I'd love to be able to try other locations for this job but unfortunately this is where the owner wants it. If I was able to have my say then I would have mounted something along the lines of a go-pro at a lower angle which is what was used here:
Here is another angle of the venue where the Hikvision is mounted from ahem an "analogue" camera:
Initially this was going to be an Axis camera which has the ability to stream direct to youtube as requested so
cat5 was installed ready, then the owner decided it would be better to have the footage saved then uploaded after the event (sigh). So the Minidome at this point made sense.
There is one thing however - being this camera is not really designed for fps but more for the snapshot quality I have run into a bandwidth issue with the SD card as you can see from the playback line below
The playback had missing bits and was very glitchy
It took a while to pin point the issue but it seems the only way to get a smooth recording to the sd card is to reduce the bit rate down to 4096 on both cameras (one above the pool table as well). It was a little strange as the first few days were fine but the problem is now consistent even with another mini dome here on my desk - Note: recording to a smb share works fine on all resolutions and at the highest bit-rate, just not on the sd cards.
So great camera, great results - do watch out when using for high fps applications recording straight to sd.