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Live Broadcasting
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Things you will need
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Introduction : Live Real Media broadcasts require a multimedia
computer with an internet connection on your end to handle the actual
audio/video capture using Helix Producer. The audio/video signal is then
transmitted via the internet to our Helix Server, where the signal is
processed and converted to the format recognized by RealPlayer on the
fly.
Below are some basic instructions on how to do a test live broadcast using
either the command line based Helix DNA Producer, or the easier to use windowed
version, Helix Producer Basic. We recommend the windowed
version, but you can use the command line if you desire.
This server is normally configured for demonstration broadcasts, if there is
a broadcast in progress on the server when you attempt a test, your test will fail.
Please contact us to confirm the server is available if
you experience difficulties.
Steps for doing a test Broadcast.
Please Check Current Server Availability here.
- Begin a test broadcast using the instructions below.
- Listen using the link
- Connect to the Monitoring tool for your server, and make sure you can
connect to it without problems. You should see your player, encoder, and monitor
connected and functioning in in the connections tab.
- When you complete this test, you should be ready to
broadcast. For your convenience, and if there are no broadcast conflicts, we will give you 30 minutes of
"spillover" time, in case your event runs long or you want to keep watching
the server monitor.
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IMPORTANT NOTE - the job files you produce with the command line
producer can also be used in the windowed Helix Producer Basic below (it
does not allow you to create job files, but you can load them).
(Recommended) To stream your live broadcast using Helix Producer Basic:
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Download and install
Helix Producer Basic (free download)
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Download our sample Job file
audio.rpjf, right click and select save as ..
NOTE - we have other sample job files for music and video below.
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Use the filename "audio.rpjf", and make sure the file type is not listed as xml.
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Start Helix Producer, and open the audio.rpjf job.
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Under the Destination section click the "edit" button, check your
- Stream Name thebook-demo/live.rm
- Server Address audio3.thebook.com
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Click the Audiences Button and Choose your encoding rates (limited to 3, by
Helix Producer Basic, not our server).
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Click "OK"
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Click "Encode"
Alternately, you can create a "stub" .ram file containing the above
line. This would be placed in your web site area and can be hyperlinked
for people accessing your website.
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To stream your live broadcast using Helix DNA Producer (we recommend
you also review the documentation at:
https://producerapps.helixcommunity.org/cmdproducer/docs/ ) :
- Download and Install Helix DNA Producer to C:/helix.
Helix Producer Download
- Go to Start Menu->programs->accessories->Command Prompt
- Type cd C:\helix\producer
- Type producer -pd , this prints
out available audio and video inputs we will refer to these numbers as AA
& VV (AA for the audio number, VV for video -- they are normally 00).
The producer also needs to know how you wish to encode your stream (this
is called the Audience). Below you will see the name of audience
files (ending in .rpad) -- they would be located in
\helix\producer\audiences. You can browser this directory and view
the files with notepad. They are in XML format.
- To start an audio broadcast you would type the following
producer -ac AA -sp
example@audio3.thebook.com/thebook-demo/live.rm -ad "28K Dial-up.rpad"
- To start an audio and video broadcast you would enter:
producer -ac AA -av VV -sp
example@audio3.thebook.com/thebook-demo/live.rm -ad "26K Dial-up.rpad"
You can see that there is a LOT to type by the time you are done
specifying both the audience, and how to connect to the server. You
can save ALL this information in a 'job file' (ending in .rpjf). To
produce a job file enter the following. It will just product the job file
and exit, no broadcast. NOTE that we are using audio and video devices 00):
producer -ac 00 -av 00 -sp example@audio3.thebook.com/thebook-demo/live.rm -ad "56K Dial-up.rpad,26K Dial-up.rpad" -cj mybroadcast.rpjf
You can then use the job file in a broadcast with:
producer -j mybroadcast.rpjf (much
simpler!)
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