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Streaming a church service

August 15th, 2005

Streaming a church service is an ideal way to reach a distant audience, and particularly good for family gatherings such as weddings and christenings of family’s who live abroad. In order to webcast from a church, the most viable set up is to have an ADSL line for the internet connection (ideally with a static IP address), a PC with Windows Media encoder installed on it, and a digital camera with firewire connector on a suitable tripod.

If you have a microphone connected to a public address system, then it is best to use an output from this for the audio signal as the sound quality will be a lot better.

You connect the camera to the PC using a firewire lead. Log on to the Internet with the ADSL connection and then start broadcasting using Windows Media Encoder.

The live stream of the church service is then pulled down to a distribution server, and when visitors to your website select a link to view the webcast of the church service, they connect to the distribution server. This way only one connection is made through the church’s ADSL line. Any more than that and the connection would become saturated and the signal would break up.

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