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Webcasting, Windows Media or Quicktime?

Posted by Cliff on from the throw-your-apple-through-the-window dept.

schlarbo asks: "I need to help produce a live webcast and was hoping to get some insight on the process from people with experience. We are a media house in Western Australia that uses Apple computers. We have the cameras, computers and a digital converter for the cameras. However, the big question is: should we use Quicktime Broadcaster, or rent a Windows XP laptop and use Windows Media Player to do the webcast?"

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  1. Windows Media? Over Corp LAN by Fruples · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not to steal the limelight but I have a similar question and could ues all the help I can get. I am interested in Deploying video over a corp LAN. There will be 3000 or so computers on site that will get a 2 min presentation. Many of these will hit the site at similar times. Say 8:00 in the morning when everyone starts work. Lunch time, when they have a break to check email. It is a pretaped presentation so I do not need to worry about streaming it live, but I need to understand what kind of traffic implications there are on the network infrastructure. What's the right way to do this? What resources will be required? We use all Win computers. Thanks