Live Web Broadcast

[original PM]

Anyone know of an easy way to broadcast a video over the web - I am thinking of say broadcasting a wedding

I think it is pretty easy but was wondering if any has experience and can add anything useful??

[pmeswani]

Anyone know of an easy way to broadcast a video over the web - I am thinking of say broadcasting a wedding

I think it is pretty easy but was wondering if any has experience and can add anything useful??

Are we talking about broadcasting the wedding live? In that case, you may want to look at a slingbox or something similar. But you would need an internet connection of some sort. If you are looking to broadcast a recorded wedding, then all you need to do is rip the DVD / video into a MP4 / MPeg format and upload it to a site of some sort.

[original PM]

thanks pmeswani

it is a live broadcast I am looking for

SLingbox?

[BrilloPad]

thanks pmeswani

it is a live broadcast I am looking for

SLingbox?

http://www.slingmedia.com/

[NickFitz]

It depends on the QoS you're aiming at, which depends on the user requirements.

If you just want those who can't make it to have a chance of watching, then a decent webcam and broadband connection combo should do. You can send them a DVD of the professional-quality video later if they're that interested.

If you're thinking of TV-broadcast-quality, you'll need a pretty fat pipe upstream from the venue. Remember that most broadband connections are quite limited upstream - they're optimised for downstream, as people download a lot more data than they upload.

Squeezing live video above webcam quality on to a normal broadband connection isn't really feasible. If it was, webcams would be better than they are - there's a ready market for high-quality live video over the Internet, and the customers aren't interested in the people on-screen actually being married to each other, if you know what I mean

Actually, that could be The Law of Internet Applications: If the porn industry isn't already doing it, it can't (yet) be done

[TheVoice]

Anyone know of an easy way to broadcast a video over the web - I am thinking of say broadcasting a wedding

I think it is pretty easy but was wondering if any has experience and can add anything useful??

My company provide event radio & TV services, part of which is what you're talking about here. Funnily enough we're considering offering short term radio stations for weddings & doing live video streams from them in the near future.

Drop me a PM, we'll talk.

[wxman]

Windows media encoder is one way to go.

I have been using http://www.severestudios.com/

[Churchill]

Anyone know of an easy way to broadcast a video over the web - I am thinking of say broadcasting a wedding

I think it is pretty easy but was wondering if any has experience and can add anything useful??

Xeno is the one to talk too. He knows all about exibiting himself...