The Best Time to Live Stream
Streaming live typically involves a lot of focus on planning the live event, crafting content, coordinating and scheduling the entire production. However, the most critical moment in this entire process is the instant that the stream goes live. Not only do you want to be …
The vMix StreamShark Integration
Over the last few weeks we’ve been working closely with the vMix team to bring our customers a much deeper integration with the live stream encoding software. The latest release of vMix (17.0.0.100 and higher) includes the new StreamShark integration. A few things you can …
What’s New in Wirecast 7
Telestream has finally launched version 7 of Wirecast. The first thing we noticed is Wirecast’s new logo, which if you slightly rotate looks kind of like a party hat! Version 7 comes with a plethora of improvements and new features. Wirecast 6 was released almost 2 …
Why Governments Should Live Stream
The old adage that governments are ‘slow moving beasts’ when it comes to adapting new technology is particularly true in the field of communication. The majority of governments still prefer publicly communicating through traditional media, which is great, but it ignores one of the fastest growing …
Software vs Hardware Encoders: The Most Portable Solutions
In this post, we’ll examine the two most portable Software and Hardware Encoders for live streaming. As with any streaming event, you need to examine your requirements in order to work out the best camera setup. For the purpose of our post, we limited our …
Viewing HLS Adaptive Stream Behaviour
In this post, we will take you through the process of viewing the adaptive switching behaviour of a StreamShark stream using the Google Chrome browser. This will give you an insight into how the browser displays our html5 HLS live streams under various network conditions. …
What is Adaptive Streaming?
This post is a part of our educational series on Live Streaming Basics for the Newbie and Video on Demand Basics for the newbie. What is Adaptive Streaming? Adaptive streaming is a video streaming technique that detects a viewer’s bandwidth and CPU capacity in real-time and adjusts …
The Nuts and Bolts of Live Streaming
This post is part of our educational series on Live Streaming Basics for the Newbie and Video on Demand Basics for the Newbie. Introduction There are various factors that influence the success of a live stream such as settings of technical parameters (E.g. segment size), quality of the internet …
Understanding Codecs and Formats
This post is a part of our educational series on Live Streaming Basics for the Newbie and Video on Demand Basics for the Newbie. Audio and Video Codecs A Codec is technology used to compress the data. Common video codecs (also called video format) include MPEG-4/H.264 …
Video on Demand Basics for the Newbie
This post is a part of our educational series for those new to streaming. There are various platforms offering services for managing and streaming Video on Demand. Using these platforms requires at least basic technical knowledge so you can setup streaming for your video(s). By the time you finish reading …
