how 2 do live streaming
by dewan edwards
on
Jun 11, 2009 at 6:40:30 am
Hi we are looking at live streaming our church service on Sundays and Wednesday. This is unchartered waters for me so I need some help. Can someone point in the direction on how to do this, companies that do this, and what we need. I saw some info on media encoder by microsoft but didn't get into a lot of detail on what we needed hardware wise. It seemed like it was just a connection to laptop/desktop and run into there server. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Re: how 2 do live streaming by Craig Seeman on Jun 14, 2009 at 12:52:22 am
There are a lot of ways to approach this.
Camera
Computer
Software to do live encoding
This could be as simple as the free Adobe Flash Media Encoder (FME)
Or the free Procaster (if you're using Livestream - see below)
A software production switcher - see Telestream Wirecast forum here on the COW
http://forums.creativecow.net/telestreamwirecast
A broadband internet connection. Ideally an upload speed of about 768kbps or higher but even 500kbps would be OK. The connection to the computer can be wifi or ethernet (wired).
In order to provide more direction you'd need to provide more details but the above can get you going.
A service to accept and distribute the stream
Livestream or
Ustream Both have Pro accounts if you don't like the ads. Both allow embedding in your own web page.
