LearningAPI | Live Mobile Streaming
There’s a lot to unpack here, and I can’t do it for the moment, but if you’re looking to do some serious live streaming, Harvard’s Larry Bouthillier explains how they streamed this year’s commencement for just about every platform: PCs, Macs, iPod/iPhone/iPad, Android, and Blackberry.
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I don’t know how many people it involved, and that would be good information, but Larry discusses what tools they used and some of the gotchas. Overall, he says, it was ultimately a big success. A/V synch on the encoding system was a big issue, as was consistency across different models of Android and Blackberry phones on different carriers. He didn’t specify which combos were problematic, but said that iPhones and iPads “were the easiest to support fully.” Hmmmm.