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Hello,
What I'm wanting to do: Plug in my Video camera to my FireWire port and film live a talent show at college. I want to be able to show this live via the internet on a webpage or allowing people to type a URL in to watch it in media player/quicktime. I need to broadcast it live, i have a very strong internet connection behind me to do this. It'll be on for about 3 hours. It'll have sound also.
Is there an application or a process to do this via my mac? What software and/or hardware is there i'll need to purchase to do this? Do you know?
Do i have to pay for anything? If so, what things am i looking at to buy?
Has anyone done this before that maybe could walk me through the process please?
Thank you and much appreciated.
Jamie
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If your camera has firewire you don't need any extra hardware as far as the capture hardware goes. If you are running NTSC out of the camera then get a Canopus DV Converter to convert the NTSC video to DV.
Your next step is to download QuickTime Broadcaster from Apple. It's free and is on the QT page.
Then in QT Broadcaster you would create an Automatic Unicast to your QuickTime Streaming Server. QTSS is part OS X Server so this will cost some money. If your budget doesn't allow an xServe/Tiger Server then you can also check out Darwin Streaming Server which is the open source version of QTSS. I don't think DSS has a universal binary installer yet so that might be of concern.
There used to be a little tutorial on QT Broadcaster and DSS but I couldn't find it on Apple's site. Here's a link to QTSS for Tiger Server chapter. It should get you started in the right direction.
http://images.apple.com/quicktime/pd...rver_v10.4.pdf
Apple - QuickTime - Tutorials - Delivery
-Brad
(Last edited by nerd; Mar 3, 2007 at 02:12 PM.
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Thanks mate, i'll check that out and get back to you with how i get on 
Appreciated
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Hey again
You mentioned the server. Is it possible to buy streaming server like you would with webhosting or does it have to be inhouse?
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I think dreamhost.com has Darwin Streaming Server set up on their servers to use. You mentioned you had a lot of bandwidth, I'm not sure how many connections DreamHost can handle compared to what you have. I would guess that http://www.akamai.com/ would handle a lot of connections better then DreamHost.
How many viewers are you expecting to stream to?
I've never streamed to more then 4 clients for what I use the streaming server for so you also might want to post to the Quicktime Streaming Server Users list over at http://lists.apple.com and get some advice on how many streams each server would be expected to handle.
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I'm expecting about 300 users to be watching the video and audio webcast. For about 3 hours in total.
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