Broadcast Distribution
Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:24 am
We have worked out many different technologies for distributing A/V to other buildings. The real issue is bandwidth. We have only 700 kbs upload. Which makes running 4 streams out difficult. 700 however is great for 1 stream. My question is this, is there a service out there that will do secure redistribution of a 600 kb stream.
here is an example:
A few months ago, we had two stakes split into three. This gave us several more buildings to broadcast to than our stakes. We attempted true multi-casting(239.0.0.1), but struggled getting it to work within our service providers network. Eventually we stumbled upon this media kit the church is building, very buggy. I believe it uses windows media encoder(didn't bust into it, wanted to, but didn't). Anyway, this logged into a server in Salt Lake, then was distributed over their seemingly endless bandwidth. The problem is, we wanted to use our homemade server, which runs flawlessly, with there distribution setup in Salt Lake. The response we were given was, no.
With that said, is there a service (free/pay) out there that offers the same type of service that will recieve one decent size stream and distribute it.
I realize this sounds like a very similar request to others, but there is a very big difference in watching some kind of netmeeting on a monitor and projecting it on a 20' screen. I can virtually do away with artifacts with great cameras, lighting and cabling, but encoding it down to 300-400 kbs still makes it look less than satisfactory.
here is an example:
A few months ago, we had two stakes split into three. This gave us several more buildings to broadcast to than our stakes. We attempted true multi-casting(239.0.0.1), but struggled getting it to work within our service providers network. Eventually we stumbled upon this media kit the church is building, very buggy. I believe it uses windows media encoder(didn't bust into it, wanted to, but didn't). Anyway, this logged into a server in Salt Lake, then was distributed over their seemingly endless bandwidth. The problem is, we wanted to use our homemade server, which runs flawlessly, with there distribution setup in Salt Lake. The response we were given was, no.
With that said, is there a service (free/pay) out there that offers the same type of service that will recieve one decent size stream and distribute it.
I realize this sounds like a very similar request to others, but there is a very big difference in watching some kind of netmeeting on a monitor and projecting it on a 20' screen. I can virtually do away with artifacts with great cameras, lighting and cabling, but encoding it down to 300-400 kbs still makes it look less than satisfactory.