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Re: Petition for Better Championship Video

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Originally Posted by Deetman View Post
There is much more that can be posted on the complexities of webcasting events, but the first and primary for championships is bandwidth. To run 8 streams simultaneously at 720p, you are looking at 16Mbps minimum upload and that is without any overhead and minimum quality settings. Ideally you'd be looking at around 40Mbps upload to comfortably stream 8 720p streams at high quality, which may not even be available from the venue. Assuming that NASA is running the streams through a satellite uplink, I highly doubt that their uplink is capable of sustaining 40Mbps. This doesn't even touch on the reliability required for it and ignores other internet requirements at the venue for the event.
Solid LTE should be able to exceed these qualifications comfortably. There are even professional HD casting solutions that load balance between multiple LTE modems to obtain the highest QoS. You could rig something up similar with a consumer router running DD-WRT.

I guarantee that there are people in this very thread that could have run the Championship streams far better than NASA did with consumer grade hardware. That's what's disappointing.
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