Open alexolivan opened 2 years ago
ElvishArtisan
commented
2 years ago Interesting idea! A 'high density' UI for encoders is a fairly common requirement in pro-audio/broadcasting workflows, but I've not come across a similar need for the receive end. Can you tell me a bit about your anticipated use case(es)?
alexolivan
commented
2 years ago Hi... I'll try to be brief, the thing is complex but its based on real scenarios:
The first one comes after the COVID19 lockout 'remote collaboration / home studio' explosion: Having the possibility to handle a series of streams from/to remote collaborators that are working from home. Here we've seen different approaches to answer the need, from full hardware/software solutions, to using legacy streaming solutions, passing to integrate platforms such as Teams, Webex or Zoom... the thing is that, tele-job is here to stay, it provides too nice cost savings to get rid of it fully, so providing an answer to this use case is becoming a must.
The second one is the evolution of the radio network scenario, where initially there was a main / contry-wide studio and several other local/region stations, and/or asociated radio-stations, typically in the setallite era, where the big boss sends, and the others receive, and that's all...kinda one-way star-topology. Now but the thing has get more complex, as local radio stations and independent ones do want now to colaborate among them, join forces, share contents, resources and co-work (again, reduce costs) so they need a more flexible solution, more of a partial-mesh of inter-connections... and streaming has filled this gap.
So, the need of tools in the fashion of GlassCommander is here. There're some cloud-based answers to this, that have even a kind of virtual web mixer/studio, with mobile apps that directly send and receive monitoring back... but many many radio broadcasters do want something that integrates and 'expands' their already existing infrastructure into the streaming-era.
Probably the scenario in the US is different... but well, here the things are developing this way.
Cheers!
Hi!
Not sure wether this is the rigth place to ask for it.... hope I'm not spamming:
I've been very very happy learning how to use GlassCommander as a a GUI tool to manage Output streamings... very very nice point that makes glasscommander match the best encoding tools I've seen.
However, considering the existence of GlassPlayer GUI, I immediatelly though that integrating GlassPlayer instances into GlassCommander, it would result into the best swiss-army knife streaming management-tool ever.
Cheers!