On 3/23/2010 7:37 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> >>> Back to your problem, i think most cable tv operators do this (using >>> proprietary software and/or hardware equipment), so perhaps consulting >>> a few of them would be a good idea to get started. >>> >> Last year we had a session on pure data in sarai, and he was using >> webcam streaming with tickers. One can use pure-data on all platforms >> check their website at http://puredata.info/ >> Though I am not sure how will that fit with Tata-sky. >> Ofcourse, i assume you are aware that doing this (modifying an ecrypted feed on a DTH system and rebroadcasting) is illegal and can land you in jail for about 5 years ? The courts have put heavy penalty on cable tv companies in Mumbai for doing the same thing with a ESPN cricket broadcast. > Yes, not sure how you'd get the stream in from Tata-Sky and re-broadcast > out -- my guess is you would need something like a TV tuner card on the > machine, get video in, composite text over, and send it back out to a > television over S-Video / VGA / HDMI . I'm fairly certain this should be > possible, if this is the setup you're looking at. I guess pure-data should > be able to do it. Another software I'd look at is FreeJ [1] - I have done > this kind of things of putting text over videos live and playing them on a > projector - works quite good -- not sure how exactly it might interface > with the hardware you require, but I have heard of people using FreeJ with > TV tuner cards, etc. to do a lot more complex things and performances. If > you haven't bought additional hardware yet, it may be a good idea to ask > on the FreeJ list for recommended hardware, etc for this kind of setup. > > I think FreeJ might be the best solution - the developers are also quite > helpful and run an active mailing list and IRC room. > > Saying this, it may also be possible to do this without a software like > FreeJ and just with ffmpeg or something to do text overlays. However, if > you are looking to animate the text to be scrolling, etc. - the tool I've > seen that does this really well is FreeJ (look for details on the > TextLayer .. is totally scriptable using python or javascript [2], and can > be lots of fun once you get through possible initial hurdles of hardware > compatibility / codec compatibility, etc. :)). > > Best've luck, > Sanjay > > [1] FreeJ Vision Mixer - http://freej.org > [2] FreeJ Scripting Documentation - http://freej.dyne.org/docs/scripting/ > >
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