[ale] Possibly Way OT: Live stream video to a file server for Live viewing

[Alex Carver]

On 2014-06-11 08:41, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On 06/10/2014 03:41 PM, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>> The original design theory was a wifi enabled camera on the press box
>> and a laptop on the field the coaches can view. The camera would
>> stream video to the laptop for streaming/replay. Streaming from the
>> camera to local disk ( i.e. the RPi design ) won't stream the video to
>> the field for viewing.
>>
> 
> It'd require the use of something to split the stream and send to two
> places at once... if you were to write a little app that read frames
> from the webcam and then wrote them both to a disk file and a UDP
> network socket...

Most of the Axis network cameras can stream in MJPEG and MPEG4 (H.264).
 VLC in theory can read the stream and it can also internally split the
stream for saving to disk.