I'm on a 250Mbps U/D connection with at least 100 of that reserved for the production machine, and in a fit of confusion, I had my stream configured for 360p instead of my normal 720p. With all this favoring a smooth stream, I had a few freezes that concerned me. It's entirely possible that I had connection issues.

We had two moments during the broadcast when all 5 vMixCall sessions froze, indicating a connection issue on my part.

A first short moment where it may be connection-related, but still not sure on that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYcHSofUrTQ&t=20m25s

Here's the one that concerns me, as a bad connection would have been dropped stream and we should see nothing, or miss time, but in this instance, you can plainly see frozen video still being streamed for 25 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYcHSofUrTQ&t=35m05s

Finally, 38:40-45 was another moment of either connection issue or vMix freezing

Many advanced thanks for any help in this matter. I really need to do better for my clients.

Best,

Chad

Thanks, Martin. I've used the same laptop for a different show with one more guest (6 callers: Host + 5 panel), and instead of 360p as in this event (regretfully, and accidentally), we were at 720p. It's an i7 with NVidia 850m, which isn't hot stuff, but it's actually done very well for me. Actually, I've done several with the Host + 4 panel (5 vMixCall sessions) and at 720p and never had this issue.

I did recently add a 3rd display for a confidence monitor, which may have stressed the system a bit more.

I'm looking at Hades Canyon as a replacement machine... do you have any input on that upcoming (likely April/May) NUC?

I appreciate the response.

Best,

Chad