Building a Low-Cost Streaming System : Streaming and Camera Operating System for Live Internet Productions

Author Title Number of Pages Date Ida-Maria Tunturipuro Building a Low-Cost Streaming System 78 pages 14 May 2015 Degree Bachelor of Engineering Degree Programme Media Engineering Instructor Kauko Ojanen, Senior Lecturer This thesis describes a research and development project for a working live streaming system for a small society. The goal was to develop a software based live streaming system and to find out the best possibilities to expand the system into wider scale live productions for the future purposes. The goal was to build a working and cost-efficient set up with a low budget. The streaming system was built based on four different software and simple cameras. A server computer was installed to keep and send the material as video-on-demand server and streaming server. The streaming software was installed to on a laptop computer that enabled the multi-camera directing, video mixing and streaming from one device. The website was built to offer streaming for multiple different devices and offer video-ondemand and live stream possibilities. The project was successful and reached the set goal. The streaming server is managing the data well, and the website visitors are able to see the streams live or later. The end result of the project, the live streaming system, is cost-efficient and simple. It supports good quality streaming with small equipment, but is easily enlarged for future purposes.