Euro 2008 Live in France with FMS

01/01/1970 01:00 am by Flashcomguru.com in Events
This is a follow-up to my post "Live Uefa Euro 2008 via FMS". I've just heard that the Euro 2008 is streamed live with Flash in France too.

This time DBee is doing the encoding for the website of the french TV Channel M6. They are serving a 1.1Mbps stream (1Mbps VP6 video + 64 Kbps MP3 audio) sized at 534x300 (16/9), using a Digital Rapids StreamZ Live and a FME2.0 as a backup, from a DVB-T source via SDI input. The stream is served by the FMS3 Limelight platform which sustains a 'very heavy load' in terms of concurrent streams, however exact details on viewership could not be shared.

The user experience intra-page and in full screen is nice, a fact confirmed by the choice of the public: between 50% and 65% of the users choose Flash, compared to WM which is also being offered. This is an interesting figure, because on a comparable mainstream event one year ago when streaming the Evian Masters, DBee reported that only a 40% of users picked Flash proportion over 60% WM.

The next matches are the semi-finals on the 25th or 26th, but note that streams are geo-locked to French web users.

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