Streaming Live From Your iPhone
March 19, 2010 by Ryan Ray
Hey everyone, it is finally Friday and new posts are going to start coming fast! As we go into the weekend we’re going to talk about one awesome way to stream live video from your iPhone. I don’t know if you are wondering why someone would ever want to stream video from their iPhone, or how this even works in the first place, but for some reason it’s a wanted feature of iPhone owners.
One way to do this outside of jail breaking is the Ustream Broadcaster app. We talked about the Ustream app before. It’s a free app and also has a brother app called the Ustream viewer. I wish someday soon Ustream will combine the apps, no need to take up two spots on my iPhone’s screen. None the less their streaming app is light and clean. I used it last night while I was in the studio with John Tibbs. I streamed some video while he did vocal takes and piano takes. You can watch him in the studio if you want. That will give you an idea of the quality of the video. It’s obviously not HD or anything close to it, but it serves it’s purpose. Below are some screenshots of the app…
Check out that awesome bright, glowing green logo in the top left corner of my iPhone. Once you’ve opened the app you’ll get presented with these options if you have it set to do so on startup. You can choose one of the modes automatically if you’d rather automatically stream live in the options panel. So once you’ve chosen live this is what you’ll see plus the options panel…
As you can see in the live window you see what you iPhone’s camera is seeing, then the dark grey area has information pop up on it and other things like a twitter feed, or facebook comments, etc… One really cool part of the app. To actually start streaming just tap go live, or you can record to your iPhone by tapping to phone. Either way you’ll soon be recording video. The apps settings are very simple, choose a default channel incase you have more than one account. Do you want to send your video live or record to the iPhone, how about the quality, etc…
Once you’ve started streaming live the app will automatically send out a tweet to tell people to check out your live stream. Last night when I did this we had about 6 people at one time watching the live stream, which is pretty cool if you ask me. I can also send out a poll. For instance last night we were previewing a song in the studio and I sent out a poll asking if they liked what they hear so far. They can then vote yes or no as in a normal poll, another really cool feature. The app also shows you how many people are viewing it at a time, in real time too. Our numbers fluctuated from 2-6 a lot.
After all is said and done you can then save the video to your Ustream profile for viewing at anytime. So far Ustream has been a great app to stream this kind of stuff. If you are in a band, at a live event such as a concert or game, etc… it’s be cool to stream what you are doing live. There is just something about being able to have your own internet TV show live in seconds that is very cool. So definitely check out the app, we may talk about a few other streaming apps in the near future. Have a great Friday!
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