[chbot] Live video stream

[Spencer Travers]

Have you looked at YouTube live streaming? I'm not sure about being able to
restrict it to just your family viewing, but it would take care of a lot of
the back end for you.

Spencer

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Stephen Irons <stephen.irons at clear.net.nz>
wrote:

> We have a family celebration coming up in January, and want to be able to
> provide a live audio and video stream from the event for people who cannot
> be there.
>
> I have the following available:
>
>    - Video camera with microphone input, microphone, and AV capture
>    device that are compatible with V4L2
>    - Laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 desktop
>    - Mobile data modem
>    - Low-spec VPS (2 core, 4G RAM, 1 Gbps network connection, 5 TB
>    bandwidth per month) running Ubuntu 10.04 server
>
> The plan would be for the laptop to capture the audio and video which will
> send it to the server. Absent family and friends can then connect to the
> server, preferably using a web browser, to watch the proceedings. There
> will probably be 4 or 5 families watching from around the world.
>
> Some rationale:
>
>    - I prefer the video camera, microphone and capture device to a web
>    cam because it should give more control over the picture and sound quality.
>    - I prefer the video camera, microphone and capture device to an IP
>    cam because I don't want to spend the money.
>    - I don't want all of the guests connecting directly to the laptop, as
>    all their traffic goes via the mobile data modem -- I suspect costs will
>    mount up quickly, though I should estimate what it will cost.
>
> Now, VLC can capture the video and stream it to another instance of VLC
> using a few different protocols. I have not had success with the audio yet,
> but it might just need to swear at it a bit more.
>
> Motion and ZoneMinder might be appropriate, but ZoneMinder does not
> support audio.
> Can anyone offer any advice, before I spend days playing with things: what
> software to use, what to avoid, what have I not thought of, will my
> low-spec VPS be adequate to server 5 streams, any other thoughts?
>
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