Streaming features and trial limits

On a Streaming account, a reseller checks the service status and the trial quotas for that customer, and turns individual capabilities on or off. Status and trial limits can only be reviewed here. The feature switches can be changed. The Edit action on a Streaming account opens Edit account.

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Status and trial limits

Status is the Streaming service state of the account. On a Trial account, Trial limits are the quotas for that trial. Both are shown and cannot be edited here. Two quotas limit how many operations can run at the same time. Streams count is how many live streams can be active at once. Restreams count is how many restreams can forward a live stream at once. Storage and transcoding use different units. Video storage minutes counts the duration of uploaded video, and deleting a video returns minutes up to this quota. VOD Storage in GB is the disk space those files and their transcoded renditions occupy. Encoding video minutes is transcoding time for live streams and video on demand, and used minutes are not returned.

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Streaming features

Some switches make a capability available that the customer then uses in Streaming. Others change where Streaming runs transcoding, recording, and restreaming for that account.

• html_overlays makes HTML overlays available: graphics composited into the live stream. The customer then enables overlays on a stream and adds the widgets.
• original_recording makes a non-transcoded MP4 of a live recording available after the customer starts the recording. That file is deleted after 7 days.
• browsercast makes broadcasting from a camera or the screen available in the browser, without separate broadcast software.
• computer_vision, under Paid features, gives the account access to AI checks of video for nudity, offensive language, and violence.

The customer does not turn the routing switches on inside a stream.

• closest_transcoder_routing runs transcoding in the same region as the ingest server instead of the account’s default transcoding region.
• closest_recorder_routing runs recording in the ingest region.
• closest_restreamer_routing runs restreaming in the ingest region, which shortens the path from ingest to the restream.

Turn a feature on or off, then click Save. Cancel closes the dialog without saving.