<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1595" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hello from Leipzig,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I am a media science student and I'm planning an online TV station. I got my first experience with internet tv broadcasting on TVU. I started off with Windows Media Encoder and VLC but soon realized  that both have advantages.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>PLUS</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>WME - you can switch between source files in contrast to VLC</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>VLC - you can edit your output stream much better</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Than I discovered DVmixer PRO. It can switch between short streams and source files WITH transition and has a built-in title generator and a GREAT automation tool. A similar chinese copy-cat software (vj - something) can do the same. The software would be perfect if it would support 3 more features and if it wouldnt take up soooo much CPU-power after a minute.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>MISSING FEATURES of DVmixer PRO</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>- source file support for mms://*- http//*-streams and playlists (asx, m3u)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>- can't handle long streams</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>- it should have split screen features</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> <FONT face=Arial>If I use the tinyurl-website to make the mms-urls (I  entered http to make it work of course) small... I get small urls that work. </FONT><FONT face=Arial>PROBLEM: it doesn't work to combine / switch between streams of a different rate - lets say, to switch from</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>mms://a1486.l1190850125.c11908.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1486/11908/v0001/reflector:50125</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>to</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>mms://stream10.streaming.prosiebensat1.net/N24_Live</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>RESULT: the thing takes 100% of the CPU until it crashes - especially if I run TVU Broadcast at the same time in order to get the channel on TVU.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Another thing the programme should be able to do is to do this:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><A href="http://www.medialooks.com/products/directshow_filters/videomixer.html">http://www.medialooks.com/products/directshow_filters/videomixer.html</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>like on the big news channels.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I found no video editing software that will</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>- let you input streams incl mms-streams and asx-files</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>- switch between them</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>- can do animated background with split-screen using live feeds (streams)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>It also should </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>- be able to work wih Inscriber InStream plug in or should have its own title genereator.with *.tga, cg-files, *.png, plus video- and alpha-channeled animation overlay. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>- be able to play Scala InfoChannel (made with software frpm scala.com) files</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>- have an automation segment.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>RESOURCES:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><A href="http://www.vanillaon.com/index.php?goURL=/products/mp_main.php">http://www.vanillaon.com/index.php?goURL=/products/mp_main.php</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>DV Mixer Pro - if you want the un-demo-ed version in order to take it apart I can send you the files to make it a full version.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><A href="http://www.medialooks.com/products.html">http://www.medialooks.com/products.html</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>On the medialooks site they have direct show filters and objects for mixing and automation.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><A href="http://www.broadcast.harris.com/inscriber/instream/">http://www.broadcast.harris.com/inscriber/instream/</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Inscriber Instream and many infos about titling-software</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><A href="http://www.convid.com/la/?gclid=CPXKz57yyI8CFQI5aAodN26H-Q">http://www.convid.com/la/?gclid=CPXKz57yyI8CFQI5aAodN26H-Q</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>another stream title generator</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Best wishes,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Juergen in Leipzig</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>-----------------------------------------------<BR>Leipzig News Service<BR>c/o Juergen Theil<BR>W.-Zipperer-Str. 63<BR>04177 Leipzig<BR>Germany</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Phone: +49-3221-2615237 <BR>Mobile: +49-178-5429861 <BR>MSN: <A href="mailto:leipzignews@hotmail.com">leipzignews@hotmail.com</A><BR>ICQ: 298068847<BR><A href="http://myspace.com/leipzignews">http://myspace.com/leipzignews</A><BR>-------------------------------------------------</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>