> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk > [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Sam Smith > Sent: 06 February 2011 20:10 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Cc: friends-of-backst...@pielists.net > Subject: Re: [backstage] Streaming video on variable > bandwidth connection? > > > something like skype which copes with that well, and then > have something at the other end that pushes it out to other places? > > have run a number of video events across 3G links, and it > works relatively well. Although if you're completely offline, > it's not going to work that well (backup phone call?) > > > another thing I've found useful is to have a few different > phone networks available - one networks dead spot might be > next to another network's basestation
The T-Mobile / Orange network sharing came in useful for me last weekend... If you're going to consider Skype, also consider Google Chat's video technology (supposedly superior to Skype) and which uses licensed technology from Vidyo. Interesting video with people from Vidyo and conference demonstration with cameras of varying quality: http://pritecho.com/2010/04/vidyo-better-videoconferencing-than-skype/ - I'd imagine that Google's implementation has some kind of adaptive bandwidth management. (Watching the video through, apparently up to 50 people can conference in! some other quite nifty features in their own smallbiz package, but you'd expect it for the price of the package they were using in the demo) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
