Software

The Boxtream software is currently made of an headless backend which exposes an XML-RPC API and a graphical frontend which talks to the backend over the network through XML-RPC calls. This means that the backend and the frontend can be run on different machines, and that the frontend doesn't have to know which hardware is available on the backend side. Of course, you can run both the backend and the frontend on the very same machine if you want and if your hardware resources permit.

When you use some hardware to view the different inputs of a video switcher, an additional connection is made from the backend to the frontend, because a GStreamer networked pipeline is created between the backend and the frontend.

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