Having jolly good fun building an ingest / transcode system for 40 (!)
simultanious streams of video.
Since it's a Dutch client, all has to be done on a budget, so i'm using BM
hardware and fairly cheap computers.
During R&D, i've toyed with ingesting DNxHD and ProRes (HD), and it works
just fine, seems i'm able to ingest 4 streams HD straight to DNxHD / Prores,
on a single Z420.
Probaby way more streams are possible if i use an inbetween codec (but that
would mean transcoding afterwards to get the material editable.)
Audio / TC can come from a seperate (multichannel) audio card, or from the
SDI streams (but then you need an embedder in the pipeline somewhere.)
So it seems i can build a 4 channel HD DVR (hardware/software, no storage)
for less than 5K USD.
(with local / remote control/monitoring.)
And while i'm at it, another spin-off, video over TCP/IP seems quite doable
as well on a budget, using any old workstation you have laying around.
(My old XW 8400 can do full HD to remote clients over a simple network,
using just a fraction of the available horsepower, with less than a second
delay.)
Anyone interested? Or, should i set up something for crowd funding? Or, do
you all want a set of Ninja's and be done with it?
Other suggestions / things i should know about wanted functionality?
Bouke
VideoToolShed
van Oldenbarneveltstraat 33
6512 AS NIJMEGEN, the Netherlands
+31 24 3553311
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