Knowledgebase : General Questions
Yes. TotalStream can run an ad at the beginning of the program, or at intermittent intervals. We can not do Ad replacement for streaming television stations. TotalStream can assist you in obtaining advertising for specific streaming events, or TV station...
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The furthest that TotalStream has pulled a signal is from Bangalore, India to San Jose, CA; and from Reykavik, Iceland to Dallas, TX. We prefer not to do that, as latency and packet loss increases with distance; resulting in lower stream quality to the vi...
Yes -- At each TV station install a workstation, to be used as the encoder. Basic box such as a Dell 420 with a 2 ghz CPU, 512 MB ram, NIC, running Windows XP Pro. The workstation will need a good video encoder card that is connected to the A/V cables fro...
Your account payouts operate monthly on a 60-day deferment to allow for processing, fraud analysis, bookkeeping requirements, and fulfillment of tax requirements. You recieve payments approxmiately after end of 60 days or your account have reached p...
You will need to obtain licensing from the TV stations to broadcast the content outside of the foreign country. Also, you will need to conform with the DMCA compliance requirements, copyrights, etc. The next step is to determine how to get the signal to ...
They can watch on their computers with no issue. There are several devices out there now for connecting to their TV.
TotalStream can easily handle that. Your company will only need enough bandwidth for the encoder - TotalStream will handle the bandwidth for the viewers from the streaming servers.
Encoding is the process of preparing audio and video files to be streamed. Uncompressed audio and video files are extremely large (five minutes of AVI video will take roughly 1 gigabyte of disk space) and therefore are not a practical format for Intern...
Streaming media is video or audio materials that are prepared for distribution over the Internet. The sound and image data are sent as a data stream to the users who can play the materials immediately instead of waiting for the entire file to download. A ...
Progressive streams are files such as MP3, QuickTime, RealMedia and MPEG media that can stream because the client players are able to play these files as they are being downloaded. Progressive streams can come from conventional servers. Real-time streamin...
Streaming media typically refers to video or audio that is played on your computer but not downloaded to it. Like an actual stream of water, the encoded media moves from the server to client as it is playing on the client player. The media is not stored o...