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QuickTime Broadcaster
Live and VOD Broadcasting
MAC OSX
Hot Full-featured; one heck of an attractive price
Not Needs to support more cameras; network set-up could be more intuitive
It captures video from most FireWire-equipped cameras; it encodes into a broadcast QuickTime stream in real-time using MPEG-4 or any of a handful of other codecs; and then it broadcasts the video/audio stream out to the world…and it's free! QuickTime Broadcaster is Apple's newest addition to the QuickTime suite. Supporting both unicast (point-to-point like a phone call) and multicast (think television), Broadcaster once again showcases Apple's unique ability to make the complex, simple. Easy-to-identify presets with labels such as "modem-speech" and "DSL/cable- music" are just the start. Apple combines this with easy access to most of QuickTime's audio and video codecs for maximum versatility.
To begin, you choose your broadcast settings and send out an invitation in the form of a Session Description Protocol (SDP). Viewers download the SDP file, and then they're a double-click away from your broadcast. During the broadcast, Broadcaster provides you with real-time feedback on data-rate, frame rate, number of connected users, and processor load—letting you tweak your broadcast on the fly.
Like all good Apple applications, once you get under the prosumer skin, Broadcaster has the heart of a real pro, allowing you to create and save your own custom settings. Broadcaster's real power, however, is its ability to work in tandem with the QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS). By combining these two QT cousins, you take advantage of QuickTime 6's new Instant On and Skip Protection features and add the ability to reach virtually any audience of any size. For less ambitious sessions, QTSS and Broadcaster can even be run from the same machine.
In all, Broadcaster is software with a bright future. Video conferencing, Internet radio, and distance learning are all applications that come to mind. Oh, of course there's also my show, "Hey, Ma! I'm gonna be a TV star!"—Clifford VanMeter
QuickTime Broadcaster released
By Peter Cohen pcohen@maccentral.com
In conjunction with Apple's release today of QuickTime 6, the company has also released QuickTime Broadcaster.
QuickTime Broadcaster is live encoding software you can use to produce live events for online delivery. The software leverages the latest release of QuickTime 6, and works in can work in conjunction with QuickTime Streaming Server 4, as well.
Because it's built on QuickTime 6, QuickTime broadcaster delivers ISO-complaint audio and video that can be viewed by any MPEG-4 compliant player, regardless of platform. QuickTime Broadcaster also provides Video On Demand (VOD) in addition to recording broadcasts to disc.
If you need to deliver your streaming broadcast to the masses, QuickTime Broadcaster integrates with QuickTime Streaming Server and Darwin Streaming Server through the touch of a button, according to Apple. This also means that QuickTime Broadcaster-streamed events benefit from QuickTime 6's new "Skip Protection" technology, which helps to prevent interruptions in media streams.
QuickTime Broadcaster also features a user-friendly interface that can be customized easily, multicast and unicast support via RTP and RTSP transports, real-time statistics and support for other QuickTime codecs.
System requirements call for a PowerPC G3-equipped Mac with 128MB of RAM, Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server 10.1.3 or later, and QuickTime 6 or later.
QuickTime Broadcaster 6 is free.
Want To Broadcast/Record Video With Your iSight? Check Out QuickTime Broadcaster!
September 8th, 2003
QuickTime Broadcaster (Freeware)
Apple Computer, Inc.
Having recently purchased one of Apple's nifty iSight cameras, and getting the iChat AV-thing out of our system, we then started searching for other applications that can use this FireWire camera. We didn't have to go farther than Apple's decidedly sparse iSight documentation, which suggested that we check out QuickTime Broadcaster. A short time later, we were creating our own streaming broadcasts!
QuickTime Broadcaster offers two major sets of functions. The first, as the name implies, is the creation of a live streaming broadcast that can easily be received by anyone using the QuickTime Player. You simply set the parameters for the audio, video and network portions of the broadcast, export a SDP (Session Description Protocol) file which describes the broadcast, and open this file with the QuickTime player. For broadcasts to multiple recipients, you probably want to send the stream to a QuickTime Streaming Server, which is designed to handle a large number of recipients.
QuickTime Broadcaster Offers Precise Camera Control
What really caught our attention is the myriad of camera control options offered through QuickTime Broadcaster. Unlike iChat AV, which currently offers no way to adjust one's iSight, QuickTime Broadcaster allows one to change numerous camera parameters, resulting in images which can be used under almost any lighting condition. For example, we found that increasing the camera Brightness setting made images taken using indoor lighting conditions more than acceptable.
The other major feature of QuickTime Broadcaster is to take the streaming content, and save it to a QuickTime movie file. This can give one the chance to experiment with the nearly 30 video codecs that are available through the QuickTime platform. There are presets for typical connection types, from modem to high-speed LAN, but you can fiddle with the settings to achieve the optimum quality for your specific situation.
So get more out of your iSight, or other FireWire video camera, and give QuickTime Broadcaster a try today!
Have any other gadgets that let you talk to the world? Send John an e-mail, and he'll give it a shot.
Monday's Mac Gadget is here to help you with those cool things that we all just have to have on our Macs. Shareware, Freeware, Postcardware, Emailware, and even commercial apps, Monday's Mac Gadget is here to help you find and use the best of these programs.
John is a software engineer who works in the corporate R&D group of a Fortune 500 company, focusing on all aspects of communications technology. He has several degrees that claim he knows what he's doing when it comes to computers. After watching co-workers reinstall Windows, search for device drivers, and experience other horrors during the day, he's glad that he comes home to a Mac (compatible) computer. Have any comments, suggestions, or favorite Gadgets? Drop John a line at john@macobserver.com
Apple Releases QuickTime Broadcaster For Streaming Live Events
by Bryan Chaffin, 5:30 PM EST, February 12th, 2002
To accompany the preview of QuickTime 6 today, Apple also previewed QuickTime Broadcaster, a new product aimed at making streaming live events over the Internet easy. The new technology requires QuickTime 6, which, though ready, is not being released as Apple works to overcome licensing royalties with MPEG-4 it says will inhibit the acceptance of the technology in the market place. From Apple:
Apple® today previewed QuickTime® Broadcaster, a new addition to the QuickTime product family that allows live broadcasting of events over the Internet. The new QuickTime Broadcaster, which when released will be distributed as a free download, will capture and encode QuickTime content, including MPEG-4, for live streaming via the web. When used in combination with Apple's existing suite of QuickTime products -- QuickTime Pro, QuickTime Streaming Server and QuickTime Player -- QuickTime Broadcaster provides customers with an inexpensive, end-to-end solution for producing live events.
QuickTime Broadcaster supports the broadcast of MPEG-4, but as with QuickTime 6, the distribution of QuickTime Broadcaster is being delayed until MPEG-4 video licensing terms are improved. The MPEG-4 licensing terms proposed by MPEG-LA (the largest group of MPEG-4 patent holders) includes royalty payments from companies, like Apple, who ship MPEG-4 codecs, as well as royalties from content providers who use MPEG-4 to stream video. Apple agrees with paying a reasonable royalty for including MPEG-4 codecs in QuickTime, but does not believe that MPEG-4 can be successful in the marketplace if content owners must also pay royalties in order to deliver their content using MPEG-4.
"QuickTime Broadcaster will make it incredibly easy and affordable for businesses, educational institutions or individuals to produce high-quality, live Internet or Intranet broadcasts," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "When combined with a free QuickTime Player and a free QuickTime Streaming Server, QuickTime Broadcaster is the most cost-effective Internet broadcasting solution offered anywhere."
Live internet broadcasting is an increasingly popular and cost-effective way to reach large numbers of viewers for corporate meetings, online courses, keynote addresses, entertainment and other special events. Standards-based QuickTime products are an ideal solution for creating, distributing and viewing content without the limitations of proprietary formats. Additionally, when the QuickTime Broadcaster and QuickTime Streaming Server are running on Apple's PowerBook® G4 or iBook® laptop computers, the combination provides a uniquely flexible, mobile broadcast solution.
Features of QuickTime Broadcaster include:
* live encoding with real time preview;
* the ability to record and hint in real time to the computer's hard disk for quick video-on-demand posting;
* support for all QuickTime codecs;
* AppleScript(R) support;
* the ability to create custom settings;
* support for reliable communication via TCP between Broadcaster and Server; and
* auto configuration of connection between Broadcaster and Server.
System Requirements
QuickTime Broadcaster will be distributed as a free download and requires QuickTime 6, Mac® OS X (v10.1 and later), Mac OS X Server, QuickTime Streaming Server and compatible servers.
Apple has not yet added information on this preview product to its Web site.
The Mac Observer Spin:
We wonder what the Mac Daddy will have to say about QuickTime Broadcaster? We might find out this week. Be that as it may, this is an important release for Apple. In order to win converts to your multimedia format, there must be content. For there to be content there has to be something compelling to attract providers. Often times that is existing market share, but it could be cost, quality, ease-of-use, etc., as well. Apple has had some success with getting people to use QuickTime by working with movie studios to provide exclusive QuickTime movie trailers. The importance of QuickTime Broadcaster is if the product is easy enough to use, a much larger segment of the market place, ordinary folks (especially in the corporate, education, and "entertainment" space), might find a compelling reason to use it. That *will* translate into more eyeballs for QuickTime if Apple can get the word out. In our never humble opinion, Apple has a winner with this, assuming it can work out something with MPEG-LA, of course.
QuickTime Broadcaster
Live and VOD Broadcasting
MAC OSX
Hot Full-featured; one heck of an attractive price
Not Needs to support more cameras; network set-up could be more intuitive
It captures video from most FireWire-equipped cameras; it encodes into a broadcast QuickTime stream in real-time using MPEG-4 or any of a handful of other codecs; and then it broadcasts the video/audio stream out to the world…and it's free! QuickTime Broadcaster is Apple's newest addition to the QuickTime suite. Supporting both unicast (point-to-point like a phone call) and multicast (think television), Broadcaster once again showcases Apple's unique ability to make the complex, simple. Easy-to-identify presets with labels such as "modem-speech" and "DSL/cable- music" are just the start. Apple combines this with easy access to most of QuickTime's audio and video codecs for maximum versatility.
To begin, you choose your broadcast settings and send out an invitation in the form of a Session Description Protocol (SDP). Viewers download the SDP file, and then they're a double-click away from your broadcast. During the broadcast, Broadcaster provides you with real-time feedback on data-rate, frame rate, number of connected users, and processor load—letting you tweak your broadcast on the fly.
Like all good Apple applications, once you get under the prosumer skin, Broadcaster has the heart of a real pro, allowing you to create and save your own custom settings. Broadcaster's real power, however, is its ability to work in tandem with the QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS). By combining these two QT cousins, you take advantage of QuickTime 6's new Instant On and Skip Protection features and add the ability to reach virtually any audience of any size. For less ambitious sessions, QTSS and Broadcaster can even be run from the same machine.
In all, Broadcaster is software with a bright future. Video conferencing, Internet radio, and distance learning are all applications that come to mind. Oh, of course there's also my show, "Hey, Ma! I'm gonna be a TV star!"—Clifford VanMeter
QuickTime Broadcaster released
By Peter Cohen pcohen@maccentral.com
In conjunction with Apple's release today of QuickTime 6, the company has also released QuickTime Broadcaster.
QuickTime Broadcaster is live encoding software you can use to produce live events for online delivery. The software leverages the latest release of QuickTime 6, and works in can work in conjunction with QuickTime Streaming Server 4, as well.
Because it's built on QuickTime 6, QuickTime broadcaster delivers ISO-complaint audio and video that can be viewed by any MPEG-4 compliant player, regardless of platform. QuickTime Broadcaster also provides Video On Demand (VOD) in addition to recording broadcasts to disc.
If you need to deliver your streaming broadcast to the masses, QuickTime Broadcaster integrates with QuickTime Streaming Server and Darwin Streaming Server through the touch of a button, according to Apple. This also means that QuickTime Broadcaster-streamed events benefit from QuickTime 6's new "Skip Protection" technology, which helps to prevent interruptions in media streams.
QuickTime Broadcaster also features a user-friendly interface that can be customized easily, multicast and unicast support via RTP and RTSP transports, real-time statistics and support for other QuickTime codecs.
System requirements call for a PowerPC G3-equipped Mac with 128MB of RAM, Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server 10.1.3 or later, and QuickTime 6 or later.
QuickTime Broadcaster 6 is free.
Want To Broadcast/Record Video With Your iSight? Check Out QuickTime Broadcaster!
September 8th, 2003
QuickTime Broadcaster (Freeware)
Apple Computer, Inc.
Having recently purchased one of Apple's nifty iSight cameras, and getting the iChat AV-thing out of our system, we then started searching for other applications that can use this FireWire camera. We didn't have to go farther than Apple's decidedly sparse iSight documentation, which suggested that we check out QuickTime Broadcaster. A short time later, we were creating our own streaming broadcasts!
QuickTime Broadcaster offers two major sets of functions. The first, as the name implies, is the creation of a live streaming broadcast that can easily be received by anyone using the QuickTime Player. You simply set the parameters for the audio, video and network portions of the broadcast, export a SDP (Session Description Protocol) file which describes the broadcast, and open this file with the QuickTime player. For broadcasts to multiple recipients, you probably want to send the stream to a QuickTime Streaming Server, which is designed to handle a large number of recipients.
QuickTime Broadcaster Offers Precise Camera Control
What really caught our attention is the myriad of camera control options offered through QuickTime Broadcaster. Unlike iChat AV, which currently offers no way to adjust one's iSight, QuickTime Broadcaster allows one to change numerous camera parameters, resulting in images which can be used under almost any lighting condition. For example, we found that increasing the camera Brightness setting made images taken using indoor lighting conditions more than acceptable.
The other major feature of QuickTime Broadcaster is to take the streaming content, and save it to a QuickTime movie file. This can give one the chance to experiment with the nearly 30 video codecs that are available through the QuickTime platform. There are presets for typical connection types, from modem to high-speed LAN, but you can fiddle with the settings to achieve the optimum quality for your specific situation.
So get more out of your iSight, or other FireWire video camera, and give QuickTime Broadcaster a try today!
Have any other gadgets that let you talk to the world? Send John an e-mail, and he'll give it a shot.
Monday's Mac Gadget is here to help you with those cool things that we all just have to have on our Macs. Shareware, Freeware, Postcardware, Emailware, and even commercial apps, Monday's Mac Gadget is here to help you find and use the best of these programs.
John is a software engineer who works in the corporate R&D group of a Fortune 500 company, focusing on all aspects of communications technology. He has several degrees that claim he knows what he's doing when it comes to computers. After watching co-workers reinstall Windows, search for device drivers, and experience other horrors during the day, he's glad that he comes home to a Mac (compatible) computer. Have any comments, suggestions, or favorite Gadgets? Drop John a line at john@macobserver.com
Apple Releases QuickTime Broadcaster For Streaming Live Events
by Bryan Chaffin, 5:30 PM EST, February 12th, 2002
To accompany the preview of QuickTime 6 today, Apple also previewed QuickTime Broadcaster, a new product aimed at making streaming live events over the Internet easy. The new technology requires QuickTime 6, which, though ready, is not being released as Apple works to overcome licensing royalties with MPEG-4 it says will inhibit the acceptance of the technology in the market place. From Apple:
Apple® today previewed QuickTime® Broadcaster, a new addition to the QuickTime product family that allows live broadcasting of events over the Internet. The new QuickTime Broadcaster, which when released will be distributed as a free download, will capture and encode QuickTime content, including MPEG-4, for live streaming via the web. When used in combination with Apple's existing suite of QuickTime products -- QuickTime Pro, QuickTime Streaming Server and QuickTime Player -- QuickTime Broadcaster provides customers with an inexpensive, end-to-end solution for producing live events.
QuickTime Broadcaster supports the broadcast of MPEG-4, but as with QuickTime 6, the distribution of QuickTime Broadcaster is being delayed until MPEG-4 video licensing terms are improved. The MPEG-4 licensing terms proposed by MPEG-LA (the largest group of MPEG-4 patent holders) includes royalty payments from companies, like Apple, who ship MPEG-4 codecs, as well as royalties from content providers who use MPEG-4 to stream video. Apple agrees with paying a reasonable royalty for including MPEG-4 codecs in QuickTime, but does not believe that MPEG-4 can be successful in the marketplace if content owners must also pay royalties in order to deliver their content using MPEG-4.
"QuickTime Broadcaster will make it incredibly easy and affordable for businesses, educational institutions or individuals to produce high-quality, live Internet or Intranet broadcasts," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "When combined with a free QuickTime Player and a free QuickTime Streaming Server, QuickTime Broadcaster is the most cost-effective Internet broadcasting solution offered anywhere."
Live internet broadcasting is an increasingly popular and cost-effective way to reach large numbers of viewers for corporate meetings, online courses, keynote addresses, entertainment and other special events. Standards-based QuickTime products are an ideal solution for creating, distributing and viewing content without the limitations of proprietary formats. Additionally, when the QuickTime Broadcaster and QuickTime Streaming Server are running on Apple's PowerBook® G4 or iBook® laptop computers, the combination provides a uniquely flexible, mobile broadcast solution.
Features of QuickTime Broadcaster include:
* live encoding with real time preview;
* the ability to record and hint in real time to the computer's hard disk for quick video-on-demand posting;
* support for all QuickTime codecs;
* AppleScript(R) support;
* the ability to create custom settings;
* support for reliable communication via TCP between Broadcaster and Server; and
* auto configuration of connection between Broadcaster and Server.
System Requirements
QuickTime Broadcaster will be distributed as a free download and requires QuickTime 6, Mac® OS X (v10.1 and later), Mac OS X Server, QuickTime Streaming Server and compatible servers.
Apple has not yet added information on this preview product to its Web site.
The Mac Observer Spin:
We wonder what the Mac Daddy will have to say about QuickTime Broadcaster? We might find out this week. Be that as it may, this is an important release for Apple. In order to win converts to your multimedia format, there must be content. For there to be content there has to be something compelling to attract providers. Often times that is existing market share, but it could be cost, quality, ease-of-use, etc., as well. Apple has had some success with getting people to use QuickTime by working with movie studios to provide exclusive QuickTime movie trailers. The importance of QuickTime Broadcaster is if the product is easy enough to use, a much larger segment of the market place, ordinary folks (especially in the corporate, education, and "entertainment" space), might find a compelling reason to use it. That *will* translate into more eyeballs for QuickTime if Apple can get the word out. In our never humble opinion, Apple has a winner with this, assuming it can work out something with MPEG-LA, of course.
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