Quicktime Broadcaster

HyperLiteG4

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Anyone have experience with broadcasting Quicktime streams live over the internet using Apple's free Quicktime Broadcaster? Please tell me your experiences, settings that work for you, problems, success, etc.....

thanks!!
 
Yes! I have successfully used QuickTime Broadcaster with and without QuickTime Streaming Server on my home network of an iMac and TiBook.

My only complaint is that Cable Modems are slow for uploading! OK, so that's not Apple's fault. =)

Despite the fact that the documentation says you can't use Broadcaster to send data to a local QuickTime Streaming Server (that is, on the same machine), I did it just fine.

With my Formac Studio I can pump live TV through Broadcaster and watch TV on my laptop outside on the grass. Way to go Apple and Formac!

It took me a while to figure out what Apple meant by some terms in the Network tab.

When I want to watch TV on my TiBook I choose Manual Unicast and set the Address to my TiBook's IP address.

To broadcast to a local QuickTime Streaming Server to act as a repeater, I select Automatic Unicast (Announce), set the Name to 127.0.0.1, and set File to something simple like tv. I check Broadcast over TCP.

Of course both ways you have to Export->SDP after you click the Broadcast button, and you have to get that SDP file to the remote computer, but there are many ways to do that.

Cheers!

-Rob
 
Hey thanks for the info, I've been playing around with it for the past 2 days and pretty much figured it all out now.....our church is wanting to stream our service on september 11 for our memorial service. So they asked me to get it up live over the internet.

if you want to see it, go to: http://www.horizon.org/events/sep11

at 6:30 PST the service will be live via my Powerbook 550, Quicktime 6 and MPEG-4! yay, i love Apple and their awesome tools!
 
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