<p>If you have at least 300-500kps of upload bandwith available you can push an rtmp stream of your live event to a CDN like youtube, dailymotion, livestream ...</p>

<p>In terms of software I already used:</p>

<ul>
<li>Livestream, which provides among other things a tool called procaster with which you can broadcast your desktop, or a section of your desktop. You can even broadcast a capture of your skype window ! ( it will not be very beautiful, but it works ). Livestream also has many tools which allow to make a chat during your live event with the viewers of the event.</li>
<li>Flash Media Encoder (aka FME ), which is a free tool provided by Adobe, which will encode to rtmp any video camera connected to your computer. You can then push it to a CDN like YouTube or DailyMotion.</li>
</ul>

<p>All of this is free of charge, with sometimes some limits on the number of simultaneous viewer, and/on an ad-supporting scheme which will play an advertisement before your live video.</p>

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<p>Another option may be a Google+ hangout.  Especially if you want some sort of user interaction with-in the program.</p>

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<p>I need to broadcast on the Internet weekly <strong>live</strong> video events.
One attempt was made with Skype and it worked pretty well, but it was only with one user. We expect 50 users and we have a low bandwidth here so I guess Skype won't be a solution.</p>

<p>What do you recommend for broadcasting live video events to 50 people with low bandwidth from the video source ? Free solutions are preferable.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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# Broadcasting video and bandwidth issue

(Asked by: username_0 on 2012-03-14)

I need to broadcast on the Internet weekly **live** video events.
One attempt was made with Skype and it worked pretty well, but it was only with one user. We expect 50 users and we have a low bandwidth here so I guess Skype won't be a solution.

What do you recommend for broadcasting live video events to 50 people with low bandwidth from the video source ? Free solutions are preferable.

Thanks!

**Tags:** video, broadcasting

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2012-03-14. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

If you have at least 300-500kps of upload bandwith available you can push an rtmp stream of your live event to a CDN like youtube, dailymotion, livestream ...

In terms of software I already used:

* Livestream, which provides among other things a tool called procaster with which you can broadcast your desktop, or a section of your desktop. You can even broadcast a capture of your skype window ! ( it will not be very beautiful, but it works ). Livestream also has many tools which allow to make a chat during your live event with the viewers of the event.
* Flash Media Encoder (aka FME ), which is a free tool provided by Adobe, which will encode to rtmp any video camera connected to your computer. You can then push it to a CDN like YouTube or DailyMotion.

All of this is free of charge, with sometimes some limits on the number of simultaneous viewer, and/on an ad-supporting scheme which will play an advertisement before your live video.

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: We are inviting experts to [Broadcast and Media Technologies](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/36807/broadcast-and-media-technologies) which aims to capture more architectural and theoretical views around subjects like this. Join and invite others.  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2012-03-15. Score: 0

Another option may be a Google+ hangout. Especially if you want some sort of user interaction with-in the program.


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