[Ldsoss] Stake Conference Broadcast - Technology Success Story

[Tony Fenleish]

Oops, I thought I already sent an email that had these details.  Looks
like 
I only sent to an individual and not the whole list.  Sorry for the 
mis-understanding.

Equipment Needed:
1. Broadband at 2 locations (stake center and ward building)
1.5 Mbps download
856 Kbps upload
We tried on a 256 Kbps up/down but it was too choppy

2. Slingbox (stake center)
3. Borrowed Laptop (for ward building)
4. Miscellaneous broadcast equipment that we already had (i.e. video
camera,
audio amplifier, etc)

$720 - Yearly Broadband Costs for 2 locations



It really is simple, I'll see if I can do it in steps.

Step 1. Take a video signal from any device (e.g. video camera) and bring
it 
into the Slingbox.  We connected to the

Step 2. Connect the Slingbox box to a broadband network, and set up the 
registration of this device through Slingbox website.  The Slingbox 
digitally encodes video on the fly and allows one user to view the video 
live over the internet.  It comes with the video software to view the 
digital video.

Step 3. Connect a computer or laptop at a remote location that also has 
broadband access.  In our case, we borrowed a members laptop.  You then
run 
the Slingbox video software, log into your account, and you immediately
get 
the video feed that is going into the slingbox.

Step 4. Output the video signal to a projector, the headphone jack went
into 
a small pre-amp which had pluggs that allowed us to plug right into the 
ward's microphone jack.  So it played over the speaker system.  The
pre-amp 
is necessary because the audio signal is pretty weak without it.  Out
stake 
allready had 2 of these pre-amp boxes as part of the AV system.

Using the above setup, we took it one step further and were able to use a 
video switch that was in our library to switch seamlessly between the
stake 
video camera feed and the satellite feed from the conference center.

Quite a funny story with that though.  At the ward where stake conference 
was being broadcast, we thought something was wrong with the Slingbox
setup 
when the audio was not in sync with the video.  We called the stake center

and found out they had the delay over the satellite as well.  It was 
corrected by the AV guys at the conference center withing 10 minutes.  The

rest went terrific.

2 or 3 of us know how to set it up, although it's quite simple.  Someone 
just needs to know how to run the cables and run the software on one box, 
the Slingbox does all the hard work.  Check out the slingbox website for 
more info.

http://www.slingmedia.com/indexb.php

Any other questions?





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane Hathaway" <shane at hathawaymix.org>
To: "LDS Open Source Software" <ldsoss at lists.ldsoss.org>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Stake Conference Broadcast - Technology Success
Story


| Tony Fenleish wrote:
| > | > > We just used the internet to broadcast our stake conference
| > | > > from the stake center to another ward house.  You wouldn't
| > | > > believe how easy it was to set up, how great the signal was.
| > | > > Initial equipment cost was $200.  Yearly costs will be about
| > | > > $720 a year instead of $4000.
| >
| >  [...]
| >
| > What more would you like to know?
|
| You've apparently accomplished something quite interesting and we all
| want details.  I hope you don't mind spending a little time to describe 
it.
|
| What hardware did you use?  I'm interested in the computer, the video
| capture device, and the video output card.
|
| What software did you use?  I'd like to know what operating system,
| video encoder, and video decoder.
|
| What kind of Internet connection are you using?  Cable modem / DSL / 
other?
|
| Finally, if you move to a different stake, will others be able to pick
| up where you left off?
|
| Shane
|
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