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magiciancomus wrote:If a cell phone is used as the origination of the broadcast how do you use the best practices of disabling the wifi to ensure bandwidth?

bretbassett wrote:Thanks for this discussion thread. Attached is an example of what another Ward did with the free Larix Broadcaster App.

russellhltn wrote:Larix Broadcaster is an app that will webcast with nothing more than an a smart phone. It can feed any number of distributions systems, including the Church Webcast system as well as YouTube.

Attached is a Word document that can be used as a starting point.

russellhltn wrote:I've read that the iPhone OS will kill the stream if anything else gets "focus". That's probably what's behind the requirement to silence all interruptions. However, I'm surprised that airplane mode with WiFi on would accomplish that.

If there is a choice, Android might be the better pick for it's ability to continue streaming while doing other things - like checking your battery level.

INSTALLING, CONFIGURING, AND RUNNING THE LARIX BROADCASTER APP

1. Install Larix Broadcaster and open
2. Allow the permission requests (Camera, Microphone, Storage, etc)
3. Open Settings (tap on gear in upper right corner)
4. Click on Video
5. Change Video size to 1920x1080
6. Change FPS to 30 fixed rate
7. Check the Background Streaming box (Larix will restart)

These are all the changes needed from the default setup and shouldn't need to be revisited.

Prior to Sunday you'll be sent the RTMP stream credentials to enter into Larix for your upcoming sacrament meeting. It will be similar to the following:

[url=rtmp://MHW-40-12345.westus2.cloudapp.azure.com/169P/1234567890abcdef1]rtmp://MHW-40-12345.westus2.cloudapp.azure.com/169P/1234567890abcdef1[/url]

After receiving it:
1. Open Larix Broadcaster
2. Go to Settings --> Connections (If there are any old connections listed, you can safely delete them using a long-press on the connection name, then select Delete [Connection Name].)
3. Select New Connection
4. For Name, enter any name, such as, "KC Sacrament mtg 9/27"
5. For URL, carefully paste in the entire URL you were sent
6. Scroll down and press SAVE
7. Make sure the new connection is the ONLY one checked.
8. Press the arrow in the upper-left corner (or your phone's back button) until all Settings are closed.
That's it! You can close the app until Sunday. Be sure your phone gets a healthy charge Saturday night!

For Sacrament Meeting:
1. To avoid interruptions from incoming calls, texts, or email, put your phone in "Airplane" mode, then switch back on the WiFi
2. If you haven’t already, accept the terms of the Liahona splash screen
3. Open Larix Broadcaster
4. To toggle the camera view from back to front, tap the small circle opposite the big red circle
5. ALWAYS POSITION YOUR PHONE HORIZONTALLY IN THE HOLDER
6. Tap the red circle to go live. It should turn into a red square.
7. Prior to the sacrament, tap the red square to stop the webcast.

If Larix fails to connect, it will tell you at the bottom of the screen. Double check that you correctly entered the RTMP URL you were sent and it's the ONLY connection selected. Text the STS at xxx-xxx-xxxx.

Note 1: The stream won't connect until 1 hour prior to your meeting's start time.
Note 2: The stream will be delayed on receiving devices anywhere from 30-120 seconds.

azanoncello wrote:I'm a bishop and I went to the webcast website. It doesn't seem to let me setup any locations, devices or schedule anything. I'm assuming only the stake technology specialist has access to get this setup? Is that correct?