Setup for a live (low-latency) audio video broadcast over Wi-Fi?
- by Majal Mirasol
The Upgrade
We are capturing audio (from mixer) and video (from a camera) from a main auditorium and passing it to separate rooms within the building. We used to have done this via manual audio/video cables and wires.
We wanted to "upgrade" the system and wirelessly broadcast the stream via Wi-Fi.
The Problem
In our current setup (Wirecast running on A10 on a Wireless-N network), we have the problem of delay. Our streams are delayed from a minute up to five minutes on the clients (laptop/iPad/Android). This had not been a problem from the previous wired connections. Since the wireless network is local, we thought that a delay of less than a second should be achievable.
Our Question
And so it goes. Anybody there who has any experience for a setup that has both low latency and at the same time user-friendly to clients streaming in the program? Any recommendations would be highly appreciated.
(Our current setup in on Windows 7, but setup on a dedicated Linux box is preferred, if achievable.)
