<div dir="ltr"><br><div>The original design theory was a wifi enabled camera on the press box and a laptop on the field the coaches can view. The camera would stream video to the laptop for streaming/replay. Streaming from the camera to local disk ( i.e. the RPi design ) won't stream the video to the field for viewing.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Dustin Strickland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com" target="_blank">dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I can't recall if the SoC on the Cubietruck handles<br>
hardware-accelerated video, but the Cubietruck draws only a little more<br>
power than the Raspi for a lot more horsepower(including gigabit<br>
ethernet) and a SATA connector with enough juice to power a 2.5" HDD. I<br>
realize it's probably just paranoia since many people trust their Pi's<br>
to do their job with an SD card, but flash memory just isn't reliable<br>
enough for my tastes. Plus, you can get a pretty sizable hard drive for<br>
cheap(I got a 320GB one for about $26, compare that to the $/GB for SD<br>
card storage).<br>
<br>
Take my advice with a shaker of salt, however, as I have never owned<br>
either of these systems.<br>
<div class=""><br>
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:19:15 -0400<br>
"Michael B. Trausch" <<a href="mailto:mbt@naunetcorp.com">mbt@naunetcorp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> On 06/10/2014 03:08 PM, Robert L. Harris wrote:<br>
> > Situation: I want to help the school football team with their AV<br>
> > for my son's team. They want to have a camera on top of the press<br>
> > box recording the plays which they can watch (almost) live on the<br>
</div>> > field as well as save for uploading to <a href="http://hudl.com" target="_blank">hudl.com</a> <<a href="http://hudl.com" target="_blank">http://hudl.com</a>><br>
<div class="">> > laster.<br>
> ><br>
> > Anyone know if those wifi memory cards can stream to a linux laptop<br>
> > which can then vlc play the video? Anyone seen or done something<br>
> > similar so I'm not trying to re-invent the wheel? I'd love to get<br>
> > a nice Linux box doing this instead of a windows setup if possible.<br>
><br>
> Not quite what you're asking for, but here's what I'd attempt:<br>
><br>
</div>> * Take an RPi with video codec licenses enabled on it, and put in a<br>
> rather large SD card.<br>
> * Install your distribution of choice, and configure a command-line<br>
<div class="">> Web cam application to record any attached Web cam. This would<br>
> use the V4L2 API provided by the kernel, and should work with any<br>
> half-way decent USB camera. I tend to prefer Logitechs.<br>
</div>> * Come up with some sort of enclosure that will protect the whole<br>
> kit from weather.<br>
> * Bonus points if you can use the GPIOs to implement a battery<br>
<div class="">> management for the Pi's power supply and maybe use wind/sun on a<br>
> small scale to keep the battery charged. The battery needs to be<br>
> able to supply up to 10-12W of power at peak. Otherwise, you'll<br>
> need to figure out a means of getting power to the unit.<br>
><br>
> At that point, you can implement the rest of what you're asking for<br>
> pretty trivially.<br>
><br>
</div>> --- Mike<br>
><br>
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