Haihaisoft Live P2P broadcasting solution that dramatically reduces the bandwidth needed. It solved the serious problem that live video broadcasting spends too much bandwidth, and helps you cut bandwidth costs by up to 90 percent.
With the significant growth in consumer broadband usage, increasing numbers of individuals and broadcasters are engaging in live streaming. However, in many instances this expansion has led to high bandwidth costs and decreased media quality. Haihaisoft Live P2P solves this problem through its advanced P2P software which allows broadcasters to create a network that utilizes unused viewer 'upload' bandwidth capacity.
Haihaisoft P2P Live Broadcasting Features:
* With Haihaisoft P2P Live technology. One server with 100 M Bandwidth supports 150,000 simultaneous users.
* Improved buffer time dramatically. Haihaisoft P2P broadcast your live content simultaneous to all users and with very short buffer time. Usually 5 seconds or less.
* Supports Windows Media(WMV, WMA, MP3 file formats).
* Live DRM. Supports Haihaisoft Media DRM (Based-on Windows Media DRM) protect your live broadcasting.
* Improves reliability and quality of delivery. You can broadcast 700 Kbps high quality video streams.
* Haihaisoft Live client with very small size, only 533 KB.
* Using Windows Media Player, no Need to Install Additional Player.
* Support various business models. Subscription, Pay-Per-View, and Preview and Purchase Content.
* Powerful Control Panel. Enable you create and monitor all visits and broadcasting status.
Introduction to Haihaisoft Live P2P Broadcasting solution:
1. What is Haihaisoft Live?
Haihaisoft Live is a P2P broadcasting solution makes internet broadcasting scalable. It can reduce streaming costs by 90%, increase quality and significantly improve network resiliency. Haihaisoft Live has been specifically designed to cope easily with peak traffic volumes and network congestion, delivering a more consistent, reliable and higher quality live streaming to your customers.
Discover how we can help deliver media better with Haihaisoft Live:
Television: Reach a larger audience and give end users a richer experience.
Live Events: Content owners can deliver protected live digital media content such as news, rock concerts, or major sporting events over the Internet as the events are happening, without requiring that the content first be batched and saved.
Remote Training: For example, a university can broadcast lectures and discussions and encrypt them by using Haihaisoft DRM so they can be streamed to students' computers after the acquisition of a license. The student logs in, and a license is sent to her computer. The university uses the license as an attendance record and also for billing purposes.
Radio: Optimize your audio streams: Handle listener peaks, reduce costs and increase stability.
2. Does Haihaisoft Live support DRM?
Yes. Haihaisoft Live can integrate with Haihaisoft Media DRM seamlessly. You can easily protect your live broadcasting.
3. How does Haihaisoft Live work?
With Haihaisoft Live, when you distribute a stream, only a fraction of users are directly connected to the stream's source. This means the cost to the distributor is only a fraction of what it might be. The majority of users are receiving portions of the stream from other users with latent upload resources. The more users in the audience, the more resources become available, so there is no incremental cost as the audience scales. Haihaisoft Live is a powerful P2P technology that can be deployed without the upgrade or modification of existing hardware anywhere in the network. The software simply runs behind the scenes routing existing streams via the most optimal routes to minimize the cost to the broadcaster while remaining as seamless as possible to the end-user. The Haihaisoft Live P2P Broadcast solution includes two parts: the Haihaisoft Live Server and the Haihaisoft Live Client. The Haihaisoft Live Server is installed in your server for distributing the streaming. Each participant in the audience runs the Haihaisoft Live Client. The live streaming is normally launched from the broadcaster's website and interacts with an existing media player.
4. What are the requirements for running Haihaisoft Live Client?
Haihaisoft Live client is very small, only 533 KB.
The following requirements apply to the Haihaisoft Live Client:
* Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or 2003 Server, Intel x86 series processors.
* Internet Explorer 4.0 and above, Firefox, Netscape 6.0 and above
* Windows Media Player 6.4 or above, RealPlayer 7.0 or above
5. How to start Haihaisoft Live Client?
The live streaming is normally launched from the broadcaster's website and interacts with an existing media player automatically.
You can start Haihaisoft Live Client in Windows menu, Start -> All Programs -> Haihaisoft Live -> Start Haihaisoft Live
6. What types of content can and can't be distributed with Haihaisoft Live?
Haihaisoft Live can distribute any real-time (live or pre-recorded) audio and video streaming content streamed from Windows Media Services, Helix and Real servers. Haihaisoft Live does not support distribution of downloadable or on-demand streaming content.
