RTE.ie Streaming in HD Tonight for Ireland V Estonia

RTE.ie

Hi all,

RTÉ Digital will be doing a public facing trial tonight of online streaming in High Definition for the EURO 2012 Playoff.

You'll be able to watch the stream at the link below:

http://www.rte.ie/sport/livestreaming/hd/

This is a trial only, so your mileage may vary, as they say. To get the HD stream you are going to need a really good and consistent internet connection (we recommend at least 4Mbps sustained), though if you don't have the bandwidth the player should automatically drop you down to a quality level you can play back.

As well as that, if you visit the page on an iPhone or iPad you should be able to see the stream too, though not in true HD it will be pretty close on those devices.

We're really interested to hear people's experiences of it, good or bad, as the point of the trial is to get an idea of potential issues etc. Please feel free to e-mail onlinetechs@rte.ie or post here with some feedback. If you could let us know where you are in the country, and what ISP you're using etc., that would be great.

We hope it works out well, but being a trial there are no guarantees. If you are having trouble with it, you can always visit the pages where the standard streams are which will be linked from http://www.rte.ie/sport/

Enjoy the match!

Jonathan
RTÉ Digital

ballsymchugh

is this geoblocked?

RTE.ie

Yes this is geoblocked as we do not have the rights to show it outside Ireland.

LostBoy101

Sure I'll try this out and give some feedback.

smithy1981

Fantastic stream, thx.

chupacabra

Great stream. The regular one has no audio though. Just FYI

Stevecw

That's great actually. Saves me having to get up and turn on the tv!

Phoenix Park

Yep, stream looks great

Any chance of doing a Champions League one for the night RTE has the rights?. If only showing to Ireland would RTE be able to stream a choice of the different matches online?

RTE.ie

Feedback much appreciated guys, keep it coming.

Sorry about the lack of audio on the normal stream, gremlins descended, should be fixed now.

CantGetNoSleep

Anyone have a non geoblocked stream?

LostBoy101

Brilliant stuff so far and I'm on Eircom in Dublin.

Latchy

As I'm in the UK I'll have to find another stream to .

the realpigiron

Excellent quality stream. The old box in the corner will be entirely redundant soon.

RTE.ie

If you right click on the player, there is a "Show Bandwidth Test" button, which will give you some stats. If the current bitrate is 2500, you are getting the HD stream.

Zebra3

Not working for me.

Ordinary option only allowing me to click on a link from the match on last Friday not tonight's game.

Then get a message saying "Next on RTE Two is The Social".

Vertigo100

Top class on the iPad and I'm only using mobile broadband.

super_furry

Jesus that's impressive.

curry-muff

RTE.ie wrote: »

If you right click on the player, there is a "Show Bandwidth Test" button, which will give you some stats. If the current bitrate is 2500, you are getting the HD stream.

RTÉ Profiler
Streaming
Automatic selection? Yes
Current bitrate? 1024 kbps
Play status
playing (Can pause? Yes)
Time status
17.522 of 3648.760
Audio status
Volume: 1.00 Muted? No Pan: 0.000
Buffer
Length: 4.418 Time: 4.000
Load status
Bytes NaN of NaN (state:ready)

Not 2500, but still a fantastic quality stream nonetheless. Im up in Donegal on Eircom 3mb.

Vertigo100

Blows the liveonlinefooty iPad stream out of the water

WesternZulu

I'm in the UK...anyone know another stream?

Oat23

Looks great on a 42'' TV. Well done RTE (:eek:), should come in handy some time

curry-muff

curry-muff wrote: »

RTÉ Profiler
Streaming
Automatic selection? Yes
Current bitrate? 1024 kbps
Play status
playing (Can pause? Yes)
Time status
17.522 of 3648.760
Audio status
Volume: 1.00 Muted? No Pan: 0.000
Buffer
Length: 4.418 Time: 4.000
Load status
Bytes NaN of NaN (state:ready)

Not 2500, but still a fantastic quality stream nonetheless. Im up in Donegal on Eircom 3mb.

Fluctuating a lot, seemed to max out at 1500 for a while and the picture was crystal clear, but its now back down to:

RTÉ Profiler
Streaming
Automatic selection? Yes
Current bitrate? 512 kbps
Play status
playing (Can pause? Yes)
Time status
325.640 of 3666.360
Audio status
Volume: 1.00 Muted? No Pan: 0.000
Buffer
Length: 4.232 Time: 4.000
Load status
Bytes NaN of NaN (state:ready)

At 512 its just an average quality stream.

Latchy

Stream now established

super_furry

Just to say watching it in full 2500 on UPC 25mb in Rathfarnham.

Shred

I'm in Dublin on a UPC 100Mb connection and the bitrate keeps switching constantly and only stays on 2500 for a few seconds at a time and even goes as a low as 512. I'm on a wired ethernet connection with nothing else running in the background. Nice stream on 2500 while it lasts though.

Looks really good on 40 inch tv, playing via dedicated htpc.

Jax Teller

Working grand on Upc 25mb in Dublin 12.

2500kbps

DOC09UNAM

No android?

the realpigiron

Stream gone for me, just refreshed it sound now.

LETS BE AVN IT

Does any1 have a stream 4 me please im n vietnam ???

Brian017

Fantastic quality. Kudos to RTÉ. Hopefully this will become a regular thing

the realpigiron

LETS BE AVN IT wrote: »

Does any1 have a stream 4 me please im n vietnam ???

firstrow.net

RTE.ie

Thanks for the feedback all.

For those of you who find the streaming switching up and down between the various quality streams available, can you give some feedback as to the experience?

Jittery? Smooth?

Thanks!

curry-muff

RTE.ie wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback all.

For those of you who find the streaming switching up and down between the various quality streams available, can you give some feedback as to the experience?

Jittery? Smooth?

Thanks!

Its still a very smooth stream, I've been running it the whole time with the bandwidth visible, even when its fluctuating between 512 and 2500 the stream only ever stuttered once or twice.

The stream quality does depreciate slightly when it goes down to 512 but generally its been great.

RTE.ie

Thanks for that. I'm afraid the 512K stream would be noticeably different to even the 1024 stream, never mind the 2500. We are not miracle workers

Shred

Jittery and would replay the same footage on occasion, i.e. a 1-2 second passage of play would repeat immediately after it was first shown. Promising though.

witnessmenow

Only saw this after the game and have been watching the last 5-10 mins, superb quality stream! hope to see more in the future.

RTE.ie

Thanks everyone for the comments, it's very useful feedback.

Some things to take away and work on improving, but also interesting to see that there are a good number of people who were able to sustain the top bitrate HD stream, it's a good sign.

If we're doing any more trials like this I will keep you posted.