Youtube should be used over Facebook. Anyone with a browser can view youtube without an account but to watch on Facebook, you need an account which turns some people off.
If possible, just give them 3-5 Mbps upload and tell them to live stream on Youtube. They can still use a dedicated camera plugged into a laptop to stream it instead of using a crappy webcam. This gives people what they want which is live video plus it's saved for future viewing. And no long uploads to wait for because it's compressed on the go. On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 3:57 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > From what you and Darrin are both saying, live streaming would actually be > better. At least with YouTube. I’d have to check if that’s an option with > Facebook. > > > > I don’t think they are typically doing this from a phone. More like an > actual camera like you’d use to record a school play, probably connected to > a laptop and then to the Internet. > > > > I can give a church a somewhat higher upload speed than the tier they are > paying for. I can’t give them 100 Mbps upload so they can transfer a 1080p > video in a minute. In that case, it’s not the money, it’s I just can’t do > it without putting in a dedicated link to the tower for them. Or they > could drive to the tower and plug into the tower router. > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Matt Hoppes > *Sent:* Monday, July 27, 2020 3:30 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] churches uploading or live streaming services > > > > We stream live all Sunday to YouTube on 3 megabits. Works fine. > > > > Uploading - just start it and walk away. > > > > On Jul 27, 2020, at 4:18 PM, Jaime Solorza <losguyswirel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I have a church using two Ubiquiti 900Mhz radios for remote cameras and > Internet feed on balcony. They have one camera covering altar /pulpit area > and mics feed from their mixer. > > Not sure what software and equipment they use but they do live feed ... > > It's been up for two years. > > It looks like the equipment we had for live feeding contentious board > meetings when I worked at TISD...I can't remember the name. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 1:56 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 > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- Darin Steffl Minnesota WiFi www.mnwifi.com 507-634-WiFi <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi> Like us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi>
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