In this site we compare several different video streming services. Main focus will be in live mobile video broadcasting.

January 10, 2010

Third latency test - Qik against USTREAM

In this test we run Qik Live against USTREAM on iPhone 3 GS over 3G-connection.
Please notice that you can't stream live with USTREAM before you get approval to do so (instructions).

Final results in latency/frame rate test:
  1. qik live
  2. USTREAM
  3. Bambuser
Before you go screaming for the qik live, please notice they don't support live chat but ustream does.
We will next move on to desktop streaming, resolution tests and later on to usability, features and API's.

12 comments:

Antti Lindström said...

Qik has awesome fps over 3G! I was wondering if you could force the phones to 2G (edge) and try how the services perform then..

Amit said...

Wow, nice job in doing these tests. Can you also compare quality and bandwidth use between Ustream, Bambuser, and Qik?

Ilkka Pirttimaa said...

Thanks Amit and Antti. I will cover resolution and bandwidth usage in next tests.

Mitch said...

Hey Ilkka, nice tests! one thing though, I tested bambuser and qik on my htc hero and found out that qik had a 10sec delay over wifi and bambuser a 4sec delay over the same wifi. have you tested these recently. Im kinda dissapointed anyway, would have been cool to have a video with a 1 sec delay or less.

Mitch said...

Hey Ilkka, nice tests! one thing though, I tested bambuser and qik on my htc hero and found out that qik had a 10sec delay over wifi and bambuser a 4sec delay over the same wifi. have you tested these recently. Im kinda dissapointed anyway, would have been cool to have a video with a 1 sec delay or less.

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