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Does Dacast Support Multi-Bitrate Streaming on Live Videos?

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 […]

How to Stream Using ManyCam RTMP Server

  ManyCam is an RTMP encoder that is compatible with Dacast for live streaming. What is RTMP? RTMP stands for Real-Time Messaging Protocol, and it is part of the technology that makes live streaming possible. The predecessor of Adobe originally developed this Transmission Control Protocol-based technology to work with the Adobe Flash player. In this […]

Low Latency Streaming via HLS on Dacast OBS Studio

  OBS Studio is a simple yet capable free broadcasting software with an integrated RTMP encoder. We recommend using OBS Studio along with our recommended encoder settings to get started with live streaming.  Although OBS Studio is our recommended software encoder, it is not required. Any RTMP encoder will work. How to Set up low […]

Dacast Free Account: Viewer Limits

Free trial accounts are not limited in any way by the number of viewers. But with a free trial, naturally, there are limitations when it comes to bandwidth and storage. These are the only factors of course which would hamper your free trial, in terms of course of limited capacity. Free trials are given 14 […]