i started playing around with the adobe flash media live encoder this morning. i had no intention of doing so but i just kinda got dragged into it because of bambuser having an iphone4 contest for a free unlocked sim phone

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that would be a nice christmas present for me in the new year so i just changed a few bits on my blog this morning and i’m going to leave this stream up for the next week or so. i’m going to be working christmas anyway so i might as well stream it all out and test how good this encoding platform is anyway now that it works.

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some things i noted and thought about while using it.. 
  • multi stream support – offer different streams of bandwidth
  • able to limit by duration saved local files (so 1hr for instance)
  • using camtwist and my quickcam c910 hd in 720p
  • no way to set the title of the stream
  • wondered if camtwist had shot time delay
  • wish bambuser had twitter repeat stream updater

overall i’m glad that the mac version of the encoder is now working.  i can see this installed on a mac mini serving up time cycling camtwist shots of different logitech HD cameras.  i’m working towards that anyway. ..