We're broadcasting General Conference online this weekend, as we have in the past. There are English, Portuguese, Spanish, and American Sign Language versions.
We're using encoders from a Utah company, Move Networks, to stream the video. In the future we will stream additional languages.
The quality is good enough to watch on a big screen if you have a way to hook your computer up to a TV or a projector.
Enjoy!
It is rock solid this year even over my relatively slow DSL and wireless, and the audio is excellent. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI am super impressed with the image and audio quality. I have it streaming from my mac to my 52" DLP. Looks way better than my cable or sat feeds, plus its widescreen. Well done.
ReplyDeleteThe quality is fantastic. I have a HTPC hooked up to a 40" LCD and it looks great. I live in northern Virginia and its better quality than we get from our cable provider. This is the last nail in the coffin for us to cancel our cable and just stick with free OTA HDTV.
ReplyDeleteGreat job!
We're having problems with it in Canada. Not just where I am but friends in other locations in the country also. It keeps skipping and stalling...
ReplyDelete[JPD: Thanks for the feedback--the first we've heard it. We're looking into it.]
It would be great if the Church provided embed code for the Move stream.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing they chose to go with Move for the same reason several others have, especially for large live events. The Democratic National Convention used Move for their live coverage, as has Oprah several times in the past, and of course ABC and Fox. From what I've read, Move doesn't require streaming servers like Windows Media (Silverlight) and Flash do; Move functions over straight HTTP so there is no need for streaming servers and maintaining a fixed connection with them. HTTP traffic is able to be cached by caching networks like Akamai and Level 3, as well as any caching servers your ISP might have, so people in the same geographic region can access the content quickly from one of these caching networks instead of having to go all the way to a fixed server.
ReplyDeleteMove's technology looks pretty interesting to me. Shelly Palmer has written about them a few times, there's a lot of good info out there. I'm just glad conference looked as good as it did and they've done a great job making the talks available on their website now after-the-fact. If you work like me, being able to go back and quickly/easily access a given talk that you missed is invaluable. Great job guys! Love it!
Hmmm.... quality looked great but it had repeating 1-2 second buffering pauses so I had to downgrade to audio only. ISP is wide open west cable in Detroit.
ReplyDeleteWe watched the Sat AM session over it and the quality was awesome down here in Arizona. The picture was crystal clear and the audio terrific. We didn't have any bandwidth issues arise. I was also impressed by how quickly the mp3 files for the Sat AM talks went up.
ReplyDeleteSunday Morning broadcast....
ReplyDeleteWe are still having stalling and what appears to be buffering here in Canada. :-(
Any suggestions?
Other feedback ... is there any way that the choir songs sung in conference can be uploaded as individual files ... much like the talks? I'm not sure if there is some legal problem for doing this, but it would be wonderful to listen to those beautiful hymns sung in conference.
ReplyDeleteUpdate to what I posted yesterday... I was using my wife's computer yesterday and today tried my laptop (faster cpu, more ram, same isp) and did not have any stalling. Looked fantastic.
ReplyDeleteWill other church videos be brought up to par with the same quality as conference? The other movies that are currently on the player have pretty bad quality and can not be watched full screen on a television.
ReplyDeleteThanks for adding this capability. I'm not sure if I used the Move feed or not, but I used the direct mms feed that was posted on the general conference website. I used it to pipe into my Windows Media Center Extender and watch on our tv. While the quality wasn't superb, it was the first time in 5 years that we've been able to watch it comfortably in the living room.
ReplyDeleteHuge kudos to your team and it would be great if byutv would provide some type of feed that was compatible with a Windows Media Center Extender.
Couple questions about Move:
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of outbound bandwidth requirements does it have?
Is it integrated with their CDN?
What kind of costs are we talking about?
We're looking at options for streaming, and I've seen the quality of Move's product on ABC's site.
Hmm. Player doesn't play nice with Firefox... Boooo!
ReplyDeleteI can't get Move player to work with Vista. It works fine on my WinXP machine, but not Vista. The player installs just fine, but when the web page with the video trys to load, the browser (IE) hangs. Can anybody help?
ReplyDeleteI'd just like to say that I always enjoyed the Move Networks player, but darned if I can get it to work in Linux. >.>
ReplyDeleteAnd then the Church's official streams are like Quicktime and Windows Media ...