Show HN: A friend and I started to livestream sports events in our sports clubs [video] (opens in new tab)

To be honest, I rarely write and almost only read interesting articles. As it turns out, now I finally have something to show: A friend and I do amateur livestreaming of sports events of our sports clubs (a dragonboat and a canoe racing club) located in the city of Halle (Saale) in eastern Germany.

Our equipment consists of

- different kinds of controlled and uncontrolled cameras - a bunch of smartphones with different kinds of connectivity - one or two DJI drones that can do limited quality live streaming via RTMP - a few streaming servers to collect streams - a livestreaming workstation that utilizes an Intel Arc A380 for streaming to YouTube with AV1 and utilize the bandwidth that we get because - we have a special directed radio link with LTE+ (LTE with carrier aggregation yielding us ~100/40 Mbit/s) since the local landline is only 16/1.6 Mbit/s

Over time we

- gradually improved and learned about streaming and different kinds of wireless connectivity - improved our overlays for the stream, they are generated mostly as websites from the corresponding databases (dragonboat races are different from canoe races etc.) - 3D-printed a load of little things for fixation and installation

Today, we do day 1 of our two-day dragonboat races for school classes from first grade to highschool from our city and the surroundings, 2700 pupils are expected. Around the same time we usually do a three-day dragonboat race, as well as in autumn a long-range (2-6 km) canoe race and a dragonboat indoor-cup in winter time.

You may ask questions or give your opinions, I will answer them, but with delay as we are busy on-site.