Sunday, July 27, 2008

ChrisTV PVR - Broadcast mode (available only in ChrisTV PVR Professional)

Using ChrisTV PVR Broadcast feature you can now share your favorite TV shows, Movies with your friends through local networks and through internet.

In the "Broadcast Settings" panel you can select the favorite broadcast preset and view main broadcast parameters : video/audio compression codecs and video/audio bitrates that will be used for the live broadcast. By pressing the "Customize broadcast settings" button you will be able to adjust all broadcast settings.

In this window you will be able to customize any broadcast preset settings.
ChrisTV offers the option to choose the broadcast mode : Video and Audio, Video only or Audio only.
Next you can select which video/audio codecs,frame size and bitrates to be used for broadcasting.
In the advanced settings you can set the port number used for broadcasting and the maximum number of clients that can connect to the broadcast stream. You can also choose to save the broadcasted stream to local file to play it later.

If the broadcast mode does not work properly, try to change the Video Rendering Mode to other value in Program Settings->Video Rendering and also you can try to check "Disable video and audio preview while broadcasting".

For the broadcast feature to work properly you need to download and install Windows Media Encoder 9, for download links please click here.

For more tips how to configure the broadcast module, please visit our support forum.

Note : In the registered version the maximum number of clients is 50, during trial period there are some limitations, please click here for more details.