They're much better off live streaming it with at least 3 mbps upload speed as it's transcoded by the device on the fly then. Live videos can still be archived to watch later.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 3:05 PM Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: > 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 >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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