Anyone done a live video broadcast thru Linux?

[Charles Steinkuehler]

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David Spake wrote:

| At the end of the day I'd love to use a more well known, possibly
| stabler solution than an unknown one (StreamStudio), and Darwin
| Streaming Server has a lot of attention and admiration.

It's not linux, but my company makes a box to do what you're wanting:
http://www.newtek.com/tricaster/

Does live switching, effects, and can stream to the web at the same time
you're feeding a live video output and recording to hard-disk.

It also just got nominated for a 2005 Technical Emmy Award!

Our box takes regular video inputs.  Be careful if you want to use DV
inputs, you'll need to watch your cable lengths (make sure you can run a DV
signal from your camera to the switcher and get it to work *BEFORE* the day
of your broadcast!), and AFAIK, you'll burn additional CPU cycles to decode
the DV stream in order to be able to re-encode it at the much lower
resolution & bitrate you'll probably be streaming.

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net
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