Relays

A relay is the address you stream to. IRLEncoder ships with no built-in relay, so you bring your own. Common choices:

• A SRT relay you run on a VPS (ffmpeg, srt-live-transmit, BELABOX cloud).
• A commercial SRTLA relay service.
• An RTMP encoder on the receiving side that takes SRT in and pushes to your streaming platform.

Adding a relay

1. Open Streaming.
2. Click "New relay".
3. Pick a transport (SRT or SRTLA).
4. Enter the relay host, port, and stream key (or streamid for SRT).
5. Save.

Bonding mode (SRTLA)

When more than one network link is active, SRTLA bonds them into one stream. Pick the bonding mode per relay:

• classic: like the original BELABOX setup.
• enhanced: the default. Skips bad links and uses the good ones. When a bad link gets better, it comes back.

Bitrate algorithm (per output)

Each output has its own bitrate algorithm. This decides how the video bitrate changes when the network improves or gets worse:

• auto: the default. Pays attention to your modem signal and how hot the device is, then picks a safe bitrate before anything goes wrong.
• bela: like the original BELABOX bitrate setting.
• fight: pushes harder, recovers faster, takes more risk. Good if you would rather chase the upside than play it safe.

You can switch the algorithm or mode while live. Pick what works at the venue.

Loss recovery (on by default)

Mobile networks lose a few packets here and there even when bonded. IRLEncoder sends a small amount of extra repair data with the stream so the receiver can rebuild the missing bits without asking for them again. The dashboard has a Loss recovery card that shows how much repair data is currently going out and how much loss the encoder is seeing. When links are clean, the cost stays low. When loss picks up, the repair data picks up with it.

Going live

Open the dashboard, hit Start. The status pill turns red and the bonded link graph starts showing real numbers. Hit Stop when you are done.