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

[Jim Kinney]

All of the WiFi cams I've seen send files and can't stream. But I've only
looked at a few.  If your camera has an external connection for video out,
split, stream and save from that.
On Jun 10, 2014 3:45 PM, "Robert L. Harris" <robert.l.harris at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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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