Stake Conference and Issues
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:53 am
I just want to take a few minutes to write up about our first webcasting of stake conference this weekend. Things went well, but we did have issues.
We used the latest beta version as the production version hit the street way too close to the actual feed. The video was terrific, but we had issue with the sound. We had 5 buildings receiving the feed.
at one building the sound was terrific and they said that it was just like watching general conference, which is great. The other buildings had issue with sound and it was too soft. We had tested before and the people at the receiving end said things were good and volume sounded great. The only issue was that we had a 60hertz hum on the line which would have been very annoying.
So we had the audio cable replace just before the weekend. We got rid of the hum, but it might have affected the sound, but with one building sounding great and the other having issue. I will need to check on how the cable is plugged into the chapel amplifier so that I plug it into the computer properly.
We were using a Dell XPS Studio with AMD process. It has a Happenguge video card. With this card the software will not recognize the TV channel with audio or the audio inputs from it. So what I did was use the composite video on the card for video input and then plugged the sound into the sound card.
Which brings me to my next issue. Everything seemed to worked great from my end. I let it run most of the day on Saturday afternoon and evening. In the evening, we did a test so that Sunday would be "perfect." I had one use that really helped me and it turned out to be the building the was the best.
As he watched it he noticed that the video and audio was out of sync. I thought I noticed something along those lines during the afternoon session, but I just ignored it. So I stopped the broadcast and restarted it and everything went back to being in sync. So we let it run and in about 45 minutes the sync started to go out again. So we stopped it and started again and it was fine.
Since we noticed this on Saturday night, the decision was made to stop the webcast at the intermediate hymn on Sunday and start it for the second half. I was informed later that just before we stopped it, the sync was started to get out, which was about an hour in.
So it looks like anytime between 45 minutes to an hour or more the audio and video will become out of sync. This could be the way that I had it set up, with the video on the TV capture card and the audio on the sound card.
On the webcast program you have two videos, the one for the video and audio and then the main one that shows what is going to SLC. It looked like the sync for the video and audio on the bottom was good, but the one going to SLC was off.
So I'm wondering if someone else has noticed a sync issue using the software version? If so what can be done about it to remove it so that I can run 2 hours without stopping it? Also, I need to work on the audio issue and make sure that my end is hooked up correctly and is pumping out the best audio so that the receiving station get a good audio signal.
Thanks for the help in advance and I look forward to getting this issue solved.
We used the latest beta version as the production version hit the street way too close to the actual feed. The video was terrific, but we had issue with the sound. We had 5 buildings receiving the feed.
at one building the sound was terrific and they said that it was just like watching general conference, which is great. The other buildings had issue with sound and it was too soft. We had tested before and the people at the receiving end said things were good and volume sounded great. The only issue was that we had a 60hertz hum on the line which would have been very annoying.
So we had the audio cable replace just before the weekend. We got rid of the hum, but it might have affected the sound, but with one building sounding great and the other having issue. I will need to check on how the cable is plugged into the chapel amplifier so that I plug it into the computer properly.
We were using a Dell XPS Studio with AMD process. It has a Happenguge video card. With this card the software will not recognize the TV channel with audio or the audio inputs from it. So what I did was use the composite video on the card for video input and then plugged the sound into the sound card.
Which brings me to my next issue. Everything seemed to worked great from my end. I let it run most of the day on Saturday afternoon and evening. In the evening, we did a test so that Sunday would be "perfect." I had one use that really helped me and it turned out to be the building the was the best.
As he watched it he noticed that the video and audio was out of sync. I thought I noticed something along those lines during the afternoon session, but I just ignored it. So I stopped the broadcast and restarted it and everything went back to being in sync. So we let it run and in about 45 minutes the sync started to go out again. So we stopped it and started again and it was fine.
Since we noticed this on Saturday night, the decision was made to stop the webcast at the intermediate hymn on Sunday and start it for the second half. I was informed later that just before we stopped it, the sync was started to get out, which was about an hour in.
So it looks like anytime between 45 minutes to an hour or more the audio and video will become out of sync. This could be the way that I had it set up, with the video on the TV capture card and the audio on the sound card.
On the webcast program you have two videos, the one for the video and audio and then the main one that shows what is going to SLC. It looked like the sync for the video and audio on the bottom was good, but the one going to SLC was off.
So I'm wondering if someone else has noticed a sync issue using the software version? If so what can be done about it to remove it so that I can run 2 hours without stopping it? Also, I need to work on the audio issue and make sure that my end is hooked up correctly and is pumping out the best audio so that the receiving station get a good audio signal.
Thanks for the help in advance and I look forward to getting this issue solved.