Why is the video quality on the site so poor?
Unfortunately we can’t do much about the grainy video. On TV it isn’t much better! The team is transmitting the video feed through a satellite phone which can transmit a signal at a maximum of 64 kb/sec (in actual transmission the team says it’s lower than this). Unfortunately, with this raw source it doesn’t matter how we encode it or how fast your connection/computer is. We did hope to offering other videos on the site, that are recorded digitally in Nepal and sent to us seperately from the tv broadcast, but the ftp connection hasn’t been good enough to do this and we’ve had to feed this video the same way, so it’s the same quality.
