Video: Choosing a Web Distribution Platform
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1月时: Distribution platforms are web services designed primarily to deliver one incoming stream to multiple outputs. The first system we're going to talk about are Switchboard Live, 这是, I reviewed Switchboard Live in its original name (which was Joicaster) [http://da4.d3africa.net/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Joicaster-Review-A-Simple-Platform-for-Live-Video-Distribution-108778.大约一年前. It was the first platform I'd ever seen that allowed you to send a single stream in and send it out to multiple streams.
Basically what it looks like in Switchboard Live is you have all these destinations, and then you choose and configure the destination. 然后当你直播的时候, you basically press the Stream button and whichever ones are selected get a stream. So, 这是一个非常, very simple way to support multiple streams, 我们会看到, 而且价格也很实惠.
这是典型的顾客, 大小公司, basically anybody who needs this functionality from an individual user to an Enterprise client. And this is where we see some of the counterpoints to the arguments for individual, 内部多个编码器. Bandwidth costs at venues are very, 非常昂贵的, and if you need advanced features like an isolated VLAN, that's going to cost you even more.
I think if you're going to support multiple output platforms in a practical way, you're going to want a cloud distribution system like this. You may want a production system if you need additional functionality, but I think this is the way to go. 你有带宽成本. If you've got multiple hardware devices, you may need multiple operators. 这是额外的费用. Why use this system as compared to Wowza or a similar platform? I think the answers here are quite accurate. Wowza is geared for technical users. It's not a system you want to send your marketing staff or your promotion staff to try and use.
All the products are a whole lot easier to use than Wowza. Wowza is not hard to use; it's just a developer-oriented product. And as a developer-oriented product, you need a different class of user. Switchboard Live in particular, I found simple to use and very functional. 我喜欢它.
What features should you consider? There are a couple products like this. How do you choose this one, or choose this one over others? The ability to send an email to get a user involved and get them to a page. The ability to stop and start publishing to live destinations independently. 一个API. The ability to embed an HTML5 player. 用于嵌入目的, if you want to embed a player in your own website as well as distribute on Facebook Live, 你可以用这个系统来做. And the ability to support multiple ingestion points and kind of put them together into one presentation.
Which platforms can you distribute to? Pretty much any RTMP-based live-streaming destination or platform. They have an API integrated with LiveU Solo, that's a non-camera type device. 他们也来参加展览了. And listed as destinations within OBS and LiveU Central, that basically means it's easy to use within the open broadcaster system software and LiveU Central. And they're working on deeper integrations that'll add that level of ease-of-use with other live production systems.
费用是多少?? There's a free version that gives you one stream to up to three destinations and then there's a $25 a month version that gives you one stream to up to five locations. 还有一些额外的. If you want transrating, that's going to cost you $10 each. Custom RTMP is going to cost you $10 as well. But this is up on their website and larger companies will have different pricing structures for this capability.
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