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(a)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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