VIP onboard streaming @ Dior FW

2026-01-01

The goal is to stream cameras from cars driving from the hotel to the fashion show venue. These feeds are ingested in EVS so that while the VIPs arrive, we can create clips that can be used for the actual live mix.

Without this, we would still use EVS, but would need to take SD cards out of the cameras as soon as VIPs arrive and ingest them manually, which would make it impossible to clip in time for the live.

This needs to be low latency (because we need to shade it), high quality (because we shade it) and robust (because we clip it in EVS).

You can see here the 4 cars I equipped with my kits:

Each car has:

I stream using Zixi on AWS MediaConnect. And I have servers in the CCU room to decode and ingest the video into EVS.

You can see the encoders installed in the back of the car here:

You can see the modems and Starlink installed behind the VIPs, covered by a black cloth to make it invisible from camera:

The whole kit is powered by these battery packs, allowing a full day stream:

And this is where they receive my streams and clip them using EVS (1 per car).

I decode using a large server (up to 8 encode and 8 decode simultaneously):

And it is ingested directly in EVS/LSM to clip:

And not a single frame drop during more than 10 hours of streaming, across 4 cars, driving in Paris during Fashion Week, at 15Mbps 4:2:2 10bit CBR:

This is only possible thanks to:

Acknowledgments

This project would not have been possible without the exceptional support and expertise of several key partners: