[Seth Wereska]

Thanks for the insight!

–Seth

[Seth Wereska]

Yeah,
These are commodity boxes, but when you are fielding 6 of them you pick your battles. In SD mode we are only kicking over at about 30-40% utilization. In hd we’re over 80%, so I thought I might be crushing something in the box. I guess I was. The next round of motherboard / processors will have to be faster.

You seem to be tied into Black Magic (or at least I’ve seen you post about them before)

Do you have any knowledge on what exactly they are using GPU acceleration for? Is it strictly for chroma key / image transforms, or does it also contribute to compression acceleration as well? (I know it does on the mac side)

Any insight is welcome, even if it’s just a shrug.

Thanks!

[Seth Wereska]

Watershed. (watershed.ustream.tv)

It’s Ustream’s unbranded CDN. Easy(ish) to set up. Easy to embed. Easy to start / stop. You pay per viewer & a reasonable monthly rate.

I’ve had pretty good luck so far, my only consideration is that once in a great while it’s hard to start a stream, so we always start our streams VERY early with a simple “coming soon” slide.