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FVS318N ensuring adequate bandwidth for streaming encoder
Well, I streamed our Sunday service this morning. It should have been in 720p HD, but apparently the encoder automatically dropped down the resolution because of poor bandwidth. I'm running the enc...
Well, all I can say is Whew!!! I had a flawless stream this morning at church. The encoder was provided with the proper constant bandwidth to ensure an HD broadcast. Looks like the things I did that I mentioned in the previous post did the trick! By the way, I also changed the Outbound and Inbound Minimum bandwidth in the Bandwidth Profile to 5000 Kbps. The streaming encoder I'm using is Livestream.com's Broadcaster Pro. I'm putting some large stick-on feet on the bottom of it to ensure there is adequate space under it for ventalation, as it gets hot on the top and bottom. And, we will keep it away from heat sources. I'm considering this problem solved, and I thank DaneA and JohnRo for their assistance.
Regards,
DonD
Yesterday, I eliminated the QoS settings under Network Configuration and ran a long streaming test with only the 2 streaming security rules and their corresponding QoS Profile and Bandwidth Profile services. Everything went well for almost an hour, then the streaming encoder indicated it didn't have enough bandwidth. I did notice the encoder was very hot. I noticed I had it placed right next to the laptop such that the laptop's fan vent blew hot air right on the encoder. So, I moved it away and ran another long test for over an hour with no problems. I will be running a stream tomorrow morning at our church service, so we will see how it goes. I will also have my laptop on line to run Wireshark to get network packet captures, should the problem arise again.
I will report back here in a few days with my findings.
DonD
Well, all I can say is Whew!!! I had a flawless stream this morning at church. The encoder was provided with the proper constant bandwidth to ensure an HD broadcast. Looks like the things I did that I mentioned in the previous post did the trick! By the way, I also changed the Outbound and Inbound Minimum bandwidth in the Bandwidth Profile to 5000 Kbps. The streaming encoder I'm using is Livestream.com's Broadcaster Pro. I'm putting some large stick-on feet on the bottom of it to ensure there is adequate space under it for ventalation, as it gets hot on the top and bottom. And, we will keep it away from heat sources. I'm considering this problem solved, and I thank DaneA and JohnRo for their assistance.
Regards,
DonD
Hi DonD,
You're welcome! :) I'm very glad that the problem has been resolved.
I appreciate that you shared your experience and the steps you've done to resolve the problem here in the community. This will serve as reference for other community members. :)
Cheers,
DaneA
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