Broadcasting live content over the Internet isn't as difficult as people would think. In fact, it's extremely easy. All you need is an audio or video source, a way of having the audio or video to the PC, a free of charge software package supplied by Microsoft, and enough upload bandwidth to cover the broadcasting of the content.

In this tutorial, I'll attempt to coach you on things you need to learn in order to broadcast your content over the Internet. I'll primarily show you audio only, but you'll observe easy it's to complete video as you progress through this tutorial.

As this is a text only tutorial, you may wish to download the free software from Microsoft, and go through the configuration while you read this tutorial. Don't panic though. It's quite simple to do. Don't let along this tutorial scare you away. The rewards of getting your live broadcast up and running should stop you motivated to stay with it.

The only slightly complicated part with this tutorial is regarding your firewall. Because of the number of firewalls out there, I'll be very generic in my own way of letting you know things you need to do. I'll explain this in further detail later in the tutorial.

Let's Start

First things first. You need to set up your audio source. In this example I'm using a radio scanner to broadcast Live Police from the radio scanner.

I basically have the radio scanner plugged into my PC's sound card with a cable roughly 2 metres (7 Feet) in length with a 3.5mm mono plug on each end. Obviously along cable is around you. Note: if you're broadcasting music 스포츠중계, you'll want to utilize a cable that's stereo plugs instead of mono plugs. You'll also want to ensure your plugs on the cable match the audio device, Some devices may work with a 2.5mm plug instead of 3.5mm. If you are broadcasting voice only, mono plugs are better because it ensures sound comes out of both speakers for the listener.

Plug the cable in so that one end plugs in to the headphone socket of one's audio device, and the other end plugs in to the Microphone socket of one's sound card on your own PC.

Now visit the Microsoft website and download the Windows Media Encoder 9 software. It's free. It's approximately 9.5MB. The hyperlink to the software is found at the bottom with this article.

Once you've installed the software, go ahead and start it. You'll be given the setup wizard. Highlight the option named Broadcast a Live Event and click OK.

You'll now be in the window where you could choose your audio source and/or video source. If you're creating video, you'd leave both items ticked, yet in this example, we're just going to complete audio so go ahead and untick the video option. Underneath the audio option utilize the drop down box and choose your sound card from the list. Then click the configure button.

In the audio properties window the only thing you really should change is the option called Pin Line. In the Drop down box, choose Microphone. Obviously you can even use Line In, but you need to ensure you've plugged the cable in to the Line In of one's sound card.