BG Live™
BG Live is the first and only standards-based SD live broadcasting solution that delivers Internet broadcasts in 480p at 30 frames per second. Since its launch in 2008, television networks and Web publishers have broadcast nightly news, political conventions, presidential speeches, and President Obama’s inauguration with BG Live SD and BG Live HD.
Most live broadcasting solutions for the Internet are difficult to implement, prohibitively expensive, and deliver sub-optimal end-user experiences. BG Live takes minutes to set up, limits startup costs to off-the-shelf hardware and bandwidth, and allows end-users to enjoy smooth web streams rivaling SD and HD television.
Stream quality is optimized based on each person’s connection and users can visit any point in the streamed broadcast. Best of all, BG Live is a Flash-based service, so no download is required for end-users.
Simply put, BG Live is the benchmark for easy-to-implement, cost-effective live Internet broadcasting.
Features:
Broadcast resolutions include 480p at 30 fps
Fast set-up and minimal hardware requirements result in low up-front costs
Dedicated nodes in North America, Europe, Asia, and India for global availability
Fully distributed, massive scalable architecture at affordable pricing
Reduced routing and shortened transits deliver live broadcasts instantly
High throughput ensures play without buffering or freezing
Flash-based delivery means no end userend-user download is required to view the stream
Bitrate to each end-user can be dynamically adjusted based on their available bandwidth
Users can pause, rewind, restart, and jump to any point within a live broadcast
Real-time and historic textual and graphical reporting provides analytics like status of live feeds, number of concurrent streams, and network latency between the feed and BitGravity’s content delivery service—BG Content Delivery
24 x 7 support available to ensure success of your business.
Specifications & Requirements: BG Live SD (480p)
Selectable resolutions up to 480p anamorphic
Selectable frame rates up to 30fps
H.264 codec
Start times within 0.0 to 2.0 seconds
Delay is 4.0 to 6.0 seconds
Works over HTTP and through firewalls
No NAT traversal issues
BitCast™ patent-pending routing protocol and technologies
Hardware Requirements:
Encoding hardware: Apple Mac mini
Encoding software: BitGravity-provided transcoding software to compress the SD video source
Source feeds: 480p
Inputs: A Mac mini and above supports DV video via FireWire.
