How to produce a Democaster webcast

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Producing a live webcast on any system involves a number of steps. 图文漫画This guide will run you through those steps.

As a producer, you may also upload previously recorded and edited audio in MP3 or Ogg format. This allows you to webcast "on-demand" events where you do not have an Internet connection or a computer available. For detailed advice on this option see Uploading recorded audio.

Pre-existing conditions required to webcast:

1. An event - A public meeting or event with clear sound. Listening to an event recorded in a noisy space is not pleasant.

2. Microphone - A quality microphone or better yet a line-out from an amplified public address audio system.

Microphone options include:

A. Small Group - A同人系列 small gathering around a table in a quiet room using a sensitive microphone on a laptop (that doesn't make too much fan noise), a webcam with a sensitive built-in microphone, or use of a "border" microphone. Border microphones sit on tables or other hard surfaces and pick up most of the room (and side noise if any.)

B. Individual/Podcasts - An individual using a computer with a headset or microphone held/positioned close to the mouth. If you use Democaster to produce frequent "podcasts" (often only a few minutes long), this is a good option. Elected officials within a Council could share a Democaster account and place their "podcasts" in their own 游戏世界series.

C. Conference Panel - If you are webcasting a panel of speakers at conference session without an amplified sound system, you could also pass a microphone with an extended cord from speaker to the speaker. Be sure to repeat questions from the audience for the listening audience before answering.

D. Sound System Available - Ideally, the event or meeting your are webcasting already has an amplified sound system with a line-out that can be connected into a computer or lap-top with the ability to receive a line-in audio signal. If you do not normally need to amplify the audio for the in-room audience, consider purchasing a simple amplifier for whatever microphones you use. Using a "border" microphone with a small amplifier is an expensive option that will lead 军事天地to better sound quality.

In all situations or venues, it is recommended that you test your audio equipment with a test webcast before your live event to make sure people can hear on the other end.

It is a good practice for each speaker to say their name before speaking and for the chair to mention where in the agenda the meeting is at various moments. This allows a 都市小说listener to follow along more easily.

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3. Internet Connected Computer - An Internet-connected computer or laptop where "port 8000" used by Icecast2 is not blocked by a local firewall. A directly connected computer with at least a 128KB connection is recommend. Democaster normally works over wi-fi connections. Consult with your IT staff on network and/or computer firewalls first if attempts to connect to the Democaster server fail.

While dial-up connections are not officially supported, if you can upload data at 16kbps you might be able to webcast. In lower bandwidth situations use of webcam images or other web browsing during the event . Anything you do北京印刷 on the computer with the Internet connection during the webcast can effect the connection, sound quality, or cause "skipping." Turn off unused programs that use the Internet (instant messengers, e-mail, etc. unless being used to communicate with the audience in real-time), if you are using a webcam, limit how often it is updates, and do not view the images "live" on the Democast page for more than a moment or two to verify they are updating properly.

4. Webcam - This is an optional feature to give your listeners a sense of the room and people. We recommend you use a newer webcam. Use an extend USB cable if required to 画册印刷position the camera for maximum room coverage. See our detailed Using a webcam with Democaster instructions.

Now that you have all the requirements in place, these are steps required to schedule and launch a webcast on Democaster. Because Democaster automatically archives webcasts (unless you turn this feature off) each webcast has unique attributes.

The following steps are required for each webcast:

1. Login to the Producer panel. If you do not have an account, see our Be a Democaster details on the opportunity for UK-based 手提袋印刷community groups and governments.

2. First-time user steps

A. Install software used to webcast via Democaster on Windows XP or 2000 - Winamp, Oddcast, and optionally Fwink. Advanced users may use Democaster with Linux and Mac or older version of Windows, but no support is available.

B. Select "Add, view, or edit series." If you plan a mix of infrequent webcasts, create a catch-all series named "All Webcast" or if 分水器various committees within your organisation plan webcasts create multiple series like "Full Council" or "Environment Committee" and use "Other" as a catch-all for unique webcasts.

3. Select "Add, view, or edit scheduled webcasts." Via the calendar and select "new" on the day and series you want to schedule a webcast. If you want to do a test webcast today, select "new" on today's date in your series of choice. You can delete test webcasts.

If you are planning 北京四合院to use Democaster for a "series" of regular webcasts, scheduling those events in one sitting is recommended. Because no public meeting is reliably reoccuring, there is is no bulk function.

4. On the Prepare/Update tab, enter your webcast title, description (include words that someone might search from the Democaster home page) and keywords. Then on a 24 hour clock, select the start time and likely end time based on your local time. Democaster uses the time zone set on your computer and attempts to automatically present 翻译公司the public schedule to others in their own time zone. It is better to overestimate the end time on the schedule. However, if back to back webcasts are planned in the same series they may not overlap on the schedule.

If you are testing Democaster now, simply set the time a five or ten minutes from now so Democaster is ready for your webcast.

Press submit.

5. You may now add additional details to your publicly scheduled 英语翻译 webcast.

• Agenda Items - Repeatedly press "Add New" as many times as you have agenda items you wish to share. Then enter text for your agenda items in the fields. If you have a full detailed agenda on your own website, you may add a link under Documents. Add "See documents link for full detailed agenda" as an agenda item. ** Warning - after entering the agenda text, if you press "Add New" without first pressing "Submit" that text will not be saved.
  • After a webcast, you can help users "fast forward" in "on-demand" downloaded versions of the audio by editing your agenda items to include their recording start times in minutes and seconds like "0:01 - 1. Call to Order, 0:05 - 2. Introductions"

• Documents - Democaster assumes that most producers have their own websites with meeting documents or event handouts. A producer will likely have a meeting schedule that links off to the unique Democast page for an event. It is on翻译公司 that page where links to any web page or specific documents may be added. This might be a single link to the producers own page about this event or deep links to meeting documents for convenient listener access.
  • Select "Add New" multiple times based on the number of links you plan to add. Then enter the text and full URLs for each document. Then press Submit.
  • Warning - after entering the document text, if you press "Add New" without first pressing "Submit" that text will not be saved. You may add links and "Submit" documents one at time before adding a new document if preferred.
  • Democaster does not support uploading of non-audio documents. It is important that you consolidate into one authoritative source for up-to-date meeting documents.

• Comments - You may enable a web-based comment form that will allow listeners to send questions or comments to the e-mail address entered in the "My Account" tab of the logged in producer.

6. The "Tech" tab contains detailed technical setting. On the right you can select features such as:

• Webcast live and record for on demand access (default)
• Webcast live only
• Include webcam images

http://bjbzgs.blog.ccidnet.com/ On the left you see more techinical details:

• Webcast number - this unique number allows people to search the main Democaster directory quickly
• Your webcast URL - the page you can link to this specific webcast (if you want to link to all webcasts, simply navigate the public Democaster directory and link the group or series page of interest.
• Oddcast plug-in details - If you properly installed the Democaster version of Oddcast, the only setting you need to change in your Oddcast encoder options is the "Mountpoint" to your unique webcast number (##.ogg).
• This tab contains the advanced technical information useful to those webcasting from their computer with other tools, with MP3 (versus supported Ogg), or via Mac or Linux.
• Keep the "Audio-type" set on Ogg. We "transcode" all Ogg encoded webcasts into MP3 in real-time on the Democaster server at around 16kbps. Advanced users may encode and webcast in MP3, but no technical support is provided from Democaster. MP3 requires a license to encode legitimately and additional third-party site downloads, but works with most players. Ogg is non-proprietary and sounds better. So we encode in Ogg, but convert into MP3 for you so more people can listen.
• We use Ogg "quality" settings by default (-2, mono ~15kbps for up to 30 live listeners or -1, mono, ~22kbps for up to 15 live listeners) although you can webcast mono audio streams by "bitrate" under 32kbps. Webcasting at bitrates above that level violate the terms of service of Democaster. Setting used for music, like stereo at broadband rates, are to be used with other webcasting services NOT the low-cost, basic-quality Democaster service. By using low bitrates, the download/podcast versions are managably around 7MB for an hour of audio. This allows Democast audio to be listened to on-the-go via MP3 players.

7. Images - Further down the left column on the Tech tab, you will see the technical setting for the webcam image uploading options. This experimental feature is document in our Uploading webcam images section. A further discussion on the use of video and Democaster is available.

Images add a bit of life to your live and on-demand audio webcast. While there is no single "play" button that integrates the audio and images for on-demand listeners, users may press the slide show options and experience a synchronized webcast. Users may also manually click through saved images.