In London I understand they do keep the CCV camera for a few days, but they have an Amazon-ish type datacenter to keep that. But it isn't available to the general public. ... But then this could all be from some silly British movie :)
Their stuff is pretty low resolution. It is possible to compress movies down and still be generally readable to about 1/10th the size, but you are dropping lots of data on the floor. Glad to hear Andrew came out OK. ><> ... Jack Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - Henry J. Tillman "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part. - Martin Terma On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Gibson Prichard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/28/2013 8:09 PM, andrew mcelroy wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:04 PM, andrew mcelroy <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Gibson Prichard <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> As someone who works for a news gathering organization, I can tell you >>> that the TDOT cams are not recorded. There is too much to record - over 150 >>> cameras 24x7x365. They just don't record them. >> >> >> Would TDOT be up for having a non profit/private party provide hard >> drives to record this information and provide it to the public on a rolling >> 48 hour basis? >> >> I know you work for channel 5 and not TDOT, but do you suspect they >> would be open to such a proposal? >> > > Said another way, is it possible to get the raw feed from TDOT the way > channel 5 does, or is the public forever limited to a low res 8 second > delayed image? > > Andrew McElroy > > TDOT gives the local TV stations a connection to their Cisco data switch > and we have a private Metro Ethernet circuit between their facility & ours. > The cameras are an IP multicast stream and each runs at about 3mbps each. > For 150 cameras, that's 450mbps of data to do something with every second. > We decode two streams into NTSC video and use those on-air. > You would have to talk to TDOT and undoubtedly sign a camera use > agreement, similar to what the TV stations have signed. I have no idea > whether they would agree to have a third party store the camera video or > not. I do know that would be a rather sizable collection of disk drives to > save all that video for 48 hours, like you mention. That is somewhere in > the neighborhood of 38,880,000mbps per day. > > Gibson > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
