Events and Webinar Technical Requirements
Introduction
To achieve a successful webinar, some technical aspects should be taken into consideration. This document tries to outline these from different perspectives.
Video production and Ingest
Streaming equipment
The customer is responsible for their streaming equipment.
Typical equipment is lights, camera and microphone.
Typical equipment is lights, camera and microphone.
Stream Ingest to Icareus Suite Cloud
The ingest to Icareus Cloud is done using RTMP protocol. You can find the ingest url from your event's info page.
Firewalls and connection
The following protocols are used and should be open on the firewall:
RTMP, port 1935
The uplink connection speed should be two times your bitrate.
The recommended bitrate is 6 Mbit/s. Maximum allowed is 8Mbit/s.
RTMP, port 1935
The uplink connection speed should be two times your bitrate.
The recommended bitrate is 6 Mbit/s. Maximum allowed is 8Mbit/s.
Livestream format recommendation
Resolution | 1920x1080 |
Encoding | h.264 High Profile |
Video Bitrate | Max. 6Mbit/s |
| Vide keyframe interval | 2 |
Audio Bitrate | 256kbit/s |
Audio encoding | AAC-HE |
Webinar User Experience
It is recommended to view webinar events without VPN connection. VPN connections usually have limited bandwidth and may restrict the connection in several ways.
All latest browsers are supported
By default the following domain is used for the end-user experience: events.icareus.com
All video streaming is adaptive and the minimum network connection required is 2 Mbit/s.
The following protocols are used by the webinar and they should be opened in your organisation's firewalls:
HTTP/HTTPS, port 80, 443
HLS, port 80. 443
WSS (Websockets), port 1234
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