CATEGORY ARCHIVES: KNOWLEDGE BASESearch Results for: VOD

How Does Overage (Playback) Protection Work for Bandwidth?

Dacast - Live Streaming and On Demand Video Platform

  Bandwidth overage protection is how Dacast keeps live streams up and running when users are out of bandwidth. The way this works is whenever you run out of bandwidth, the system will order the amount that you have selected under “Playback Protection.”  For example, if you selected 50 GB of “Playback Protection,” the system […]

Start Streaming on Dacast: A Time Guide

For most people, it will take around 15-30 minutes for someone to sign up and start streaming. This time does not account for setting up broadcasting equipment to a computer and assumes that someone is streaming from an already attached device such as a webcam or a camcorder. This time estimate does include the process […]

Can I Live Stream from South Africa?

Dacast has a lot of customers in South Africa and they don’t experience any particular problems due to their location. This is due to the CDN connection that Dacast utilizes (Limelight Networks), which has a server presence all over the world. Background: As recently as May 2018, Limelight networks had opened a new Point-Of-Presence (PoP) […]