02.17.10

HOWTO: Convert, transcode and stream a video feed.

There was this Foosball competition at my workplace and they ask me to do some nice! This was a side project at work that I complete in, roughly, 3 hours. It was fun because I was able to play with anything to make it work.

First lets explain what I had to do:

  • Use an old SMC TV-IP200 camera
  • Record it
  • Stream this to ~40 people
  • Archive it

The camera itself have a web server where you can see the live feed (a MJPEG stream). It’s nice and all BUT the port on the camera is 10 Mbps. After setting up the camera and adjusting the image settings the feed is 200 KB/s. More than 4 people watching it and the stream will lag.

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