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

[Robert L. Harris]

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.



On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Dustin Strickland <
dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
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