[aquaclear]

What is the best way to show live video on a website? I am doing this for my church and am not the best web person in the world but presently the only tech/computer savy person at church and they want to allow web access to sermons for those who are not able to physically come to church. I have a video camera attached to my computer via something called webshot. It works via netmeeting. Does anyone know where I can go to basically allow people to go to my website and see live video/audio ? I presently use Frontpage but am also looking into Dreamweaver. Does quicktime have something? Any help would be appciated as I am going out on faith on getting this accomplished

Thanks...

[dtriska]

Take a look at QuickTime Broadcaster.

[aquaclear]

Thanks for your reply. I noticed that it requires OSX 10.1 server. My problem is that we have to use a Windows 98 machine.

Thus the reason for netmeeting but I don't know much about net meeting so I was wondering what most people use. The quicktime sounds like what I need but unfortunately using quicktime would make me give up my ibook and don't know if using an ibook as a server is practical.

Any other suggestions? Does anyone know or use VideoLAN? Thanks

[aquaclear]

It would appear netmeeting is only for 1-1 communication. I would need a 1 to many type communication. Does anyone have any ideas on what to use for a live stream? Does the Windows Media Player a real choice? It appears videoLAN (VLC) is only good for linux for mulitcast. This is proving to be more difficult then it should be....

[york28]

You are going to need to set up a streaming server. Using Win98 is going to be the hurdle I think. Ugh.

I just checked, and the free Darwin Streaming server, which could deliver Quicktime or MP4 to your audience needs at least Win 2k.

What kind of bandwidth are you dealing with? Streaming audio is fairly demanding, and video is much more so.

I would check to see if you can get a Windows Media streaming server for free, but I think its not cheap. And it's WMP, which isn't the best, but is probably supported by the most home users.

Have you thought about just doing an audio stream? That might be easier to do, and it would just be a streamed MP3, which tons of programs can play. It's also a lot less bandwidth-hungry.