Streaming Video Switchers a Solid Option for Many Churches
By Jim Bask
No matter how you do it, today there very few excuses for a church to not have streaming content in one form or fashion.
Video switchers have changed in recent years to where it was not that long ago, that the idea of video switchers delivering content directly to the internet was far-fetched. Now, it’s a standard sales feature that many end-users consider a “must have.”
Typically, streaming is a feature that is seen more on smaller video switchers, rather than the full-size production switchers. This is great for churches, because many churches don’t need a full-blown large production switcher to fulfill their needs.
Most of the streaming switchers stream one of two ways: The first option is for the switcher to have an Ethernet port that can directly deliver encoded web-ready video. The second option is a USB connection to deliver video in a format that a computer can ingest and then stream. For the purposes of this article, we will refer to these as capable or enabled, respectively.