IPCam for monitoring audio studio

[Kevin Mullin]

Cam recommendation needed

We’d like to stream 1080pHD quality video indoors, under good lighting conditions, with normal (1/48th or 1/60th) shutter speed from an audio studio to other locations within in a university classroom building.

Because its an audio studio, we'd like the audio from the studio output to feed into the camera, so cam audio inputs are required. Maybe an Indoor Dome Camera?

I'm also not sure of the best and affordable method to select that camera's stream in other parts of the building via a browser that hopefully doesn't require any additional hardware at the remote location.

Thanks, Kevin

 

[tangent]

If a camera uses say 8mbps of bandwidth, under normal circumstances, every client that views the video uses that much bandwidth. So if there were 20 clients viewing the video that would be 160mbps, most cameras wouldn't be able to support this much bandwidth or nearly this many clients.

If you can stream the video multicast the bandwidth doesn't multiply like that, but that's a more difficult setup.

Practically, it sounds like your're going to be better off using a computer to combine the audio and video and handle the streaming. You may also be better off using a video camera that you can connect to a computer using usb or firewire.

 

[Kevin Mullin]

Thanks for the thoughtful response Tangent. You're certainly right about the bandwidth issue, however usually not more than one remote client will be viewing at any one time, so there shouldn't be to much problem with bandwidth. I thought of dedicating a regular video camera, because I've got plenty of those sitting around, but then I'd have to also dedicate a computer too. In terms of space and setup, I was hoping to just put an IPcamera in the corner of the room, supply it with audio & POE and put it online, pulling it up whenever I want. I do that at home with a $20 Wyze cam on my phone right now, just no audio inputs.

 

[tangent]

Cameras that have audio in generally only have 1 channel of audio and you may not be happy the the compression / sampling options. I'm not sure if that would meet your needs or not.

It may not require a dedicated computer depending on the specs and whatever else you have the computer doing.