Answers.Body: <p>If you have at least 300-500kps of upload bandwith available you can push an rtmp stream of your live event to a CDN like youtube, dailymotion, livestream ...</p>
  
  <p>In terms of software I already used:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Livestream, which provides among other things a tool called procaster with which you can broadcast your desktop, or a section of your desktop. You can even broadcast a capture of your skype window ! ( it will not be very beautiful, but it works ). Livestream also has many tools which allow to make a chat during your live event with the viewers of the event.</li>
  <li>Flash Media Encoder (aka FME ), which is a free tool provided by Adobe, which will encode to rtmp any video camera connected to your computer. You can then push it to a CDN like YouTube or DailyMotion.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>All of this is free of charge, with sometimes some limits on the number of simultaneous viewer, and/on an ad-supporting scheme which will play an advertisement before your live video.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Another option may be a Google+ hangout.  Especially if you want some sort of user interaction with-in the program.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I need to broadcast on the Internet weekly <strong>live</strong> video events.
  One attempt was made with Skype and it worked pretty well, but it was only with one user. We expect 50 users and we have a low bandwidth here so I guess Skype won't be a solution.</p>
  
  <p>What do you recommend for broadcasting live video events to 50 people with low bandwidth from the video source ? Free solutions are preferable.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>
  
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ThreadText: # Broadcasting video and bandwidth issue
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2012-03-14)
  
  I need to broadcast on the Internet weekly **live** video events.
  One attempt was made with Skype and it worked pretty well, but it was only with one user. We expect 50 users and we have a low bandwidth here so I guess Skype won't be a solution.
  
  What do you recommend for broadcasting live video events to 50 people with low bandwidth from the video source ? Free solutions are preferable.
  
  Thanks!
  
  **Tags:** video, broadcasting
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2012-03-14. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  If you have at least 300-500kps of upload bandwith available you can push an rtmp stream of your live event to a CDN like youtube, dailymotion, livestream ...
  
  In terms of software I already used:
  
  * Livestream, which provides among other things a tool called procaster with which you can broadcast your desktop, or a section of your desktop. You can even broadcast a capture of your skype window ! ( it will not be very beautiful, but it works ). Livestream also has many tools which allow to make a chat during your live event with the viewers of the event.
  * Flash Media Encoder (aka FME ), which is a free tool provided by Adobe, which will encode to rtmp any video camera connected to your computer. You can then push it to a CDN like YouTube or DailyMotion.
  
  All of this is free of charge, with sometimes some limits on the number of simultaneous viewer, and/on an ad-supporting scheme which will play an advertisement before your live video.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: We are inviting experts to [Broadcast and Media Technologies](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/36807/broadcast-and-media-technologies) which aims to capture more architectural and theoretical views around subjects like this. Join and invite others.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2012-03-15. Score: 0
  
  Another option may be a Google+ hangout. Especially if you want some sort of user interaction with-in the program.
  
  
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