Originally Posted by: Aecast This just adds another point of failure which isn't worth the risk - it can already be hard enough in a corporate environment getting vMix call to work (i.e. getting them away from IE, use Chrome/FF, making sure WebRTC is enabled, allowing permissions, closing other apps). There's just too much already going on to now use a third party service that could easily have its own issues.
Hi Hypohamish
I would say it’s about using the Right Tool for the Job.
I have corporate customers who as you say have multiple browsers and various set-ups for their employees where you have to explain that just clicking on a link which normally opens in Edge, they now need to use Chrome etc, make sure the browser can access the video and more. (VMIXCall does work in Edge-latest version but not officially said here, see forum there is another ongoing discussion on this)
Then you have to copy the VMIX links and send to people, make sure they dont use the link which someone else is using. Had this many time happend escpecially with the C-Level guys
RProducer came out of this issue, I wanted a easy way to generate the VMIXCall links and send to the corporate attendees and remove the VMIX branding.
So links generated were direct bypassing the VMIXCall login screen. Of course when a person exits they still see the VMIXCall screen.
A simple tool in RProducer is the VMIXCall link generator to format links ready for copy/paste into emails. It’s the Tool for this Job
The VMIXCall Manager - is it the tool for the job above, depends on your use case, if you are running a chat show broadcast and have many people who want to ask a question via video then it will do the job. Other ways of doing this yes, maybe interface using MS Teams NDI the active speaker. Though you need to manage the their sound muting etc.
Using VMIXCall Control manager, in this format your users visit a landing webpage with instruction to guide them, they then join the call queue, thus saving having to setup users prior connecting them especially when the max is 8 input call channels and you could have 30 people to connect.
Bring people in and out of the show and when they exit redirect them to a off-boarding page on your website. This also closes their connection without them getting hold of the call codes.
Before you ask, yes if the person is clever and has intentions to disrupt, they could try to get the call codes, however just to make it a little bit more difficult the call code is hidden in the URL.
As mentioned there are many tools out there to do different jobs.
I Always Say try them out and not to judge the book by its cover.
The more tools you have the better your Toolset is :)
Use the Right Tool for the Job
Send me your details to
ian.cook@aecast.com and happy to provide you a test link in the coming days.