How "Live" Event Webcasting Works
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The Basic Process:
The basic process is the same for all webcasts, other than differences in scale of the production:
1. Capture: Images and/or sound are captured with appropriate equipment. Anything from a single digital camcorder to multiple cameras and mixing desks.
2. Output: The output from this equipment is fed into a laptop or PC using appropriate interface hardware.
3. Encoding: Software on the PC turns that input into a format suitable for live streaming. Typically this would be Windows Media Encoder for Windows Media format.
4. Transmission: The encoded output is then transmitted via the PC's internet connection to our streaming servers. The higher the speed of this internet connection, the higher the quality of the images we broadcast.
5. Broadcast: This single stream is received by our streaming servers and re-broadcast, in real time, to multiple viewers via a website link.