Forgive me for asking, but why didn't someone just tape a smartphone to a tripod and use that?
On 25 June 2014 07:29, Mark Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24/06/14 09:18 PM, James Yeo Paskaruk wrote: > >> PCI will be good enough to get the video off this cam, I'm sure. I >> wonder if we could hack the cam into working like a webcam, but with its >> good CCD and lens and all? It does take good video, just a pain the arse >> to transfer it... >> > > For future reference, yes this can be done with most firewire cameras. > > I've done it -- ran two 24 hour fundraiser marathons at 91 Albert St. this > way -- was glad to never have to worry about tape changing. I also had the > sound techs put a line out feed from the sound board right into the camera > external mic input with input setting on camera set to line level so they > could make a live mix from all the different microphones they were running > to the sound board. > > But boy, did I fill hard drive space. These things output great quality > MPEG2 at pretty high bitrate. > > Back in the day when I did this I ended up switching to an insane pipeline > where I had a live down-transcoding happening on the source computer, that > signal put out to my LAN by multicast, and then different computers taking > that an doing different roles, one archiving to disk, one showing this LAN > feed for people sitting around on the 2nd floor, and three others encoding > to three other formats for internet upload (one of which was a hacky > livestream.com setup that used some cool free software to fake this > incoming multicast stream as being a "camera" that the proprietary > livestream.com flash stuff could pick up on .....) > > Good times with VLC. > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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