We makes it easy for you to upload any kind of video you create. We accept tons of different file formats. We support High Definition. There are three ways to upload your video to Lemonwhale.

1. Web upload

You can upload clips directly from your browser through the web-based Lemonwhale OVP. Here is the file size limit 200 MB.

2. FTP upload

Upload through FTP requires that you have an FTP account with Lemonwhale. Such an account is given to you when you become a customer of Lemonwhale. If you don’t have an account, send an email to support@lemonwhale.com and we will create one for you. With FTP upload, it is possible to upload files up to 2 GB. You add the file you want uploaded to the folder /simpleupload/input/ then we’ll take care of the rest and the video will be visible in the OVP in a couple of minutes.

3. Mobile Upload

With Android or iPhone, you have the ability to record and upload clips directly to Lemonwhale. What you need to do is to download Lemonwhales “Mobile Send”-app available for iPhone and Android and log in with your Lemonwhale account.

Our recommendations for the source video:
H.264 2-pass encoding with 2500-3500 Kbps and 720p resolution.

As we said before, we accept almost every available format. We encode the uploaded content according to your account details. Please let us know if you want to publish your content to native apps for iPhones and iPads or maybe to HTML5.

We accept 200MB for online upload (HTTP). If that isn’t enough we can give you access to our FTP servers where the file size limit is 2 GB.

There are three ways to publish your video, either embed code, http-link or IFrame.

To publish your clip, do the following:

1. Navigate to ”Video on Demand”>”Manage Videos”
2. Click on the video that you want to publish in the list.
3. Click on ”Publish” to the right.
4. Select the player that you like the most from the ones you created earlier by choosing from the drop-down list of players.
5. Copy the embed code, http-link or iFramecode and publish it in your system.

To be able to send live you require all of the following items:

1. Computer (PC/MAC) with live encoding client.
2. Camera or other stream source.
3. Internet connection with sufficient uplink.

Computer
The computer must be able to perform well during live encoding, especially the CPU and the memory must be of sufficient size. Most computers with dual core or more and of at least 1.8 GHz and 2GB memory will work fine during live encoding. Make sure that no or just a few other programs and processes than the actual live encoding client are running during the live session.

To be able to sent live content, you must have a live encoding client. The encoding client’s job is to take the camera stream and encode it to flash format, and then pass it on to the streaming server for further distribution.

Lemonwhale recommends the following live encoders:

1. Flash Media Live Encoder 3.1 Note, use version 3.1, together with Limelight access adapter
2. Wirecast

Camera and Stream
The typical live streaming device is a video camera connected to the computer, but at can also be a switch board with many cameras or an external stream over satellite. The common denominator for all those sources is that the connection with the computer must work well. This includes the right drivers and cables, and must be tested well in advance of the actual live streaming. Most modern digital video cameras with USB connection works well for live streaming.

Internet
To succeed with you live show, you must have a stable internet connection with high uplink speed with low fluctuations, i.e stable connection. The connection can be either LAN/Cable, wireless and 3G or higher, as long as the speed is significantly higher than the encoded stream and fulfills the requirement of being stable. Lemonwhale recommends an uplink of around 2-3 times higher than the encoded output stream. Test your uplink on href=”http://www.bredbandskollen.se/”>Bredbandskollen or Speedtest to obtain your actual bandwidth.

1. Log in to your Lemonwhale account.
2. Select Live > Create Liveshow in the top left menu.
3. Type a title, description and category of your live show.
4. Select a broadcast date and time. This is for the corresponding countdown in the published video player. Ensure that you can produce a stream during the select range of time.
5. Set “Visible in Portal” to yes if you have a Portal player (Play TV site) and want to automatically publish the stream in it. If you creating a liveshow for test purposes, please ensure that you select no.
6. Select your own Background Image and/or Prerolls if you want advertisment in your liveshow. You can also select Overlays and Postrolls as advertisment formats.
7. Save.

1. Log in to your Lemonwhale account.
2. Select Live > Manage Liveshows in the top left menu.
3. Click on the liveshow you want to edit in the list of liveshows.
4. Click “Edit Show” in the upper right box and edit the show (for published or started broadcast, see separate bullets below)

We can offer you a wide range of formats for both web and mobile device, such as iPhone, iPad and Android.
For the web we support both Flash and HTML5 video.

Yes, there are two ways for you to publish your video content to iOS clients.
1. You can order an iOS app from us. We encode your existing video content and make sure it is delivered smoothly to your audience.
2. We can encode to HTML5 as well, in this case you don’t need any app. Beware of the difference between apps and HTML5 from a user perspective!

Yes, we apply the same methodology as for iOS. Have a look at the previous question and answer.