Web broadcaster requirements

Recommended bandwidth

To broadcast through Streaming platform we recommend using a wired connection with an upload bandwidth of at least 700Kbps. Your upload bandwidth must be greater than your stream’s total bitrate.

Many times what appears to be a great connection is somewhat less in the real world. If your connection drops, reduce the published bitrate to a lower speed.

Here you can view how to test your bandwidth.

 

Browser based broadcast requirements

Windows

CPU

  • Intel Pentium II 450MHz
  • AMD Athlon 600MHz or faster

Memory

  • 128MB of RAM

HDD

  • 10 MB or more available disk space

Operating System

  • Microsoft Windows 7 and 8

Bitrate

  • 200 Kbs and up

 

Macintosh

CPU

  • PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster
  • Intel Core Duo 1.33GHz or faster

Memory

  • 128MB of RAM

HDD

  • 10 MB or more available disk space

Operating System

  • Mac OS X v10.4 or later (PowerPC)
  • Mac OS X v10.4 or later (Intel)
  • Mac OS X v10.6

Bitrate

  • 200 Kbs and up

Linux

CPU

  • Modern processor (800MHz or faster)

Memory

  • 512MB of RAM

HDD

  • 10 MB or more available disk space

Operating System

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • openSUSE 11
  • Ubuntu 7.10 or later or 8.04 or later

Bitrate

  • 200 Kbs and up

 

 

Pre-defined Web broadcaster settings

High quality

Set the video and audio quality to maximum to broadcast a top quality live show. Note that you will need greater than 500kbps upstream bandwidth to use this setting and viewers on lower bandwidth connections may have issues viewing high quality.

Medium quality

Medium quality is what we suggest. It enables you to broadcast to a maximum of viewers with good image and audio quality!

Low quality

Set the video and audio quality to low if you have a lower speed connection or wish to broadcast to people with a lower bandwidth connection. It will lower the resources required to watch your show!