michaelfish wrote:I've noticed that the recently archived streams of conference available at lds.org are higher in video definition than regular satellite broadcasts.
Does anyone know what resolution the test Internet feed of General Conference will be in?
Like most things in life, it depends. The stream will be availble at up to 1080p. It is alos avaible at lower resolutions as well. so when your computer goes to pull down the stream, it will auto negotiate the resolution based on the speed of your connection. At any given time you may have 1080p, but if the internet connection slows, the next section(s) of video will be at a lower resolution, until your connection speed rebounds, and at that time, the video resolution will rebound as well.
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starkjs wrote:The audio is also in stereo, but most chapels only have mono audio systems and can not take advantage of this.
Since we only have about 40 or 50 attend General Conference broadcasts in our Stake Center, I plan on connecting the headphone output of the laptop to the stereo inputs of our electronic organ.
Not only will this allow the broadcast to be heard in stereo, the conference's organ can take advantage of the low frequency 15" woofers in the speaker's sound cabinets to produce the low and mid bass frequencies when the organ plays.
In addition, the high frequency horns will be able to product higher frequencies and harmonics of the choir and organ beyond the capabilities of our building's public address speakers.
michaelfish wrote:Since we only have about 40 or 50 attend General Conference broadcasts in our Stake Center, I plan on connecting the headphone output of the laptop to the stereo inputs of our electronic organ.
I did that once. The music was great, but the talks had a strong echo.
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RussellHltn wrote:I did that once. The music was great, but the talks had a strong echo.
I wonder if you were getting anomolies in the sound due to phase-cancellation. Were your building speakers on?
I've experimented with the organ speakers and found that if the building sound is also on, there is a definite phase-cancellation in the sound as I walked from the front of the chapel to the back. Phase-cancellation can definitely be described as an echo in the sound.
I found with only the organ speakers going, sound was great (especially the choir) and I had no problems hearing all parts of the conference clearly.
No, the organ I was working with had a built-in reverb. I turned it down, but either it was still in play or because of the speaker placement it emphasized the highly reflective room acoustics. It made the spoken parts echoey.
Since I was connected to the organ and there was no connection from the organ to the main sound system, it wasn't phase cancellation.
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RussellHltn wrote:
Since I was connected to the organ and there was no connection from the organ to the main sound system, it wasn't phase cancellation.
The organs (in Stake Centers) is actually connected to the sound system. however the routing presets in the DSP, only route the ordan sound (in Mono) to the perimeter rooms, and the Cultural hall areas, it is not reproduced in the chapel area. That in mind if the cultural hall was oopen it could have infact been an echo coming bak from the cultural hall area.
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StevePoulsen wrote:The organs (in Stake Centers) is actually connected to the sound system. however the routing presets in the DSP, only route the ordan sound (in Mono) to the perimeter rooms, and the Cultural hall areas, it is not reproduced in the chapel area. That in mind if the cultural hall was oopen it could have infact been an echo coming bak from the cultural hall area.
Thanks for the info. I don't think there's a organ feed in our case. And in the situation I was talking about, the overflow was not opened. As for the organ, it's not a standard organ due to the size of the chapel (or should I say, tabernacle). In our case, there's a knob labeled reverb or echo setting near the organ's line inputs, so I'd assume there's something behind that control.
But it does sound like feeding the organ might work well for standard setups.
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