In a posting on its corporate blog, Monday, Livestream (formerly Mogulus), a New York-based company which offers a platform that enables amateurs and professionals to produce and distribute live TV on the Internet, announced the release of a beta Mac version of its Procaster product. According to Livestream, while Procaster Mac offers similar functionality to Procaster PC, the company is "still working on some sought-after features like local recording, broadcasting speaker audio and better CPU/quality balance," which it says are "all expected within the next few weeks as the beta version gets augmented." The company is also suggesting that users not use the current beta version in a production environment, but wait for it to "mature a little bit more."
"While on the outside Procaster Mac looks very similar to Procaster PC, we've actually re-done the behind-the-scenes architecture of the product," Livestream explains on its blog. "From now on, we'll have a shared code base for both Mac and PC versions, and every new feature we add will be created for both platforms at once. It also means a more stable release cycle and a broader base for future expansions. Doing this allowed us to add H.264 encoding, a new graphic auto updater and other features (all expected in the next PC version, too)." The company has set up a wiki on its Web site, which it says will be updated with more information as new versions are released. It claims to be working on "some cool expansions that are expected in the next few months" and that it believes "will rock the broadcasting world and open huge new possibilities for producers to enrich their broadcasts."
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