Streaming sessions

[Ilan Rabinovitch]

Hi Wilbur,

Lets connect on IRC at some point and I'd be happy to get a test
environment setup.

Ilan

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Wilbur K Smith <wilbur.k.smith at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I have not live-streamed video from it, but I have a Canon 7D SLR than can
> do 1080p and I can bring it along to help out. Most of the mid-level DSLRs
> on the market can output through a standard HDMI or Mini-HDMI port, so it
> may be easy to borrow a few from others. I've worked with VLC for streaming,
> but this was for multicast projects.I'll need to play with it and come up
> with a good config; I'll take a look at this over the holiday. The key
> question will be what formats Ooyala servers in can can handle.
>
> If anyone has a link to Ooyala's technical info and support, I'll put some
> time into this and see what I can come up with.
>
> Happy to help,
> Wilbur
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Ruth Suehle <rsuehle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ooyala is going to help us with streaming Flock sessions. We just need
>> equipment. "Just." I'm trying to stretch budgets from everywhere just to get
>> all of Flock happening, so there's not a lot leftover for buying camera
>> equipment! Possibly some, but I don't think I can swing enough for nine
>> rooms.
>>
>> Thus, two questions:
>>
>> - Can anyone suggest reasonably inexpensive cameras I should look at
>> purchasing? Whatever is the least expensive that isn't going to be so low
>> quality, it's useless.
>>
>> - Does anyone have a video camera suitable that you'd be willing to lend
>> to the cause? We'd have it set up in the rooms all day, but of course you're
>> welcome to take it back to your hotel for safekeeping at night.
>>
>> Here's the information from Ooyala about how we can do the streaming.
>> There are two options:
>>
>> 1) Hook up a camera to a computer running a software encoder via USB
>> or Firewire.  Many of our customers use Flash Media Live Encoder,
>> which is not open source.  VLC might be an open source option here as
>> well, but I haven't personally used it in this setup.
>>
>> 2) Use a hardware encoder such as a Terradeck cube
>> (http://www.teradek.com/pages/cube). These can take input from SDI or
>> HDMI output on any camera and then re-encode them to push to a
>> streaming server at whichever provider you select.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know whether VLC or something else is an option for #1? I
>> think the Teradek is prohibitively expensive, especially if we also have to
>> buy cameras.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Ruth
>>
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