Using OBS as a Virtual Webcam on Windows and MacOS
With more and more people working from home in the current global environment, we’re seeing an increase in the number of people asking how to use OBS as a virtual webcam for video conferencing solutions such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype and Google Meet. You …
Integrating and Extending your Zoom Meetings with StreamShark
Using StreamShark as a Custom Live Streaming Service for Zoom Zoom Video Communications provides a remote conferencing service (Zoom) that combines video conferencing, online meetings, chat, and mobile collaboration. Zoom is useful for hosting interactive meetings between multiple participants, who can quickly join via their …
Video: Privacy & Security Features
Struggling with moving your conferences, company-wide meetings or educational classes online? StreamShark’s end-to-end Live and On-Demand platform can securely, efficiently and reliably organize and stream rich video content to your target audience. In this video, we walk through the many different ways StreamShark lets you …
Important Product Update: Change to Streaming Events Authentication
Change to Streaming Events Authentication On 29th March 2020 starting from 07:00 to 08:00 UTC we will be simplifying the method in which StreamShark users authenticate their live streaming events. Over the course of this hour maintenance window be prepared for intermittent downtime of the …
New Enterprise Feature: Viewer Home Page
We’re excited to launch our latest enterprise feature, the Viewer Home Page! Viewer Home Page allows authorized users to easily browse your organizations live and on-demand video content. In the video below we go over playlists, themes, channels, home page, global search, security and custom …
Using Bits Per Pixel (BPP) To Calculate The Optimal Live Stream Bitrate
Bits Per Pixel or BPP is a value used to calculate the best video bitrate for live streams. When live streaming there’s always a trade off between available upload speed, viewer download speed and overall video quality. We can mitigate the viewer download speed issue …
What is Transcoding? Why is it Important?
There are a plethora of technical terms thrown around in the video industry. Two of the most common terms are ‘transcoding’ and ‘encoding’. Whilst you can probably get away not knowing most of the technical details behind these terms, it’s good to have a basic …
Wirecast Beginners Guide
In case you missed it we’ve recently published a beginners guides on Wirecast. You can check out the guides we’ve created so far below. Wirecast Beginners Guide Home Looping a Video Adding a Webcam Creating a Picture-in-Picture Effect Cropping a Layer Setting an Audio Delay …
Product Update: Improvements to the DVR & Permalink Workflow
DVR Workflow Update Please note this update only applies to customers using Streaming Events with the DVR feature enabled. This update will only apply to events created after August 13th 2018. DVR enabled events which have been moved to the ‘Post Event’ phase, will now …
VideoJS-VR Is Now An Official Video.js Plugin
As some of you may know we’ve been developing an open source 360º video plugin for Video.js. We’re pleased to announce that our VideoJS-VR plugin has been appointed the official Video.js 360º plugin and has migrated to the official VIdeoJS organisation and repositories. History of …
