Streaming Video for Church

[Zylstra]

My local church as asked me to look into ways that we could possibly stream our church service with video and audio, as well as be able to access past recordings (archived for the last three recordings, if possible).

I am thinking about www.UStream.tv , but I am not very familiar with their service.

The church has a fully set up sound system which could be plugged into the computer's input very easily (yall' could hear us sing, if you wanted to). We will look into USB-Based "webcam" cameras of slightly higher quality. (I am sure I will be searching for recommendations on that as well fairly soon).

[kpac]

Have a look at this:
http://www.nchsoftware.com/broadcam/index.html

I found it today but I haven't used it. It might work though.

[computeruler]

Give us the link when you get it set up.  I always wanted to go to online church.

[Geek-9pm]

In small community with Cable TV there may be free or low cost space on the local TV cable.  If that is viable, people without computers could watch.

[Zylstra]

In small community with Cable TV there may be free or low cost space on the local TV cable.  If that is viable, people without computers could watch.

They have thought about that, but we live out of the way from the city that holds the fiber and cable companies... not only that, but we would have to manage a broadcast schedule; not that this would be difficult, since you could just have the same thing loop, but to send it back to the cable and fiber companies would cost quite a bit in bandwidth.

Have a look at this:
http://www.nchsoftware.com/broadcam/index.html

I found it today but I haven't used it. It might work though.

The price is workable for our funds, however it requires that you have your own local webhosting -- least, that's what I got out of it.

[Zylstra]

I had Livestream.com recommended. Has anyone used that?
The only problem is that the free version has some sort of monthly limit, from what I was told -- and the Pro Version is extremely pricey.

[kpac]

Well I know that the Times Square New Year's party was broadcast on Livestream.com so it can't be bad.