Managing encoding settings

Encoding settings determine how the content your organization captures is encoded and streamed to your audience. You will select encoding settings when creating stream groups. Users will then select a stream group when creating templates, schedules, and presentations.

Mediasite includes three types of encoding settings: adaptive bitrate, MP4, and slides. Mediasite treats an encoding setting’s resolution and bitrates as maximums but will automatically encode to a more efficient bitrate based on the content being captured. These automatic optimizations will reduce the amount of storage used for new content. Additionally, when adding adaptive bitrate to on demand content, Mediasite will generate a bitrate ladder specific to the content which will reduce the average amount of storage per hour of content.

Mediasite provides default encoding settings that will work for most organizations. However, you can add new slide encoding settings and create custom adaptive bitrate settings.

Add slide encoding settings

Slide encoding settings determine how the Recorder captures images when a presentation is recorded. When you record your presentation, you want to capture the most important events or screen changes. However, some sources, such as digital white boards, document cameras, and presentations with animation, generate a lot of events. For these types of sources, you should reduce the Recorder's image change sensitivity to avoid capturing unimportant events.

To add a slide encoding setting:

1. Click Recording > Encoding Settings > Add New and specify the settings:

Settings	Details
Name	• Enter a name that will help you to identify the slide encoding setting easily.
Description	• Enter a description.
Content Type	• Slides
Use Adaptive Slide Detection	• Enable this feature to remove extra slides that may be generated by noise. This feature is especially useful when using white boards and other handwriting devices.
Image Quality	• Move the slider to adjust the quality of the captured images. The higher the image quality, the larger the image files will be. Not available when using adaptive slide detection.
Maximum Image Scan Rate	Move the slider to adjust the rate (maximum frames per second) the Recorder will scan for new images. Not available when using adaptive slide detection.
Image Change Sensitivity	• Move the slider to adjust the Recorder's sensitivity to image changes. Increasing the sensitivity increases the number of slides generated. Not available when using adaptive slide detection.
Capture in Widescreen	• Select to have the Recorder favor widescreen image resolutions when capturing slides. In some Recorder configurations, certain widescreen image resolutions may not automatically resolve to their native aspect ratio. Instead, they may default to a 4:3 aspect ratio. In these instances, you want to enable this feature.
Remove Slide Transitions	• Select to have the Recorder wait until an image is stable before it advances to the next image.

2. Click Save.

Slide encoding settings

Customizing adaptive bitrate encoding settings

You can select one of the default adaptive bitrate encoding settings and use "Add Like" to create a copy of it. You can then "customize" the default settings by specifying the max user device class or streams available for on-demand streaming.

To customize smooth streaming settings:

1. Click Recording > Encoding Settings and select the setting you want to customize.

2. On the encoding setting’s summary page, click More > Add Like and specify the settings for the new encoding setting:

Settings	Details
Name	• Ent Enter a name for the encoding setting that will help you to identify it easily.er a name for the encoding setting that will help you to identify it easily.
Description	• Enter a description.
Stream Settings	Select the option that you want to use to customize the encoding settings: • Manually select streams for smooth streaming: Select this option to select the H264 streams that will be included. Select the check box next to each stream you want to include. • Select stream for MP4: Select this option to choose the streaming option that will be used to create MP4 files for on-demand streaming. Select the radio button next to the stream you want to use.

3. Click Save.

CustomizeSSEncodignSettings_MP4

Select stream settings for custom adaptive bitrate encoding setting