Changes at CSTM

posted this on November 15th, 2010.
Categorized as blog, General, LotRO News, podcast, site, streaming, web.

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Full link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cstmfeed/~3/r9BN6HWfww8/

If you listen to the podcast, you may have picked up that we cannot just let things be and that we are always looking to improve.  Recently we have started a mailing list to which we will be publishing updates and news; we have several projects in development that are coming to a head soon; and we are also looking at upgrading some of the equipment that we use for podcasting.  The entire staff is always trying to think of things to improve the blog and the podcast as a whole, however, sometimes when we make improvements there are some drawbacks that we don’t anticipate.

Today it was brought to our attention that some people who stream the podcast from their work computers are now unable to do so.  Well, as some might suspect this weekend we moved our podcast files over to a new host (cyberears.com) that we are trying that out as an alternative to our previous method of storing them on our web server.

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The Records of Battle – Part III

posted this on February 24th, 2010.
Categorized as General, Guides, streaming, veneration, video.

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In part III we will be looking over the options and ways to do Live Streaming LOTRO game play through a number of sources. Some of them very easy, and others… Not so much.

Throughout online gaming’s history, viewers and players have enjoyed being able to watch and learn from each other through many unique venues. The latest and fastest growing is the online streaming video. Much like the recorded and replayed options many use today, live streaming allows players to share what they see (Or what they want you to see) to an audience in almost real time! In some cases the video can be as fast a 0.2 seconds behind making it look %100 seamless. This new wave of interest has moved from live webcam and online media feeds to what we now know as Streaming Gameplay!

There are many ways to set up your stream. The most popular and efficient way is to go through a 3rd party streaming site like Justin.tv or UStream.com. These sites have features that allow you to stream live while allowing the site to record and archive footage for later use. A step up from those is the LiveStream.com community where companies like Microsoft and the ABC Networks stream television shows to custom feed scripts.LiveStream.com has tons of great features that can be integrated into making your own channel at LiveStream.com

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