Posted by Derrick on March 7, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | 
Webcasting from the iPhone is included in our Video Streaming and Compression Training. The iPhone is now one of the killer apps and has many capibilities and one of them includes Webcasting from it. Attend one of our 2-Day Video Streaming and Compression Trainings and learn how to do it. Learn how to include you iPhone Live Webcast in a Blog Page or in a Web Page. The 2-Day Training is available in Orlando, On-line and On-site. View Upcoming Training Schedule
Here are some other items included in the training:
- How to encode Downloadable streaming videos
- How to encode Real-time streaming videos
- Best Practices for Compression and Streaming
- How to encode to QuickTime, Windows Media, H.264, Real Media and Flash video formats
- What the best CODECS are for their streaming formats
- How to author QuickTime, Windows Media, H.264 and Flash downloadable streaming videos
- How to author Flash .FLV files using Dreamweaver .SWF players
- How to author Flash .FLV files using JW Player
- Benefits of 1-Pass CBR, 1-Pass VBR, 2-pass CBR and 2-Pass VBR compression
- Knowledge of Deinterlacing, Key Frame Every, Frames Per Second, Cropping and other items
- How to set up Live Streaming
- How to analyze log files using Sawmill Professional
Featured Software for the class:
- Sorenson Squeeze 6
- Episode Encoder Pro
- Wirecast
- Dreamweaver
- Sawmill Professional
Call Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 or contact us by E-mail at info@freemancompression.com to register for a class.
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Posted by Derrick on February 27, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
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.
Tags: encoding, flash, h.264, live, media, Multiple Live Streams, Powerpoint, presentations, QTSS, quicktime, Server, streaming, webcast, webcasting, Windows, Wirecast
Posted by Derrick on February 2, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
A one-day national fundraising effort championed by a collection of Dutch radio and TV stations helped to raise a startling €83,448,252 for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. Supporting the effort, U.S.-based Wowza Media Systems, donated its media servers and the Dutch IS Internet Services in cooperation with Radio538 hosted the live webcast streams that reached more than one million online listeners.
Recognized for creating the first unified media server capable of simultaneously streaming to all major desktop, mobile device and IPTV player clients, Wowza Media Systems has been particularly embraced by radio and TV broadcasters worldwide looking to expand their audiences through the online channel.
The participating radio stations, including popular commercial stations Radio538, Q Music, SLAM FM, Radio Veronica, as well as public networks 3FM and Radio 2, broadcasted the fundraiser Thursday, January 21 as Radio 555. The giro number 555 is used in the Netherlands for donations to charities such as Oxfam, Unicef, the Red Cross and others which fall under the Dutch national aid organization cooperative, Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties (SHO).
“We’ve been using Wowza Media Servers to stream our programming content online for some time now and we knew the technology was more than up to the task of supporting this kind of effort,” said Alexander Josiassen, Technology and Operations Manager of Radio538. “Without hesitation, Wowza donated the additional software to power the massive webcast and wildly surpassed our technical expectations by enabling streaming to 145,000 simultaneous online listeners and reaching more than one million people in total for the day.”
This realization is driving strong demand for Wowza Media Server 2 from a broad range of customers. Mirror Image Internet, a global CDN that has already upgraded to Wowza Media Server 2, was able to add iPhone streaming capability to its portfolio of services at virtually zero incremental cost. Other companies including Livestream, one of the largest live streaming platforms, is now offering customers simultaneous Flash and iPhone reach without having to make any investment or impose changes to how they encode content.
The broadcast fundraiser for Haiti mirrors efforts by the Dutch broadcasters who conducted a similar national relief effort for victims of the 2004 tsunami in Asia.
“The incredibly quick and effective response by these broadcasters, and the tremendous outpouring of support from the Dutch people themselves provides great deal of hope that we’ll be able to make a difference in the lives of those who have been affected by this tragedy,” said Dave Stubenvoll, CEO and Co-founder of Wowza Media Systems. “We are humbled and proud to have been able to play a role in this humanitarian effort.”
Tags: CDN, content, encode, live, media, Server 2, streaming, streams, Systems, webcast, Wowza
Posted by Derrick on August 20, 2009 under Video Streaming and Compression |
In an effort to offer more choices for live video streaming, Telestream announced release of Wirecast™ 3.5.3 webcast software. Wirecast is a live video production tool that allows users to easily create real-time and on-demand broadcasts for the web. Version 3.5.3 adds Flash® media streaming through Akamai, a leading content distribution network (CDN).
“Customer response has been overwhelming to the recent support in Wirecast for Flash streaming,” said Barbara DeHart, VP of Marketing at Telestream. “We are pleased to extend this support to include Flash streaming through Akamai, giving users more choices for streaming their video broadcasts to audiences located anywhere in the world.”
