Broadcasting Audio and Video Live at the same time

Tuesday, July 22nd
by Rob White

Our main topic on Friday Night will be “Broadcasting Audio and Video Live at the same time, or should they be produced separately”. I have been broadcasting audio live on Talkshoe for over a year and a half now. Prior to that, I was podcasting (pre-recorded mostly) and video at that time, was just a gleam in most podcaster’s eyes, mine included.

Thanks to the recent outage at Talkshoe, I was able to prove to not only myself, but my listeners, that I could produce a video only show, complete with a conference phone bridge, chat room and clear audio. I had began several months ago putting together this method, which I coined My Plan B (Why? Because everyone needs a Plan B), and was able to pull the show together quickly and professionally and still make the air time on Friday Night. I had never tried my Plan B prior to that night, so I was really happy when it all came together smoothly and quickly and actually worked!

Now, once the show was over, Talkshoe, even though they were back online, couldn’t take any recordings. So, again, my Plan B for this was already in place and I simply podcasted my own recordings on my server and wrote my blog posts along with the embedded recordings for people to download and listen to.

Again, this worked out very well for me. Then today, when Talkshoe finally got the recordings back online so that I could finally upload last Friday’s episodes, I discover that some of my previous recordings are now damaged and the volume is all over the charts! I contacted Josh at Talkshoe and he is getting this looked in to. In the meantime, I now have a decision to make. Do I stay with Talkshoe and continue to hope that “all goes well” and keep cleaning up after them when recordings get damaged, lost or worse, or do I simply go to my Plan B, which I know will work and I have contigencies built in that will allow me to quickly change services and still keep the show going!

This is where you come in as a listener of my shows. I want you to leave a comment to this post, it’s public, so everyone will be able to read it, and let me know your opinion on this. I will make a final decision by Thursday, in plenty of time to amek necessary changes everywhere, and I will base my final decision on your comments. I really want to hear from you on this. I will also keep you updated on what is happening on this end too. Thanks in advance!