The Meeting Broadcaster is ideal for Government Council meetings, board meetings, or any event that benefits from live and on-demand video streaming.

Importantly, the Meeting Broadcaster "marks" your video in real time.  While your event is happening, you can insert navigation points to make it easy for your viewers to rapidly find the portion of the recorded event that they wish to see.

Town Council Example

• Prior to the meeting, a clerk imports the agenda using simple copy/paste
• At the start of the meeting, the clerk presses the "Start Live" button to begin live streaming.  The clerk presses the "Record" button to begin recording.  (You can stream, stream and record, or record only).
• During the meeting, the clerk simply clicks on an agenda item, or types in a new item in real time
• After the meeting, the clerk stops streaming and/or recording
• Live viewers can watch the meeting via a built-in web page that shows the video and (optionally) the formal agenda.  The current agenda item is displayed in real time.
• Video-on-Demand viewers can watch the meeting via a built-in web page that shows the video and optionally the formal agenda.  They may select any agenda item to instantly navigate to that portion of the video.

Simplicity

The system is fully automatic.  The user need only enter some details about the meeting and select "Start Live", "Record", and "Stop".  A non-technical clerk or other operator can be trained in minutes.

Navigation

Viewers don't want to sit through a 2-hour online recorded video of a meeting just to find out what happened about a particular agenda issue.  They can easily become frustrated trying to move a "slider bar" to find what they are looking for.  The Meeting Broadcaster provides a convenient "drop down" list that shows each agenda item.  The viewer need only select it and the video instantly plays at that point.

Built-In Viewing Pages

The system provides two viewing page styles: with an agenda, or without.  If you include an agenda, the system uploads your PDF document and displays it on a web page next to your video.  Without an agenda, the system displays your video-only, and still provides navigation capabilities

The system automatically lists your live event, when available, on your private "landing page", and lists all of your recorded meetings in sequential order.  Viewers need only go to your private landing page (you provide a link on your web site) to view any live or recorded meeting. 

Hybrid Technology

The Meeting Broadcaster uses hybrid web technology.  The program itself is installed on your Windows PC and it communicates with a VBrick encoder that streams your meeting. It communicates with the Discover Video web server to set up all necessary parameters, so you don't have to.  And it manages your recorded videos on your Discover Video Streaming account.  This hybrid approach provides higher reliability than pure web-based solutions that wont' work if your internet connection is down or experiencing difficulty.