Recommended bandwidth
To broadcast through Streaming platform we recommend using a wired connection with an upload bandwidth of at least 700Kbps. Your upload bandwidth must be greater than your stream’s total bitrate.
Many times what appears to be a great connection is somewhat less in the real world. If your connection drops, reduce the published bitrate to a lower speed.
Here you can view how to test your bandwidth.
Browser based broadcast requirements
Windows
CPU
- Intel Pentium II 450MHz
- AMD Athlon 600MHz or faster
Memory
- 128MB of RAM
HDD
- 10 MB or more available disk space
Operating System
- Microsoft Windows 7 and 8
Bitrate
- 200 Kbs and up
Macintosh
CPU
- PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster
- Intel Core Duo 1.33GHz or faster
Memory
- 128MB of RAM
HDD
- 10 MB or more available disk space
Operating System
- Mac OS X v10.4 or later (PowerPC)
- Mac OS X v10.4 or later (Intel)
- Mac OS X v10.6
Bitrate
- 200 Kbs and up
Linux
CPU
- Modern processor (800MHz or faster)
Memory
- 512MB of RAM
HDD
- 10 MB or more available disk space
Operating System
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
- openSUSE 11
- Ubuntu 7.10 or later or 8.04 or later
Bitrate
- 200 Kbs and up
Pre-defined Web broadcaster settings
High quality
Set the video and audio quality to maximum to broadcast a top quality live show. Note that you will need greater than 500kbps upstream bandwidth to use this setting and viewers on lower bandwidth connections may have issues viewing high quality.
Medium quality
Medium quality is what we suggest. It enables you to broadcast to a maximum of viewers with good image and audio quality!
Low quality
Set the video and audio quality to low if you have a lower speed connection or wish to broadcast to people with a lower bandwidth connection. It will lower the resources required to watch your show!