Saturday night's P2P broadcast was a 'first' for the EBU, Eurovision, RBB, and Prix Europa - testing what may be the technology of the future of radio delivery. The experiment was the world's first attempt to integrate HE AAC encoding software in real-time with P2P distribution using Octoshape technology.
The sound quality of AAC at 160kbit/s was outstanding for the whole duration of the event (one hour), despite the fact that the AAC software was only a beta version. David Wood, EBU Technical Department commented on what he heard: "We were really impressed by the quality of the 5.1 multichannel audio. Coming from a laptop or PC you had the real quality of listening that only surround sound can bring. Because of the skill of the 5.1 producer at RBB and the audio coding technology, the sound quality we heard was as clean as for those in the concert hall itself".
This successful experiment illustrated how the Internet can be used to provide an excellent quality of multichannel audio live streaming, while reaching a large number of people worldwide in a cost efficient manner and goes to show that P2P will significantly impact both radio and television broadcasting.
EBU about the eventDiagram of the technical setup
About the concert
About the concert
