Remote Live-To-Air broadcasts
 

Lets here your ideas. A local night club wants me to broadcast live to air. After researching GPRS, it appears that would not be possible do to the poor service in the area. Broadband of any sorts (cable or DSL) is out of the option as it would be frequently at seperate locations. I have limited it to two options. Please express your opinions, and, if you have any insight or advice; pass it on :)

1.) Direct analog connection via CDMA/TDMA Cellphone car in laptop connecting to main server. Actual transmission would be an audio connection.

2.) PPP (or similar protocol) over dialup connection, uploading the stream to the server via a direct dialup connection (hopefully 24kbps).


Either way, if anyone knows any software that would be good for this, or any alternatives; please let me know :) TIA

I broadcast a live concert from a club last month. All I used was my laptop, Winamp, the DSP, and streamed it at 24K on dialup to my relay server.

The feedback I got was that it sounded great and the listeners loved it :)

Awesome, I guess I will just have to do a test with dialup to see how it works in my region :D I am eager to do this cause I am getting a $1 on every head in the jam :D

Thats cool :)

I got free beer/drinks all night and all the people that were with me got a free meal outta the deal.

Had I taken $1 per head in the club against the free drinks...hehe...even though the place was packed, I woulda owed big time at the end of the night :D

Shiat, well I am getting a contract, minimum $700 if I setup my equipment :D Prolly free drinks to, so its all good.

WELL U DO KNOW THAT THEY DO HAVE THE SPRINT WIRELESS SATTLITE CARDS 99.00 DOLLAZ AT YOUR LOCAL SPRING DEALER UNLIMITED...AND THEY SAY ITS AS FAST AS SAY YOUR LOCAL ROAD RUNNER....HAVENTTESETD MY SELF YET BUT MY FREINDS DAD WORKS ON A NEW TRUCK AND THAT WHAT THEY USE AND SAID IS GOOD, U CAN BE MOBLE AND DO A LIVE SHOW FROM ANY WHERE WOW THE POWERS OF THE INTERNERT JUST THINK IF U HAD YOUR RADIO RUNING FROM YOUR CAR RIGHT OR CLUB AND WANTED TO DO A INTEVIEW JUST POP OUT TO YOUR CAR GET THE LAB TOP AND BOOM WALK IN TO THE CLUB GET YOUR INTERVIEW LOL

YOUR CAPS LOCK KEY IS ON.

Are you sure you don't mean GPRS or something? I am located in Toronto, so we do not have GPRS here.

-Scot
SJIRadio.com

Ever try to upload anything on a satellite connection?

You would have better luck on an old 9600 baud modem ;)

i think your best bet is keeping the bitrate low, and using dial up. even radio stations rarely broadcast music from location...they just broadcast the talk feed from someone on location, and play the music from the studio, and it makes it appear to all be done on location.

there are probably better options, but they're probably too costly for your situation. there is the satellite link that the news vans use...that has to be pretty high speed to convey good quality video. if your gonna be doing enough of these gigs and making a significant amount of money, you might wanna look into that. but i don't know exactly how they do it, and i bet it's expensive.