How To Webcast - A Walkthrough Guide
The on the increase potential of web casting has made webcast popularity levels to rise very fast and steeply. Since almost everyone wants to take advantage of webcasting, many people search information on webcasts on the Internet. The most frequent question asked is 'how to webcast?'. The steps described below will walk you through the process of making your own webcast:
Interestingly, the first step in the walkthrough of 'how to webcast?' is itself a question. What to webcast? Do you have any topic to be covered?. Will you cover the same topic regularly or will you switch topics on a regular basis? First you will need to choose a specific topic on which to do a webcast
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Then you will need to decide the frequency and schedule of your webcast. If you want to do a webcast, you must know that the creation of content takes a long time. A webcast has to be recorded, edited, encoded, and only then can it be transmitted over the Internet. You will also have to decide if you want to do a live webcast or will that be an on-demand webcast. The main difference between the two is that a user has full control over the time at which he/she wants to watch an ondemand webcast, whereas the user has no control normally over the time at which a live webcast can be watched by him/her An on-demand webcast is a webcast-as-pera-users-wish-andconvenience, but in the case of a live webcast, a user will not be able to access the content he missed, unless you make the webcast archive available to that user.
Next you need to choose the standards and software that you are going to use for the webcast. Since there is more than one webcasting software and a number of webcasting standards available for the webcast, it is better to do some audience research to decide the most popular webcasting software and webcasting standard among your audience. An audio-only music webcast will be in the mp3 format, which is the most popular format for audio the world over, but if you want to do a webcast solely for the users of Mac OS X, it is natural that you would go for Apple's standard QuickTime format Next,you will need to choose the webcasting equipment. It is important that you choose the equipment that is suitable for your needs. If you are on a tight budget, you can even do a webcast through the use of a cheap webcam and an in-built microphone. However, if quality cannot be compromised, you should go for professional-grade webcasting equipment that is normally used by webcasting studios. Next, you will need to choose and set up the webcast hosting service. You can choose from shared hosting, dedicated hosting and dedicated virtual hosting. The platform on which you will host the webcast should be chosen from Windows Server or Linux. Though if you are feeling techie you can try to set up your own server, but it will surely be very expensive. Finally, you will need to deploy the site and the webcast code on the server and you are through. While this walkthrough on how to webcast has tried to cover almost all aspects, you may encounter other issues for which you can always get help from IRC and other support channels.
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