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/ >
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