How to make live video streaming and web casting?

A few days ago, my friend asked one question: “which is the best and most cost effective solution for live video streaming and webcasting on a website?”

So I searched this problem on google. There are some tools will be helpful:

1. A flash video player maker, like Moyea Web Player Pro, which can create a web page embedded with a web video (flash video) player with scrollable thumbnail playlist and skinnable control bar, you can add as many videos to the playlist of the player as you like. Or if you think it is too complicate you also can use Moyea Flash Video MX Pro to add a player on your video, by the way you also can use it to convert DVD to Flash with it.

2. A server-based avi to flash video converter engine, like Adobe® Flash® Media Interactive Server 3, Flash Video MX SDK or other solutions to accomplish the same end goal.

3. Broadcaster StudioPRO enables you to broadcast video files, desktop activity or streaming video via your webcam. The program acts as a virtual camera drive, and you can configure any webcam application (e.g Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Skype etc.) to use the Broadcaster driver instead of your regular camera. Broadcaster will then act as a proxy between your webcam and the application, allowing you to switch between live webcam capture and broadcasting of saved files, or even desktop activity. In addition, the program also enables you to broadcast to multiple applications, allowing you to use your webcam with more than one messenger application at the same time. Broadcaster StudioPRO can also be used to record video playback from other media players or web browsers by placing the recording frame over the video area and recording it. The video can then be saved as MPEG, MP4, AVI or VOB file. The program offers some unique features, we particularly liked the ability to send desktop activity via Live Messenger (or other applications). The lack of detailed documentation however will make it difficult to use for novice users.