Argh, Cameras!

[Chris Roberts]

Hello all!

Right, looks like we're going to have to source cameras, as well as
everything else. Bit of a shock to me but oh well!

Does anyone have any? Anything DV or composite video will do ...
preferably with a tripod though.

Chers!

Chris Roberts
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[Robert McWilliam]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012, at 04:28 PM, Chris Roberts wrote:
> Does anyone have any? Anything DV or composite video will do ...
> preferably with a tripod though.

Assuming I can find all the cables to go with them I've got 2 camera
that I can bring. One is a DV tape variety with firewire or composite
out. It is reasonable so long as there is decent lighting (I can
probably bring some lights as well). The other records to HDD but has
composite out which would be more use for this kind of thing.

I can definitely bring tripods for each of those, and probably a couple
of spares.

I've also got a VGA-> composite adapter and a few USB capture cards if
we need to add more inputs to any of the boxes.

If we can rustle up enough camera to have more than one per speaker (how
many concurrent tracks are we aiming for?): dvswitch gives a nice simple
way to switch between and/or combine them.

Robert
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[Chris Roberts]

On 8 August 2012 22:39, Robert McWilliam <rm...@allmail.net> wrote:
> Assuming I can find all the cables to go with them I've got 2 camera
> that I can bring. One is a DV tape variety with firewire or composite
> out. It is reasonable so long as there is decent lighting (I can
> probably bring some lights as well). The other records to HDD but has
> composite out which would be more use for this kind of thing.
>
> I can definitely bring tripods for each of those, and probably a couple
> of spares.
>

Awesome. If you're short of any cables, let me know, I might be able
to borrow them for the weekend.

> I've also got a VGA-> composite adapter and a few USB capture cards if
> we need to add more inputs to any of the boxes.

Now that is good news indeed. The more inputs the better!

>
> If we can rustle up enough camera to have more than one per speaker (how
> many concurrent tracks are we aiming for?): dvswitch gives a nice simple
> way to switch between and/or combine them.
>

Depending on how many cameras we had available (just had news that
natm can lend us his HVR-A1E :) ) I'd ideally like at least 2 cameras
per stage, one for close shots and one for wider shots/ audience
shots, and then a split off the projector/screen video.

I was looking at DVSwitch - the question is, can we plug it into
flumotion/icecast for live streaming? If not, flumotion does let you
do simple source switching as well as PIP type things from within the
manager - though it's a bit clunky.

[Robert McWilliam]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012, at 10:57 PM, Chris Roberts wrote:
> I was looking at DVSwitch - the question is, can we plug it into
> flumotion/icecast for live streaming? If not, flumotion does let you
> do simple source switching as well as PIP type things from within the
> manager - though it's a bit clunky.

DVswitch gives two options for the sink: you can get your DV in a file
or a pipe. From the pipe it should be possible to hook it to other tools
to transcode and pass on to icecast/flumotion.

It looks like ffmpeg2theora then oggfwd:
http://www.plug.org.au/projects/video/setupprocedure

I'll have a play with that this weekend.

[Chris Roberts]

On 8 August 2012 23:41, Robert McWilliam <rm...@allmail.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012, at 10:57 PM, Chris Roberts wrote:
>> I was looking at DVSwitch - the question is, can we plug it into
>> flumotion/icecast for live streaming? If not, flumotion does let you
>> do simple source switching as well as PIP type things from within the
>> manager - though it's a bit clunky.
>
> DVswitch gives two options for the sink: you can get your DV in a file
> or a pipe. From the pipe it should be possible to hook it to other tools
> to transcode and pass on to icecast/flumotion.
>
> It looks like ffmpeg2theora then oggfwd:
> http://www.plug.org.au/projects/video/setupprocedure
>
> I'll have a play with that this weekend.

Cool stuff!

I've dropped an email to this chap:

http://grep.be/blog/en/life/fosdem/2012_video

Who's did almost exactly what we are trying to do, except for FOSDEM
2011. He links to this:
http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1329

Which is interesting, I've already made contact with flumotion to see
if they want to help us - if they don't get back to be I might just
call on Thomas and see if he wants to extend the same offer to us.
Would certainly simplify things...

Also, I've stuck this wiki page up, any update on what kit we've got
available would be useful:

http://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/Streaming

[Koen Martens]

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On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 04:28:40PM +0100, Chris Roberts wrote:
> Right, looks like we're going to have to source cameras, as well as
> everything else. Bit of a shock to me but oh well!
>
> Does anyone have any? Anything DV or composite video will do ...
> preferably with a tripod though.

Ok, so i can bring:

- - JVC GR-DVL170 (dv handycam)
- - Panasonic NV-RX17 (analog 'palmcorder')

No tripods though..

All quite old :)

- - gmc

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