Live streaming is hardly new on the web. And a lot of startups are focused on it. One of them, Mogulus, now hopes to simplify the process, while upping the quality and adding new options.
Mogulus’ is launching a new desktop application tonight called Procaster. On the front end, it’s a simple app that offers one-button streaming of video out to the web. But behind its simple exterior, the tool has the ability to stream high definition quality video that isn’t possible when encoding on the fly over its current web-based Flash player.
But much more interesting are the side features of the new app. With Procaster, you can easily do both screen and game broadcasting. With the click of a button you can share your desktop screen over the web and talk over it during a live broadcast. Other apps out there allow you to do this, but as Mogulus CEO Max Haot likes to describe it, Procaster allows you to do a “Steve Jobs keynote-like” screencast. That’s because Procaster has a nice feature which allows you to show the desktop screen while also showing a smaller screen of you talking about what is on screen. With the click of a button you can switch between this dual view to just the desktop or to just yourself talking. It’s all quite seamless.
You can also zoom in on any area of a screen to highlight it with the click of a button. And, Procaster features a chat window to allow you to better interact with those watching your stream.
Even more interesting may be the game-casting feature. This allows gamers to broadcast themselves playing a game like World of Warcraft live while talking over it. While you may not see much of a market for this, currently on Mogulus, they are already seeing gamers doing this by way of their own makeshift methods. And some of these streams are getting 20,000 concurrent viewers, Haot tells me.
With Procaster, all of this can be done using any standard computer. Hoat sees this as a potential “game changer for presentation technology.”
Procaster is being unveiled right now at the NY Video Meetup. It will be available to download tonight here. Right now it’s PC-only, but a Mac version is in the works. I took the screen capture below of Haot showing it off to me, live, over the web using Procaster.
This looks really nice, and if it does what they say it will, it looks like it makes Mogulus really easy to use. Can’t wait to try it…
Congrats Mogulus, I’m impressed by this company. These guys are going to go far.
If only they had good content…or users…
Nobody likes mogulus.
Did you see the presentations?.. the 3D effects are so cool. Well done guys. Love what you’re doing..
could this company be worth 500 millon dollar?
The demo showed much promise at NY Video Meet-up tonight. However, the big issue, and it was a HUGE issue is that remote viewers, using the Mogulus system (used for all presenters), experienced multiple crashes, dreadful lag and intermittent audio.
I don’t know if this was a Mogulus issue, or what, but it was experienced over multiple bandwidth providers and was also present in the live stream on the Mogulus home page. Despite great potential , the execution left a hint of too soon for prime time.
is it just me or is this PC-only?
Yeah, Mac version due shortly.
How shortly?? Any sort of timeline on the Mac version??
haha. reading FTW… /facepalm.
nothing amazing here..better products already on the marketing:
Camtwist, Vidblaster, Wirecast, Tricaster, etc…
For someone who uses live streaming services, I’m really excited for Procaster!
wow wow wow
loved it!
Is this a software version of the TriCaster from Newtek?
Can anyone comment on how they can claim “HD streaming” using the Moguls Pro software? What’s their definition of HD?
I downloaded it last night, it crashed with my video driver.
Then I installed it on my work pc. It hrows a invalid Username/Password error even though I know that the credentials are correct (as I used them to log in to the site).
Pretty underwhelmed….
Schmoo you should try to email support (procaster [at] mogulus.com). They were pretty good at responding to me.
Thanks, Paul.
I think I’ll stick with UStream.tv and either vidblaster or camtasia to stream my screen. I prefer UStream anyway. I would have been interested in this app if it actually worked but it is obvious to me that they have released it without sufficient testing.
YES, BUT AT A LIMIT TO 50 VIEWERS PER BROADCAST, MOGULUS FREE IS GARBAGE, OTHER NETWORKS GIVE YOU UNLIMITED, IF YOU GET MORE THAN 50 PEOPLE TO WATCH YOUR CHANNEL, YOU HAVE TO PAY AND PAY A LOTS OF MONEY, USTREAM, JUSTIN TV STILL FREE AND I CAN GET 20.000 VIEWRES FOR FREE. THE VERIFICATION CHANNEL IS GARBAGE, THEY WON’T LET YOU HAVE MORE THAN 50 UNTILL YOU PAY