New webcast comments/questions
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 10:25 pm
Testing out the new VidiU etc. A few questions/comments:
The Vidiu:
It gets really hot.
Not much documentation.
Consumer grade, not really designed for our setup.
Why should we upgrade through the web interface as opposed to via the unit directly? The box came with 2.2.1 installed, and will upgrade to 2.2.2. The web interface downgrades the unit to 2.2.0.
Why doesn't facilities give us a converter along with the box? I wish the church would provide complete solutions.
I was surprised to see that the Mobile audio setting is 48k; I would have expected mobile to be the lowest as it typically is with video.
The webcast portal:
When I first logged in it asked me a bunch of questions, one of which was my region, which I selected as Western US (I'm in Utah). When I go to schedule an event however, there is no western US option. Lost of eastern and central US options though. What's up?
What exactly is the buffer time -- does the event actually start and end that length of time before and after the time I specify? So I don't need to include extra time?
Minor, but I wish we could select the hour and minute separately. I hate setting time like that.
Also minor, but in the event detail screen it would be nice if there were a refresh button instead of having to use the browsers refresh (to see the server status).
I can't believe they are using Silverlight.
General:
Could the old solution be used as a backup (for now)? I was playing with Livestream as a backup.
The Vidiu:
It gets really hot.
Not much documentation.
Consumer grade, not really designed for our setup.
Why should we upgrade through the web interface as opposed to via the unit directly? The box came with 2.2.1 installed, and will upgrade to 2.2.2. The web interface downgrades the unit to 2.2.0.
Why doesn't facilities give us a converter along with the box? I wish the church would provide complete solutions.
I was surprised to see that the Mobile audio setting is 48k; I would have expected mobile to be the lowest as it typically is with video.
The webcast portal:
When I first logged in it asked me a bunch of questions, one of which was my region, which I selected as Western US (I'm in Utah). When I go to schedule an event however, there is no western US option. Lost of eastern and central US options though. What's up?
What exactly is the buffer time -- does the event actually start and end that length of time before and after the time I specify? So I don't need to include extra time?
Minor, but I wish we could select the hour and minute separately. I hate setting time like that.
Also minor, but in the event detail screen it would be nice if there were a refresh button instead of having to use the browsers refresh (to see the server status).
I can't believe they are using Silverlight.
General:
Could the old solution be used as a backup (for now)? I was playing with Livestream as a backup.