UPDATE: I got the chaos router to create the glitch art again by streaming to RUclips rather than to the Magewell Pro Convert! Turns out the Pro Convert will freeze frame when it encounters these glitches, but RUclips will try to render something which results in the glitch art. Join the members discord for screenshots and more details!
1:27:50 - The apple encoder is a known issue. You cannot control the bitrate. Apple just does its thing. This is documented in the OBS forums last I checked.
Hotels use what is called fair use. During high usage times, streaming connections that are using high bandwidth they will automatically get their bandwidth throttled. The only way to compensate is to stream with a lesser bitrate. The best option is to use a variable bitrate that can help rather than a constant bitrate. Though, if the hotels pipeline is over saturated, nothing will help. Most will only allow 80% of their total bandwidth anyway. Normal speed tests won't give proper results regarding video streaming. SpeedTest app does have a video stream speed test that will test to see max resolution to stream at for current connection.
I don't believe this hotel was doing anything particularly fancy. Most of the bandwidth limits or throttling is in the download anyway, not uploading. I think this was a simple case of bandwidth limits in Comcast. The night before I had 10ms ping times, but during the stream on Sunday morning the ping times were 150-200ms. Interestingly this same thing happened at ResolveCon, as soon as all the attendees turned on their laptops the hotel internet tanked, but when their laptops were off it was fine.
@aaronpk Actually, yes. Both up/down get throttled. However, they use QOS (Quailty Of Service), which will throttle different types of bandwidth differently. So, video streams will be monitored and throttled differently than browser traffic or email traffic. The issue comes when there is heavy use on multiple types. Such as too many downloading and streaming up or down. It's a balancing act. Say the hotel only has a 5GB up/down pipeline. They will throttle all conections if the total bandwidth reaches 20%. Thus making the whole hotel internet slow but functional for all connections with priority on web browsing and email. So hotels/convenient centers have larger piplines or have adaptive piplines which start at 5GB and can adapte up to say 10GB if demand requires. Some do the estimate system, which also counts connections and starts throttling when connections reach a certain number. Weather they are idel or high use. This is usually done on some hotels where they may only have 1GB pipline and don't usually have extremely heavy use cases.
UPDATE: I got the chaos router to create the glitch art again by streaming to RUclips rather than to the Magewell Pro Convert! Turns out the Pro Convert will freeze frame when it encounters these glitches, but RUclips will try to render something which results in the glitch art. Join the members discord for screenshots and more details!
1:27:50 - The apple encoder is a known issue. You cannot control the bitrate. Apple just does its thing. This is documented in the OBS forums last I checked.
Hotels use what is called fair use. During high usage times, streaming connections that are using high bandwidth they will automatically get their bandwidth throttled. The only way to compensate is to stream with a lesser bitrate. The best option is to use a variable bitrate that can help rather than a constant bitrate. Though, if the hotels pipeline is over saturated, nothing will help. Most will only allow 80% of their total bandwidth anyway. Normal speed tests won't give proper results regarding video streaming. SpeedTest app does have a video stream speed test that will test to see max resolution to stream at for current connection.
I don't believe this hotel was doing anything particularly fancy. Most of the bandwidth limits or throttling is in the download anyway, not uploading. I think this was a simple case of bandwidth limits in Comcast. The night before I had 10ms ping times, but during the stream on Sunday morning the ping times were 150-200ms. Interestingly this same thing happened at ResolveCon, as soon as all the attendees turned on their laptops the hotel internet tanked, but when their laptops were off it was fine.
@aaronpk Actually, yes. Both up/down get throttled. However, they use QOS (Quailty Of Service), which will throttle different types of bandwidth differently. So, video streams will be monitored and throttled differently than browser traffic or email traffic. The issue comes when there is heavy use on multiple types. Such as too many downloading and streaming up or down. It's a balancing act. Say the hotel only has a 5GB up/down pipeline. They will throttle all conections if the total bandwidth reaches 20%. Thus making the whole hotel internet slow but functional for all connections with priority on web browsing and email. So hotels/convenient centers have larger piplines or have adaptive piplines which start at 5GB and can adapte up to say 10GB if demand requires. Some do the estimate system, which also counts connections and starts throttling when connections reach a certain number. Weather they are idel or high use. This is usually done on some hotels where they may only have 1GB pipline and don't usually have extremely heavy use cases.