Video Streaming Brian Slezak, Dir. of Rez Online Clif Guy, Dir. of IT

You Can Do This! It is now technologically and financially feasible for any church anywhere to stream worship and other events on the web. Today we are going to show you how!

Why Do This? “COR's online worship is perfect on sick days, or travel days when I am unable to physically get to a church. I feel like I am right there” - Stephen “Having Resurrection in our lives, if only by internet, is an important spiritual experience for us.” – Bob

Why Do This? “Best of all was your touching personal note to my wife. It brought tears to my eyes and hers too when she read it. To think that a man we have never met living over 1000 miles away would remember after a year that Shyrl had lost her Mom and send a note – that’s truly wonderful.” - Lars & Shryl

Why Do This? Doug and Doug Dexheimer

What we’ll cover 1.Sources – Audio: microphone(s), cabling, mixer – Video: camera(s), cabling, switcher 2.Capture/Encode 3.Distribute 4.Play

What we’ll cover

Decisions to Make What Playback devices will be supported? (requires different protocols) What is Acceptable video and audio quality?

Under the Hood Streaming Protocols Real Time Messaging Protocol [RTMP] – Adobe HTTP Live Streaming [HLS] – Apple HTTP Dynamic Streaming [HDS] – Adobe

Under the Hood Streaming Protocols Smooth Streaming – [MS-SSTR] – Microsoft H.264 Video Codec (Blu-ray, Vimeo, Youtube)

Under the Hood Operating Systems and Browsers iOS, OSX (Apple) – Safari Android (Google) – Chrome Windows (Microsoft) – IE, Firefox, Chrome

Ustream Audio Only *No* video Cellular data connection

Ustream Audio Webcam video Broadband Internet

Under the Hood Quality and Bandwidth Considerations Audio – MP3 64 kb/s to 128 kb/s – AAC 48kb/s to 96 kb/s Video – SD 360 Kb/s to 1 Mb/s – HD 2 Mb/s to 5 Mb/s

Flash Media Live Encoder Higher visual quality One camera or external video switcher

USTREAM Producer / Wirecast Multiple cameras / video sources Use computer as switcher

WorshipStream Outsourced Services & Support Leveled Pricing Plans 2 Mb Up 4 Mb Down (Recommended)

Haivision Network Video Multiple solution levels KulaByte software- based encoder Professional quality

KulaByte Encoder

Wowza Media Server Streaming server Cloud-based options Multiple protocol support

Wowza GoCoder Originate stream from iOS device Connects to a streaming server such as Wowza

End User Experience iOS, Android, Windows, OS X, phone, tablet, Roku Web page design and layout

Under the Hood End User Experience Responsive web design Roku channel development

Types of Online Worshippers New visitors, church shoppers Elderly, homebound, assisted living facilities Sick / out of town members (~66%) International viewers (global ministry) Deaf / Blind

Tensions to be Managed Lazy Members Inauthentic Church Sacraments Worshiping In-person – “Join us in person if you can”

Global Ministry Opportunities Unreachable Audiences Unique Kingdom Building It is the Good News – go spread it [Mark 16:15]

Video Streaming Brian Slezak, Dir. of Rez Online Clif Guy, Dir. of IT