How to with 3gp - Wi-Fi phone and Wirecast:
Aim:
This tutorial is aimed at cell phones that have Wi-Fi capability and 3gp media players. With Wi-Fi capable phones starting to come out into the market place, I feel this will enable students that cannot afford GPRS or 3G data contracts, to be able to view video & audio content at home on the Wi-Fi networks or at their educational institution.
What will you need:
Hardware: DV Camera (iSight will do) - 1 Mac running Wirecast - 1 QuickTime / Darwin Streaming Server.
Software: Download - Wirecast - for more info click here.
1. After you have downloaded Wirecast and installed it, open it up. Applications > Wirecast.
- Tip: a short cut to Applications folder when in the finder is to press "Shift + Apple key + A"
2. With Wirecast open, go to the menu bar at the top and go across to the 'Broadcast', then down go down to 'Broadcast Settings...'.
- Tip: a short cut to Broadcast Settings is to press "Apple key + Y"
3. Next under the 'Encoder Preset:' select 'Edit...'. You'll then be presented with the video settings.
- Video Enabled: tick
- Encoder: MPEG-4 Video
- Depth: Color
- Width: 176
- Height: 144
- Quality: Up to you
- Frames per second: 10
- Key frame every: Up to you
- Limit data rate to: Up to you
4. To get to your Audio settings, just click on 'Audio' tab at the top. Now you should see the audio settings.
- Audio Enable: tick
- Encoder: AMR Narrowband
- Options.. 12.2 kbit/s
- Rate: 8.000
5. Now we can save our setting as a Preset. Under the 'Encoder' options list we can now pick 'Save Preset...' and we'll be prompted to name that preset to any thing we like.
6. This is where the power Wirecast comes in. Wirecast can stream the same input out as multiple streams, targeted at different end users. So in short users cell phone uses (on Wi-Fi network), laptop users or desktop users can all view the same content.
To add a new output, just click on the plus sine button.
7. One last thing that you might want to do, is to save your stream as a QuickTime movie file. The reason you might want to do this, is so that you can then repurpose your saved content later.
As before in stage 6, just click on the plus sine button, to add a new output and then under 'Destination' select 'Record to Disk'.
