A Lesson In Stream Failure: The Australian 2016 Olympics Live Stream
Over the opening weekend of the Rio 2016 Olympics, Australian sports fans have slammed Channel Seven, an Australian TV Station, over a “woeful” streaming experience. Viewers were promised free and paid ‘premium’ access for $20, to the live coverage and on-demand replays. Disappointingly, technical glitches …
StreamShark Promo: Get 10% Off vMix
As you might have noticed recently we’ve been working closely with vMix to bring deeper integrations and an overall simplified experience when using their software with StreamShark. Today we’re pleased to announce a 10% discount off vMix to all customers and visitors to the StreamShark site. …
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 …
