Obsession

Posted by stephen on Thursday, 15th June, 2006 @ 16:03

Well, it appears I am somewhat obsessed with either streaming lots of video and/or making sure every Mac I own has something to do. I present you with Streetcam, live from my bedroom window courtesy of my Sony Handycam and the Mac Mini.

This time there is actually a point to it, honest! We're currently pitching for some work providing cameras that both stream full resolution video over a LAN/MAN and webcam level footage to the general Internet. This one should be up more consistently than the others I've setup lately and serves as an example of what we can do for the webcam side of things with a hosted server and a Mac Mini. Finally I might get to sell a Mac into a large organisation, woohoo!

The LAN/MAN MPEG2 streaming is handled by one of my trusty and tiny mini-ITX systems running Linux, VideoLan Server and a Hauppauge PVR-250 card. I love playing with networks and video. You might even call it IPTV!