Comments on: Stream Your Events Live http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2009/11/stream-your-events-live.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:22:14 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jeremy Phan http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2009/11/stream-your-events-live.html/comment-page-1#comment-24124 Jeremy Phan Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:04:42 +0000 http://www.sync-blog.com/?p=4980#comment-24124 The venue was small, so it wasn't a big issue. I used an external webcam with built-in pan/zoom functionality. For higher quality, a camcorder can always be connected through FireWire and used as the source, making use of its zoom, better optics, etc. I had never use FMLE before and wish that it had saved the raw camera input (which was higher resolution) instead of just saving the stream. The Internet connection (or streaming service) also wasn't 100% reliable so it would cut out and have to restart the stream. All in all, it was a good experience/experiment and I look forward to streaming future events. The venue was small, so it wasn’t a big issue.

I used an external webcam with built-in pan/zoom functionality. For higher quality, a camcorder can always be connected through FireWire and used as the source, making use of its zoom, better optics, etc.

I had never use FMLE before and wish that it had saved the raw camera input (which was higher resolution) instead of just saving the stream. The Internet connection (or streaming service) also wasn’t 100% reliable so it would cut out and have to restart the stream.

All in all, it was a good experience/experiment and I look forward to streaming future events.

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]]> By: Globetrotter http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2009/11/stream-your-events-live.html/comment-page-1#comment-24119 Globetrotter Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:35:19 +0000 http://www.sync-blog.com/?p=4980#comment-24119 Livestream is quite easy to set up and get running. If you want to use it for commercial purposes you can upgrade your account and get a white labeled player, access control to your channel, etc. Though if the numbers of viewers grow, it can get expensive. Then other alternatives might be interesting. Wowza Streaming Server in conjunction with Amazons Cloud Computing (http://www.wowzamedia.com/ec2.html) are a good and cheaper alternative. You only pay for what you need. Regarding the recording, how was the quality of your video stream with the webcam? I can imagine that it's not easy to film an event with a webcam which is designed for close and up front face filming. If your event is a scene which is big and a bit farer away you could run into problems. Didn't you? Livestream is quite easy to set up and get running. If you want to use it for commercial purposes you can upgrade your account and get a white labeled player, access control to your channel, etc. Though if the numbers of viewers grow, it can get expensive.
Then other alternatives might be interesting. Wowza Streaming Server in conjunction with Amazons Cloud Computing (http://www.wowzamedia.com/ec2.html) are a good and cheaper alternative. You only pay for what you need.

Regarding the recording, how was the quality of your video stream with the webcam? I can imagine that it’s not easy to film an event with a webcam which is designed for close and up front face filming. If your event is a scene which is big and a bit farer away you could run into problems. Didn’t you?

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