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What is Switchboard Live? Switchboard Live is a video distribution platform allowing you to simultaneously live stream across your own streaming platform (such as Dacast) and all the most popular social media channels (such as Facebook and Youtube). Do you need a paying Switchboard Live account? Yes. The minimum cost is $35 per month (billed annually) […]

  Hello Dacast Users: This post only applies to legacy Dacast accounts. In the current app it is known as Live Recording, and the full tutorial can be found here: Spanish version available here. Auto-Archiving allows you to record your live stream and share it as a video on demand (VOD). By keeping a record […]

  While DaCast was created with high quality and HD streaming in mind, the DaCast system allows users to select the exact type of quality they want. You can go as low as 200 kilobytes per second if you feel this will better meet your needs, or even lower if your encoder will support it. […]

Yes, you can change a live stream to a video file with one Dacast embed code by creating a channel playlist. This only requires a single embed code, and you can load it with a live channel and then later remove the live channel and replace it with the video on demand file on your […]