Compared  to Mogulus TV, USTream and Yahoo! Live, CSLive is defined by its ease of use. Free from Mogulus complex functionalities and from USTream shows management, it could become an ideal tool for those who want to approach live streaming on internet not having to go through more complex video broadcast configuration.

CSLive Functionalities

The best CSLive feature is that it allows the beginning of an online streaming almost instantaneously while you chat with your viewers. All you need is a webcam online and a mic.

Main functionalities:

• you can set the quality of video broadcast on-the-fly
• embedded  ascii chat
• adjustable audio level
• external video player for your blog (or others web pages)
• you can broadcast private shows locking your streaming with a password

Here’s the control panel:

And the control toolbar below the video panel:

After your subscription you have to login into your control panel and click on Publish button to start an audio/video streaming. You can also set a  name and a category for your channel which will be listed on the home page.

Streaming quality

Quality depends by your internet connection bandwidth. I’ve performed a test on a 10Mbps ADSL in Downstream and 256kbps in Upstream. Here’s the outflow during the test:

In order to let a friend of mine (connected from home with a 7Mbps DSL) watch a fluid video streaming  with a 7Mbps ADSL, I had to configurate the video quality rate on my video panel at 50%.

Finally, it’s a good service that focuses on simplicity and it might come up as a great solution for those who don’t have the need for complex functionalities or an advanced managing of script programs.

An excellent user interface will allow video mash-up, broadcast and packaging in order to create your TV channel in streaming completely online without need to install new software or configure hardware.

You can embed your streaming channel into your website with a simple html code in the same way you embed YouTube videos. Mogulus is different from others streaming solutions (as UStream for instance) because does not require new video production: it let you to aggregate live channels in order to build an authoritative media.

Being able to aggregate existing video contents means broadcast your own authoritative streaming channel with no need of video production. Out there there’s already all you need: just select, aggregate and put it live.

In few words Mogulus finally provide to all site owners and micro publishers the requirement number one for a killer web site: give to your users a reason to visit your site once a day.

From the Broadcast Your Own Live TV Station Online: Announcing Mogulus Video of Michael Pick:

“ Mogulus simplifies the process of working together whether you are mixing together storyboards of video content brought in from YouTube or your own computer, or preparing captions and motion graphics to display between live straight-to-camera presentations and pre-loaded video clips.

Effectively, I can be speaking straight to camera, while my co-producer at the other side of the world is cueing up the next clip, adding graphics to the screen or putting together a storyboard of news videos to run concurrently as soon as I hand over control.

And you don’t even have to be in the room to broadcast your channel live, thanks to the addition of an ‘auto-pilot’ feature that will run through a list of videos that you have presented it with, sending them out as a live broadcast

With Mogulus you can do everything. Video producers can mix their video contents with live streaming channels. But also the laziest users who do not want/can produce new content will be able simply to aggregate streaming TV channels and package an original video channel in a simple way. Imho this is the real innovation. Summing up you can:

• Create your TV in streaming
• Create new video co-operating with other producers, or …
• Mash-up your videos with live streaming channels or …
• Select and aggregate only existing videos …
• …and finally broadcast your streaming TV into your web site

Take a look at the official Mogulus video introduction:

Mogulus is still a beta application beta testers are activated time by time upon system availability. Therefore, if you want to subscribe probably you need to wait a little for the account activation.

In other words, everyone will be able to make his/her own TV.

This happens thanks to an extremely interesting technology used by Streamer One that applies the concept of peer-to-peer to internet TV. Up to now the difficulty of sending a constant flow of data was due to the exorbitant price of the band used. StreamerOne is an application that actually removes this obstacle by fragmenting the video flow to a restricted number of users, who in turn transmit it to others through to a cascade procedure.

The software can be downloaded and installed for testing and trials, but we firmly believe that Streamer One possesses the bases to become the final agent of the ultimate break of the monopoly on written, audio and video information. We quote from streamerone.it site;

What is StreamerOne

StreamerOne is a web broadcasting system able to distribute high quality audio/video streaming to a theoretically unlimited number of contemporary users. Till yesterday the broadcasting on internet of live or TV events that would involve thousands of users at the same time was pure fantasy. As a matter of fact, video distribution through conventional (unicast) streaming on internet is deeply influenced by technical parameters referable as:

• Provider’s capability to digitally connect to internet backbone
• Processing capability of the streaming server(s)

This implies unicast service supply costs are directly proportional to the number of users to reach and to the quality (number of pixels per frame, number of frames per second) of the video to distribute. StreamerOne is the first P2P streaming system to use a completely Italian technology making available its international experiences, know-how and infrastructures in order to meet professionals’, companies’ and organizations’ requirements.

Technology

Unrestricted number of user and superior image quality are the main features of StreamerOne, made achievable by the use of Peer to Peer technology applied to video flow distribution. In practice the stream source starts fragmenting and supplying the flow to a limited number of users, who in turn re-distribute it to other ones who get connected through a mechanism of cascade sharing. Sophisticated algorithms manage users connection and disconnection to the streaming, while data exchange between source and peerer is secured by the use of public and private key.

Original flow quality is unimportant.

However, it is worth considering the kind of internet connection the target users may have. For instance, for ADSL connections with an upload nominal speed of 512 kbps a flow of 280kbps is preferable, corresponding in terms of video quality to VHS with FM audio. In order to display the streaming, user needs installing a player made for the purpose of activating P2P both with Windows Media Video(WMV) and Real Player (RP) flows. The player is offered as free-ware. Once the player is active, user has to wait a few seconds to access the system and to start receiving the video signal without any interruption. The main feature of this P2P utilization mode compared to file sharing systems, often blamed for copyright violation, consists in the public acquaintance of the video flow source which is unique, known and identifiable beyond any doubt.

Services

Services connected to the use of StreamerOne are addressed to those operators who intend sharing out through internet, in a continuative or simply occasional way, high quality video contents to an unrestricted number of users:

• Access to the channel from the complete list of broadcasting station residing in the platform
• Access to the channel from a custom web page
• Access to the channel through username and password
• Detailed statistics regarding the access to the channel
• Multibitrate trasmission