Streaming OTA or QAM on our local network

[brandonriffel]

We'd like to do a proof of concept for our provost and the Director of I.T. We want to capture live TV (a local affiliate of one of the big 4) and stream it back through a web browser on our local LAN. What products should we be looking at to achieve this? I think we would want to use Quicktime, so that we can support iPhone, but since it doesn't support any live streams so far, that might be moot.

Right now we one want to show what is possible, streaming live TV to students computers. Then we can talk about more complicated plans.

Thanks
Brandon Riffel
System Administrator
Ottawa University

[stevenrblake]

A simple place to start would be with any of the following:
- Microsoft Expression Encoder
- Flash Live Media Encoder
- Quicktime Broadcaster
* Various h.264/MP4 encoders are gaining ground

A PC with a video capture card would work. Osprey, Digital Rapids, and Winnov cards are supported by all three. But in your case, for the proof of concept, you may be able to just use a TV tuner card so long as it provides some type of VFW or WDM video driver as an output of the TV station it is tuned to.

FYI - The iPhone's newest OS just started supporting live video.

Beyond that, you will find a lot of other choices for such things as course capture, LMS integration, conent management, etc..

[brandonriffel]

Here is a drawing of what we have now. Pretty much just a desktop with a Hauppauge tuner card in it. We can get any hardware we need, but we just started with this because I had some experience with Hauppauge stuff. We also have a Mac Pro with an EyeTV Hybrid USB tuner, if that is more functional.

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If we want to stream to iPhone, what format does it need to be in? Should we be focusing on Quicktime then? How will I know if my Hauppauge card is supported?

Thank you SOO much for the quick reply. We've been dragging our feet on this for months and I'd like a quick win if possible.

(09-14-2009 10:49 AM)stevenrblake Wrote:  A simple place to start would be with any of the following:
- Microsoft Expression Encoder
- Flash Live Media Encoder
- Quicktime Broadcaster
* Various h.264/MP4 encoders are gaining ground

A PC with a video capture card would work. Osprey, Digital Rapids, and Winnov cards are supported by all three. But in your case, for the proof of concept, you may be able to just use a TV tuner card so long as it provides some type of VFW or WDM video driver as an output of the TV station it is tuned to.

FYI - The iPhone's newest OS just started supporting live video.

Beyond that, you will find a lot of other choices for such things as course capture, LMS integration, conent management, etc..

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So Quicktime Broadcaster is a Mac only application, which normally would be fine, but the EyeTV USB card we bought for our Mac, won't push video to anything, or at least that is what the MFR said. Can we use the Hauppauge card from Windows and push the stream to QTB?