Do you like the moments when you see impossible happening?
I'm preparing for QuickTime streaming of a concert. While part of the audience is from the third world, I was looking for a cheap way to stream more streams in different qualities. I have one DV camera with analog input, and a PowerBook to run QuickTime Broadcaster and Darwin Streaming Server while using Automatic Unicast (very easy installation and setup, btw).
I'm preparing for QuickTime streaming of a concert. While part of the audience is from the third world, I was looking for a cheap way to stream more streams in different qualities. I have one DV camera with analog input, and a PowerBook to run QuickTime Broadcaster and Darwin Streaming Server while using Automatic Unicast (very easy installation and setup, btw).
- I made a copy of the Broadcaster in Applications folder and ran both copies. To my surprise, I was able to broadcast two streams from one computer! Only one could be from the DV camera, but I can hook up audio to the Line In and stream only music as a slow connection (mono in 48 kbps) alternative to the hi-fi stream in H.264 (about 250 kbps). Just make sure you give the streams different names.
- Inspired, I got courage to hook up my ol' iBook G3. How? Using the FireWire hub in the Apple Cinema Display. I have to say this setup looks weird: two computers and one camera on one hub ... but when I launched Broadcaster on the iBook, I found out I can broadcast two streams from one camera! So now I have three streams: hi-fi one, sound only and the third one, sound with hi-res pictures as a "slide show," all announced on the same streaming server.
Root: video: compression: frameRate: 0.1
After launching Broadcaster by opening this saved file, I was streaming at .1 FPS. Fast enough for the audience to see what's going on on stage in 640x480 while still maintaining ISDN speeds.
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