Re: 60ms cross continent

[Christopher Munz-Michielin <christopher () ve7alb ca>]

> On 09/07/2020 05:34, Mark Tinka wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of (m)any satellite TV services delivering 1080p or
> greater? The most I've seen on our side of the rock is 1080i.
>
> If there is an inherent commercial restriction in how many pixels we can
> grab over satellite at scale, it might be tricky for some markets that
> demand 1080p, 4K, or greater, for linear TV.
>
> Mark.

There are a few 4K test streams.  NASA TV is one:

https://www.lyngsat.com/tvchannels/us/NASA-TV-UHD.html

I just piped it into ffmpeg and the NASA TV feed runs 10-15mbps, H.265 
encoding at a resolution of 3840x2160.  So definitely possible to push 
greater then 1080 video.

Chris