Here are some resources discussed in my Sonic Foundry Webcast. Click over to the main story to view or download.

HoustonFest is a festival in Galax to honor a musician, soldier and fireman killed in a motorcycle wreck in 2010. I'm (Jan Ozer) producing the webcast, click to the main article to see the feed from LiveStream.

ViewCast's Niagara 2120 is a multiple stream, live H.264 encoding appliance that produced very good quality compared to software-based solutions like Telestream's Wirecast. The sub-5 pound unit is very portable, and can be configured in the home office for one-touch use in the field, and you can log-on remotely to resolve any issues experienced by your on-location streaming crew. With a competitive price of $3,995, the Niagara 2120 should be on the short list of any company or service bureau producing high volumes of on-location live H.264 webcasts.

I produced my first live webcast on May 8, 2010. Like everything else, there were some huge lessons that didn’t become obvious until I was there in the chair, broadcasting live. If you’ve got your first live webcast coming up, perhaps you’ll find them useful.

Between live streaming service providers and rich media communications solutions, there have never been more options for webcasting live events.

Here's the handout for my live event streaming presentation at StreamingMedia West.

If you’re producing a live streaming event, you have three choices when it comes to encoding: You can hire out the work, buy a streaming appliance, or build your own streaming encoder. If you choose the third approach and want to stream HD H.264 video via Flash, Kulabyte’s XStream Live 2.1 Flash video encoder needs to be on your short list. While the interface is still (to put it kindly) a work in progress, the encoder proved very efficient and reliable and produced excellent video quality. Read all about it in this review.