Video Streaming Software

[TekZone]

Hello everyone,

I am totally new to the video streaming community not to the streaming community as I have done some audio streaming. I am terribly sorry if this is a stupid noob question that has already been asked half a million times but I have not found an answer in your forums.

I am looking for a stream management software. Let me explain. I would like to have several video sources: TV Tuner, Video Input (TV Card) and DV Camera (at least two). I would like to be able to switch in between both sources as easily as possible and be able to see what's showing on both sources on my monitor at the same time.

I have yet to find software which allows me to do this. I have taken a look at RealNetworks RealProducer but that only allows for a single source at once.

Thank you in advance for your help,

Antoine

[joshie]

SplitCAM is the only software like this that I've used, but just like your other tested stuff, it only displays one source at a time.

If you find something suitable, I'd love to hear about it. Good luck.

[FraggleRADIO]

An idea may be to do what we're looking into at the moment, which is purchasing a used video mixer off ebay.

Run all your inputs into there, and connect a small tv monitor to the preview output, and then the master output into your capture device.

Hope this helps :)

Davey

[TekZone]

Hm... Very Good Idea but may be a bit expensive ^^ I'll look into it

[FraggleRADIO]

It can be expensive unfortunately :( BUT, if you're not too bothered about fading, wipes etc, an idea may be just a video switcher, which allows you to plug in multiple sources and select via a button as to which one you want to broadcast.

The only problem i see here is it lacks a preview output (possibly)

There is a cheap video mixer on ebay at the moment out in Germany, im not sure of where you are from but to europe the postage is ~20 euro. It has a slight problem to begin with, but apparently once it's warmed up it's fine.

Hope this helps :)

Davey

[doZer24]

an idea may be just a video switcher,

They have these at Walmart, only for video game systems and stereos. It has roughly 5 - 6 spots for you to plug in audio/video S-Video cables, and has a selection switch. With some clever wiring this could be just the thing you need.

[TekZone]

ok thank you very much guys :D

[rockouthippie]

The successful shoutcast TV guys all use NSV as a simple encoder. It's 5 years old and it shows.

Go garage sale a 1 mhz machine and stick a compatible encoding card in it. Make a picture on a TV, encode that.