[ale] Possibly Way OT: Live stream video to a file server for Live viewing

[Dustin Strickland]

I can't recall if the SoC on the Cubietruck handles
hardware-accelerated video, but the Cubietruck draws only a little more
power than the Raspi for a lot more horsepower(including gigabit
ethernet) and a SATA connector with enough juice to power a 2.5" HDD. I
realize it's probably just paranoia since many people trust their Pi's
to do their job with an SD card, but flash memory just isn't reliable
enough for my tastes. Plus, you can get a pretty sizable hard drive for
cheap(I got a 320GB one for about $26, compare that to the $/GB for SD
card storage).

Take my advice with a shaker of salt, however, as I have never owned
either of these systems.

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:19:15 -0400
"Michael B. Trausch" <mbt at naunetcorp.com> wrote:

> On 06/10/2014 03:08 PM, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > Situation:  I want to help the school football team with their AV
> > for my son's team.  They want to have a camera on top of the press
> > box recording the plays which they can watch (almost) live on the
> > field as well as save for uploading to hudl.com <http://hudl.com>
> > laster.
> >
> > Anyone know if those wifi memory cards can stream to a linux laptop 
> > which can then vlc play the video?  Anyone seen or done something 
> > similar so I'm not trying to re-invent the wheel?  I'd love to get
> > a nice Linux box doing this instead of a windows setup if possible.
> 
> Not quite what you're asking for, but here's what I'd attempt:
> 
>   * Take an RPi with video codec licenses enabled on it, and put in a
>     rather large SD card.
>   * Install your distribution of choice, and configure a command-line
>     Web cam application to record any attached Web cam.  This would
> use the V4L2 API provided by the kernel, and should work with any
>     half-way decent USB camera.  I tend to prefer Logitechs.
>   * Come up with some sort of enclosure that will protect the whole
> kit from weather.
>   * Bonus points if you can use the GPIOs to implement a battery
>     management for the Pi's power supply and maybe use wind/sun on a
>     small scale to keep the battery charged.  The battery needs to be
>     able to supply up to 10-12W of power at peak.  Otherwise, you'll
>     need to figure out a means of getting power to the unit.
> 
> At that point, you can implement the rest of what you're asking for 
> pretty trivially.
> 
>      --- Mike
>