Thank you so much for taking the time to read the article and for the feedback. Indeed there have been many people before us and certainly great people will follow after us.
I apologize for some of the wording. It was chosen for brevity. Certainly I should have elaborated on both the timing and the type of broadcast. The key I believe is "Professional Video Broadcast". IE: Multiple 1080p 30fps sources simultaneously brought in and switched live to air from remote events.
Yes there are many people that have been broadcasting audio for years. There are a plethora of ways to do this.
There were also people that were using hangouts with webcams to send live video or stream parts of conferences on Linux.
Today in 2018 we have too many great broadcasters to name and many of them are doing live professional video in OBS but back in timeframe in which this article is referencing 2014/2015 I stand by what I wrote - we were the only entity doing this.
Certainly I am open to being corrected if someone can point out anyone else who beat us to this. This certainly isn't a put down to any other broadcaster regardless their format / method. In fact I hope it came across in the article that we didn't write any code, we didn't fund any project. "We’ve stood on the shoulders of open source to do high-quality production entirely on Linux."
What we _did_ do, I believe is believed in Linux and Open Source. We operate live coverage as a financial loss and so if everything goes perfectly the football is either at a standstill or we've lost ground depending on how many viewers we picked up by doing something new and challenging. If it goes horribly wrong we tarnish are name and we paid to do it.
The state that OBS was in at the time we used it had no place doing a professional broadcast to thousands. We took that risk because we have a strong belief in Linux and it's ecosystem and I think that's more true today than ever.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read the article and for the feedback. Indeed there have been many people before us and certainly great people will follow after us.
I apologize for some of the wording. It was chosen for brevity. Certainly I should have elaborated on both the timing and the type of broadcast. The key I believe is "Professional Video Broadcast". IE: Multiple 1080p 30fps sources simultaneously brought in and switched live to air from remote events.
Yes there are many people that have been broadcasting audio for years. There are a plethora of ways to do this.
There were also people that were using hangouts with webcams to send live video or stream parts of conferences on Linux.
Today in 2018 we have too many great broadcasters to name and many of them are doing live professional video in OBS but back in timeframe in which this article is referencing 2014/2015 I stand by what I wrote - we were the only entity doing this.
Certainly I am open to being corrected if someone can point out anyone else who beat us to this. This certainly isn't a put down to any other broadcaster regardless their format / method. In fact I hope it came across in the article that we didn't write any code, we didn't fund any project. "We’ve stood on the shoulders of open source to do high-quality production entirely on Linux."
What we _did_ do, I believe is believed in Linux and Open Source. We operate live coverage as a financial loss and so if everything goes perfectly the football is either at a standstill or we've lost ground depending on how many viewers we picked up by doing something new and challenging. If it goes horribly wrong we tarnish are name and we paid to do it.
The state that OBS was in at the time we used it had no place doing a professional broadcast to thousands. We took that risk because we have a strong belief in Linux and it's ecosystem and I think that's more true today than ever.