Home Groups - SSW
When your company subscribes to SubC Streaming Services, Stream Service Groups(s) are created for your company and Members of the Group are created using each User's email address (i.e., name@yourcompany.com). See User Accounts - SubC Streaming Services
Open SubC Streaming Service Web and login with your Streaming Service Account (your company email address).
If you need to reset you Stream Service Account Password, See Reset a forgotten Microsoft account password
Click Menu → Home to display the Groups UI in the Streaming Service Web.
Your organization's Group(s) will be displayed on the top bar.
Select a Group.
If you see the Getting Started message, this means that your Group does not currently have any Sources (Stream enabled desktop applications) opened.
If Sources have not yet been added to your Group, you will also see the Getting Started message.
Click the “+” green circle to add a new Source system to the Group. Follow the “Adding a Source to Streaming Service” instructions below.
Adding a Source to Streaming Service
Sources are PCs on your network that have a SubC Stream enabled desktop application installed, such as SubC Stream, Blackbox and DVR+Ov7 desktop applications.
In the SubC Streaming Service web application, click the green “+” button to generate an Activation code to add a system running a streaming enabled SubC Stream desktop application to the current SubC Streaming Service Group.
The following “Link to Group” window will appear displaying the current Group (i.e., “SubC Development”)
Open your Stream enabled desktop application on your PC.
A unique Activation code is generated that is to be applied in the Stream enabled desktop application to join the SubC Streaming Service Group.
See FAQ: Activate a New PC in SubC Stream.Once the Activation code is applied to Stream enabled desktop application, refresh the Streaming Service Web application page, then you will see and can remotely interact with the PC running the Stream enabled desktop application.
Remote Control Stream Enabled Desktop Systems
SubC Stream enabled desktop applications currently running on system(s) that are activated in your Group will be visible and configurable in the SubC Streaming Service web application under Groups.
In this image, under example “SUBC DEVELOPEMENT” Group, we see PC named “SUBC-NC-SUPORT2” is a member of this Group.
We can see “SUBC-NC-SUPORT2”, is running the SubC DVR+O Desktop application and its software version, and below, we see its 6 Input Channels.
“SUBC-NC-SUPORT2 Channel 1” is selected
Each Channel has an INPUT, QUALITY and PRESENTATION Menu.
The sections below describe how you can remotely configure SubC Stream enabled desktop application Channels with various Input options through SubC Streaming Service web application.
Configuring a Channel
Stream
INPUT Menu
Name - Displays the PC’s hostname by default and Channel #
You can change the name of the Channels as you wish to a name that is meaningful, such as the name of the video input, camera or its location, and click the SAVE NAME button.
Stream
Capture Card
Device - Select your Capture Card
Input - Select the input that corresponds to the Capture Card
Format - Select the preferred format.
The formats present in this list will depend on what your capture card supports; formats may be different than those listed here.Click Start
Stream
IP Camera Input
IP Camera - Select an IP Camera
Click the browser Refresh button if you don’t see an IP Camera listed that you are expecting to see. The IP Camera must be powered up and connected on your Network.
If the Camera selected requires authentication, the Camera Username & Camera Password fields will appear. Enter the camera username & password.
Click Start to connect to the video source and start streaming
Stream
RTSP Address Input
Address - Enter RTSP video input source address
Protocol - Select Default, UDP or TCP
Advanced - Use the parameters default values or you can modify these values if necessary
Click Start to connect to the video source and start streaming
Stream
Screen Capture
Screen capture will take the Stream Desktop PC’s full monitor view as input
Click Start to connect to the video source and start streaming
Stream
Window Capture
Window - Select from a list of names of active Windows open on the Stream enabled desktop application PC.
Note: The selected Window must not be minimized.If you do not see the name of the window you wish to select in the list, click the Refresh button and check the dropdown list again.
Click Start to connect to the video source and start streaming
Stream
Presentation Input
Presentation - Select the Name of an active Presentation
Illuminated green dot indicates the Presentation has actively streaming video input.Channel - Select the Channel that is the video source streaming to the Presentation.
Click Apply to connect to the video source and start streaming
The Presentation source Channel that is selected as Presentation Input must come from another system running a SubC Stream enabled desktop application. The Streaming Service Web application does not permit taking the streaming video from one Channel as Presentation Input to another Channel on the same Stream Desktop system.
QUALITY Menu
Stream
Transmission Type - In this dropdown filed, displays/allows choice of RealTime or Smooth
Encoder
Default is mpeg4 when Transmission type Smooth has been selected
Options vp9, gpu_h264 or h264 are available when Transmission type RealTime has been selected.
Bit Rate (kbps) - Options are 512, 256, 128, 64, 32, 16
Resolution - Options are Auto, 1920x1080, 1280x720, 720x480, 320x240
Framerate - Options are Auto, 30, 29.97, 20, 15, 5
SRT Sender Latency: Low | Medium | High selection only appears when Transmission Type Smooth is selected.
PRESENTATION Menu
Stream
Presentation - Select a Presentation from this dropdown field. The Presentation(s) that have been created for this Group will appear in the list.
In this image example, “Full Demo” Presentation is selected and shows Audio Chat and Data options have been applied when this Presentation was created.
See Presentations section for how to create Presentations.
Streaming Location - Select a SubC Stream Server from this dropdown field.
You can select any of these SubC Stream Servers, however generally it is best to select a Stream Server nearest to your geographical location.
Click the Apply button to apply the current configuration to the desktop application Channel.
Click the Start button to begin Streaming when you have completed the Channel configuration.
Streaming Activated
Stream
When Streaming is activated:
“Streaming in progress” message will appear on the Channel.
Click the View button to see the channel streaming video.
Click the Stop button to stop streaming.
In the top, right of the UI, Stop All button is convenient if you wish to stop all of the active streaming channels with one click.