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Introduction to Streaming
How to Embed Live Stream Code
How to Embed Archive Codes
How to Use Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder
Uploading FLV files to Sunday Streams
Converting to FLV files and editing FLV files
Why and How to Make Local Backups
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Transcript: How to Upload a FLV File From Your Computer to Your Public Archives
In this video I am going to show you how to upload a video file from your computer onto Sunday Streams, and also how to make it into a public archive so all your visitors can watch it.
The first step to do this is you’ll want to log into your Sunday Streams Manager and select then you’ll want to click the videos tab and then you’ll want to click the link Upload a Video and then you’ll want to select the video on your computer that you would like to add. I am going to select sample.flv then I am going to go ahead and upload it.
You’ll see you’ve got this status bar of the video uploading, and this video is kind of a small video relative to the ones you’re going to do. It’s only five minutes long, so your videos might take quite a bit longer depending on the length of the video as well as the bit rate that you broadcast at.
There you can see the sample video that we just uploaded along with some other uploads I’ve been doing while testing it out. Once you’ve uploaded a video, the way to make it public is you just go ahead and click the make public link and then you want to give it a name and I’ll just call it “Service I Uploaded.” You want to specify the date at which you upload it and the date will determine how it is sorted relative to the other videos that are there. So, I picked Nov. 5th; it’s on a Saturday. Once you’ve selected the name, the date, and the time, then just go ahead and Make Upload Public.
Here we can see the service that I uploaded is public now. Anybody can view this on the archives page once you make it public. You can see it is a pretty simple process to go ahead and upload a video file on your computer onto Sunday Streams and turn it into a public archive. But there are a couple of things that I would like to point out with this process. The first thing is this uploader feature it works using Java, so you want to have Java installed before you can use this feature to upload a file from your computer. The other thing I would like to point out is that you can only upload flv files that are on your computer, so you may have video files that are in different formats that you’d like to upload, but what you’ll first want to do is covert them to flv files and then you can go ahead and upload them. There is
another video that shows you on a free solution on you can covert various video files into flv files so you can upload them.
The other thing I would like to point out is why you might want to use this upload feature. Probably the most important use of this is if you are in the middle of a broadcast and your Internet connection goes down for some reason and what that will mean is your archive is also going to be corrupt from the Internet going down for a little bit or have a hiccup in it or missing some portion of the service. What you can do is in your Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder you can have it actually save a copy, an archive, on your local machine. What you can do is you can use that copy, a backup copy, on your local machine and upload that onto Sunday Streams so you have a nice copy of your service that was not impacted by the Internet going down. So, that is one good use for this.
Another use for this is maybe you want to broadcast the entire service, but you only wan to upload the sermon for the archive portion. What you can do is download the entire service from your archives and then you could edit your file and just have the sermon-only and then you can re-upload just the sermon-only portion and turn that into a public archive so people can watch that.
Also, you can edit files in other ways. For example, maybe you want to put an introduction ahead of your service and a closing, something after the service.
Another feature you might be interested in is a video from DVDs. It is possible to take a bunch of DVD footage and convert those into flv files and then you can upload them onto Sunday Streams using this upload feature.
Another way you might want to use this upload feature is if you have a bunch of files on a different service such as YouTube, for example, you can download your files from YouTube and turn them into flv files and you can upload them onto Sunday Streams so that your visitors can watch a long history of your files. If you are a new client of Sunday Streams and only have a few weeks of services you can kind of populate your historical archives into here so people can watch your historical archives as well.
In conclusion, I hope I have shown you how easy it is to add a file, take a file from your computer and upload it to Sunday Streams and turn it into a public archive so all your visitors can watch it. Thank you very much.
