[Lula] streaming video (or not)

[Shane Chen]

On 2/17/07, Steve Glasser <steve at fpig.net> wrote:
> We need to come up with a means of grabbing a video stream from a web
> cam or some sort of video camera and then streaming it live from a
> meeting we're hosting.  We are considering using Quicktime streaming
> server to do the streaming.  So far we have had little luck getting
> the cam, the computer that captures the video and the server to
> continue communicating.
> We do have a few bucks to purchase hardware/software a/r.  If anyone
> can recommend any solutions I would be forever grateful.

Hi Steve,

So the solution is not exactly Linux based, but I know that this does
work.  When we've had to do this in the past, we've used a DV cam
connected via firewire to an OS X laptop (makes the rig more portable)
running Quicktime Broadcaster
(http://www.apple.com/quicktime/broadcaster/) which in turn talks to a
OS X server running Quicktime Streaming Server.  The live streams can
also be saved and archived.  I believe the only caveat we ran into was
not being able to use H.264 because the Quicktime 6 clients couldn't
decode it.

Shane