Streaming video over an ethernet connection

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ACDCTech

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#97602 17-Feb-2012 14:57

Hi

I hope I am posting this in the correct section, if not can a mod move it to a more appropriate location.

My church wants to set up a baby room (for mothers with small noisy babies) a short distance from the main auditorium.

Basically what they want to do is use a video camera to both record to PC and stream the video to a TV screen in another room.

We can set up a basic PC with video capture card to capture the video and record it. The part I am not sure about is how do we stream it over the ethernet port. Can this be done with software only or do we need another device?

Obviously we would like a solution that does not require too much intervention to get going everyday.

Thanking you in anticipation.

RSK

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Geek

#582858 17-Feb-2012 15:22

You can stream it, use the following program http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ and insert the link where the live video footage is getting recorded to. Alternatively purchase a video extender and that should give you real-time footage.

knoydart

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#582874 17-Feb-2012 16:00

Suggest if you just have a single camera (locked off or controlled) than you take the video signal out of the camera and distrubute it via an amplifer to both your local recording PC and off to your external video monitor (or monitors if you want one in the kitchen / hall ) as well. Remember to offer an audio feed from the sound desk too so they can hear the service as well (if you've not already set that up?).

regards

Knoydart

Edit - Poor spelling

knoydart

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#582876 17-Feb-2012 16:02

Welcome to GZ by the way

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#582907 17-Feb-2012 16:47

First of all you need to make clear whether you want to be displaying analog composite video or a stream via web server from a media server. Big difference in the concept alone.

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ACDCTech

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#582913 17-Feb-2012 16:57

Thanks for all the replies so far.

I was initially thinking of streaming from the PC which will do the capture onto the LAN which has a point in the room.

But at the end of the day it seems it may be simpler to just take the composite video plus audio from the sound desk into an extender and run it the 65 odd meters via new Cat5 cable.