Apple today released QuickTime Broadcaster 1.5.2 which delivers increased compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard and provides important bug fixes.
Apple’s free QuickTime Broadcaster features include:
• H.264 live broadcasting: When combined with QuickTime 7, QuickTime Broadcaster supports broadcasting in the new H.264 video codec delivering high quality live streams at remarkably low data rates with H.264 video.
• Dramatically increased performance: Broadcast in full, 640 x 480, 30 fps video with QuickTime Broadcaster to deliver your audience a TV-like experience on their Mac or Windows PC.
• Increased support for 3G streaming: QuickTime Broadcaster includes enhanced support for live streaming to mobile devices that support the 3GPP standard.
Other Features of QuickTime Broadcaster
• MPEG-4: QuickTime Broadcaster delivers ISO-compliant audio and video. Any MPEG-4 compliant player can receive your broadcast event—making it the perfect way to reach large numbers of viewers for corporate meetings, online courses, keynote addresses, entertainment and other special events.
• 3GPP: QuickTime Broadcaster can also deliver 3GPP-compliant streams over the Internet.
• Instant VOD: In addition to recording your broadcast to disk, QuickTime Broadcaster can automatically hint the file for immediate posting to a streaming server for on-demand viewing after the event has occurred—just what you need for quick video-on-demand posting.
• Integration with QuickTime Streaming Server: Delivering your event to a large audience is as simple as clicking a button thanks to integration with QuickTime Streaming Server and • Darwin Streaming Server. This integration also provides industrial-strength streaming of your broadcast via Skip Protection, Apple’s patent-pending technology for preventing interruptions (or “skips”) in the transmission of streaming media.
• User-friendly interface: QuickTime Broadcaster provides a basic view that includes presets for popular broadcasting configurations, making it easy to start broadcasting in just a few clicks. Or you can customize your own settings in the expanded view and then save and share them with others.
• Standards-based delivery: QuickTime Broadcaster supports both multicast and unicast via the RTP/RTSP transport for delivering live broadcasts.
• Real-time Statistics: QuickTime Broadcaster automatically gives you statistics to help manage your broadcast, including the data rate of the audio and video stream, video frame rate, processor load, number of connected users and total data rate of the broadcast.
• Codec Flexibility: In addition to H.264 and MPEG-4, QuickTime Broadcaster supports other QuickTime codecs capable of streaming and real-time compression, including those in the QuickTime Component Download Program.
• FireWire Capture: QuickTime Broadcaster supports video capture from most FireWire-equipped sources, including DV cameras, some webcams and DV converter boxes for a fast and easy broadcasting process with professional-quality results.
• AppleScript Support: Automate broadcast processes such as starting and stopping a broadcast; selecting audio, video and network presets; and checking the status of a broadcast. Frequent broadcast producers can benefit from the automation power of AppleScript.
QuickTime Broadcaster 1.5.2 is available via Software Update.
More info here.
Whew! Good. Now I can go back to broadcasting ma sheep porn!
Did you lose an “e”?
No, he gained some IQ. Almost.
Is it just me, or has my star become a planet?
I forgot to mention Shepherd Jobs and his upcoming Blow-World. He once again will ignore these glaring security holes and instead mock Uncle Bill and poor Vista. Those morons who are going back to XP are fools. Vista will run on every machine, guaranteed. Microsoft doesn’t eliminate the ability to upgrade based on processor or video card. It just works.
Zune Tang has it right. You guys in your sheep clothes are fools. Vista combined with IE 7 is the right combo for everyone.
I hope nobody sees an Apple store.
“Is it just me, or has my star become a planet?”
I liked the star much better.
“Is it just me, or has my star become a planet?”
Maybe it’s a bird’s-eye view of either the original AirPort base station or the hockey puck mouse.
I thought that the producers of Desperate Housewives were quick time broad casters.
I miss my star.
Twinkle, twinkle, little planet just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Or so Saturn tells me.
Anybody know how to pipe an iChat multi-user video chat to Broadcaster?
I downloaded QT Broadcaster, and get a error -5420??
“Or so Saturn tells me.”
Yeah, I head Uranus talking crap about it, too….
You give Uranus head?
Jeez TT, contortionism is one thing, but perversion is quite another.
What good is one without the other?
You’re right. Everyone needs a head and an anus.
“Everyone needs a head and an anus.”
And THAT’S why I don’t want to come back as an earthworm.