Live Streaming Church Services
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@DustinB3403 said in Live Streaming Church Services:
So while you can work around the adding sources to the stream situation, the biggest issue (especially for this) is the bandwidth available on premise.
I've had people ask me how to do this same sort of thing for family sporting events etc, and it's always a damn bandwidth issue. Especially when you have 100+ extra devices all connected using that DSL for $19.99/month. . .
True. It does seem plausible... nay, likely... that a church would "hire" someone to do this and expect them to bring the required bandwidth with them, at no additional cost of course.
"But we have a 25/5 cable connection! Why can't you make it stream full HD and 4k/HDR??? Our cameras are HD!!! Make it work already!!!!"
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@RojoLoco said in Live Streaming Church Services:
True. It does seem plausible... nay, likely... that a church would "hire" someone to do this and expect them to bring the required bandwidth with them, at no additional cost of course.
Haha a Church hire someone. Man you're funny.
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@coliver I was trying to be nice and not go off on that rant...
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@NerdyDad said in Live Streaming Church Services:
@DustinB3403 said in Live Streaming Church Services:
So while you can work around the adding sources to the stream situation, the biggest issue (especially for this) is the bandwidth available on premise.
I've had people ask me how to do this same sort of thing for family sporting events etc, and it's always a damn bandwidth issue. Especially when you have 100+ extra devices all connected using that DSL for $19.99/month. . .
Just like you would do with any other organization. You VLAN off the guest wifi to just the Internet and throttle it down to just barely speeds.
That limiting is generally limiting per user. Not limited for the entire vLAN and while it might be funny to essentially turn of the Guest-WiFi with such horrible speeds the reality is no one would actually do this.
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@RojoLoco said in Live Streaming Church Services:
@DustinB3403 said in Live Streaming Church Services:
So while you can work around the adding sources to the stream situation, the biggest issue (especially for this) is the bandwidth available on premise.
I've had people ask me how to do this same sort of thing for family sporting events etc, and it's always a damn bandwidth issue. Especially when you have 100+ extra devices all connected using that DSL for $19.99/month. . .
True. It does seem plausible... nay, likely... that a church would "hire" someone to do this and expect them to bring the required bandwidth with them, at no additional cost of course.
"But we have a 25/5 cable connection! Why can't you make it stream full HD and 4k/HDR??? Our cameras are HD!!! Make it work already!!!!"
This is exactly what I heard every time. Every damn time. Or the better one "How come it seems frozen?! We're missing all of the action".
Eh. . . because you're giving this device less internet performance than 56k dialup when the network is this inundated with "users".
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Our church went with the most affordable solution the pastor could find: his old iPhone and Facebook live. Hey, it works and fits into the church's technology budget ( that would be $0 for anyone keeping track)
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@jt1001001 said in Live Streaming Church Services:
Our church went with the most affordable solution the pastor could find: his old iPhone and Facebook live. Hey, it works and fits into the church's technology budget ( that would be $0 for anyone keeping track)
That's the right approach. Consumers in this case aren't necessarily looking for 4k and perfect audio. As long as the speaker is understood and you can stream in 720 that's sufficient.
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@IRJ said in Live Streaming Church Services:
@jt1001001 said in Live Streaming Church Services:
Our church went with the most affordable solution the pastor could find: his old iPhone and Facebook live. Hey, it works and fits into the church's technology budget ( that would be $0 for anyone keeping track)
That's the right approach. Consumers in this case aren't necessarily looking for 4k and perfect audio. As long as the speaker is understood and you can stream in 720 that's sufficient.
Haven't dealt with churches much?
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The size of the church and the target demographic have a lot to do with it. Also, the age or youthfulness of the staff. My pastor is my age, early 30's, and anything like this at our church would likely be targeted at that same age.
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@JaredBusch said in Live Streaming Church Services:
@IRJ said in Live Streaming Church Services:
@jt1001001 said in Live Streaming Church Services:
Our church went with the most affordable solution the pastor could find: his old iPhone and Facebook live. Hey, it works and fits into the church's technology budget ( that would be $0 for anyone keeping track)
That's the right approach. Consumers in this case aren't necessarily looking for 4k and perfect audio. As long as the speaker is understood and you can stream in 720 that's sufficient.
Haven't dealt with churches much?
Nope. I just figured people would be fine if they could just hear and see the speaker...after all they are watching for religious reasons.
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Also, the difference in requirements between streaming external vs internal might be wildly different
