SRT and UDP for broadcast delievery

So here is what I'm doing I have a main server the ingests several SPTS from my Motorola BNC systems for satellite broadcast. I want to send these streams to various locations around the world that my C-Band satellite over North America cannot reach. Specifically my Work flow is as follows UDP IP IN -> Main SRT Delievery Server -> SRT OUT -> internet -> Remote Device SRT In -> Output UDP Multicast streams. Everything in this work flow works great except the last step which is the UDP output. I can watch the UDP output just fine in VLC and TSReader doesn't see any issues with it from what I can tell. However when I in my testing or others at the remote site try to groom this feed into there hardware/software cherry pickers to grooming into there IP video setup for what is I would assume STB delivery they are complaining of a high I assuming PCR Jitter of 100ms +. I'm also having similar issues decoding the UDP streams with a hardware IRD. Also, I have not issue monitor stream on the receiving side using HLS, RTMP, … so I'm confident the stream is making to the end device just fine using SRT.

I have tried various nimble reciever setup specifically both windows an linux and did the various TCP stack tuning but it doesn't seems to help at all. Since this only seems to be an issue with UDP output to hardware decoders. To me the output UDP traffic looks too bursty for what is probably a small input buffer on the IRD to handle but that is just a guess.

If anyone has any ideas on how to get this work, what the issue maybe or has done this succefully I would love to know how you did it.

Hello Aaron,

How did you get that there is high PCR jitter, is it just a guess or you see it in some logs/tool output?

To reduce PCR jitter please try to enable "Mux rate" option on SRT receivers broadcasting stream(s) via UDP (i.e. in UDP streaming options), set "Mux rate" to e.g. 10-20% higher than input stream's bitrate and check if it helps.

The option is described in https://blog.wmspanel.com/2015/07/advanced-mpegts-delivery-udp-nimble-streamer.html article.

Just to follow up after lot of trial and error and help for the support folks I did get this setup to work. See details below:

1. Disable Windows Defender on receiving nimble - this was causing all kinds of packet out of order issues, bandwidth spikes, and latency problems.

2. Disabled Windows firewall on the NIC sending out the UDP Multicast stream

3. This one maybe specific to the hardware decoder and the stream I'm sending but I needed to enable the MUX Rate options on the out going UDP streams and set the MUX delay to 4000ms. I think this value has to do with my older h.264 hardware decoders I'm using that are part of my satellite uplink. If I was doing this with one of my MPEG2 video streams I suspect the default 700ms value would work just fine.

4. This last one is probably specific to my IRD I'm using to decode the video but I had to set it's multicast input stream buffer to it's lowest setting of 50ms anything higher and I had issues decoding the stream. This one wasn't very intuitive to figure out. Since I was having problems I was raising the size which didn't help.