from my Premiere Pro timeline) and click the red button to start the stream. Pretty simple!
Notes:
Google Chrome is strongly recommended for sending streams from the Control Room. The other browsers aren't outright blocked but their reliability is not great.
The video quality will "ramp up" for the first 30 seconds when you start a Control Room stream.
Control Room streams are encoded by your web browser, so they won't look as good as a dedicated software/hardware streaming solution.
Control Room streams dynamically change resolution which can cause issues with recordings or HLS playback. If interrupted, a recording may continue with audio only.