Any demand for a new webcast receiver?
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:44 pm
I'm currently working on making a purpose built appliance for receiving webcasts, and was wondering if there is any kind of demand for this? I could make several of them for others to use.
I noticed the church no longer has the Meetinghouse Webcast Receiver and even a re-purposed PC isn't all that great. I've noticed with using a computer to receive webcasts there is a learning curve for local units (even with a single click .bat file that opens the broadcast in fullscreen) due to inevitable video out issues with switching between satellite and internet feeds, or maybe its just our setup.
It's also getting harder, and more expensive to retrofit computers with composite video out. Instead I plan on building (work has already begun) a Linux based appliance that has composite and HDMI connections. It automatically starts receiving the broadcast once its powered on and will automatically re-connect if the stream dies. It should cost under $100 when completed.
Our buildings still only have coax ran throughout the building so composite to coax has been what we use, however these devices are credit card sized so they could be plugged in right by the projector with HDMI or HDMI -> DVI adapter for better quality - just need a network connection.
Anyways, just thought I would see if other stakes may benefit from this or not.
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Darcy
I noticed the church no longer has the Meetinghouse Webcast Receiver and even a re-purposed PC isn't all that great. I've noticed with using a computer to receive webcasts there is a learning curve for local units (even with a single click .bat file that opens the broadcast in fullscreen) due to inevitable video out issues with switching between satellite and internet feeds, or maybe its just our setup.
It's also getting harder, and more expensive to retrofit computers with composite video out. Instead I plan on building (work has already begun) a Linux based appliance that has composite and HDMI connections. It automatically starts receiving the broadcast once its powered on and will automatically re-connect if the stream dies. It should cost under $100 when completed.
Our buildings still only have coax ran throughout the building so composite to coax has been what we use, however these devices are credit card sized so they could be plugged in right by the projector with HDMI or HDMI -> DVI adapter for better quality - just need a network connection.
Anyways, just thought I would see if other stakes may benefit from this or not.
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Darcy