One of my clients want me to provide live feed of the wedding ceremony they are going to have on the beach.
I would like to use my 5d mark iv to record and provide the feed into OBS Studio software. I am planning to use my mobile internet on my phone. I would like to set up my phone as hot spot and connect my notebook to my phone.
- My question is how to make sure I have strong internet to support the upstream data??? I don't have mobile wifi? The location is 2 hours away from my home. I can go and test the speed but I would rather not to.
What do you do when you live stream an event? How do you make sure you have a strong signal?
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upstream to where? are the watchers going to be given your ip and your device is supposed to provide the bandwidth? and unless you go to the exact spot your phone is going to be you don't even know if you'll have any signal coverage at all.
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I can see all kinds of problems in this having to do not just with the stream QoS & connection reliability but also of battery/power, heat, sand, etc.
Go there well ahead of time (weeks?) and do (multiple) practice runs.
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^^ Methinks you read right.
The OP appears reluctant to visit the location in advance and that may be understandable given the current situation. The current situation might even make him think of doing this at all.
But he needs to do some research and try to find the answers of how those that live-stream on a semi-regular basis do it. For example I have come across one 'tv' channel, not a million miles from the OPs location, that has regularily filmed live in various locations and in HD. -
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Even so, does your stream need to be 1080P ?
I daily watch a live-stream on yt. Perfectably watchable in 720P (and much less bandwidth required) -
Start by testing, at home, with a wired computer connection, uploading to YT/FBlive/Vimeo/etc.
Then do a test, at home, using a wifi computer connection.
Then do a test, at home, using NOT your normal home wifi, but a mobile hotspot (phone or otherwise) connection.
Then test again and again, to see how far you can increase the distance between the phone/hotspot and the laptop and still have reliable connection.
Then see whether your provider has towers near enough to the beach area so that you will have decent mobile signal strenth & reliability.
If that process starts to fail early-on, you'll know you have to get a wired, or (normal) wifi PC connection (extension cords, router, etc. to something semi-nearby), whether your own or rented.
Note: Download streaming is much less demanding and usually more generous in bandwidth than Upload streaming (which is what you'll be doing).
Again, you'll have to also see whether battery power (both phone & computer) will hold up, and those issues will be exaccerbated by the elements (heat/sun, wind, sand).
You may also need to have gauze filters, gobos, or sunshades erected if the contrast is too stark.
Another reason to actually visit the site (or a site very similar).
I would also suggest that both during the tests and at the event that you have a "confidence" monitor, aka download stream checker on an altogether different device.
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