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The hardware broadcaster was my suggestion. It should be dead-simple, with inputs for video, power, and ethernet - configurable through a web interface, just l
by abstractbill 17y ago
The hardware broadcaster was my suggestion. It should be dead-simple, with inputs for video, power, and ethernet - configurable through a web interface, just like a router.
If you can make it cheap enough (< $100 would be my guess), we have a lot of gamers who I believe would buy one. You wouldn't have to write much software - for example vlc can already stream to jtv.
- grinich 17y ago"vlc can already stream to jtv" Are you guys looking for hardware or software encoding? I thought you were talking about something like an FPGA or ASIC.
- DarkShikari 17y agoThe real problem with ASIC solutions is that they generally have terrible compression; you usually don't get good results until you get up to the range of tens of thousands of dollars (for real broadcast encoders). Combined with the utter lack of upload bandwidth that most users have, this could become a serious problem. The best option I could see in the near future is ARM's recently-announced 2Ghz quad-core CPU; it's low-power enough and hopefully cheap enough to stick in a small box but fast enough to run a good encoder at a good resolution. But even that would probably put the cost well above $100, at which point you might as well start selling capture cards and using peoples' CPUs instead.
- abstractbill 17y agoI was thinking someone might want to try vlc running on an embedded linux, but I don't really care what's in the box so long as it Just Works ;-)
- axod 17y agoWonder if it'd be possible to do this in software - much like the cheat code type cheat systems that you load up, it could just load up the streaming software. Might take longer to get working, but would end up easier sell/cheaper.