Problems...

[MusicJoy]

Originally Posted by Henry_live

MusicJoy,

Stream quality is highly dependent on two things, your computers processing power and your internet connection. The following are the minimum recommended specs:

Pentium Core 2 Duo 2Ghz or Higher
2GB RAM
700Kbps upload bandwidth
Dedicated video card, 256MB VRAM
Windows XP / Vista
Mac OS X 10.5 or higher

Can you send us your current computer's specs and the results of a speed test of your internet bandwidth?

Uhm, computer specs.... I am sorry, I'm not familiar with it. Don't know how to check?
I have the latest Windows, if that helps, and a new computer.
Here is the result of that test:

Ping --- Download speed --- Upload speed
49 ms ---- 11.83 Mbps -------- 1.93 Mbps


Does that help?

[Henry_live]

Originally Posted by MusicJoy

Uhm, computer specs.... I am sorry, I'm not familiar with it. Don't know how to check?
I have the latest Windows, if that helps, and a new computer.
Here is the result of that test:

Ping --- Download speed --- Upload speed
49 ms ---- 11.83 Mbps -------- 1.93 Mbps


Does that help?

You can pull up the information on your computer specs by holding down the Windows Start Menu key and pressing the "Pause|Break" key. (See Image)

[MusicJoy]

Okay, let's see....

Windows 7 Home Premium

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Hewlett Packard
Presario CQ56 Notebook PC
3,7 Windows
AMD V160 Processor 2,40 GHz
2,00 GB (1,74 GB may be used)
64 bit


Does that help?

[Henry_live]

It looks like the computer you are using does not meet the minimum recommended specs for using Procaster. I would recommend upgrading to a computer with at least a Dual Core processor or trying out our Webcaster, which can be accessed from within your Livestream Account Center.

[MusicJoy]

Originally Posted by Henry_live

It looks like the computer you are using does not meet the minimum recommended specs for using Procaster. I would recommend upgrading to a computer with at least a Dual Core processor or trying out our Webcaster, which can be accessed from within your Livestream Account Center.

But webcaster - that is for use when you want to broadcast yourself, isn't it? Like, be on camera? Not show a different video, or showing a stream that comes from elsewhere on the net?

[MusicJoy]

Cant get the webcaster to work anyway. No life there.

Sigh. How difficult this should be....

[MusicJoy]

Okay, starting yet another thread....

What I want to do, is to stream live through my livestream channel from events that are happening, and which will be covered, for instance by other livestream channels, or on newspapers' online sites. Like court procedings.
I have tried the procaster option, with "filming" a channel and streaming it through my channel. But it turned out my computer isn't good enough to stream it with good quality. So that option is out.

I don't really know what webcaster does. It says it is a simpler version of proccaster, but to me it seems that it is to use if you want to be on camera and broadcast yourself? Is it possible to stream from say your desktop with webcaster? Or from other channels, and send it through my channel?

The reason I want to do it, is so my small group of friends can watch things together and chat about them.
I'm not interested in filming myself.

I have the impression that webcaster can't do this? It's just for having the camera on yourself and make a broadcast of yourself?


Anyone who can help me? If webcaster is not the solution, does anyone have other suggestions that can make this happen?

Thanks.

[MusicJoy]

Bump.

Anyone?

[Henry_live]

Originally Posted by MusicJoy

Okay, starting yet another thread....

What I want to do, is to stream live through my livestream channel from events that are happening, and which will be covered, for instance by other livestream channels, or on newspapers' online sites. Like court procedings.
I have tried the procaster option, with "filming" a channel and streaming it through my channel. But it turned out my computer isn't good enough to stream it with good quality. So that option is out.

I don't really know what webcaster does. It says it is a simpler version of proccaster, but to me it seems that it is to use if you want to be on camera and broadcast yourself? Is it possible to stream from say your desktop with webcaster? Or from other channels, and send it through my channel?

The reason I want to do it, is so my small group of friends can watch things together and chat about them.
I'm not interested in filming myself.

I have the impression that webcaster can't do this? It's just for having the camera on yourself and make a broadcast of yourself?


Anyone who can help me? If webcaster is not the solution, does anyone have other suggestions that can make this happen?

Thanks.

MusicJoy,

For your needs, I would recommend Procaster, however your computer does not meet the minimum requirements needed to use the software. Another option for you would be to use a third party screen capturing software such as ManyCam or Camtasia which would be recognized as a Camera Source within Webcaster instead of your webcam.

[MusicJoy]

Originally Posted by Henry_live

MusicJoy,

For your needs, I would recommend Procaster, however your computer does not meet the minimum requirements needed to use the software. Another option for you would be to use a third party screen capturing software such as ManyCam or Camtasia which would be recognized as a Camera Source within Webcaster instead of your webcam.

Hi Henry. Thank you. That works
Any tips on making it stream more smoothly? It's still a bit jumpy, moving in frames.