I warned em. Also kinda regret giving the camera to skull now ;>
On Jun 25, 2014 1:48 AM, "Justin Lacko" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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/
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List
> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss
> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
>
_______________________________________________
SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List
Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss
Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/

Reply via email to