Category: Ham Radio Now

HRN 453 The Aggressive Elmer

This may change by showtime. We’ll see

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HRN 453 ProMore or Less

David’s under the weather. Gary is seeing who’s out there to do a show. Maybe this is the show. Maybe it’s not even much of a promo.

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HRN 452 ShowMORE

David and Gary did a 90 minute ProMORE for this episode, in which they were supposed to figure out what the Sunday live show would be about. They never did. Apparently they don’t have to.

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HRN 452 ProMORE

I know it says ‘5:00pm’ (Eastern) in the Stand By for YouTube thing, but that’s just because YouTube requires a time ‘in the future’. I don’t know when, or even IF, this ProMore will hit the streams — oops, here’s David now!

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Da SHOW!

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We’re gonna do a show tonight, too.

We’re gonna do a show tonight, too.

HRN Euro-Shgow (and HRN 451 PROIMO)

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HRN ‘Buffering’ Test

I (Gary K4AAQ) learned a lesson. RTFM. Well, there is no manual, but there is no end of help files on YouTube streaming.

I had been looking at ways to improve the video from Premiere Pro, my editing software. I had been rendering files for YouTube at 4 or 5 Mbps (megabits per second), with a few other encoder settings that I always saw, but didn’t know anything about. So I looked them up, set better options, and increased the bit rate to 8 Mbps, which indeed result in better video.

So of course I applied that to YouTube. Big mistake.

I stream at 720p30 (720 vertical lines, progressive scan, 30 frames per second). That’s a very conservative setting, fine for our mostly ‘talking head’ video. I had been encoding that at 4 Mbps, but based on my experimenting with Premiere Pro, I decided to increase the bit rate to 8 Mbps.

Let the buffering begin.

In the middle of the night last night, I connected the dots. *Increaseed bit rate* — *Shows begin buffering*

They don’t call me a genioujs for nothing.

I looked it up and found a table of YouTube designated max bir rates for various video resolutions. 720p30’s highest rate is 4 Mbps. Sigh.

So this is a test, back at 4 Mbps.

HRN 450 Take 2
We stopped the live stream and restarted. But that didn’t help. So skip this and watch the UPLOADED VERSION: https://youtu.be/QN9OJzHQ9tM