just:out, just:connect and Just Live/Just Play are all independent of each other and can be installed on a single or several machines. Each component of the playout software is communicating with the other components using TCP/IP (i.e. network communication protocols). If the user interacts with the Just Live/Just Play user interface, this information is sent to just:connect, stored there and then sent to just:out so it can be executed/rendered by the engine.
The following figure applies to both – Just Live and Just Play. For the sake of simplicity only Just Play is shown in this figure.
Because of this we strongly recommend to use a dedicated network for communication and a second network for the data transfer. This allows our applications to communicate as fast as possible.
| In case communication between a Just Live/Just Play user interface and just:connect is interrupted for more than two seconds, the interface will quit and restart automatically, showing the log in window with a warning. This mechanism avoids that the user makes any changes which would never be executed by the engine. |
