NaSTA/SRA Streaming Platform

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** The streaming platform was retired in Summer 2017 ** Jisc currently provides a Wowza-based flash streaming platform to the Student Television community, free of charge. Each of the 42 currently affiliated NaSTA stations has an account available to them on the platform. The servers have the capacity to reach up to 3000 viewers in HD (5000 in standard definition). At the moment, the servers are being rolled out to the members of the SRA. this is ongoing and will be a useful tool for student media. The streaming platform is based on the Janet Network, but is maintained by Streaming Wizard on Jisc's behalf. Please use the group to discuss the service, and be kept up to date with developments. Contact: NaSTA - For all technical queries or issues, please contact the NaSTA exec (technical@nasta.tv) who will pass it on to StreamingWizard. Due to load balancing issues, please let us know if you have reason to believe that your broadcast is likely to be watched by more than 1500HD viewers (or 2500 SD), by getting in touch with the NaSTA exec. To book the use of the Jisc Streaming Servers, please follow this link and log in using your server credentials - http://www.supersaas.co.uk/schedule/login/janetserver/Bookings If you have any further queries please get in touch with Emma.Smith@jisc.ac.uk

Group administrators:

Emma Smith

Kieran Campbell

Recent members:

SRA Trial

Sam Jones

19 June 2014 at 10:49am

The process has started to trial the streaming servers with members from the SRA. This is taking place during July with participation with various members. The servers management works in the same sense as the NaSTA credentials, however, it has its own dedicated site for it to use. This being sra.streamingwizard.com. To be able to stream to the servers, you can follow the guide for Flash Media Live Encoder. This is will be the best to use for the trial as it is free software from Adobe.

If you have any questions about setting up the stream, then please contact Sam Jones at sam.jones@ja.net and he will be able to help where needed.