you are running into the same wrong assumption I made, even if you are on the same lan, all traffic goes via web, so if you have slow internet connection you will get bad quality or nothing at all.

Update: OK. I have reversed the test. This time making the integrated Graphics PC the guest and my normal production machine the host. The same instability with the input occurred no matter the resolution that was set at either end.

However, if I then used chrome as the container for the guest session, it was rock solid.

Is anyone able to replicate my issue with a PC with only integrated graphics?

Haven't seen any other reports so far, it is quite strange.
Maybe check the vMix logs in Documents\vMixStorage\logs to see if any errors are coming up when it is flickering black.

Can also right click call go to Open Call Manager then click the bar graphic button to open up advanced statistics
to see a bunch of things including the frame rate per second that might determine if the black frame is part of the encoded stream
or if it is a decoding problem.

Sometime during version 17 my Vmix quit working properly under W10x64 on a Dell 990 Desktop. When I launched Vmix everything looked normal until I attempted to click on anything. As soon as I did I'd get a Windows "Not Responding" message and the program would hang. I upgraded to version 18 and it did the same thing. All this started after a series of Windows updates. Unfortunately I use Vmix infrequently and Windows did a lot of updating so I was never able to track down/remove which update (if any) resulted in the problem.

After some playing around I discovered that if I disabled my LAN connection the program worked normally --though it now because useless to me since I could no longer stream the output. Note, I did my testing by launching the program directly from the Program Files directory. Also, I tried this on two different PCs (same hardware in each) and had the same problem --worked before but not after the updates. Also, I had the same issue whether my LAN connection was via Ethernet or a USB Wi-Fi adapter. If any LAN connection was open Vmix would lock up right after launch.

I recently installed the Preview release of version 19 and am happy to say for the first time in a long time Vmix appears to be working again. I can even open the same scene I created in 17 and things look good. I haven't fully tested all the functionality of my original scene but at least the "Not Responding" problem is gone.

I just wanted to take this opportunity to report that the serious issue I was having in V17/V18 (and never found a resolution for) seems to have been fixed in version 19.

If anyone has seen this "not responding" right after launch issue before and can point me to a solution thread I'd appreciate it. Otherwise I'll just wait for the official release of V19, download the trial, and see if the problem is still fixed.

Thanks.

vMix 19 Preview Updated (19.0.0.30)

http://cdn.vmix.com/download/vmix19preview.exe

* Added support for 10 MultiView Overlays up from 5
* Each Overlay can be enabled/disabled for scenarios where you want audio from an input to be turned on
but you don't want it visible.
* Add ability to drag and drop the numbered boxes to move the orders of the overlays whilst preserving the overlay's position.
This is handy to change the render order (z-order) for things like the Merge transition effect.

* Added High1080 profile to Video Call bandwidth. Note that this requires a lot of CPU and a stable high speed broadband connection
(10mbps/10mbps) for good results.

* Fixed delay when sending chat message to multiple callers

* When adding a new call input, it will default the settings to the last added call.

I love the addition of the additional overlays in multiview, but it doesn't seem to remember your settings. I added 10 overlays to a transparent color input, and unchecked the 10th overlay, and used the Brady bunch overlay, but when I go back to settings for the input, it re activates the 10th overlay. I disabled a couple of the others as well, but when opening the input settings, they always revert to enabled. Seems to only do so when changing to the Multiview settings tab. As soon as you do click the Multiview tab, it seems to do a refresh, and changes from your setting to all enabled.


The addition of the drag & drop multiview positioning is also great!

I can also verify the Firefox chat issue is also fixed.

Hi Martin, the .30 build seems to have stabilised the stream on the integrated graphics card machine. Did you make a change for this? If not I'll have to investigate more to nail root cause. Andrew

No, we haven't been able to replicate the problem so far. Unless you had .28 installed which had an intel graphics fix in .29

Hmm...had same behavior in .28 and .29. No matter. Have now had a stable connection for over two hours at high bandwidth. The only thing that has changed on the machine is the vMix build. Not even any M$ updates.