VT5 4 church + Live TV streaming

[skyytv]

Hello guys,

A client of mine recently approached me with an idea for his church. He wanted a live switcher system that would accommodate three (3) cameras and output to three different projection systems. What projector would you guys recommend for a church room that seats 3,500 people? Basically the idea here is to project the sermon on the screen with overlays, logos, song lyrics, announcements etc... At the same time, he would like to create VCD/DVD copies on-the-fly. Streaming online and live TV broadcasts was also an option. I'm thinking microwave is an expensive option since we would need an uplink/downlink facility available (or hire). Is Video-Over-IP/MPEG-2 transport a cheaper way to go? What equipment would I be looking at here?
The camera setup consists of two handheld and one stationary. We would like the stationary one to be controlled via joystick. How do I go about it?

Thnx in advance

[billmi]

All do-able. In fact, with only three cameras, you could do this with Tricaster for a smaller budget than with VT.

We record the services at my church with a Tricaster and three Sony EVI-D70s. We don't run the feed to the projector (small building, we don't need to) but we record straight to a DVD recorder, as well as the the Tricaster's hard drive, and the hard drive recording then gets compressed and goes out on the web.

[PIZAZZ]

Actually any CDN worth it's salt will have 24 hour tech support. Akamai, LimeLight, and AudioVideoWeb all are available any time of the day or night and they are not limited to just a single server which can only handle a few hundred viewers. These larger CDNs also have server farms all over the globe which can help reduce the latency during viewing. For the NAB webcast we used IstreamPlanet who uses Limelight and Akamai as their backbone for streaming. I will recommend that combination any day of the week. They were outstanding to work with.

Regarding the original poster's question...
Microwave is fairly inexpensive in the scheme of things to remotely connect.
Satellite is beautiful but expensive if you are doing long format.
Video over IP from units like StreamBox or Adtec are cost effective solutions that have a video quality that rivals most traditional TV broadcast quality.

[steveg]

I must be doing something wrong in trying to stream video from my VT5. I thought you just have to turn on streaming and the VT gives you an address to have someone type in on the internet so they can view it. When they type the address they are told the site does not exist. What am I doing wrong?

[steveg]

The VT5 says tell the viewer to go to location http://192.168.1.100:80 then it says Port 80
When the viewer types this address in he gets a message saying that this address does not exist. Help

[steveg]

I should also mention, I am on Road Runner hi speed. I am going through a router. Don't know if this makes any difference or not. Help

[steveg]

There must be more to streaming that I don't get. I checked to get my I'P address on line and it said that I live in some town in Missouri. I am in Overland park Kansas with over a million people. When I try to get someone to log on to that IP or the IP address that VT5 says I am the viewer gets a page not found message on the internet. Can someone explain how to get streaming to work in VT5.

[jcupp]

An address like: http://192.168.1.100:80 is the address on your local (in your house) network and is not routable to the outside world. Go to: http://www.whatsmyip.org/ to see what the ip address is to the outside world. Be aware that this address may change from time to time unles you have a static IP from your ISP.

Then you will need to set up port forwarding on your router to forward incoming requests to the local computer. See http://portforward.com/routers.htm for how to set this up on many different routers.

[PIZAZZ]

There must be more to streaming that I don't get. I checked to get my I'P address on line and it said that I live in some town in Missouri. I am in Overland park Kansas with over a million people. When I try to get someone to log on to that IP or the IP address that VT5 says I am the viewer gets a page not found message on the internet. Can someone explain how to get streaming to work in VT5.

Regarding your location being different. That does not matter. Most likely that IP address is coming out of a head end located in Missouri. When I pull my ip address when connected via EVDO, I get IP addresses all over the place. It just happens to be where the IP pokes it's ugly head out of the fiber network.


Simple directions:

Log into your router and port forward either :80 or :8080 to the VT's IP address. (I would suggest locking down the IP address on the VT for less worries in the future.)

On a computer go to whatismyip.org and get the external IP your ISP is using for that day.

If you have another computer you can check to see if your port forwarding is working by typing into Internet Explorer's URL mms://(External IP):8080 or whatever port you are using. This will open windows media player and you should be able see what you are streaming from the VT.

If you have to get this up and running right away for a project then I can do it by logging into your computer via our remote control software. I would only charge you for a half hour of remote tech support time ($95/2). Once you do this 5367 times it is like child's play.

Contact me at 409-860-9283 ext 102 and I can fix you up.