Webcasting setups/help

[dcbrown]

Ok, still playing with the software got some of it to work by using Adobe FME.

1. Install FME following the links on ustream
2. Use My Shows -> Advanced on ustream, save xml file which describes the show
3. Open FME, use File->open to open just saved xml, this then becomes the default and then close FME

--only have to do the above once--

4. Open CutFour, connect sources select one for output
5. Open FME, select MediaLooks Multigraph Video - I had to open tool and "connect" to the source
6. I tried connecting to MediaLooks Multigraph Audio, but no joy still so am still using line in
7. Hit "Start" in FME... wait for encode to start and connection to ustream to be established
8. Hit "Broadcast", ustream window opens and should find the flash stream already in place.
9. Hit "Start Broadcast"...

Video output seems a bit better than before, but still not great. More pauses and dropouts. I selected 300kbs to start with in FME, I might bump this up. But there are definitely more dropouts on ustream through this method. But at least its working up to the point of partially using CutFour which allows me to preview incoming sources as well as playing back stored .avi files into the stream output.

PS if you see "DEMO" in the right upper quadrant of the ustream test I'm running that's from CutFour - I'm running the 30 day eval copy and thats the watermark indicating I'm running the demo version.