Wirecast Supports Live Encoding to QuickTime Streaming Server

Posted by Derrick on February 27, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Telestream’s Wirecast supports Live Encoding to QuickTime Streaming Server. This is a good thing if you’re going to be delivering you Live Webcast to Apple’s QuickTime Streaming and you have a PC for your Live Encoder.  You can easily send your Live Stream to the QTSS in the H.264 flavor and customize the frame size, datarate, key frame interval, fps etc.  Since QuickTime Broadcaster is not available for the PC Wirecast provides a wonderful solution for Live Encoding to QTSS with many other added benefits.

Wirecast provides a more advanced level tool for Webcasting.  Not only does it support Live Encoding to QTSS but Wirecast (for PC) also sports Live Encoding to Windows Media Server, Flash Streaming Servers and many CDNs. With it you can encode from Fireware cameras attached via Firewire.  If you have separate Firewire cards installed you can switch between multiple Firewire cameras.  Multiple Live Streams can be sent to the same server/different servers and you can create an archive for on-demand viewing later during your Webcast. Wirecast also provides a full production switcher in software.  You can switch seamlessly between multiple cameras, multiple video sources, and Powerpoint presentations.

Lower thirds (name keys) can also be included during your Webcasts.  So you could have 10-15 or more lower third graphics called up as desired during your production.  Wirecast comes with many pre-made lower third templates saving you a tremendous amount of time in design.  Wirecast can also do nice transitions and dissolves between sources.  You can even do Picture-N- Picture. Wirecast is not free like QuickTimeBroadcaster but you will definitely get a superior tool for Webcasting along with the ability to solve the issue of Live Encoding to Apple’s QuickTime Streaming Server from a PC.