LiveStreaming with Sling Studio?

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doubledark

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I'm curious; a number of times I have suggested the Sling Studio might be a simple way of doing livestreaming but it doesn't get mentioned by others.

I know it's wi-fi based, but reviews by the likes of Mr Cheeseycam suggest it's fine. The same was said about the Rode wireless and a DVX member in NYC says he's had no issues.

The Sling Studio system uses wi-fi transmitters from camera to central receiver so NO TRIPPING HAZARD and very quick to deploy.

It records the stream internally at 720P and the camera's can also record internally should you wish to edit later.

Everything is controlled via iPad. Simple graphics can be done; if you need complicated up-stream / down-stream graphics etc then this not the unit.

So, quick, easy, safe, simple.

Am I missing something?
 
Slingstudio seems like a good product to me as well - I used it once with no issues. Is there a downside I'm unaware of?
 
Yes, the downside is wireless. Wireless sucks for streaming, it's massively unreliable.
You are playing a numbers/odds game and the money is on your stream screwing up in
any of a hundred ways. Packet loss, stalling, URL re-allocation when the stream drops out for
microsecond, there are so many ways that wireless can fail.

We try to avoid using wireless for anything other than as a last chance, Hail Mary backup.
if you want to stake your work/client relationship and reputation on wireless, you and your
client will be disappointed.
 
But you can connect slingstudio to ethernet. Are you talking about the wireless connection from cameralink to hub?
 
ahalpert said:
But you can connect slingstudio to ethernet. Are you talking about the wireless connection from cameralink to hub?
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Any wireless, anywhere in the chain. It's kind of like bringing a Teradek and a Sumo to a regular shoot and using that to record your shoot wirelessly instead of in-camera. You could. You might even
get usable stuff. But odds are greater that you'll end up with issues and diminished quality and reliability.

The live stream we did last week, we brought our expensive Peplink wireless router strictly as a back up to our Ethernet hard wired connection at the LA Zoo. Our webcast engineer and the Zoo's IT
department got the ethernet line working fine but even though our Peplink is a $4k state of the art wireless router, the three of them after two hours couldn't get it to handshake so we went live with no backup.
This was with 170k viewers too. Thankfully, all was good other than the clients website overloading and crashing at 149k viewers and our three Dacast streams failed (Dacasts fault we have found) but we were streaming to YouTube and FB Live also so the day was saved.
 
So theoretically going HDMI into the slingstudio hub and then hub into ethernet you would feel more comfortable with? And a wifi hotspot backup
 
ahalpert said:
So theoretically going HDMI into the slingstudio hub and then hub into ethernet you would feel more comfortable with? And a wifi hotspot backup
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Definitely. I've never used the SlingStudio product so I cannot vouch for it's reliability, but hard wired to hard wired you should be fine if your Ethernet connection cooperates.
We use Live Stream Studio and then just began using VMix Live and VMix Call for remote streaming. So far, VMix is blowing us away with how capable it is. The top of the line version
can support up to eight remote "Calls" (video streams from remote), plus all of the other features are amazing and all for only $1,200.00. But you need to add about $4k for a custom
built hot rod PC and input cards. But man is it capable. Watch the YouTube Demo videos.

The NewTek boxes seem very good too and NDI is great technology and NewTek is behind that standard.

The lower end stuff on the market would make me nervous personally as far as capability and reliability.
 
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