Okay.. My third attempt to start blogging. I admit I have had a hard time getting used to writing. In many ways I feel like all I do is talk so writing does not have much appeal to me.. I am working on it...
We have been working hard to provide an online streaming solution. We started with UStream. It was pretty good but we had trouble with the firewire connection. It would not reliably connect. We tried Justin.TV and faithstream but finally landed on livestream.com. What I like best about livestream is the variety of ways it connects. In our Mac department, we use Quicktime Broadcaster. In our youth building we use Flash Media Encoder. We can use line commands to take control. For manual control we log into livestream.com/studio. There we can manage the VOD files or monitor chat.
We have put a direct portal in our website at http://www.fbca.org/live. I have asked as many folks as possible to hit it so we can see how it handles the traffic. I asked our web service provider if the traffic to the portal counted against our band width. They assured me that it did not. Next I examined the analytics on the Livestream website to guesstimate the costs of eliminating the ads on our streams. The base cost of $350 will help but from the usage policy I see we could be charged extra as our viewership will go up.
The next phase will be to use the analytics with othersites like Justin.tv to estimate costs from them...
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