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How To Choose a Secure Live Streaming Service for Private Events

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One-third of all online activity is spent watching OTT video. And with good reason. Video is valuable. Businesses are using online video and live streaming for marketing, internal communications, training, sales, and more. 79 percent of all global consumer web traffic will come from video by 2018. Times are clearly changing. Live streaming is leading the way, […]

Can I Insert Closed Captions on a Dacast Live Stream?

A Can I Insert Closed Captions on a Dacast Live Stream?   What is a Closed Caption? Closed captions refer to the visual display of the audio in a program, such as a TV broadcast. The standards widely used for online video are: – CEA-608, also known as Line 21 – CEA-708, the latest standard […]

Introduction To Live Transcoding

  To ensure your transcoded live stream is stable and fully functional, you MUST configure your encoder to use the settings defined on this page. These settings have been chosen to ensure maximum compatibility with the Dacast platform. Failure to follow these settings may result in your live stream’s renditions having a wide variety of […]

Live Stream Audio: How to Navigate Audio-Only Streaming

To do audio-only live streaming on your website, simply begin by setting up a regular live stream as you normally would. To only stream with audio, you must uncheck the “video” feature in your encoder. This feature works for HTML5 channels. For the best performance, you will want to use AAC audio as your source […]