Comments on: Live Streaming 101

By: Hans Mundahl

Hans Mundahl — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:10:21 +0000

That’s cool, promptdog looks interesting.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:49:40 +0000

Thnx for the great article. One point though . . . I tried the free software solutions quoted above but was generally frustrated with the limited feature set. I eventually settled on promptdog teleprompter software.

By: Hans Mundahl

Hans Mundahl — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:50:35 +0000

Very interesting, Melanie – I would also have thought YouTube… we have a three part strategy for archiving our live broadcasts.

While a show is being broadcast we are able to record it from within Livestream with all transitions, titles and other media.

Then we can make the most recent show our ‘auto pilot’ so folks who visit our channel or embedded player have something recent to watch.

We make these shows (in their entirety or in small clips) available in our ‘on demand’ section of our channel. So if you come to our channel page on livestream or to our embedded player then you can look back and watch old shows.

The third part which we haven’t done yet, but are considering doing for next semester is downloading the shows out of Livestream and uploading them to another video hosting site like vimeo or youtube. the advantage of this we see is to drive more eyeballs to our live show.

One downside of this for us would be the extra time spent uploading and also we are broadcasting at a fairly mediocre video quality (perfectly fine for live, but not that great for recorded), so we would need to consider taping our shows and editing them prior to upload.

I’d be interested to hear what you have learned on the flip project. I believe our audience is largely high school students, recent alumni and their parents.

By: Melanie Wong

Melanie Wong — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:02:15 +0000

I am actually more interested in where the live video will be archived. Recently I was working on a project with Cisco’s FlipCam and the company had asked us to identify what millennials were paying attention to. You would think that answers would be YouTube, YouTube, YouTube, but that appeals more to the younger audiences of 14-17. The older generations are turning to Vimeo and Viddler.

I would like to know your thoughts on this and how live video archives can play a part in this role.

By: Travis Warren

Travis Warren — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:12:05 +0000

Great Post! Nice work Hans