QuickTime Broadcaster Available

firegate writes "A lot of people have been thrilled since the release of Apple's Open Source Darwin Streaming Server. Unfortunately, to stream live video, you previously had to buy a product called Sorenson Broadcaster (Win/Mac). Apple has now released a tool called QuickTime Broadcaster which accomplishes the same task, except this product is free. From what I understand, this application is a scaled-down version of Sorenson's Broadcaster. Apple has only released a Mac OS X version of the program for now, so I guess that we PC guys will need to keep buying the Sorenson product for now. Hopefully, Apple will realize how profitable a Windows or Linux version could be."

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10 steps to live web streaming

[bfrog]

1) download and install Streaming Server and Broadcaster
2) start Streaming Server
3) start Broadcaster and point it at Streaming Server
4) start Movie Player and enter the URL of your Streaming Server
5) if video doesn't stream, plug in camera and repeat step 4
6) save movie to iDisk, in the Movies directory
7) log into homepage.mac.com
8) create account
9) create new movie page, select background, and select saved movie from iDisk
10) there is no step 10.

Re:What about Mpeg-4 licensing fees?

[eXtro]

There's been some news on the licensing front. Slashdot should post it in about a month or so. The first 50000 users are free, then beyond that there's a per user fee and its capped at 1 million dollars. There are some more details here.