TouchStream Tips for New users
These will be very helpful when need help in understanding how best to work with your Digital Rapids TouchStream unit.
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What is TouchStream’s Broadcast Manager?
Broadcast Manager is a network deployed farm that controls multiple systems with encoding nodes on them. The Broadcast Manager Server software is free and just requires a dedicated system that is not an encoder to run on. Each encoding resource needs to have a Broadcast Manager license in order to be controlled by the Broadcast Manager Server software.
Instead of having Transcoding Engines licensed, Broadcast Manager licenses the DRC cards within each system. Typically there is a single DRC card in each BM Agent. The Broadcast Manager Server is then used to schedule live streaming/encoding events through a single interface which also offers confidence monitoring of all active projects.
Broadcast Manager also offers a scalable encoder failover redundancy that can even control certain supported routers for input signal routing if/when a failover occurs. Broadcast Manager can be used to control any of our encoding solutions running Stream FE or Stream Live software.
This is a link to the main Broadcast Manager page that gives an overview of the solution and what specific purpose it can fulfill in certain workflows:
http://www.digital-rapids.com/Products/IndividualProducts/Broadcast%20Mgr.aspx
As far as the hardware that is required to run Broadcast Manager, it simply requires a current PC to run the Broadcast Manager software. The entire solution is comprised of the Broadcast Manager server, and the Stream FE, Live or TouchStream encoders which do all the “heavy lifting” or encoding of video.
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Flash are Websites are great aren’t they?
Well,
Why I can’t be found on search engines? Read on…
I just got off the phone with a very forward thinking church and they have a website and realize how important Live streaming is to church growth. In our conversation we spoke of their website which I typically run a quick structure and content review while we are on the phone.
When we got off, I decided to search for their church, and realized that I only had an address and I did not get their domain name. The address was exactly 13305 Woodforest Blvd. , Huston Texas, 77015. Typically, I can enter the address and find the direct organizational website in no time, but what I found while trying Google, Yahoo, and Bing was zero, nothing, nada. I only found Yellowpages maps for local communities that did not have propagated links to any site.
I could not spend anymore time looking and contacted the administrator for the domain name and found FOTN.org. After reviewing the website and having some SEO and design basics, I found that the entire site is designed and published in Flash, which means that none of the search engines can crawl or find any content that relates to the site, hence a near zero “0″ ranking.
Some Flash sites us a combination of Flash and HTML code that allows the content or text to be crawled by the major search engines and found, and eventually ranked.
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