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Support ArticlesVideo tutorials available here. What is the Dacast version of OBS Studio? We have customized OBS Studio, the most popular, free, open-source, live streaming software. The goal is to simplify the steps to stream live video when using Dacast. Dacast OBS Studio is available at all plan levels, you can download it for free within […]
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In order to prepare your content for mobile VOD access, you must first make sure that the file follows a very specific format. This format is MP4 with H.264 video (high profile) and AAC audio (low complexity profile, or “LC”). If the file is a different format, you have two options: encode it on […]
Making your live streaming experience better and easier is our goal at Dacast. This is why we have developed a custom version of the free live streaming software OBS Studio. The latest version we released in October 2018 is in beta. This new Dacast beta version of OBS Studiois available for free for all […]
A What is VP9 and Does Dacast Support It? VP9 is a proprietary codec that was developed by On2Technologies in May 2003. It is also called the TrueMotion video codec. VP9 is a lossy video compression format and is often used by JavaFX, Adobe Flash and Flash Video Files. Dacast does NOT recommend using VP9. […]
Yes, Dacast fully supports multi-bitrate streaming on live videos and video-on-demand content. The Dacast player detects automatically the different bitrates of your live stream and allows the viewer to choose between them. This must be set up in your encoder directly. Also, in order to support multi-bitrates streaming, you need an internet connection that has […]