streaming video with what kind of hardware?

[cdtsly]

Hi
i would like to start to stream live video on the internet.

Can i use a family camcorder or must can i just buy a webcam?

Thanks all

[peterm78000]

Hi

you can use:
a webcam
a camcorder with an hdmi output and an elgato hd capture 60 for example

You will need streaming service as livestream.com or dacast, or equivalent



Best regards,
Peter

[pandy]

We need more data - describe idea with details...

[cdtsly]

Hi
i need to stream on interne meetings from my association.
Some of the people are not living in France.
I just need to upload stream (not a conversation like skype)
the quality must be good to be able to watch on a large screen (not a laptop) because there will be ten persons in a country for example

thanks

[pandy]

Hi
i need to stream on interne meetings from my association.
Some of the people are not living in France.
I just need to upload stream (not a conversation like skype)
the quality must be good to be able to watch on a large screen (not a laptop) because there will be ten persons in a country for example

thanks

This will be regular and long time or occasionally for limited amount of time? What kind of bitrate/bandwidth you will have available for this?

Simplest approach seem to be: take decent PC with some decent USB camera, use ffmpeg and start streaming with H.264 codec.

I use to capture (to file) ffmpeg with this kind of syntax"

@set SAVESTAMP=%DATE:/=-%_%TIME::=-%
@set SAVESTAMP=%SAVESTAMP:.=-%

@echo Time start is: %SAVESTAMP%
@SET x264opts="level=4.1:qp=26:vbv_maxrate=32768:vbv_bufsize=16384:qpmin=4:cabac=1:threads=auto:nr=500:no-psnr:no-ssim"
@ffmpeg -rtbufsize 7.68e+008 -video_size 1600x1200 -f dshow -i video="USB Video Device" -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -tune zerolatency -profile:v high422 -x264opts %x264opts% -x264-params %x264opts% -vf "hqdn3d=8:8:8:8,tblend=all_mode=average,decimate=cycle=2,drawtext='fontfile=Envy_Code_R_Bold.ttf:fontsize=64:fontcolor=black@0.9:box=1:boxcolor=white:boxborderw=8:x=(w-tw)/2:y=1200-64-th:text=%%{localtime\: %%d\\\/%%m\\\/%%y %%H\\\:%%M\\\:%%S }',format='pix_fmts=yuv422p'" -shortest -movflags faststart -y -f mp4 "camera_%SAVESTAMP%.mp4"

Works on my relatively slow notebook (core 2 duo T9400 @2.53GHz) sufficiently fast (real time) adding audio, muxing and streaming should be possible without problems - this is low cost solution.

[cdtsly]

Hi
how can people what this over the internet?
do i need an apache server?

thanks

[TreeTops]

Post #2 solution is still the easiest.

[cdtsly]

OK,
thanks, i will look into that.

[cdtsly]

i found https://www.streaming-diffusion.com/

i don t have a lot a viewers, so 7 euros is ok for me

thanks all