Hackaday article, possibly of use?
https://hackaday.com/2019/08/18/an-all-in-one-conference-video-streaming-box/
Hackaday article, possibly of use?
https://hackaday.com/2019/08/18/an-all-in-one-conference-video-streaming-box/
I design these types of systems. My iPhone is an all-in-one streaming box. As is the 4 rolling rack system (each rack was about 4 feet tall) that we put together for a university to be able to move their production from one building to another. Cost and capabilities are the differentiating factors.
His video was a bit hard to follow. But I am a bit interested in the concept. Is this open sourcesoftware useful in the process? Or is there another, cost effective one available?
Mostly what I get when I try and find out about it is āgamersā wanting to live stream their high res gaming event plus perhaps one other camera. I have no interest in streaming a game but it would be useful to include, perhaps, a live screen capture, in some instances where a computer screen or one of its windows may be part of a broadcast.
I am help on the periphery with helping a small, local church with and streaming and archive of some of their services and events. They are playing with this device, which is rather inadequate for any quality.
It has a very wide angle lens. The user creates virtual camera angles using an Ipad linked to the device via wifi.
Although it is a rather interesting concept. Of course, the camera angles are all from the same camera. However, by chopping a very wide camera shot into virtual cameras, one is left with very poor resolution. In addition, the final stream is the only feed that can be archived. And use of wifi creates lots of problems.
These folks have some nice hardware and software. Perhaps there is an economical solution from Blackmagic Designs.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products
The goal would be to have a couple of cameras and do live stream, doing some real time cuts without having to move any cameras. So, I guess, a piece of hardware that takes several HDMI or SDI inputs, then also interfaces with a good app to allow crop and other adjustment of the fixed camera(s) as well as audio adjustment plus perhaps ability to feed some intro and outro video on hand and perhaps the potential for a screen capture. Although the latter could come as slaved video off the computer to be captured as just another HDMI input, for example.
Archive of the final stream would be desirable. Individual camera archive would be nice in some cases. Perhaps the cameras could just write to their own internal memory card as I think we would be using DSLR style cameras with that capability. Lots of data there. I would rather have the option of some quality compression with H.265.
Even better would be some hardware sliders or knobs to facilitate. Perhaps that is what Blackmagic offers. Have not really looked into their stuff.
Sorry, Iām throwing a lot of stuff at you, Adam!
OBS is extremely capable and flexible, you just need a fairly high end rig to fully use all of itās capability. Multiple cameras, video clips, chroma keying, title cards, overlay graphics and animations, etc are all part of the software.
How would you bring in additional video, HDMI, for ex? Is there some sort of HDMI multiplexer specific to this sort of software or can you, in general, multiplex several HDMI I/O to a single HDMI on a mac, for ex. I have never looked into this.
Is the high end rig the computer or external hardware?
Sorry, Iāve watched a few videos on OBS and the are all gamer-centric. Not much on using OBS as a live studio tool.
Iām very much a OBS newbie, but I do know the general ātop hitā Youtube videos are all gamer centric because thatās where the numbers are for generating search rankings, and thus will not cover the more studio oriented bits.
Have you gone to the OBS website and looked at the various help and setup guides?
It will accept input from video and audio capture cards, screen caps, VLC files, USB inputs, etc. It has audio mixing with filters such as noise gate, noise suppression, and gain and VST plugin support.
Interesting. There is a really long video, like an hour that I did not have time for.
Are there video capture devices with multi HDMI inputs and the software to drive them? I need to call Blackmagic Designs. They know this stuff and have the cool toys for the industry. Or so it seems.