you win the chance to try to watch a live stream at 1500kbps
best of luck bro.
the important thing to take away from this, is that connecting to your computer with a high definition signal ~as of today~ is counter-productive, as i posted earlier, because you want to give an SD signal for your SD stream so as not to overwork your encoder.
when the internet can deliver a reliable 1500kbps signal to enough viewers at once to make an hd webcast viable, you can worry about connecting an HD signal to your encoder.
refer to craig's mention of both youtube and vimeo. do either of those "stream" nicely to your workstation, or do you have to leave it on pause while the video loads up, slower than real time?
imho, we are not there yet. so, set your phasers to 'downconvert' and impress your friends with high quality video not much larger than 640x480, 25~30 fps. progressive would help also, i believe.
check out
http://www.jtown.tv for impressive live broadcasts in just such a format. next broadcast, October 15th, 6:30pm, working title: "how to broadcast live video to the internet, with jesse miller"
youtube should be filling up shortly with highlights from last thursdays show, "tips and tricks on the ex3, with jesse miller"
