Not a church customer, but someone that creates audiobooks or something like that. She was recording the video/audio uncompressed. A 15 minute video was like 8 GB and she was complaining it was taking hours to upload. "But it was fast in Japan".
I told them to compress the video to a modern codec like x264 - http://www.h264encoder.com/ Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 3:56 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > I don’t know why this is coming up now, maybe everybody thought the virus > would go away in a few months. But I have churches either uploading their > worship services right afterward, or trying to live stream them, to > Facebook or YouTube. > > > > Rural churches don’t have tons of money, so they tend to be on our lowest > speed plan. But even if I just upped their speed without increasing the > price, I don’t think I can achieve what is in their mind, that the pastor > can upload the video from the church in 5 or 10 minutes after the service > and then go home. Even on our highest wireless speed plan. We have lots > of unused upstream bandwidth at the towers because of mostly licensed > backhaul links and symmetric bandwidth from upstream providers. But the > last mile only has so much bandwidth because we set the down/up ratio > typically to 75/25. > > > > Has anyone faced this problem and solved it? > > > > It seems to me some of the files are quite large. Like 8 GB for an hour > of video. And if they try to upload 2 or 3 of them simultaneously, the > percent completion advances so slowly they think it has stopped. > > > > Does this mean they are recording in 1080p or god forbid 2160p, and maybe > 60fps instead of 30 fps? And then uploading the high res file, only > perhaps to have Facebook downconvert it? > > > > Is there some video app they should be using to optimize the video before > uploading? Preferably a free or cheap one? And no an online converter, > because then you’d still have to upload the original file, right? > > > > Or tell them yes your Internet is slow, take the laptop to somewhere with > cable or fiber and upload from there? Even Comcast “gig speed” is only 35 > Mbps upload. Yes, that is potentially 15 times what we are giving them, > but still not fast enough to upload a 1 hour video in the blink of an eye. > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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