The VideoWhisper Live Streaming software can easily be used to add webcam live video broadcasting to WordPress, live video streams on blog pages and setup membership for accessing or broadcasting live video.
It integrates with BuddyPress and will add a Live Stream tab to the group where users can watch live video and chat real-time. Admins can broadcast anytime from Admin > Live Streaming.
The problem with this plugin is that it has special hosting requirements, which means a RTMP hostis needed for persistent connections to manage live interactions and streaming.
Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is a protocol for streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, between web-based Adobe Flash player application and a server. Special software is required to run on the server side for accepting and serving the RTMP connections from flash clients.
You might also require a plugin like WP Video Share / Video On Demand (VOD) to allow you to import and show archived video streams for the VideoWhisper Live Streaming channels plugin.
Another plugin you can use to live stream your webcam feed to your WordPress site is the WimTVPro plugin. To use the plugin, you must create a free Web TV account on WimTV.
Storage and bandwidth used for the video is provided by WimTV. You can manage and publish video on demand, live streaming, playlist and video schedules directly on your website.
In WimLive you can create live streaming events to be published on the pages of your site. If you use the webcam on your pc, you can instead transmit directly by clicking on the Live Now icon in the WimLive column.
