broadcasting a talk

Tim Pozar pozar at lns.com
Mon Dec 5 21:50:48 PST 2005


Julian Elischer wrote:
> Tim Pozar wrote:
>> Julian Elischer wrote:
>>> I have FreeBSD and MacOS-X, so what tools would I need and what is the
>>> client? mplayer?
>>
>> Mplayer, VLC or Quicktime.
>>
> So, assuming I had firewire DV input on a FreeBSD machine,
> what is the next step? I though that the DV input was uncompressed
> video..

The schematic would be...

   _______            _____            ________________
  |       | Firewire | QB  | Ethernet |                |
 >| camera|==========| Mac |----------| Router to Inet |---> To Internet
  |_______|          |_____|          |________________|

The camera feeds the Mac using QuickTime Broadcaster.  QB streams the
compressed video stream to the Darwin server that feeds the viewers.
                       _______________
                      |               |
     To Internet <====| Darwin Server |
                      |_______________|



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