All things related to multicast

["Rich Griffin (CampusEAI Consortium)" <>]

OK, I understand your workflow now - seems Mac-oriented. Wirecast is a 
great product - Episode is very nice too; I didn't know it used Dicas.

I haven't looked at Dicas for quite a while but I have used really early 
versions of mpegable - maybe they've improved but I believe their first 
h.264 encoder was the mpeg-4 ver. 10 - basic profile only.

I'm a bit more "old school" - to me 1.5 Mbs is high-bitrate :) but for 
near-NTSC quality (and proper settings) H.264 @ 1.5 Mbs should be more 
than ample.

I'd be happy to chat with you offline (or anyone for that matter) on 
live-ingest; playlist "streaming" and on-demand video processing, 
encoding, storage and distribution and general workflow strategies. I do 
a lot of it.

Rich Griffin 
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Frank Fulchiero wrote:
> Hi Rich, thanks for the all info...as this is a bit OT, will keep my 
> reply brief. May ask you more off-line.
>
> There are not many choices for setting parameters in live encoding 
> with QT Broadcaster and Wirecast, the apps we use.
> We only use a DVD carousel going to a Canopus ADVC110 S-video>Firewire 
> DV to simulate a live stream.
> Unfortunately, the view outside my office is a bit boring for a webcam.
>
> For on-demand, I am using Telestream's Episode (2-pass), which has 
> lots of options, and limiting myself to 1.5 mbps for H.264 video.
> Episode uses the Dicas encoder
> http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=10570
>
> Bottom line from above:
> "Overall, if you’re in the market for an H.264 encoding tool, I would 
> definitely prioritize any tool with the MainConcept codec, though the 
> advantage over the Dicas codec is very modest. On the other hand, if 
> you’re currently producing H.264 video with the Apple codec, you could 
> probably improve quality, cut bitrate, or both by switching to a tool 
> with either the MainConcept or Dicas codec."
>
>
> For playback, we use QT and VLC.
> You are obviously way ahead of me!
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> Frank