Church Webcast Testing

An update to the Church's webcast solution will be released July/August of this year. We are completing extensive testing of the system but would appreciate help completing additional field testing. Please message me if you have time and interest to help us in our testing efforts. Field testing is tentatively scheduled for June 5th - June 25th.

The update will include the following:
- Auto Event Scaling – support 1,000+ viewers without selecting large event.
- Remote Viewing Portal - all scheduled events for an organization will be available in the remote viewing portal. The URL for this portal will not change per event.
- Public & Private Events - event managers will have two different ways to categorize events. Private would be similar to the current viewing experience where Church account login is required. Public events will not require a Church account login.
- Congregational Viewing Resiliency – increased signal resiliency for congregational viewing locations.
- Video Scrubbing - move forward or backwards in events.
- Video On-demand - videos can be made available as VOD after a live event for viewing.

Testing can be done independently by individuals during the test dates. It is understood that individuals will not be able to test things like scaling or congregational viewing resiliency.

I'm so happy to see these features on the list. I would love to help test the system.

mitchrichie wrote:I would love to help test the system.

Posting here may not get to bartj before the testing begins. Send a private message as stated in the post:

bartj wrote:Please message me if you have time and interest to help us in our testing efforts.

bartj wrote:Please message me if you have time and interest to help us in our testing efforts.

I am also interested in helping test - tried to send a private message, but evidently have not posted enough to do so.

This is not the place to fulfill the request to message bartj. You must use the private message feature of the forum. Unless bartj is monitoring this thread he may not see your response. He will, however, be notified when he gets a private message.

jdlessley wrote:This is not the place to fulfill the request to message bartj. You must use the private message feature of the forum. Unless bartj is monitoring this thread he may not see your response. He will, however, be notified when he gets a private message.

But he can't PM until he loses his "New Member" title.

I doubt bartj is aware of that. I certainly had a memory lapse.

dle2 wrote:I am also interested in helping test - tried to send a private message, but evidently have not posted enough to do so.

I sent you a private message about testing. You should be able to read it, even though you cannot yet reply.

I believe I have reached out to those who requested information on the testing. Please reply below or PM me if I missed you. Thank you all for your help testing the webcast solution.

Any idea if they are trying to send audio?

lajackson wrote:Any idea if they are trying to send audio?

Not quite sure what you are asking. All the events I've tried have video and audio.

It's there, but WAY down in the mud for me.

EDIT: Just came up to a low, but listenable level.

I've had no issue with sound levels. Did have slight sound wow and flutter issue with one of the test videos.

Okay, I finally found some sound when I scrolled back and hit a Broadcast Disconnected section with the choir. I wonder if it was a volume level problem, but when I did get President Eyring, the sound was fine when it was there. I'll provide them details.

Other than that, I'm glad I wasn't trying to run a stake conference webcast.

Biggles wrote:

lajackson wrote:Any idea if they are trying to send audio?

Not quite sure what you are asking. All the events I've tried have video and audio.

A tangent, but an audio-only verison of an audio/video stream could be nice for low-bandwidth or listening in the car/bus.

Biggles wrote:Not quite sure what you are asking. All the events I've tried have video and audio.

That is what I was asking. After I posted that question, I was well into the hour before I found any sound at all, I only found it accidentally, and it went away again after a few minutes. I included the information in my report.