We have several types of live streaming Dacast channels in order to meet every Broadcaster’s needs. All of our live channels (except Standard Passthrough) are transcoding channels (meaning they come with Adaptive streaming ABR). Standard Passthrough The default live stream channels we have are called Standard Passthrough channels, ready-to-broadcast format channels where the source is […]
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Audio on Dacast Dacast is more geared towards video streaming, but it is possible to set up live streaming and on-demand audio streaming, as well. The Dacast platform enables you to create audio live streams and upload audio to the platform. Here we will show you the different methods by which you can use your […]
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. […]