Starting with version 2.8.1, mimoLive is changing the way it adapts to changing bandwidth when it's streaming live which will greatly improve the reliability of streams and performance in low resource situations. We've also updated the streaming info panel to give you more sensible information about the status of your stream.

mimoLive now adapts to having less bandwidth than required by trying to decrease the stream bit rate while keeping the frame rate by increasing the compression. Only if this is still not enough, will it also reduce the frame rate.

The streaming info panel is now showing you information about the bandwidth to the streaming ingest server that is actually available. This can differ significantly from the nominal capacity of your local internet connection, either because of load on the local access or because your service provider has a poor link to the network which hosts your streaming server. The panel also shows if bandwidth is sufficient to meet your settings and if not, it will show you how mimoLive deals with this. It will also give you more accurate information about the performance of the encoder. Previously, it falsely reported the encoder to be too slow when in fact the internet bandwidth wasn't sufficient to deliver all the data to your streaming server.

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We designed the Key/Fill SDI play out feature to work with Blackmagic Design hardware. We also tested it with the ATEM Television Studio which supports keying. It uses a method called premultiplied Key. mimoLive is therefore optimized for this mode of operation.

While working with a client who uses a different switcher brand, we noticed that the transparency didn't look quite right. Further investigation showed that that switcher is using a different keying which relies on a method inherited from analog switching systems. In this system, you set Clip and Gain values in your switcher that calculate how the key signal is interpreted.

In order to get this method to work the way you want, you have to find out the values for clip and gain in your switcher that produce the desired result. To help you do this, we have added an Alpha Channel Test pattern to the Video Output Test source you can use to play out and calibrate the settings in your switcher.

More about the Alpha Channel Test pattern...