Hi All,

I use VMix for a couple of day's now. (Using the demo version)
It's a great product and i consider to purchase.

But still i was looking for some opions to fit our needs. I saw that there were a lot of topics on this form, so forgive me when it's already asked and i could not find it.
In first we will use VMix to support our radiostation and give it a multiple webcam view.
We will work with four webcams. So great when we have a TV editor onsite. But we don't have always somebody available.

- Is there a way to let VMIX switch automaticly between the selected webcams? Is somebody working with something simular?

- Is it possible to add PHP code in titels? I tried some but didnt work out. I want to display the current played track in a titelbar or ticker.
we are running this in our players and website by using php.

- I saw a topic about scheduling: (http://forums.vmix.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=999&p=8) This is the solution to use pre-scheduled playlists?


I hope that somebody can help me in the right direction.
Thanks.

Best regards
Bas
Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

@ Bas

In terms of 'AutoSwitching', there are a couple of options depending on your "needs".
I would recommend exploring the "Playlist" feature for simple 'timed' auto switches.
A second option might be the 3rd party app "vMix Audio Controlled Switcher":

http://forums.vmix.com/d....aspx?g=posts&t=3678
http://shop.njastad.com/...roduct&product_id=64

It looks to be a great app for the 'Radio Station' environment you are talking about.
The vMix Scheduler is also a 3rd party app that is indeed for a predetermined playlist of events (worth exploring, but not really an option for 'Live' switching, but certainly for re-broadcast during 'off' hours).


Ice

I'm not either, but have used JavaScript and Powershell to talk to the API mostly because I wouldn't want to install anything extra on the Vmix machine for the simple jobs I've done.

The API is not locked to any language. It's pretty much any language that talks the web :)

The language has to be able to fire a url. eg: http://127.0.0.1/API/?Fu...mething&option=hello

The language has to read XML to receive information from Vmix like which input is active etc.. (if it needs to check Vmix and not just blindly send)

Provide some more information about the PHP Code, maybe I could give you a head start.

That said if someone has already made what you want, like the scheduler or maybe you can just use the playlists and a couple of macros for instance. That would be easier :)

So while you can't add PHP code in a title.

You could run a php command/function that updates a title with a few extra lines of code.

Most simple example:

Say you have an title, it's in position input 1. You want to change it's text in the field headline of the title. This would be the code. Localhost is the IP address of the Vmix computer.

<?php
$newtitle = urlencode('This is my new title text here');
$apiurl = 'http://localhost:8088/API/?Function=SetText&Input=1&SelectedName=Headline&Value=';
$result = file_get_contents($apiurl . $newtitle);
echo $result;
?>

So you can get something complex via PHP (maybe a live data for the stock prices anything really) and pump it quickly into a Vmix title.

You can use PHP, the place you are running PHP just has to be able to contact the Vmix computer. Not a problem if running PHP on the Vmix computer, if not firewalls might need to be configured to allow your web server to send commands directly to VMix.

I would work the other way, get the vmix computer to pull information from your web server. PHP could be installed on the Vmix computer if desired (http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.commandline.php). Personally I use powershell as it's built into Windows and the stuff I do is very simple (not hard to google some instructions), but I do wish to learn some .NET myself eventually now that VMix supports scripting.

My point, the web API allows you to easily change text in titles. The language used doesn't much matter at all. It's an ALL programming language solution. Could be a Macro/AutoHotkey, VBScript, PHP, Batch File (with Wget.exe), Javascript, Free Pascal, Python, GO or many others.

Hope this helps start the learning :)

Ofcourse we have the VMix pc in the studio and we can create a page for a table. That should be not the problem. We have several PC's in the lan for DJ or sitekick.
But a want that the dj's won't bother abouth switching cams. They must do their job: making radio :-) So therefore the playlist option should be solve the problem: switchings cams automaticly.
When we have bigger events we will use a director who will switch cams manualy.

Thanks again for all your info. First this week i need to install the extra camera's and start switching.
I will attach the Api later :-)