TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Permissions
• Streaming media
• Streaming object
• Settings explanation

Premium comes with a built in streaming plugin, based on VLC media player. This allows Premium players to receive streams sent with a multitude of protocols and formats.

Note: Dise Movies containing streams cannot be created / previewed in Portal. 

Permissions

It's important that the stream owner gives consent to use the stream. Streaming of certain material to public-facing screens may be illegal, and we can't be held responsible for it.

Streaming media

UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP / FTP, MMS, TCP/RTP Unicast, DCCP/RTP Unicast

Streaming object

Find the streaming object in the Objects tab in Composer. 

Drag and drop the object to open up the properties dialog.

Settings explanation

• URL
  The address to connect to receive the stream. See VLC documentation for any specifics on the URL to use.
  https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo_New/
• Connect data
  The address could be fetched from a data connected text file.
• Render with fixed size
  Whether the stream should be rendered with a given width and height. 
• At end of scene
  Determines what should happen to the stream if the scene that contains the streaming object is ended.
  • Keep playing in background
  • Pause
  • Stop
• Keep last frame of video
  Will keep the last frame of the stream when it ends so the playback does not go black
• Disable audio
  Disables the audio from the stream
• Restart on stream end
  Restarts the stream once it ends
• Restart on error
  Restarts the stream if an error is encountered