Presentation display on TV and live internet feed

naviathan

naviathan

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Aug 4, 2015
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For our Christmas service, our church wants to be able to record the service and display it live in an overflow room on a TV. I have a couple IP cams laying around and I was thinking I could do this easily enough. The head scratcher to me is displaying the feed on the TV without using a full blown computer. If anyone has any suggestions on how to accomplish this, maybe some past experience, I would greatly appreciate it.
 
An Android TV box or similar such as an Amazon Fire Stick, plugged in to an HDMI input that would run a generic RTSP viewer app such as TinyCam Pro or IP Cam Viewer for the presumed unknown camera model with some (long) wiring to join the 2 up and some puzzling over what IP addresses to use and configure.
Unless you have a spare router that would provide a DHCP service.
But that would not provide sound, or recording. Maybe the church has a PA and some spare speakers.
 
I thought about an Android TV stick, but as you said that doesn't cover audio and I'd like to keep audio and video in the stream. One of the cameras I was considering using does have audio. It comes across as PCM according to VLC, but I haven't actually figured out how to get the audio to play.

I was thinking about using the computer connected to the mixer board and somehow combining the video and audio streams into a single stream and pushing it to some kind of player connected to the TV.
 
If an android TV stick doesn't cover audio, that is a fault of the player software.

I strongly discourage relying on wifi for the stream.

Consider a pipo x8. This is a small Windows/Android computer with an embedded touchscreen, HDMI, and ethernet network ports. You can get it for $115 from Amazon with prime shipping.

Wire it to the network and connect it to the TV via HDMI then you have the full power of the Windows OS (or Android!) to load whatever IP camera stream you like.
 
If you are confident you can make the video and audio work with a Raspberry Pi then I don't see why not. It has the HDMI and ethernet port and is effectively half the price.
 
I would imagine that the audio provided by the camera is going to be horrendous. I'd definitely go another audio route...and if you want to go cheap then consider jerry-rigging a system using a smartphone and the Zello Walkie Talkie App...not too sure how that might work but it might be very cool.
 
Chromecast or Miracast?

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I tried finding some way to cast considering I have an unused chromecast, but none of the options seemed to work for the RTSP feed from the camera. I think I'm going to try to combine the video from the camera with the audio from the mixer board on the computer using gstreamer and push it out using RTMP maybe...I need to check through the gstreamer plugins and see if I can push it directly to the raspberry pi and pick it up using VLC to play it...
 
I haven't tried it but I thought tinycam Pro was chromecast enabled. If you need to recode, I think BubbleUPnP as a control point could crunch and send the stream to CC. If you can get Chrome to display the content, it should be castable, either by direct cast enabled support, or by tab casting. Miracast could be WiFi direct, after initial setup, but still relies on an android/whatever as control point.

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Am I the only one who thinks that using wifi for video streaming in a crowded place is a bad idea? My aunt can't even use the wifi at her church because it is so congested.
 
Well, if OP is IT for church, I assume..can simply shut off WiFi for patrons altogether.

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alphawave7 said:
Well, if OP is IT for church, I assume..can simply shut off WiFi for patrons altogether.

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Or set up another access point which is not available to the faithful.
 
naviathan said:
For our Christmas service, our church wants to be able to record the service and display it live in an overflow room on a TV. I have a couple IP cams laying around and I was thinking I could do this easily enough. The head scratcher to me is displaying the feed on the TV without using a full blown computer. If anyone has any suggestions on how to accomplish this, maybe some past experience, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Honestly, the best way to do this is to use a camcorder that has a HDMI out that can display LIVE video (not all can do that)..this will be clean and work perfectly...
 
fenderman said:
Honestly, the best way to do this is to use a camcorder that has a HDMI out that can display LIVE video (not all can do that)..this will be clean and work perfectly...
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How do you run the HDMI out of the camcorder to the TV (maybe 100-feet away?)...HDMI over cat5?
 
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