capturing & streaming

[kissme1]

hello everyone,

well i have a firewire card and a sony dsr-45 vtr and a sony pd-170 camera , i want to capture video via the firewire card(windows detects my vtr & camera perfectly) and i want to stream it with some software via internet to a different location on the internet where it can be captured or stored again

any suggestions related to this??

[JohnnyMalaria]

Two questions:

1. Do you want to do this live? i.e., capture and stream at the same time?
2. Do you want to stream in DV format or some other video format?

If the answer to 2. is DV format, you'll need to be able to stream at >25Mbps (probably twice that). There is an existing IP protocol for streaming DIF-based data (which DV is).

For other video formats, you can get webcam software that should work with FireWire DV camcorders.

[kissme1]

answer to question 1

yeah i will like to do it like

answer to question 2

i would like to stream in mpeg2 format as the filesize is much smaller

if you do suggest any software or hardware kindly mention names so i can try out

[JohnnyMalaria]

A quick Google: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&as_qdr=all&q=mpeg2+live+stream

found this (plus many more):

http://www.videomediasolutions.com/dr_drc500.html

It's about $995 for MPEG1/2 encoding + another $395 for the MPEG2 streaming. You'd connect the analog outputs of your DV cam to it.

[kissme1]

thanks for your feedback

well the problem is that i cant buy another card for this its very expensive....i want to do everything with my firewire card...i can think of a software solution though if it is one available but if any freeware software can do it it will be great

the main issue with me is of money

[edDV]

Why not just copy the file (~28Mb/s DV or 6-8Mb/s MPreg2) to the other location?

[kissme1]

Why not just copy the file (~28Mb/s DV or 6-8Mb/s MPreg2) to the other location?

well then i have to wait for the 1 hour program to finish and then i will be uploading it so that will be 1 hour loss almost

[edDV]

Why not just copy the file (~28Mb/s DV or 6-8Mb/s MPreg2) to the other location?

well then i have to wait for the 1 hour program to finish and then i will be uploading it so that will be 1 hour loss almost

Depends on the connection speed. A 13GB (1 hr) DV file should copy at ~3x (20min) or better on a typical business internet connection.

[kissme1]

well i actually have 1Mbps of upload speed so i would love it if the video can be captured and streamed as an mpeg or any other compressed format