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VIDEOGUYS.COM
Teradek VidiU Pro: The Must-Have Tool
for Professional Live Streaming

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TERADEK
LG Turns to Teradek for “Larger than life”
Times Square Product Launch
A complete wireless workflow
combining IP and RF expertise.

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TELESTREAM VITEC
Live Streaming From VITEC Mastering Live Streaming:
(Over The) Top to Bottom Solutions for Houses of Worship
By Mark D’Addio, VP of Business Development
& Emerging Markets, VITEC

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LIVEU
Trusting Your Live Content
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on the Internet? VIDEOGUYS.COM
What you need to know for successful, How to Stream Multiple Cameras Live
high-quality, online streaming With Your Laptop and Wirecast Studio

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NEWTEK, INC. NANOCOSMOS
NewTek’s NDI—Giving Live Event Producers Tell Your Story With Live Video
Video Over IP Simplify creating cross-platform live streaming apps
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Teradek VidiU Pro:
The Must-Have Tool for
Professional Live Streaming
Many videographers and companies are now delivering
live streaming of events, sports, weddings, plays, graduation
ceremonies, training sessions, news reporting, and promotions.
With free or very affordable CDNs like YouTube Live, UStream,
Twitch LiveStream, Wowza, or any RTMP server you can
easily deliver your live content to any number of people, all
over the world. All you need is a camera, an encoder and an
internet connection.
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But what about when you don’t have a good internet
connection? Maybe you are in the middle of a ball field or shooting
at an outdoor gazebo behind the chapel or you find yourself in
the bleachers of a high school football field for graduation? What
if you get to the recital hall or auditorium only to find that there
isn’t wired internet and/or the Wi-Fi coverage is sketchy at best?
Maybe you arrive at the church only to find that someone changed
the IP address for the server or the settings on the firewall?
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WHAT DO YOU DO?
As the saying goes, the show must go on. The Teradek VidiU
Pro is the essential tool that solves all these problems and
makes sure that you can deliver your live stream as promised,
regardless of the internet connectivity issues the location may
hit you with. With Teradek’s latest ShareLink™ technology
and VidiU Pro, you guarantee the bandwidth needed to
stream your HD content from anywhere, to everywhere.
ShareLink lets you use up to 4 iPhones and other internet
connections to deliver the combined bandwidth you need
for Live HD streaming, even with poor cell service.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The ShareLink allows you to achieve maximum
bandwidth and ultimate reliability by bonding multiple
internet connections, from different sources, into a single
connection. Bonding is a technology that broadcasters have
been using for years to upload and deliver their content. They
use expensive gear costing many times more than the VidiU
Pro. Teradek products like the Bond II and Cube use cellular
bonding in broadcast environments, so these guys know how
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to do it right. With the robust connectivity of ShareLink™,
you can be sure that your HD live video feed will get to your
audience every time.
Let’s use as an example that you are on a ball field with no
internet connection. With a single iPhone you can deliver low-
quality video streams. By bonding a second iPhone you can double
your bandwidth. Utilize up to 4 iPhones together and you can
create a big fat streaming pipe able to handle 720p HD streams.
TECH NOTE 1: Videoguys recommends 720p as the optimal streaming
resolution for all workflows. For internet-based content delivery you
always want to choose progressive over interlaced. While you may have a
pipe capable of supporting 1080p, we’ve seen that only a fraction of your
audience will have the bandwidth to watch 1080p. By going with 720p
you give your audience a great quality HD stream, one that you can be
confident will be delivered to their computer or mobile device.
TECH NOTE 2: Cellular bonding works best when the iPhones are on
different cell carriers (ie Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile) so they are not
competing for the same cell service and bandwidth
When you have your VidiU Pro with you, along with a couple
of iPhones and ShareLink enabled, you always have a backup,
even if the site has internet connectivity. As mentioned in the
tech tip above, if at all possible, try to get your crew to be on
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several different carriers so that you can use their iPhones to
maximum benefit.
ShareLink can also be set up to combine wired, Wi-Fi and
USB modem cellular internet connectivity for redundancy.
You can use ShareLink to mix iPhones together with Wi-Fi
and/or wired internet to provide even higher throughput and
redundancy should any of the bonded connections fail or slow
down. That means that if one of the iPhones or connections
fail, the others still work together to deliver the best quality
stream they can. This happens seamlessly and automatically.
ShareLink is available as a subscription plan starting at
just $19.90 per month, accessed through the VidiU App or
ShareLink.Teradek.com.
VidiU Pro does not require cell service to work. It connects to
the internet via wired internet, Wi-Fi or via cellphone(s) using
the ShareLink application. While VidiU Pro is a stand-alone
camera mounted encoder, it can be used with any switcher/
mixer to enable live streaming to your productions. Just plug
the HDMI output of the switcher into the VidiU Pro and start
streaming. So even if you are doing multi-camera shoots, VidiU
Pro is still a very valuable tool to have. We have many customers
using the HDMI output of their Roland, DataVideo, or other
live switcher/ mixer to feed directly into a Teradek VidiU Pro
encoder. This allows you to add live streaming to an existing
live production.
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VidiU Pro also allows you to record your streaming output
directly to an SD card for archiving, additional post production
or easy distribution via ftp or services like Dropbox.
WHO SHOULD PURCHASE VIDIU PRO?
All of the VidiU family of video encoders for streaming works
great. But if you are doing this professionally, or you are planning
on streaming a once in a life time event then you know you
simply cannot tolerate any hiccups or issues with your stream. If
your internet goes down, you are out of business. There is no way
to make that up. So anyone who produces live video productions
will benefit from the ShareLink function and professional feature
set of the VidiU Pro, and will quickly understand the value of
the added investment for the VidiU Pro. For less than $1,000
and a couple of iPhones that you already have access to, you can
have a bulletproof streaming solution. When you don’t have to
worry about the stream, you can concentrate on getting the best
possible shots, camera angles and content for your production.
ABOUT VIDEOGUYS.COM
Videoguys.com is a family owned and operated business that has
proudly served videographers and producers for more than 30 years.
For three generations, we have been shooting footage of our growing
families and have spent countless hours editing. We actually install and
use the equipment we sell and we love to share our experience and
expertise with you.
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LG Turns to Teradek for

“Larger than life” Times
Square Product Launch
A complete wireless workflow combining IP and RF expertise.

New York, New York—Pulling off a live on the ground and streaming the event “You couldn’t have had cables because
stream for a complex event in the heart seamlessly to an iconic Times Square it was on the street in the middle of
of Times Square is no easy task, but screen hundreds of feet in the air as well Times Square,” said Artsis. “There was
five-time Emmy Award winning video as to multiple live streaming platforms. no staging or anything, so regular people
journalist and reporter Michael Artsis
was up for the challenge.
To mark the launch of their new
SideKick installment for the TWIN
Wash laundry pair, LG Electronics
wanted to create a Broadway-inspired
event in the middle of New York’s
Theater District. This event would
consist of six separate performances
throughout the day featuring a
14-foot version of the TWIN Wash
laundry pair, six dancers, and two
16-foot puppets, each operated by
six puppeteers.
Working as a producer with the
nontraditional live experiential media
company Digital Media Etc., Artsis and
his BeTerrific!! team was responsible
for perfectly executing all of the
project’s technical elements. This
included setting up wireless cameras
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walking through the area—even the
performers—could have tripped if there
were wires and the feed could have been
disrupted. Realistically, there was no
way to conveniently cable this.”
In addition to the people crawling
everywhere, the sheer amount of RF
and wireless interference in Times
Square could potentially interrupt any
stream or transmission. With this in
mind, Artsis chose to set up a wireless
workflow using Teradek products—
the Bolt, Bond II, Core, and Cube—to
ensure a successful production.
To start, Artsis used the Teradek Bolt
600s for all three cameras to transmit
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the feed to their respective receivers,
which were outfitted with directional
panel antennas. The zero-delay video
signals from the Bolts then routed to
the switcher where the final mix was
produced.
After, that final mix was output via
SDI connection into the Teradek Bond II.
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Despite not being able to use Ethernet
or satellite connectivity, due to client
demands, Artsis found a way to create
a reliable Internet connection with
Bond through cellular connectivity.
This way, if one network unexpectedly
disconnected, the feed would remain
uninterrupted.
Once the feed was encoded and sent
over IP networks with Bond II, the signal
was directed to Teradek Core. With Core,
Artsis had the freedom to route, DVR,
and configure all of his destinations,
including YouTube Live, Livestream, and
a Teradek Cube decoder that ultimately
fed to the large LG screen for the entire
downtown to see.
“We only do things on a high end,
so we need the best products because
failure isn’t an option,” said Artsis.
“It’s unbelievable how much flexibility
Teradek products give you, and the ease
of setup is completely unmatched. You
couldn’t have given this a more stressful,
challenging environment and, when it
came down to it, everything just worked.”
“It was probably one of the scariest
projects we have ever done,” said Paul
Whitney, F“Due to the ambient waves
that are through the air in Times Square
it was definitely an uphill battle, but
we did not have one single issue. We
depended on Teradek at a high level, and
they came through.”
With this workflow in place—and
some extra support from Dynamic
Digital Displays (D3) and partner Meric
Adriansen—Artsis and Digital Media
Etc. continually aired LG’s theatrical
event successfully during the day. In
the end, the multi-destination stream
reached 400,000 to 500,000 viewers,
giving LG extensive exposure across
different platforms.
“It takes years to build up a
reputation, but only seconds to tear it
down,” said Artsis. “I mean, with my
company BeTerrific!! we’ve established
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our viewership throughout the years
by broadcasting high-end events like
Comic-Con and CES. Like those, this
LG production was big enough to
potentially damage that foundation,
but we chose Teradek, who is the
leader in wireless video transmission
technology. Thanks to their products,
we really made the impossible possible.
We couldn’t have done this without
Teradek and their support.”
ABOUT TERADEK
Teradek, a Vitec Group brand, manufactures
wireless video devices for remote video
capture, live ENG backhaul, real-time
monitoring, proxy recording and webcasting.
For complex IP video systems, Teradek’s
cloud-based workflow management platform
allows users to remotely operate a fleet of
Teradek encoders in real-time from anywhere
in the world.
All Teradek products are designed and
manufactured in the USA.
www.Teradek.com
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Live Streaming
From (Over The)
Top to Bottom
A revolution is taking place right in our living rooms and spilling into any space
where our Wi-Fi and mobile networks reach. Today’s viewers are watching less
traditional broadcast TV, instead turning their attention to other screens such as
tablets, phones, and computers for their entertainment.
At the same time, advances in technology have allowed almost anyone to become
a “broadcaster.” Anyone with a computer and an internet connection can create live
streamed content and generate audiences in the thousands of people or more.
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Additionally, live event producers

are realizing they can multiply their
audiences significantly by providing
a live stream of their events to remote
audiences. Also, there are many
forms of education, entertainment,
and community content that can
find an audience through streaming
technology in a way that just wasn’t
practical with traditional delivery
mechanisms.
The options for how and where you
can produce and deliver live video
content continue to expand. Content
owners and event producers that don’t
consider live streaming can miss
opportunities for audience growth, music and sports to live interviews, and other school events available to
revenue, and market share. comedy, and more. anyone connected to the Internet. Many
Here are a few examples of events that educators use live streaming as a teaching
WHAT IS LIVE STREAMING? can be, and are, streamed live: tool in a video production course, creating
Live streaming is a term that is used student-run live shows, or assigning
to describe many video applications Live Sports/eSports/News students to live stream assemblies.
and situations, and it can all be a bit When was the last time you watched
confusing. Here at Telestream, streaming recorded sports or news? Sports and Houses of Worship
is in our DNA, so we thought we’d share news are two of the main categories of Reaching home-bound members is
what the video streaming ecosystem live events, because of their timeliness. important to many houses of worship
looks like from our perspective, what’s that use live streaming to broadcast
involved, and how you might get started. Education weekly services, as well as special
There are many types of situations Teachers and online trainers use live events such as baptisms, weddings,
where live streaming makes sense. streaming to make lectures, tutorials, confirmations and more.
Whether you are a student in high
school or a team of professionals putting
on the evening news, the fundamentals
of live streaming are the same: You need
to capture your content, produce your
show, and encode and deliver (i.e. “live
stream”) that content to a place your
audience can view it.
Let’s take a look at some of the
situations where live streaming
technology is used, things to consider,
and pitfalls to avoid.

1. LIVE EVENTS
Today’s fans are increasingly turning
to the web for entertainment—from
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Meetings/conferences
Many conferences offer
remote access to attendees
who cannot physically travel
to conference locations.
Additionally, many companies
are beginning to take advantage
of technology to live stream
important corporate meetings
to keep all employees informed.
Gaming
The growth of Twitch.tv’s
live game streaming site is a
perfect example of how the
concept of traditional television
as entertainment has changed.
Gamers have burst onto the
live streaming scene, and are
gaining enormous audiences, using
live streaming technology to broadcast
themselves playing video games.
These are just a few of the many
examples of live event streaming. The
spectrum of requirements ranges
from premium, multi-day events like
the Olympic Games where temporary
venues are combined with permanent
facilities around the globe, to single-
camera events impressively produced
by a crew of one. Equally there is a
spectrum of solutions to provide live
streaming, encoding, and delivery.
These can be integrated into traditional
outside broadcast trucks, as well as
complete software-based camera
switching, graphics, encoding, and
delivery systems that can be run on
commodity PC workstation hardware.
• Things to consider
ºº A
 re you going to repurpose an
event from the venue or are you
going to produce and live stream
the event yourself?°
ºº D
 o you need production and live
switching capabilities built in to
your system?
ºº I f you operate a theater/arena/
stadium could you repurpose
feeds from a resident or outside
broadcast system to provide in-
house multiscreen services?
ºº I s it possible to deliver coverage of
more events by adopting multiple
live streaming approaches?
ºº C
 onsider the implications of
originating your live service at the
event site, in a central location,
or the capability for both/either
depending on your needs.
• Pitfalls to avoid
ºº B
 alancing capabilities and cost
will help determine how much
production should be done on-site
as opposed to a central location.
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ºº W
 ide area network capabilities
and costs can vary greatly. It
may be relatively inexpensive
to obtain a fast and reliable
connection on a university
campus vs. a remote location.
2. S
 ECOND SCREEN
LIVE STREAMING
Traditional television content is
no longer just broadcast on a linear
service. Broadcasters are increasingly
looking to stream their existing content
to multiscreen devices (“over the top”
or OTT).
In this scenario the intention is to
broaden the audience of an existing
channel transmission to allow some or all
of the live programming material to be
viewed via web and mobile devices like
phones and tablets. Since there is pre-
existing infrastructure for creating the
channel content, the ideal live streaming
solution may be a system that can take
input that would normally be used as
final output for the broadcast chain.
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Catch-up TV is an internet
television service that repurposes
linear service content to enable video
on demand (VOD) viewing of recently
aired programs. The service is often
funded by advertising, which can
expand advertising opportunities and
increase ad revenue.
• Things to consider
ºº W
 hich is the best output of the
broadcast chain to use for your
service? Is it IP- or SDI-based?
ºº W
 ill you carry ads from the linear
broadcast feed?
• Pitfalls to avoid
ºº D
 o you need to plan for a future
transition from SDI- to IP-based
signal distribution?
ºº D
 o you anticipate graphics
or branding requirements
that are unique to multiscreen
delivery? If so, you might need
to provide for a clean feed and
access to graphics metadata
and assets.
ºº L
 ive content can be preserved for
long-term viewing access. Plan
for potential ad replacement,
audience measurement and
lifecycle management.
ºº A
 void legacy packaging and
distribution formats for
new services (e.g. Flash and
Silverlight).
ºº D
 on’t forget captioning. There
are few mandates for captioning
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of streaming video services,
however in the United States,
captions are mandatory for
streaming of content that
was originally broadcast
with captions.
3. M
 SO FOR
CABLE TV PROVIDERS
Increasingly cable, satellite, and
IPTV service operators make their
programming available on their primary
platform, and also stream it live to mobile,
tablet and web platforms to attract
customers to their premium services.
Similar to Scenario 2, Second Screen
Live Streaming, the infrastructure to
produce and deliver content already
exists for cable operators. There is a
complete live channel—just many
more of them. These channels may
have disparate rules depending on the
content itself, the viewer’s location,
and regional implications regarding
blackouts (e.g. sports programs). The
challenges in this scenario are largely
in system scale, management, and
disparate rights management scenarios
that may apply across content channel,
or even a program-by-program basis.
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• Things to consider
ºº W
 hat targeted devices/players
do you plan to support?
Common packaging and
rights management for targets
are helpful.
ºº W
 ill you implement your own
streaming origin services and/or
content distribution network?
• Pitfalls to avoid
ºº A
 void duplicated encoding,
packaging and storage, which
can increase complexity and
drive up costs and resources.
ºº R ights management
requirements may vary
with content providers and
requirements to support
solutions for regional blackouts.
ºº C
 onsider future needs for
emerging technologies
(eg. HDR and UHD) even
if you don’t plan to deploy
them initially.
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IN CONCLUSION typical that live encodings continue
Whether you’re a crew of one to build this library. It is important
with a laptop; a production team to consider how to make the existing
in a studio; or a content owner library accessible, how to operate
that needs robust, redundant and a system with a mixture of live and
scalable distribution infrastructure, existing content as well how to preserve
Telestream’s live streaming provides live encodings to grow a resilient library.
purpose-built solutions.
As Tom Griffiths, director of ABOUT TELESTREAM
broadcast and distribution technology Telestream provides world-class live
for ITV said at the recent Streaming and on-demand digital video tools and
Forum in London, “To scale successfully workflow solutions that allow consumers
you can’t take disparate systems for and businesses to transform video on the
VOD and for broadcast,” Griffiths said. desktop and across the enterprise.
“They need to be brought together Telestream’s live solutions span from
into a unified chain in order to deliver desktop production and encoding, all the
efficiencies, scale, and flexibility.” way to enterprise-class live streaming
(go2sm.com/itv) and capture.
So, before you settle on your
solutions, consider the scenarios above.
Also consider that everything live
streamed now has potential to become a
VOD asset for later viewing. It is rare that
a new live streaming service is created
where there is not a legacy library of
content. Sometimes that legacy content
can be used to create a deeper service.
It is also possible that excerpts from
an existing library may be posted to
generate additional marketing demand
for new live content. Of course it is also
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OUR PRODUCT LINE

Wirecast ®
Wirecast is the market-leading
cross-platform, all-in-one live
streaming production software enabling
capture, live production, encoding,
and streaming to multiple servers
and platforms simultaneously. With
Wirecast, you can stream multiple live
cameras while dynamically mixing in
other media such as movies, images, and
sounds. Add production features such
as transitions, instant replay, playlists,
animated titles, Chroma key, virtual sets,
and live scoreboards.
Ideal for streaming or recording live
internet shows, breaking news, sporting
events, live concerts, church services,
corporate meetings, lectures, and more,
Wirecast has all the powerful production
capabilities of expensive hardware
solutions with the flexibility and
affordability of a software application.
Wirecast Go
Wirecast Go is a mobile live
streaming application that converts
your iPhone into a live broadcast studio.
Produce live broadcasts from your
phone, add graphics, switch between
shots, and even replay highlights of
your live broadcast. Stream directly to
YouTube Live & RTMP servers.
Lightspeed ® Live Stream
Media and entertainment companies,
corporations, educators and government
can use Lightspeed Live Stream to
provide enterprise-class live encoding for
multiscreen OTT delivery. With support
for IP and SDI input, plus leading AVC
and HEVC (h.264 and h.265) encoding
combined with MPEG DASH and HLS
packaging—Lightspeed Live Stream
offers a powerful and flexible foundation
for live multiscreen deployment.
Additionally, Lightspeed Live Stream
can be combined with Lightspeed Live
Capture to deliver live mezzanine input
to Open Workflows in the powerful
Vantage Media Processing Platform.
• Go direct from live to the web
• HLS and DASH support
• Stand-alone or integrated
with Vantage
• Web application control
• SD, HD and UHD resolutions
For more information on these and other Telestream products,
visit www.telestream.net
Lightspeed Live Capture
Lightspeed Live Capture is an ingest
service for baseband and IP video
to capture content into file-based
workflows. Lightspeed Live Capture
operates independently, or it can be
integrated into an existing Vantage
domain. The system can be controlled
with a web-based application, from
within a Vantage workflow, via an API
or by a scheduled ingest.
• 4 SD/HD-SDI in 1 RU appliance
• Supports video over IP
• Each channel creates mezzanine
and proxy
• Stand-alone or integrated with
Vantage domain
• Integrates directly into Vantage
workflows, both closed and open
• Write to local storage or SAN/NAS

Gameshow
Gameshow is cross-platform, all-
in-one live game streaming production
software that enables capture, live
production, and encoding of live streams
for broadcast to Twitch.tv or YouTube
Live. With Gameshow, gamecasters
can create consistent, branded game
streams using graphical overlays and
interactive widgets, which help them
build community and brand, and make
streams worth watching.
ABOUT TELESTREAM
Telestream provides world-class live and on-demand digital video tools and workflow solutions that
allow consumers and businesses to transform video on the desktop and across the enterprise.
Many of the world’s most demanding media and entertainment companies as well as a growing
number of users in a broad range of business environments, rely on Telestream products to
streamline operations, reach broader audiences and generate more revenue from their media.
Telestream products span the entire digital media lifecycle, including video capture and ingest; live
and on-demand encoding and transcoding; captioning; playback and inspection, delivery, and live
streaming; as well as automation and orchestration of the entire workflow. Telestream corporate
headquarters are located in Nevada City, California. The company is privately held. For more
information, visit www.telestream.net.
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Trusting Your
Live Content on
the Internet?
What you need to know for successful,
high-quality, online streaming

While you may have the best content, the quality of the way you share it really is
the most important aspect to online video streaming. You make a huge investment in
producing a live event where audiences will be logging on to see something for the first
and in some cases only time. You can’t ever risk losing those viewers. All live-streamed
events are therefore mission-critical transmissions. And the transport and encoding
engine you use determines the success of your stream.
The internet is at best unpredictable, and the networks you use for the first mile of
your transition can be just as erratic. The good news is that there have been important
advancements such as IP-based bonding and advanced transport technologies that go
beyond basic video encoding to provide broadcast-quality video signals and reliable
bandwidth. There are also different transport protocols that help to reduce artifacts,
jitter, and buffering when viewing live experiences online.
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DEALING WITH
THE CHALLENGES
So, you are challenged on all sides, you
need to engage with your audience with
dynamic live content that is delivered
flawlessly online and to every viewing
device. You have to get your camera in
the middle of the action, but to do that
you need to cut the cord so you can shoot
from anywhere, leaving you at the mercy
of the available bandwidth. You have to
produce engaging content consistently,
even while your camera is mobile. Your
job is to produce great content, but you
are spending more time trying to navigate
the technology used to deliver it to make
sure people can actually watch it!
Everything really starts with the
audience and its viewing experience.
Broadcasters have the benefit of being
able to control this experience with
high-quality content and super-reliable
delivery to televisions everywhere. But
what happens when you want to bring
that same experience to online streaming?
How do you ensure the same high-quality
content and reliable delivery?
An added challenge to reliable
delivery is that as our lives become even
more mobile, an increasing amount of
live video content needs to be captured
on the fly—and out in the world. Be it
from a drone, from a body-worn camera,
on the move, in the air—exciting video
can happen anywhere and often in
locations where it isn’t easy to have a
fixed network with reliable bandwidth
ready for your use.
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RELIABLE TRANSPORT
AND INTEGRATED ENCODING
Transport and encoding are two
separate issues, but both impact
how the audience experiences your
content. Transport deals with how
bytes get from one place to another;
encoding deals with how sounds and
images are converted to bytes and
back. When cutting the cord to capture
content over wireless, you can’t rely
on just one connection. Whether
using cellular or Wi-Fi, issues with
congestion or interruption can ruin
your stream. Bonding multiple signals
allows for consistency in bandwidth
even when one source becomes
unstable. To ensure high quality,
the encoder needs to be part of this
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process. When the transmission engine
informs the encoder, the encoder can
adapt dynamically when bandwidth
inevitably increases and decreases—
so losses can be compensated and a
high quality viewer experience can be
automatically maintained.
Streaming directly to an online video
platform (OVP) or content delivery
network (CDN) introduces further
considerations versus streaming to
a studio, where the video is made
available as a baseband signal.
In order to ensure that your content
comes out the other end in as high
quality as it went in, and with as little
delay as possible, you need to solve the
first-mile problem of getting your video
into the cloud over IP-based technologies
and mitigate the issues that make the
internet such a challenging environment
for video streaming. Using advanced
integrated encoding technology allows
you to match the output bitrate of the
encoder to the available bandwidth
dynamically, while you are live
streaming, and automatically, without
any interaction needed from you.
For high-quality online streaming,
you need reliable transport over the
most unreliable of networks, including
cellular networks where the transmitter
is moving at high speed. You need all
this and one other element that many
of the transport level solutions on the
market today leave out: tight integration
with the encoder.
INTEGRATED RELIABLE
TRANSPORT PROTOCOL – LRT™
LiveU has been at the forefront of
IP-based live video services for over 10
years. As such, LiveU has seen these
inherent issues for the online streaming
community and developed a Reliable
Transport protocol. LiveU Reliable
Transport (LRT™) brings together the
best of all these techniques into one
integrated protocol that works with
the encoder so you don’t have to do
anything. How?
Packet Ordering
LRT uses
numbered packets
so that the packets
can be re-ordered
when they arrive
out of order. This is
a common practice since data often
arrives in a different order than it was
sent, but is an absolute requirement
with connection bonding, where data
usually arrives in a different order
than intended.
Dynamic Forward
Error Correction
Another
technique used
in LRT is Forward
Error Correction
(FEC), which adds
some overhead to the stream, with
the idea that the small amount of
additional overhead can be used to
recover lost data faster than resending a
packet. For example, 20% of additional
stream bandwidth can result in enough
redundancy so that entire groups of
lost packets can be recovered without
ever requesting or waiting for a resend.
LRT uses a dynamic version of FEC,
meaning that it automatically varies the
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FEC parameters based on monitored
network conditions.
Acknowledge
and Resend
LRT uses a form
of acknowledge
and resend that
is appropriate to
streaming video and
audio. It can acknowledge large
groups of packets if they all arrived. If
some did not arrive, it can inform the
streaming engine to resend needed
data. By acknowledging large groups
of packets at a time, the overhead and
latency of TCP is not re-introduced.
Only the packet numbers are used to
let the system know what was delivered
(or not) so that only the data that is
absolutely needed is requested and
resent. You also never encounter the
main drawback of UDP where you can
only hope that your data makes it to
its destination. With LRT, you get a
complete feedback loop so you know it
is consistently getting there.
Tight Encoder
Integration
or Adaptive
Bit Rate Encoding
The last but
perhaps most
important piece of
the LRT protocol is its tight integration
with the encoder. As the bandwidth
condition changes, LRT automatically
recognizes this and informs the video
encoder to allow it to adapt the bit
rate of video it is delivering and keep
the best possible stream within the
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available bandwidth at any given
moment. This ensures you are not
trying to push more bits than will fit
on the pipe and minimize buffering.
As bandwidth conditions improve,
LRT signals the encoder to modify its
parameters and increase the bandwidth
it is using to stream. In this way, you
continue to push the best possible video
stream at all times. This backward
flow of information ensures that video
continues to be sent, and sent at the
highest quality and lowest latency
possible no matter how unpredictable
the network conditions are.
BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
Freedom and mobility are necessary
for creating engaging live content. High
quality and reliable streams are essential
to the viewers’ experience and erratic
networks and unpredictable Internet
bandwidth can be a fear of the past with
the right reliable transport protocol
and encoding system. Especially if it is
something that happens automatically
without needing your interaction.
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Bonding greatly improves available content in even the remotest locations
bandwidth in the field and reliable for your viewers and deliver this content
transport protocols enhance bonding reliably without worry. With an LRT
and quality anywhere. When the integrated solution, the highest quality
transport and encoder engines are content streaming is ensured and you
integrated, all you have to focus on is can expect the best possible online
getting great content. video experience for your audience –
All LiveU online streaming solutions differentiating your content from
allow you to acquire exciting live everyone else.
ABOUT LIVEU
LiveU sets the standard for high-quality and reliable live video acquisition, management
and distribution over IP. LiveU’s award-winning technology enables live video
transmission from any location around the world with lightweight, easy-to-use
equipment.  From backpacks to smartphones, and satellite/cellular hybrid to external
antenna solutions, LiveU offers a complete range of devices for live video coverage
anytime, anywhere. In addition, LiveU offers extensive cloud-based management and
video distribution solutions. With top-tier customers in 60+ countries, LiveU’s solutions
are being utilized for breaking and developing news and high-profile events, such as the
FIFA World Cup™, Winter and Summer Olympic Games, Presidential Campaigns, Super
Bowls, US Collegiate Championships and red-carpet events. LiveU’s solutions include
multiple 4G LTE/3G, HSPA+, WiMAX and Wi-Fi cellular links, which are optimized for
maximum video quality based on the available network conditions. To learn more about
LiveU, visit www.liveu.tv, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Instagram.
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NewTek’s NDI—
Giving Live Event
Producers Video Over IP
LIVE EVENT PRODUCERS:
WHAT’S IN IP FOR YOU?
Let’s face it: Live streaming pros
are far ahead of the bell curve when it
comes to implementing video over IP.
Between RTMP, MPEG-DASH, AAC,
and H.264, most streaming pros can
recite the alphabet of IP standards
fluently, encoding and transporting
their programs from wherever the
event is taking place to the very screens
where their viewers are watching it live.
Over in the broadcast world,
meanwhile, your compatriots are haggling
over which proposed standard is going to
replace SDI with a different kind of cable.
Or which development to place their
bets on when they re-wire their studio or
build out their next facility.
Or which manufacturer’s
consortium they’ll side with for signal
routing and switching.
These are the decisions they
need to make so they can migrate
their installations away from
legacy baseband—technology that
carries the outdated burdens of
inefficient weight and a low ceiling for
performance improvements. (Not to
mention a colossal pain in the gear for
disconnecting, moving around, and
reconnecting equipment at will.)
These are largely avoidable problems
for live event producers, whose client
base (or job) counts on them to be
nimble and moveable enough to detach
from the confines of a fixed studio
installation and sit in the same room
with the cameras they’re switching.
After all, if you’re reading this guide,
chances are:
• You cover events in conference
centers, meeting halls, auditoriums,
and arenas—not confined to
installed control rooms.
• You determine, mostly, where the
ideal camera placement is, and set
up your production desk where the
cables can reach.
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• You are self-sufficient in your
routine to lift, transport, and
reconnect your production kit—it’s
what you do; your package may even
be part of the reason you get jobs.
• You’ve fine-tuned your system
to its most streamlined no-brainer
setup, connect, and strike
processes already.
• You don’t own a station group
with a handful of affiliates sharing
your video content and requiring a
common, standardized format.
• And your method for transporting
video signals is entrenched in
IP already.
To hear the major trade groups
tell it, the most important functions
to innovate with IP are in the areas
you don’t have a problem with—
cable replacement, proximity, device
connection, file format standardization,
transport.
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If that were the extent of it, then you
might feel live event pros have been
excused from the discussion.
In reality, though, the broadcast
industry’s narrative about how IP will
improve the next generation of broadcast
and facility infrastructure barely
scratches the surface of professional video
production that’s being done out there.
BEYOND POINT-TO-POINT
Typically, SDI systems, and the
IP workflows designed to replace
them, utilize point-to-point network
connections that send a signal
directionally from a video source to
its receiving destination in a one-way
path. Both models are heavily
dependent on expensive high-speed
infrastructures. That’s why they have
enormous buy-in from broadcasters:
it’s a model they have great familiarity
with already.
At NewTek, our developers believe
this minimizes the gains of true network-
based production.
In a universe where anyone reading
this guide can build a network of
computers and servers that connect
with each other and interact with them
over basic Ethernet, it seems clear that
limiting video production to a simple
point-to-point transmission vastly
underutilizes the great potential of a
connected workflow.
Indeed, on small home or corporate
LANs, people move files around, upload
or share media, and use apps to execute
a variety of tasks online … even host
games and compete with others in a
different room.
Imagine if you could open up the
same breadth of connected capabilities
by adding a network switch to your
production kit (or connecting to the
venue’s LAN where your event is taking
place)—then add any video-enabling
device you could conceive of, as long as it
was connected to the network.
That’s the promise of NDI, a bi-
directional standard that can operate
over a GigE local area network, with many
video streams on a shared connection.
INTERCONNECTED IP
NDI™ (Network Device Interface) is
a protocol created by NewTek to make it
easy to share video—not just send it—on
a local area network.
NDI allows multiple video systems to
identify and communicate over IP, and
to encode, transmit and receive many
streams of high quality, low latency, frame-
accurate video and audio in real-time.
It can “IP-enable” nearly any kind
of network-connected video device you
have in your kit, including video mixers,
graphics systems, capture cards, and
other equipment.
Most importantly, it can free you to
explore a stunning range of IP workflows
that don’t emulate a broadcast facility
production process, but break out into
the live events you cover—and pretty
much anywhere you go.
BEYOND THE FACILITY
For professionals streaming live
events far from the confines of a fixed
installation, NDI can currently be
implemented in one of four ways:
• as any of several software client
applications, described below;
• as a programmable SDK freely
available for manufacturers, end
users, and developers to customize
their own IP workflows;
• as supported 3rd-party devices
connected to the network;
• or—for owners of NewTek TriCaster—
included in the TriCaster Advanced
Edition add-on software.
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Regardless your live streaming kit, if
you make some standard IT networking
components part of your gear (or a good
LAN part of your location requirements),
you can use NDI to start with very
some small steps that make a really big
difference in the show you’re delivering.
Additional Inputs
Who hasn’t needed just one more input
at one time or another? You don’t have to
directly attach devices, wrangle cables
when moving around, or sacrifice sources
for limited hardware inputs. You can even
borrow inputs from other switchers in the
venue and switch them from a different
location, all over the network.
Source access
You have a fixed number of
hardware devices on hand to connect
to a switcher. But what about video
sources on a network? Whichever
ones you can think of, if you have an
NDI-enabled workstation capturing or
playing them—whether from media
players, camcorders, even presentation
software—you can switch them.
Multiple rooms
Say you’re covering the general
session, and your second operator is
streaming the breakout panel. If both
of your NDI-enabled switchers are
connected to the LAN, you can access
each other’s output and mix it into your
shows. What’s more, you can use any of
the cameras or other devices connected
to each other’s switchers—devices don’t
have to be on the LAN, if the switcher
they’re connected to is.
Central ISO recording
Whether it’s one multi-camera
production or several across a venue, you
can record all NDI sources connected to
the switcher, used in the program, or just
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There’s an NDI production app for that
T hird-party devices. Home-grown production kits. A laptop
and some capture cards. Or a complete, non-NewTek,
non-IP workflow. Whatever your production gear entails,
before you go spend money on an expensive network-based
solution, try NewTek’s free, paid, and trial apps that put any live
event producer on the easy path to IP. (Though specifications
occasionally change, the below information is current as of
publication. See www.newtek.com/NDI for details.)
NDI Connect Pro:
This production app is a multi-purpose software client that
allows you to configure a host computer as a multi-channel
video server, complete with professional color correction
tools, 8-channel audio control, production utilities, and
support for capture cards from AJA, Blackmagic Design,
DELTACAST, and other manufacturers.
Install the NDI Connect Pro client on a compatible computer
on the network, and make up to 4 of its video sources
appear in your NDI-enabled production workflow. Access the
I/O of any cameras, decks, and devices connected to it via
capture card, serve up stored media files for live playback,
or increase your camera count with local webcams. Any
compatible source on the computer with NDI Connect Pro
installed can be configured and made available over the
network to TriCaster ® and other NDI systems.
NDI IsoCorder Pro
Expand recording capabilities to capture more productions,
media files, and raw footage with recording over IP.
Install this app on any network-connected workstation for
multi-channel ISO recording of NDI sources. NewTek NDI
IsoCorder™ Pro encodes video in a high-quality QuickTime
format that’s universally compatible with practically any
platform or application. It allows for virtually unlimited
recording with suitable storage media and capacity.
NDI Transmit (also in Demo Version, watermarked)
Upgrade your video conferencing and communications,
replacing low-quality webcam video with high-quality NDI
using NewTek NDI Transmit. Download and install this
app on any network-connected PC to make NDI sources
available for use with video-compatible 3rd party software
supporting a webcam input.
Applications for NDI Transmit can include Google Hangouts,
GoToMeeting, WebEx, Skype and other video messaging
platforms, plus streaming encoders that support webcams.
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NDI Group Editor
Just as NDI allows all devices on a network to identify
and use each other as sources, NDI Group Editor lets
you manage which ones are and are not accessible
during production. Organize NDI sources into groups and
determine whether those sources are public or private on
your network—making devices visible to every system, or
only to certain groups. You can also determine the sources
and groups that are visible and accessible to your system
during productions.
NDI Scan Converter
Take full advantage of an IP production workflow with the
power to switch more content into your shows—without extra
equipment—using the NDI protocol, NewTek’s innovative
Network Device Interface technology.
Expand your entire workflow, virtually, with the NDI Scan
Converter. Install on laptops and workstations—anywhere
on your network—and any combination of windows,
applications, webcams, or the entire selection become
available as switchable video sources, without effecting
other actions on those computers during production.
NDI Test Pattern Generator
Equip your system or device to send a reference signal to
other NDI-enabled devices on your network for audio and
video calibration. Install this app and choose from a variety
of test patterns and color bars—and include an audio tone—
to ensure accurate color properties and appropriate
sound levels.
NDI Video Monitor
Turn any laptop or workstation into an NDI Video Monitor.
Install this app, then select any NDI source visible on your
network to view its video feed in real time from a dedicated
window on your desktop.
NDI VLC Plugin
Enable more content, in more formats, delivering video
clips to the network directly from your desktop with the NDI
VLC Plugin. Reduce the time and effort spent transcoding
and transferring files for live production, bypass the hassle
and cost of signal conversion from consumer devices, and
access otherwise unusable content for your live programs.
And all of it transcoded, transferred, and accessed over a
standard GigE network connection.
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available and playing on the network— A connected computer can use an NDI card to a workstation, and put that
all to a central workstation for storage, feed as a Skype source, so you can send workstation on the network—then you’ve
archive and later postproduction. a high-quality camera signal in place of magically added an extra “input” to your
a low-quality webcam to a conference production and can be more flexible and
Allow other use of source room or remote meeting audience. spontaneous with last-minute changes.
Because NDI is not point-to-point
but multidirectional, anything on Device doesn’t have correct I/O Monitor everything on the LAN
the network that can process a video Finally you can find a use for gear Instead of stringing cable for every
signal, not just a switcher, can use that doesn’t match your switcher’s I/O monitor of every camera, source, and
each source—even at the same time. configuration. If you connect a capture program out for every room in the entire
venue, all inputs and outputs of an NDI
source (including cameras connected
to an NDI-enabled switcher) can be
monitored on the network—even using
a browser. Keep an eye on everything
while walking around with your iPad.

It doesn’t take much bandwidth—

see http://bit.ly/GettingStartedNDI
for guidance. Even on a GigE network,
an NDI-enabled workflow will add
incredible capabilities at your event;
the more robust your network, the more
powerful your productions can become.

ABOUT NEWTEK, INC.

NewTek is transforming the way people
create network-style television content and
share it with the world. From sporting events,
Web-based talk shows, live entertainment,
classrooms, and corporate communications—
to virtually any venue where people want to
capture and publish live video, we give our
customers the power to grow their audiences,
brands and businesses, faster than ever before.
Clients include: New York Giants, NBA
Development League, Fox News, BBC,
NHL, Nickelodeon, CBS Radio, ESPN
Radio, Fox Sports, MTV, TWiT.TV, USA
TODAY, Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), and more than 80%
of the U.S. Fortune 100.
NewTek is privately owned and based in
San Antonio, Texas. For more information
on NewTek please visit: www.newtek.com,
Twitter, YouTube, Flickr or connect with us
Find out what makes NDI different from other IP solutions with our 10 Facts to Know. Download at bit.ly/NDI-10Facts on Facebook.
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VITEC Mastering
Live Streaming:
Solutions for Houses of Worship
By Mark D’Addio, VP of Business Development & Emerging Markets, VITEC

The worship landscape has changed between sites. Houses of worship (HOW)— the Zixi™ error-free streaming protocol,
in recent years. Instead of building one and many broadcasters for that matter— and is just as effective and far more
main megachurch, churches of all sizes are still unaware of the high-quality affordable than satellite or fiber-based
are expanding their reach to multiple service they can achieve with the latest streaming services, making it accessible
locations. As more churches go multi-site, IP solutions. Utilizing this technology, for churches of any size.
there is a great demand for live, high- VITEC’s IPTV House of Worship Solution VITEC’s encoder/decoder combinations
quality, and error-free site-to-site video enables HOW to extend their reach across with integrated Zixi Stream Protection take
distribution that allows these churches to multiple campuses and foster a sense advantage of an increase in bandwidth
reach more people than ever before and to of community among church members and a decrease in costs by using the public
give the impression that the head pastor who attend services at different sites. The internet to enable real-time streaming
is actually presenting at each venue. solution bundles VITEC portable encoders of church services and events. VITEC’s
Traditionally, this capability has only and decoders—the same technology that’s portable appliances encode and stream
been possible through satellite broadcast used by broadcasters, NASA, and some of up to 1080p60 video for the highest level
or fiber transmission. However, satellite the largest stadiums in the world—with of HD video quality at the lowest possible
broadcast distribution is expensive and
out of reach to all but the largest churches.
While fiber is more affordable than
satellite, it too is cost-prohibitive to many
churches wanting to ensure everyone
at every site hears the same message.
Of course one affordable, yet highly
inconvenient and inefficient, alternative
is to record the service onto a portable
storage device and then physically drive
it over to the other campus for later
playback — a cumbersome process that
means the congregants at the satellite
campus miss out on the live service
experience. Now, there is an affordable
real-time solution for churches:
streaming over the public Internet.
With advances in IP streaming
technologies and IP infrastructure, even
the smallest congregation with a modest The Bridge Christian Church has installed VITEC’s IPTV House of Worship Solution for affordable error-free, low-latency streaming
budget can stream high-quality HD video between its two campuses in Tucson, Arizona.
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latency. Combined with VITEC’s advanced
video compression, the hardware ensures
that the most demanding video will look
great even on the largest IMAG screens
while Zixi error correction protects the
stream from packet loss as it’s transmitted
over the public Internet.
VITEC/Zixi live-streaming solutions
are available in three different bundles
to enable point-to-point, bidirectional,
and multisite streaming. The point-to-
point streaming bundle includes a VITEC
encoder and decoder with integrated
Zixi Stream Protection for zero-error
delivery over unmanaged networks.
The bidirectional streaming solution
includes two sets of VITEC encoders and
worshippers can experience the service
in perfect synchronization, with the aim
of providing both flawless video and low
latency so that the streaming experience
is as smooth as possible. The technical
team at The Bridge had been looking for
a more affordable way to connect the two
campuses by seamlessly live-streaming
services and events from the main church
to the satellite, or vice versa.

RECORDING decoders—one set per location—and

VITEC’s House of Worship Streaming
Solution is now integrated with
Renewed Vision’s ProVideoServer
(PVS), a four-channel HD video
server. This partnership furthers
the capabilities of VITEC’s end-to-
end streaming solutions by adding
recording, playback, and time-slip
capabilities, allowing churches with
multiple campuses to tailor their
broadcast services to the needs of
their satellite campuses. The time-
slip functionality, much like a DVR,
allows for the immediate playback of
a video even as it continues to record
from the main campus. For churches
streaming more than one camera
feed, the synchronization capabilities
of PVS, along with VITEC’s encoding
and decoding technology, allow
both camera angles to stream at the
highest HD video quality and at the
lowest possible latency to the remote
site, making it an ideal dual-input,
dual-output time-slipped media record
and playout server.
integrated Zixi Stream Protection. This
solution ensures low-latency streaming
for natural two-way communication
and live interaction between the main
and satellite campuses. The multisite
distribution bundle consists of a VITEC
encoder at the main campus, a VITEC
decoder at each of the satellite campuses,
and a Zixi Broadcaster platform in the
middle. Zixi Broadcaster acts as a central
hub that manages, processes, and
distributes content in various formats.
Zixi Broadcaster also makes it possible
for a HOW to record streams and play
them out later to other campuses.
Let’s take a look at one church that
utilized VITEC’s IPTV House of Worship
Solution:
The Bridge Christian Church is
a non-denominational church with
two campuses in the greater Tucson
area. The church’s goal is to offer a live
experience for the congregation at both
campuses simultaneously. To that end,
To make seamless bidirectional
streaming a reality, The Bridge installed
a VITEC MGW Nano HD encoder and
MGW Premium HD decoder at each
location. VITEC offered a balanced
combination of high quality and low
latency that is ideal for both point-to-
point streaming and two-way, interactive
streaming, both of which The Bridge does
regularly. The Bridge uses the VITEC
solution most often for point-to-point
streaming, whereby the output of the
TriCaster system at the main campus is
fed into the MGW Nano HD encoder for
streaming to the MGW Premium decoder
at the satellite campus. In this way, The
Bridge congregants at both campuses
experience the Sunday service in parallel,
fostering a sense of community.
Perhaps in the future holographic
technology will provide an even more
realistic experience, but until then, by
utilizing the best encoding and decoding
technology to stream over the public
Internet, houses of worship can ensure

BENEFITS The Bridge streams services between

the main and satellite campuses so that
• Real-time video delivery
between the main church
and the satellite campus
• High-quality streams up to
1080p60 for pristine video
even on IMAG screens
• Low-latency encoding and
streaming with delays of
less than two seconds
• Zero-error Internet delivery with
Zixi™ Stream Protection
• Ability to use public Internet for
significant savings over satellite
and fiber solutions
the very best, high-quality experience at
a price point many churches can afford.
ABOUT VITEC
VITEC is a leading worldwide end-to-end video streaming solutions provider for broadcast, military
and government, enterprise, sports and entertainment venues and houses of worship. Combining
broadcasting with live streaming capabilities, VITEC’s H.265 (HEVC) and H.264 offering is
the most extensive in the market with encoding and decoding appliances, IPTV Solutions for
desktops and mobile devices, and PCI cards with SDK for integration projects. VITEC’s intuitive
digital video solutions can be tailored to each customer’s unique market needs, delivering easy-
to-use technology that ensures high-quality, low-latency HD video, capturing live and recorded
events for seamless distribution in a multitude of formats anytime, anywhere, to any device.
Since 1988, VITEC has been a pioneer in the design and manufacture of hardware and software
for video encoding, decoding, transcoding, recording, conversion, archiving, and streaming
over IP. In keeping with the company’s tradition of innovation, VITEC is the first company to bring
bandwidth-efficient HEVC compression technology into the field with portable streaming appliances.
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How to Stream
Multiple Cameras
Live With Your
Laptop and Wirecast Studio
Video streaming is very popular.
Advances in computer networking over
the past couple decades, combined with
powerful home computers and modern
operating systems, have made streaming
media practical and affordable for
ordinary consumers. And as the demand
for video streaming grows, so does the
number of best streaming software
options to service that demand.
Live streaming requires several
components:
• a form of source media (e.g. a video
camera or a video game console),
• a capture device (if the source is
external), such as the Epiphan AV.io
video grabbers
• an encoder to digitize the content,
• a broadcast platform (e.g. YouTube),
• and sometimes a content delivery
network (CDN) to distribute and
deliver the content (to improve your
user’s experience in terms of speed).
Streaming software is an integrated
broadcast solution that facilitates the
live streaming process by combining the
capture, encode and publish steps into a
single application, letting users stream
their source video content to a variety of
platforms, like YouTube or Twitch.
Consumers and businesses alike are
using streaming software solutions with
their source content to live stream their
content to inform, persuade, entertain, or
simply communicate with their audience.
But how many different streaming
tools are out there? A whole lot, as it
turns out. And what’s more is that all
of them work with Epiphan’s AV.io
video grabber products. But Telestream
Wirecast® software is the only cross-
platform, all-in-one live streaming
production software. When you need
to live stream to large online audiences
and be able not just to capture, but add
production capabilities, including sound,
transitions, virtual sets and scoreboards,
then you’ll want to use Wirecast. With
Wirecast you can capture your cameras
or devices using Epiphan video grabbers
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STEP 1. CONNECTING
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STEP 2. OPEN THE
WIRECAST APPLICATION
Open the Telestream Wirecast
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STEP 3. ADD YOUR SOURCE(S)
• Place your cursor over the “+” button
to add a new source; it changes to
these four buttons .
• Choose the camera button to add the
Epiphan AV.io as a video source.
• If your video source has HDMI-
embedded audio, choose the speaker
and select the Audio feed for the AV.io
• Now that your video sources are
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STEP 4. SETTING UP THE
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With the Wirecast application you
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• Select a destination from the “Output
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• Click “OK;” the configuration
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• If you choose the stream to a
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• Wirecast synchronizes with your
account and acquires streaming
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• If you want to stream to a Flash
Streaming Server (like Flash Media
Server, Wowza etc), choose the RTMP
Server option.
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• Choose your encoding options from
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• If more encoding options have to
be adjusted (like bitrate, Key frame
interval, etc.), click the encoding gear
icon and make your adjustments.
• Input the server address and streaming
port(s) in the Address field, as shown.
• Click “OK” to confirm the settings.
STEP 5. STARTING THE STREAM
• Press the “Stream” button to start
streaming; the streamed (live) video
appears in the right-side panel.
• Push the captured video source from
“Preview” window to “Live” window
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• Open the project StreamingExample
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• Build and run the application.
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• Enter your API key
• The app is checking the bandwidth,
either wait or skip to use default
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• You should see the result logged to the
console: “You are live!”
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Player App
• Open the project PlayingExample
from the SDK samples folder in Xcode.
• Build and run the application.
(your license and API keys should
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If you tap the play button, you should
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You can do this easily
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SUMMARY
Congratulations! You now have
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You can now run the broadcaster
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From here on you can integrate the
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By Troy Dreier MEASURING THE SUCCESS OF LIVE CONTENT DELIVERY
The future of UHD is happening right now. Here’s how one production The final steps in the live streaming workflow—delivery and
company streamed low-bandwidth 4K live from a South by Southwest analytics—are in some ways the most vexing, but they’re crucial
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By Jan Ozer A panel of experts makes predictions about what viewers will expect
in five or ten years, and which content types, technologies, and
Customization, mobile compatibility, and marketing features are just
monetization models the live streaming industry must embrace to
a few of the checkboxes to tick off.
meet those expectations.
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IMPLEMENTING REAL-TIME
MANAGING AND PROTECTING THE LIVE CONTENT FLOW
VIDEO COLLABORATION IN THE ENTERPRISE
Today’s live webcasts generate significant amounts of metadata
By Tim Siglin that must be synchronized with live streams, and the content itself
For many companies, the path is clear: understanding, championing, must be properly protected for live delivery and packaged for
and leveraging video collaboration for more efficient business models. VOD syndication.
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In this panel you’ll find monetization experts who will break down the
challenges facing live event monetization and offer insights into
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LIVE STREAMING THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE: A CASE STUDY
StreamAMG launched 89 video-based websites—one for each of the
Football League’s clubs. Over the following three months subscriptions
to the site grew by over 30 percent.
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NOW THAT YOU’VE GOT THE VIEWERS, PERISCOPE, MEERKAT, AND FACEBOOK LIVE:
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Today’s live streaming viewers are savvy and fickle, and while some The session looks at the rapid evolution of new streaming apps such as
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From the preseason to the Super Bowl, the NFL is making it easy for fans
to watch all the action wherever they want, on the device of their choice.
This presentation offers a look at how the NFL has embraced digital as a
complement to broadcast.
THE INS AND OUTS OF LIVE VIDEO
In this presentation, video leaders share their wisdom on how to produce
and manage live webcasts of all sizes, whether it’s a school football
match, theatre production, concert, or top-flight sporting event.
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CASE STUDY: LIVE STREAMING THE UK GENERAL ELECTION

2015 saw a paradigm shift in live broadcasting when Sky News partnered
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ENGINEERING A TV-LIKE STREAMING EXPERIENCE:

WHAT CORPORATE USERS REALLY WANT STREAMING FORUM 2016
FROM THEIR WEBCASTING/ONLINE VIDEO PLATFORM ITV’s director of broadcast and distribution technology shared the
This session provides the perspective from seasoned corporate users of broadcaster’s strategy for merging catch-up and live linear TV into a
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Superguide #4, Vol. 3, June 2016

THE SUPERGUIDE TO
MASTERING YOUR VIDEO WORKFLOWS
This Superguide takes a deep dive into workflow strategies and solutions from an array of
perspectives to give you a cutting-edge advantage.
• Best Practices for Encoding to Multiple Screens
• OTT Workflows to Create Live-to-VOD Assets
• Future-Proofing Your File-Based Workflow
• Best Practices for Adding Redundancy to Live Encoding & Delivery
• Large-Scale Live Events
• Monetizing Premium Content
• Unique Deployment Challenges
• Selecting the Right Video Management Technology
• How to Use the Cloud to Reduce Overhead
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