Greetings all,
I help a local astronomy club and we had an idea for a project. We have public nights where we invite the community to come look through our telescopes. Unfortunately, the lines can get long. What I would like to do is give them something to look at or take a picture of using their wifi enabled iPads/Androids/Laptops.
My plan is this:
I have purchased a WinTV-PVR-350 and a Dell workstation to play with. I would like to use this hardware, along with Linux and a DD-WRT powered WiFI AP to make a "mostly" portable broadcast station.
The cameras will output S-Video and composite signals. The WinTV should take care of the capture. ??? should stream the video. The DD-WRT router will be open for all to connect to and hijack all web traffic to point to the apache server on the linux box. The web page will use JWPlayer or FlowPlayer to display the stream.
I am not sure what software component streams the video, and if I can make this efficient by using multicast. The video feed will always be live (when it's on). There is no internet connectivity, this is a closed network. Since the source is S-Video at best, I want to keep as much quality as I can (images can be faint depending on conditions), but this is nothing near HD quality. Storage of the video might be nice to compile a high-light reel at some point. Initially the camera will only be B&W, with color a possibility in the future. There is no audio.
Can anyone make some recommendations or input on what I might have missed? I plan on using Fedora or CentOS because that is what I am most familiar with. I want to keep this first iteration simple so it's just a matter of plugging in the camera and turning on the server/AP. After that, you just connect to the AP and surf.
I help a local astronomy club and we had an idea for a project. We have public nights where we invite the community to come look through our telescopes. Unfortunately, the lines can get long. What I would like to do is give them something to look at or take a picture of using their wifi enabled iPads/Androids/Laptops.
My plan is this:
I have purchased a WinTV-PVR-350 and a Dell workstation to play with. I would like to use this hardware, along with Linux and a DD-WRT powered WiFI AP to make a "mostly" portable broadcast station.
The cameras will output S-Video and composite signals. The WinTV should take care of the capture. ??? should stream the video. The DD-WRT router will be open for all to connect to and hijack all web traffic to point to the apache server on the linux box. The web page will use JWPlayer or FlowPlayer to display the stream.
I am not sure what software component streams the video, and if I can make this efficient by using multicast. The video feed will always be live (when it's on). There is no internet connectivity, this is a closed network. Since the source is S-Video at best, I want to keep as much quality as I can (images can be faint depending on conditions), but this is nothing near HD quality. Storage of the video might be nice to compile a high-light reel at some point. Initially the camera will only be B&W, with color a possibility in the future. There is no audio.
Can anyone make some recommendations or input on what I might have missed? I plan on using Fedora or CentOS because that is what I am most familiar with. I want to keep this first iteration simple so it's just a matter of plugging in the camera and turning on the server/AP. After that, you just connect to the AP and surf.