Streaming Live Video on Linux?

dirkmuon asks: "The streaming video shootout on Network Computing and the subsequent Slashdot discussion touched upon the process of creating and streaming live content on Linux. The article mentioned one method that required $1000 worth of hardware, not including the camera or the Windows 2000 box. Has anyone devised a simple, specific mix of Linux software and hardware for serving up a live video feed, particularly a method that costs less than $1000? RealSystem Producer Basic and Server Basic with a capture card would cost less, obviously, but are there other solutions? For example, is there a Linux way to broadcast *live* video with the Darwin Streaming Server?" This topic was discussed over a year ago, and the answers weren't very encouraging: Real is expensive; Darwin is great but you can't watch the movies in Linux; and Microsoft Media for Linux is vaporware (and likely to stay that way). Has that year improved the outlook?

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Re:Cheap and nasty

[brejc8]

Sorry the link is wrong it should be this one.

DIY

[josepha48]

Do it yourself. There are some out there. I have seen several video projects out there that allow capture from like sony handy cams. Basically you'd need a firewire card ($50) and then a vode camera with firewire (about $500+) and a linux box (cheap 500Mhz+ lots of RAM for $500+). For a total of about $1050. You can then stream the mpegs, of jpegs...