The YouTubers Bunch

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

HRN 450 – 25 Miles

This stream had some bad buffering, and the playback just skips a few seconds every so often.

So we uploaded a better version: https://youtu.be/QN9OJzHQ9tM

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HRN 450: 25 Miles – UPLOAD – No Buffering??
Our live stream was a failure with lots of buffering. We restarted to try to clear it up, and it didn’t help. So here is an upload from our local recording that should play better.

We spent a fair amount of time noodling over the buffering issue. Feel free to use the ‘fast forward’ options (like you don’t do that already). – Gary K4AAQ

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HRN 450 Take 2

https://HamRadioNow.tv
The most important Amateur Radio program on the Internet
music theme:
Odd News by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/