I hate that expression “leveraging” this or that, and there I’ve gone and used it. Please forgive me. At least I didn’t write “at the end of the day.” AAAAAAHHHHH! I just scrawled what is for me the most hated expression of all time!! Okay, okay, I’m going to try to get through this little blurb without any more annoying platitudes.

Anyway, as the vile subhead indicates, everything I learned getting Soneta to broadcast over our network was directly applicable to healTV. The Visual Basic 6 ActiveX EXE that instantiates and controls Windows Media Encoder to broadcast healTV is nearly a clone of the program that broadcasts Soneta.

Soneta used about 35% of the basement server’s CPU while it was encoding and broacasting. Adding video to the mix required about 70% of the CPU, so our hardware is a little anemic for supporting constant video feeds. Therefore, like Soneta, healTV is encoded and broadcasted on demand. As soon as the last client browser closes, the encoding ceases.