Flash Media Live Encoder 3.1 makes it easy to generate a live video stream, and it can also be used to capture video device, like a Webcam, that is directly connected to your computer. Like this:
Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder 3.1
The latest release of Live Encoder offers versions for Macintosh and Windows. Live Encoder is great for live streaming, since you can stream to Adobe Flash Media Server or Wowza Media Server. Your video streams will play back in a Flash-based player, which works great in Web browsers on either PC or Mac. While Mac users have readily available tools for capturing and creating H.264 content, Windows users have fewer low-cost options, so this FREE download from Adobe will be a welcome addition to many Windows desktops and laptops.
Once you've installed Live Encoder, you'll find the program is fairly intuitive to use. Simply fire it up and the software should automatically recognize video devices that are connected to your computer. You can see a preview of your video, and you can easily adjust the dimensions and quality settings for your video encoding.
The interface exposes settings for image size, audio and video bit-rate, and frame rate, and you can select from a number of pre-configured settings (called “”Presets”), and then customize as needed. For example, the “High Bandwidth (800 Kbps) – H.264” Preset shown above specifies 320x240 input and output image dimension for my Webcam, and also uses 650 Kbps for video and 128 Kbps for audio. I changed image dimensions to 640x480 and throttled back audio to 96 Kbps for audio.
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You can choose to do live streaming and/or save your captured video to your hard drive. To do live streaming, you'll need to point to a streaming server that has been configured to deliver live streams (you will need to get the URL from your streaming media server system administrator), and click Connect. To record video from your Webcam or other device to your hard drive, simply specify the file location and provide a file name. Once you’ve configured streaming/recording options, click the Green Start button to begin streaming/recording in real-time.