Stream a sample app

Upload an Unreal application Eagle 3D Streaming has already packaged, and watch it stream. This proves your account, the platform, your network and your browser all work together — before any build of your own is involved.

It is worth doing even if you are impatient to stream your own project. Packaging an Unreal application takes time and has its own ways of going wrong; if you meet a problem after doing both at once, you will not know which half caused it. This takes a few minutes and removes that question.

Before you begin

Upload it

  1. Sign in to the Control Panel

    Open controlpanel.eagle3dstreaming.com and sign in.

  2. Press Add Application

    The Streaming Apps page of the Control Panel, with the Add Application card, first in the grid, highlighted
    Add Application.

  3. Choose the ZIP you downloaded

    Press Browse and pick the file, or drag it onto the window. Upload the ZIP itself; the platform unpacks it.

    The Add New App window: drag the ZIP onto it, or press browse (highlighted) to choose it
    Browse, or drag the file in.
    Selecting the downloaded ZIP file
    Selecting the downloaded ZIP.

  4. Name it and start the upload

    Give the application a name and press upload. Two optional settings sit here: a thumbnail image (under 1 MB), and Send upload status updates by email, which mails you when the app is ready rather than making you watch the page. The name may not contain spaces or special characters.

    Naming the application before uploading
    Naming the application.

  5. Wait for it to be prepared

    The Control Panel shows an estimated time. The platform is unpacking the build and getting it onto a machine, so this is not only the upload — it continues after the file has finished transferring.

    The application uploading, with an estimated time
    Uploading, with an estimate.
You will know it worked when

The application appears in your Control Panel and is no longer marked as preparing.

An uploaded application listed as a card in the Streaming Apps grid, highlighted
An uploaded application, listed as a card under the name you gave it.

Stream it

  1. Open the app and create a stream link

    Click the application, then Create New Stream Link. The link is what you would send to someone else — anyone who opens it gets the stream, with no account of their own.

    An application's window, with the Create New Stream Link button highlighted at the top right
    Create New Stream Link.

  2. Press Play

    A stream link row in the Streaming Link tab, with its Play button highlighted
    Play.

  3. Wait for a machine

    A GPU machine is being started for your session. The loading screen shows while that happens; the first start of the day is usually the slowest.

    The loading screen shown while a machine starts
    Waiting for a machine.

  4. Press Play

    The stream waits for one click from you. That is the default: with Autoplay switched on (UI tab of the configuration) it starts without the click, although browsers still hold back the sound until the viewer has interacted with the page.

    The play button shown before the stream starts
    The play button.
You will know it worked when

The application is running in your browser and responds to your mouse and keyboard. Everything you see is video from a machine in Eagle 3D Streaming's cloud.

The sample application streaming in a browser
The sample application, streaming.

Removing it afterwards

The sample has done its job once you have seen it stream. Deleting it keeps your Control Panel to the applications you actually care about.

  1. Open the application

    An application's card in the Streaming Apps grid; clicking its picture opens the application
    Open the application.

  2. Press Delete App

    An application's window, with Delete App highlighted at the top right
    Delete App.

  3. Confirm

    Deleting is permanent. To stream it again you would upload the ZIP once more.

    The confirmation box: Are you sure you want to delete the App? with Cancel and Delete buttons
    Confirming.

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