Getting Impatient For Lack of Live Video September 14, 2009
Posted by SteveatLFPress in News.trackback
Okay, I’m beginning to get very impatient while awaiting a Mac version of the Livestream.com Procaster solution. For those unfamiliar with our challenges, we have been using a Rogers RocketStick connected to a MacBook Pro to live stream events via the Livestream.com browser-based Flash encoder.
Whether the problem is with Rogers throttling us or with the browser-based Flash encoding itself, we were having more and more problems broadcasting live this spring. So we made a decision a few months ago to hold off on any further live video until Livestream.com released a full-fledged Mac application for real time Flash encoding. (They have a Windows version but we’ve stayed away from it thus far).
I had hoped to see that later in August, and now half way through September we still don’t have it. There were numerous times in the past few weeks where we could have gone live.
Patience is not something I do well.
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And the wait continues. According to Livestream.com they expect a beta version of their Procaster: Mac Edition to be out in “October”.
The wait is over! Livestream Procaster Mac Beta was just released. You can now use it to start streaming live video with one press of the “go live” button.
Download it here:
http://www.livestream.com/userguide/index.php/Mac_Release
Yes, it is true. The beta for Livestream.com was released over the weekend and we’re quite happily playing with the new build. Hopefully we will test it out on a Rogers Rocket Stick shortly to see if that addresses some of our live streaming issues.