What is ViXL?
ViXL is a real-time media control and rendering platform. ViXL Lite is its browser product. A ViXL App is a packaged capability used within a show—not simply a browser page or a video switcher.
App, Scene, Composition →VIXL REFERENCE WIKI
The vocabulary
behind the show.
Short definitions for the platform terms that matter in the room. This is a product reference, not a claim that every forward architecture capability is currently shipping.
Layers and recall
Layers are persistent composition slots with stable identities. A Composition defines their order and target state. Recalling it reconciles current Program instead of blindly rebuilding everything.
Layer actions →Ready means ready
Content that needs time to load must warm before it can be taken. Auto Take, if enabled in the future, must never bypass READY.
Preparation sequence →Transition Apps
A Transition App is a first-class App category. It receives a prepared FROM frame, TO frame, deterministic progress, parameters, and host timing to render the in-between frame.
Core transition rules →Media management
The platform direction is to reference immutable, versioned ViXL-managed assets—not permanent machine-local paths. Deployment should verify, stage, warm, and then activate.
Availability boundary →Show Network
The forward architecture treats a show as independent of a single control machine. Participants can include control clients, render nodes, outputs, and information consoles.
What is planned →IMPLEMENTED VS. INTENDED
Architecture is not a shipping claim.
Native Bridge output, offline Pro, Show Network redundancy, Unreal rendering, NDI, mapping, and Enterprise are forward paths until they are verified in a released build. The manual focuses on the Lite operator model and always points to the release-specific evidence needed for public claims.