live broadcast question
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- zanetate
A friend of mine wants to broadcast a wedding live over the web. He has all the video and audio gear (dunno what exactly), but not the tools for broadcasting. Do any of you have any suggestions on what to get? I don't think he wants to edit or save the broadcast, just send it out live. Suggestions on hardware/software? Thanks.
- slinky0
cheers for the good question.
and future cheers for those with answers.
my only answer... the obvious one:
+Broadband Internet Connection at Wedding site.
- Danski0
You'll need an encoding machine with enough bandwidth to send one video stream to a media server, which must have enough bandwidth to send out streams to each ot your concurrent viewers.
It's a pain in the arse, basically. But that's only if you want full motion audio and video. If you want static shots every 30 seconds then there's cheaper ways.
- Danski0
Slinky : future reference, I work at a streaming media company, so any tech help on real or windows media or SMIL or anything like that, I'm happy to dish advice out.
- slinky0
*slinky may seek out Danski's help in the future...
the future is anytime after "now"
- zanetate0
Thanks for the help guys. Any recommendations on favorite hardware/software?
- Danski0
Depends on the fidelity you want - you'll probably be saving a copy in compressed format anyway, so any cheapo capture card will work fine.
As for software, the free choice is Windows Media Encoder, the expensive but more standards-compliant choice is RealProducer/RealServer (now called Helix), or you could investifate broadcasting in quicktime, which I believe can be done using opensource products.
email dan@angryamoeba.co.uk if you have any in-depth questions, because i'm going home in a few minutes.
- bhawk0
real player if you want a reliable HQ stream. But im sure if you went to the real player site they will have all the tips and tricks to set it up. I used to hate real player but now i love it. The new browser/player is awsome.