7f - Comfort Monitor

For live in-person events there is often a "Comfort Monitor" present. The purpose of this is so that people on stage can easily see relevant information. The comfort monitor(s) can be easily directed away from the audience's line-of-sight, so it can show information that the audience should not see. 

Two comfort monitors on a stage:

We have implemented a similar function into Internet Mixer that can be used for a huge range of scenarios.

On your workspace menu click on Comfort Monitor. Here you can select the video quality your comfort monitor will be sent.

Resolution: Consider whether some guests are likely to have poor quality internet, or may be presenting from work-spec laptops that aren't designed to handle multiple large video formats. 

Frame Rate: As with Resolution, consider the impacts a higher number will have on the abilities of the hardware involved in your production. 

Video Content Hint: Use this to enhance clarity on certain types of video content. For example, if the comfort monitor will be mostly used for Slide-Decks filled with graphs, use the Details Prioritised option to enhance those visuals.

Audio Bitrate: As above, a larger number equals a larger impact on hardware and internet bandwidth (although audio quality is far less demanding than video quality.) 

The default 128k is equivalent to music streaming from an online service like Spotify. This should be suitable for the vast majority of situations.

Once you have chosen your settings, click Get Devices and select the Room(s) you want to stream to, the Video Source (typically this will be a manual input from a vision mixer), Audio Source, and choose if you want to send video and/or audio feeds. The Comfort Monitor can be sent into the guest view by selecting the Room(s) you want it present in and clicking Start Streaming. The rooms must be Active for this to send.