Re: [Linphone-users] I hate zoom

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 03:26 -0400, Kate Draven wrote:
> 
> I was wondering of linphone could be used to broadcast church
> services to 
> about 100 or more people?

Zoom primarily exists to offer a video conferencing solution.  I'm not 
surprised if they offer video broadcasting as well, but you certainly
don't need them for that.

Broadcast is actually an easier problem than conferencing.  Since
multi-cast is not widely implemented, however, you end up having to
duplicate the stream.  Which is almost trivial, but eats a lot of
upstream bandwidth.  Furthermore, the only application most people know
how to use is a web browser (unless it's on their phone).  The church
internet connection might not support 100 independent tcp video
streams, and the webserver has to be on a well connected server.  At
this point, rather that set up a streaming video capable web server on
a VPS, people generally use an existing centralized video platform like
youtube, facebook, etc.

If I were in your shoes, the ideal solution (set
up a VPS) would be nixed by the time pressure, and I would be forced to
be assimilated into the BORG via youtube live, etc.