Podcasting For Dummies, 5th Edition

Chapter 16

One Giant Leap for Podcasting: Live Streaming Content

IN THIS CHAPTER

Introducing streaming

Setting up an account for streaming

Using Streamer X and Streamlabs

Creating a workflow from streaming to podcasting

Mutation: It is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward.

— PROFESSOR CHARLES XAVIER, X-MEN (2000)

When you read the preceding quote, you can hear Sir Patrick Stewart’s voice, right? Or is that just us?

We open with that prologue to the original X-Men film because the same thing can be said about podcasting as well as streaming, the topic of this chapter. To understand how streaming affects podcasting, it helps to look at how podcasting first dabbled with video, including live podcasting.

Going Live

Live podcasting in the early years (pre-2010), audio or video, was unreliable and dependent on your computer’s processing power. Even with cutting-edge ...